International Relations: Recent submissions
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Returning culture to peacebuilding : contesting the liberal peace in Sierra Leone
(University of St Andrews, 2010-06-22) - ThesisThis thesis investigates the advantages and limitations of applying culture to the analysis of violent conflict and peacebuilding, with a particular focus on liberal peacebuilding in Sierra Leone. While fully aware of the ... -
Power, value, and the individual exchange: towards an improved conceptualization of terrorist finance
(University of St Andrews, 2009-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis finds that the term ‘terrorist financing’ is a misnomer in that much of the activity encompassed by that term involves neither terrorism nor money. Instead, terrorist financing more accurately refers either ... -
Drugs trafficking and terrorism in Central Asia : an anatomy of relationships
(University of St Andrews, 2009) - ThesisThis thesis investigates to what extent there is a link between the illicit drugs trade and regional terrorist/insurgent organisation s in Central Asia. In particular , the research attempts to understand the dynamics ... -
How resisting democracies can defeat substate terrorism : formulating a theoretical framework for strategic coercion against nationalistic substate terrorist organizations
(University of St Andrews, 2010-06) - ThesisThe following dissertation develops a theoretical framework for guiding the strategy of democratic states in successfully countering the hostilities of nationalistic substate terrorist organizations (NSTOs), and effectively ... -
From bad weapons to bad states: the evolution of U.S. counterproliferation policy
(University of St Andrews, 2009-11-30) - ThesisOne of the key features of the 2002 United States National Security Strategy was an abrupt shift from the traditional U.S. approach to proliferation threats that prioritized deterrence and promotion of nondiscriminatory ...