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 ...

Over the past years China has been able to rapidly develop in to a power to be reckoned with. While great strides have been made in terms of financial decentralization, political decentralization appears to lack behind. ...

Despite a rapid increase in popular support for Catalonia’s independence, the pro-independence movement has struggled to gain more support since 2014. Even though the issue gathered more attention from the media and ...

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

Although media influence on foreign policy has gathered scientific interest since the late 80’s, the focus of scholars has stayed with defense and intervention policies. Little research has been conducted on foreign policy ...

Since 2007 far-reaching socio-economic reforms have been implemented in Cuba, which seem to indicate a transformation away from direct state intervention towards a more free-market attitude in areas like agriculture, housing ...