International Relations Theses: Recent submissions
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"Friendship" in China's foreign aid to Africa : case studies from Ghana and Sierra Leone
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06-21) - ThesisFollowing the dramatic takeoff of contemporary China-Africa relationship in the late 1990s, this once neglected international phenomenon has become one of the most topical themes over the past decade. This new popularity ... -
Finding a juncture between peace and conflict studies and terrorism studies : the case of the Mindanao conflict
(University of St Andrews, 2014-09) - ThesisThis thesis is a critique on contemporary counterterrorism and peacebuilding. It uses a single case study approach to answer the question: How can we, by studying the Mindanao conflict - which has characteristics of both ... -
Towards a diaspora framework : collective identity construction and violent radicalization in Russia
(University of St Andrews, 2015-03) - ThesisThis thesis examines the interrelationship between diaspora communities from the North Caucasus and Central Asia, the Russian government, ultranationalist and extremist groups, and mainstream Russian society. There has ... -
Humanitarian space - the quest for a protected niche in the global arena : with particular reference to the work of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
(University of St Andrews, 2015-03) - ThesisThere has been much searching in scholarship as to why the contemporary pattern of humanitarian assistance seems so often to fail gaining popular support in its aim of bringing relief of suffering to peoples affected by ... -
The limitations of imagining peace : the relative success and failure of international organisations and the Georgian-Abkhaz and Moldovan-Transnistrian conflicts, 1992-2013
(University of St Andrews, 2017-08-08) - ThesisThis thesis comparatively analyses dilemmas arising from the unresolved Georgian-Abkhazian and Moldovan-Transnistrian conflicts. The many existing differences in the nature and dynamics of each conflict point to a sui ...