This research, written as part of Amnesty International The Netherland’s ‘Strategic Studies Project’, is aimed at explaining why Brazil does not comply with international norms on indigenous peoples’ rights, although this ...

The Belt and Road Initiative is an unprecedented megaproject and the Chinese government has successfully convinced an increasing number of countries to join in. At the same time, the Western world fears that the initiative ...

Germany’s rise as a European major power has invoked great armed conflicts in the past. After having solved the issue of Germany by splitting it up in 1945, the major powers decided to grant the country sovereignty as a ...

The expansion of the European Union towards Eastern Europe during the 2000s has been a much-covered subject in academic research, likely because of the many controversies that rose among both the public and the political ...

Over the past decade, EU external policy has become increasingly entangled by the notion of policy coherence. Previously ‘siloed’ policy areas such as trade, agriculture, security, and development are increasingly ...

nvt

With more and more humanitarian interventions taking place around the world. This thesis attempts to create a set of principles that any intervenor should adhere to for a just humanitarian intervention. This is done by ...

In the last three years, the Polish judiciary has been reformed from a liberal judicial system to an illiberal judicial system, thereby affronting the European Union. The incentives behind this shift cannot be derived from ...

This research is aimed at explaining what are the motivations for the policy change that occurred in India after the Delhi gang-rape case of December 2012. In a country where gender discrimination has still a large cultural ...