International Relations: Recent submissions
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"We belong to the future, the tyrants belong to the past" : the Islamic Republic of Iran's regime's foreign policy discourse and behaviour in the period 2005 until 2011
(University of St Andrews, 2012) - ThesisThe foreign policy ideology that is communicated by the rulers and foreign policy makers of the Islamic Republic of Iran between 2005 and 2010 builds on the identification of Iran as a changed nation through the 1979 ... -
Resolving the defacto statehood dilemma in Iraq : evolving sovereignty norms and post-modern federalism
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisThrough a case study of Iraq, this dissertation examines one manifestation of the increasingly prevalent phenomenon in struggling de jure states of the establishment of alternative forms of political sovereignty embodied ... -
A comparative assessment of constitutionalism in Western and Islamic thought
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisIn the spirit of comparative political theory, this thesis analyzes the ideas that have shaped Western and Islamic constitutional discourse and assesses the extent to which they intersect at key historical and philosophical ... -
Consuming the jihad : an enquiry into the subculture of internet jihadism
(University of St Andrews, 2011) - ThesisRecent years have seen a great deal of interest in phenomena such as Al Qaida ‘terrorism’, Islamic ‘radicalism’ or, increasingly, ‘jihadism’ - on the Internet. However, as I argue in this thesis, much work in these areas ... -
Andrew Fletcher : bridging the gap between early modern and civic republicanism
(University of St Andrews, 2012) - ThesisThis thesis explores the progress of contemporary republican theory from its civic roots to its modern conception. Republicanism is a paradigm of liberty, and the transformation of this theory of liberty from concepts of ...