International Relations: Recent submissions
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Seeking ontological security in the Horn of Africa : biographical narratives and imagining peace in Ethiopia’s engagement in Somalia
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-25) - ThesisIn the Horn of Africa prevailing ideas of the state continue to be heavily contested both within and across formal borders. This thesis explores how the post-1991 Ethiopian government has given meaning to the Ethiopian ... -
Evil as a crime against humanity : confronting mass atrocities in a plural world
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-23) - ThesisThis thesis represents an attempt to reimagine why and how to confront mass atrocities in world politics. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s conception of evil, it interprets and understands mass atrocities as ‘evil’ in an ‘Arendtian’ ... -
Indian soft power towards Southeast Asia
(University of St Andrews, 2018) - ThesisThis thesis explores the normative sources of India’s post-independence soft power towards Southeast Asia. The core aspect is to understand how a norms-based approach helps to explain the development of Indian soft power, ... -
Development aid in Tajikistan : six global paradigms and practice on the ground
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06) - ThesisThis thesis examines actors, interactions and normativities involved in development aid in Tajikistan. It analyses trajectories of six global paradigms which are promoted in the country by Western donors: good governance, ... -
Taking partly free voters seriously : autocratic response to voter preferences in Armenia and Georgia
(2017) - Journal articleDo voters matter in competitive authoritarian regimes and, if so, how? Do their preferences make any difference in the way in which the regime conceives policies and goes about policy-making? In this article we show that ...