VOLUME 9(1) • 2017
THE ENERGY UNION AS AN INSTRUMENT OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN EU-RUSSIA ENERGY RELATIONS: FROM FRAGMENTATION TO COHERENCE AND SOLIDARITY
ABSTRACT. EU–Russia relations are in desperate need of legislative and institutional reform given the fragmented legal infrastructure regulating energy trade between these two powers. The paper will argue that the energy partnership is a highly strategic relationship that has profound implications f..
RECOGNIZING THE NORTH AMERICAN HEARTLAND: A MORE SUITABLE FIT FOR MACKINDER’S THESIS
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this essay is two-fold: to update, thus possibly to improve, Halford Mackinder’s original heartland thesis, and once attempted, to shift placement of the heartland from Eurasia to North America. The author continues strongly to support Mackinder’s heartland thesis. Four part..
RUSSIA’S NEW CONCEPT OF THE STATE MIGRATION POLICY UNTIL 2025: A REFORM TOWARDS EFFECTIVE POLICIES FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC MIGRANTS?
ABSTRACT. Russia’s new Concept of the State Migration Policy until 2025 (the CSMP) was approved on 13 June 2012. As the first comprehensive, nationwide document on migration policy in the modern history of Russia, it marks the beginning of a decisive reform of the country’s migration policy by depar..
DIVIDED BY MEMORIES? BELIEFS ABOUT THE PAST, ETHNIC BOUNDARIES, AND TRUST IN NORTHERN IRAQ
ABSTRACT. This paper examines beliefs about the past across ethnic groups in conflict ridden Northern Iraq, and the extent to which such beliefs are associated with interethnic trust and political trust. Using individual-level survey data (N=1,440) collected in 2010 and 2011 in the cities of Erbil a..
BEYOND INSECURITY: AFGHAN DEMOGRAPHY AS A FACTOR OF MOBILITY
ABSTRACT. Over the last 15 years, the world’s media outlets have written thousands and thousands of articles, reports, books, blog posts, and other pieces about Afghanistan. Among these myriads, one can certainly find quite a few stories of ordinary life, of success, of hope, and of triumph. Neverth..
PREVENTING THE “ISLAMIC STATE” IN CENTRAL ASIA: CONDITIONS, RISKS, AND PEACE POLICY REQUIREMENTS
ABSTRACT. It currently seems unlikely that the “Islamic State” (IS) will spread its military activities to Central Asia in a similar way as in Iraq and Syria. The regional states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization have taken military precautions to prevent this from happening. At the sam..
TOWARD A CITIZEN SOLDIER PARADIGM? ASSESSING THREE DECADES OF CIVIL–MILITARY RELATIONS IN ARGENTINA
ABSTRACT. This paper analyzes three decades of civil–military relations reform in Argentina, which transformed the armed forces from an organization that chronically intervened in politics to one effectively subordinate to civilian control that is more far-reaching than any other in contemporary Lat..
THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN THE ERITREAN REFUGEE CRISIS
ABSTRACT. This paper examines the role of the international community in the Eritrean refugee crisis. It critically analyses the international community’s, as represented by UN, AU, EU and US, failure to fulfill its obligation. The UN, OAU, EU and US were witnesses and guarantors of the Algiers Agre..
GEOPOLITICS OF THE 2016 AUSTRALIAN DEFENSE WHITE PAPER AND ITS PREDECESSORS
ABSTRACT. Australia released the newest edition of its Defense White Paper, describing Canberra’s current and emerging national security priorities, on February 25, 2016. This continues a tradition of issuing defense white papers since 1976. This work will examine and analyze the contents of this do..
THE REFUGEE CRISIS AND THE RIGHT TO POLITICAL ASYLUM
ABSTRACT. This paper traces the historical development of the right to asylum with a culminating statement in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). In the 1967 Protocol a refugee defined as “someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a ..