Analysing intergovernmental decision making on common foreign policy of the European Union. The case of the European Union's Anti-Piracy Mission

In 2015, a new international organization came into existence: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a new multilateral development bank (MDB). Founded by a wide array of countries, from Asia and outside the ...

Modern realists are keen on using Russia’s increasingly assertive foreign policy posture to argue for the realist nature of international politics. In an attempt to gauge the cogency of such claims, this research applies ...

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 ...

Competition policy in the CARIFORUM Partnership Agreement

This research is aimed at explaining why Brazil decided to expand its economic cooperation with other BRICS countries by forming the New Development Bank (NDB). From a liberal perspective, Brazil’s support is questionable ...

Explaining the non-binding nature of the norms in the United Nations Global Compact

Cyber security is currently at the top of the Dutch political agenda, and regarded as the newest domain for military operations. Threats in and through cyberspace are considered to be threats against national security and ...

This thesis investigates the cross-national variation in governmental approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR is most known for being a concept that focuses on the voluntary social responsible behavior of ...

For the first time since 1975, in 2013 the Netherlands dropped below the UN target of allocating 0.7% of one’s GNP to aid. This, in addition to the fact that the policy would be too commercialized, led to the party resignation ...