International Relations Theses: Recent submissions
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Reforming the United Nations : a study of the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
(University of St Andrews, 2011) - ThesisThis thesis examines the UN’s existential crisis of efficacy following its ineffectiveness in Rwanda (1994), Srebrenica (1995), Kosovo (1999) and Iraq (2003). Specifically, this thesis examines the reform agenda initiated ... -
Understanding the content and framing of Al-Qa'ida leadership communiqués
(University of St Andrews, 2012-11-30) - ThesisThis dissertation explores the composition, construction and framing of Al-Qa’ida leadership communiqués – understood as the statements, messages, interviews, written work and other output from the movement’s predominant ... -
The gateway to a social analysis : diplomatic crises in post-Cold war Sino-US relations
(University of St Andrews, 2010) - ThesisFollowing the end of the Cold War and the political fall-out from the Tiananmen incident, the US and China ended the last century and began the new one with three well publicised fall outs: the 1995-96 Taiwan Straits ... -
Consuming democracy : local agencies and liberal peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(University of St Andrews, 2012-05-07) - ThesisThis thesis focuses on liberal peace building in the DRC. The thesis takes a critical approach which emphasises local agencies and their engagements with liberal peace building. However, it seeks to bring this critique ... -
A strategic analysis of the origins of international terrorist attacks on aviation and the British responses
(University of St Andrews, 1997) - ThesisThis research examines the effects on Great Britain of international terrorist attacks on aviation. The methodology is utilitarian. It is also eclectic, drawing upon scholarly and operational sources. The first objective ...