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Youthful Age Structures and the Risks of Revolutionary and Separatist Conflicts
This chapter addresses gaps in the age-structural theory of state behaviour, specifically as it pertains to the statistical expectation that states...
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Peace and Security: The Question of “Reunification” or “Unification” of Cameroon
This chapter argues that the unification of Cameroon created marginalisation against Anglophone Cameroonians (citizens of former British Southern...
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Modern Civic Protest Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Context of Global Political Destabilization
This chapter analyzes the civic protest movements (CPMs) in Sub-Saharan Africa that gained momentum in 2011, immediately after the Arab Spring, and...
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International Law and Frozen Conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus
This chapter deals with recent secession developments in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. In 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union a large part...
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The Aceh Tsunami and the Australian Defence Force
The decision-making process to involve the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in the post-Aceh tsunami took place at three levels of analysis: the...
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A Fragile Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This chapter draws attention to political situation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as post-conflict state. Tensions continue to exist in Bosnian society...
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Ukraine
This chapter analyses how the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU), a communist successor party that was re-established in 1993, lost its place as the...
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Conclusion: Movements of Crisis and Democratic Deepening
The so-called Coleman’s boat illustrates the logic of explanation from a mechanisms-based standpoint. According to Hedström and Ylikoski (2010: 59),...
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Conclusion
The conclusion will summarise the arguments made and work towards answering the research question. It does so by arguing that classical and...
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Made in Europe: Breaking Nations, Secession Movements and OAU Responses
This chapter addresses secession and Africa’s responses to the breaking of European-constructed nations, challenging the OAU’s 1964 Cairo Declaration...
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Palestine and EU
The state-bound conception of diplomatic practices is deficient. It fails to account for the diversity of international actors who do not fit the...
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Political Islam in Belgium: From Third-Country Activism to the Islamicization of the Political Debate
The first part of the paper highlights the interference and evolutions of several third countries on the institutionalization of Islam in Belgium....
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The Responsibility to Protect and International Community Response to the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria
The Boko Haram is group believed to have its origins in a group of radical Islamist youth who worshipped at the Alhaji Muhammadu Ndimi Mosque in...
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Securitization of Islamic Groups and Parties
This chapter focuses on the securitization of Islamic groups and movements in opposition such as the Gülen Movement, the Furkan Foundation, and the...
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India's Internal Security: Issues, Challenges and Options
In the larger national security discourse, identifying and situating the internal security issues and challenges are very crucial. A dominant...
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A Short History of Pan-Slavism and Its Impact on Central Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Pan-Slavism is a political, social, and cultural phenomenon that appeared in the nineteenth century as a part of revolutionary, nationalist, and...
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Indonesian Politics and Citizenship in Historical Perspective
TheHiariej aimTörnquist of this chapter is to provide historical background for the contemporary politics of citizenshipPolitics of citizenship in...
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Russia’s New Policy Towards Aspiring Political Movements and Unrecognized States
This chapter highlights the main dynamics sha** Russia’s policy towards aspiring political movements and unrecognized states. Moscow’s attitude...
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Progressive Options
After the year 2000 a range of progressive governments came into office across Latin America. To varying degrees they implemented economic policies...
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Decolonising the (Indonesian) “Peace Concept” in West-Papua
This article aims to review the concept of peace constructed by the Indonesian government and used to control and govern West Papua or Papua's land....