Is the pen still mightier than the sword in the globalised era of mass communication? To find an answer to this question this paper looks into the critical decision-making process of international military interventions. ...

This research seeks to understand how anti-sectarian activism develops in Lebanon’s institutionalized consociational political system, where sectarianism is encroached into all spheres of society. Through a single-case ...

Armenia has a complicated history and a present. Important factors are the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), the occupation and collapse of the Soviet Union, and the (armed) conflict with Azerbaijan ...

This research explores the involvement of former colonizer, France, in Lebanon’s 2020 crisis as the country has faced economic turmoil and a political meltdown, a pandemic and a catastrophic explosion in the capital’s port. ...

In the summer of 2008 violence flared up again in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The media and political attention for the problems in the DRC were at an all-time high. There were two global ...

This research seeks to understand how international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and local religious actors collaborate on peacebuilding in northern Iraq. Northern Iraq, which is rich in different peoples and ...

This thesis seeks to uncover why the continuous EU efforts over the years to create a common energy policy have not yielded strong results: despite successful integration in other policy areas, the so-called EU Energy Union ...

Remittances have been subject to many research from the twentieth century up till now. Particularly in the case of Somalia (or rather the Somalis), billions of dollars go around the world (DFID 2008). Remittances are not ...

This thesis is a study into the conceptual development of risk of foreign military interventions and subsequently into the development of a risk analysis framework for foreign military intervention that is sensitive to ...

The territory of modern-day Kosovo has been for centuries the theatre of violent conflicts between Serbs and Albanians (Judah, 2008). Yet, the ‘apples of discord’ are not Kosovo’s natural resources or strategic ...