An analysis of the adoption of the responsibility to protect by Russia and China during the 2005 World Summit

This research revolves around a puzzle concerning the decision of the Turkish Government to carry out a series of military attacks against the Syrian Kurds during the period of 2015-2017. This hostile policy appears to ...

In response to the European debt crisis, EU countries, excluding Great Britain and the Czech Republic, agreed in December 2011 on the so-­‐called Fiscal Pact. This agreement entailed that all the Eurozone member states ...

Before getting into the UN’s obsession with elections I would like to thank several people who helped and supported me while writing this thesis. First of all, my supervisor Prof. Dr. Anna van der Vleuten, who helped me a ...

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 ...