The relationships between psychological mechanisms and human rights attitudes have received increased attention in recent years. Strikingly, though, the implications of the generative school in cognitive science—which conceives of certain mental systems as governed by innate set…
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This thesis explores recent trends in Chinese international relations scholarship from the perspective of post-colonial and critical international relations theory. It begins by interrogating the now widespread view that ‘the discipline’ of international relations is profoundly …
This study is essentially a critique of how the three dominant paradigms of explanatory international relations theory - (neo-)realism, liberalism, and systemic constructivism - conceive of, analytically deal with, and explain ethnic conflict and sovereignty. By deconstructing t…
The world is shifting from a unipolar system following the end of the Cold War to a multipolar system that is ushered in by “the rise of the rest.” This change in the global structure has led some analysts to predict an increase in nuclear weapons proliferation caused by increas…
This thesis adds to the burgeoning literature on the role of religion in International Relations (IR), and adds theoretical depth to the emerging sub-field of International Political Theology (IPT), by examining the subject through the prism of regime theory, which is necessaril…
This dissertation project examines the role of identity, the politics of identity contestation and domestic political structures as part of the mechanisms and processes that may be involved in the decisions that states make regarding disengagement from their colonial and territo…
Why do actors sometimes engage in sustained, organized violence against civilians, such that large numbers of the civilians die in a relatively short time span? Between 1900 and 2008, 50,000+ were killed in five or fewer years fifty-five times. Our extant answers about why these…