Edinburgh Research Archive

• Al-Jazeera, intellectuals, and the deconstruction of social realities 

  Barakat, Rabie (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)

  This thesis analyzes the processes of framing that took place within a matrix comprising influential intellectuals, a potent Arab media outlet whose audience amounts to tens of millions of Arab spectators, and the vibrant ...

• Humanitarianism, human rights, and security in EUropean border governance: the case of Frontex 

  Perkowski, Nina (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)

  This thesis explores the (re-)positioning of the EU border agency Frontex within a wider shift towards humanitarianism and human rights in EUropean border governance. By examining Frontex’s public self-representation ...

• Explaining the outcomes of negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Regional Economic Communities - comparing EU-CARIFORUM and EU-ECOWAS EPAs 

  Nyomakwa-Obimpeh, James (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-01-11)

  The European Commission has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with Regional Economic Communities of African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States since 2002. The outcomes have been mixed. ...

• Inclusive guise of “gay” asylum: a sociolegal analysis of sexual minority asylum recognition in the UK 

  Olsen, Preston Trent (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)

  The United Kingdom’s acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) refugees has been heralded as a progressive shift in asylum law. Indeed, the scope for the protection of sexual minorities under the Refugee ...

• Defence of ideal theory approaches to just choice 

  Drever, Andrew William (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)

  One of the most common goals of political theory is to inform just choice; with ‘just choice’ referring to the class of practical, political decisions that result in society becoming more just. However, important questions ...

• Choosing security: political rationalities in the securitization of migration in Arizona 

  Slaven, Michael Coffey (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)

  The state of Arizona became the main corridor for unauthorised migration into the United States in the early 2000s. A security approach to the issue at the state and local levels of policymaking became increasingly marked ...

• Puzzling participants or disaffected citizenry? Re-examining education’s impacts on the electoral mobilisation of Britain’s youth 

  Snelling, Charlotte Jane (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)

  This thesis extends our understanding of a ‘puzzle of participation’ (Brody 1978). Across established Western democracies, turnout in elections has been steadily falling - at the same time, society is modernising. Central ...

• US elite discourse on the EU as a security actor 

  Byrne, Andrew (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)

  Constructivist accounts of the EU’s emergence as a security actor typically focus on changing conceptions of the Union’s role within a European context, at both national and EU levels. But few studies have analysed how ...

• European unionists : the paradox of nationalism in contemporary Scotland and Northern Italy 

  Urquhart, Mark A. (The University of Edinburgh, 1996)

• Fellow travellers of the right and foreign policy debate in Scotland 1935-39 

  Stewart, Neil M. (The University of Edinburgh, 1995)

• Changing policy and practice of Japanese educational aid to sub-Saharan Africa 

  Sawamura, Nobuhide (The University of Edinburgh, 1995)

• Establishment of the European Commission : the building of administrative structures within an organisation of political leadership 

  Piene, Henriette C. (The University of Edinburgh, 1997)

• Getting there, being there, making a difference? : gendered discourses of access and action in local politics 

  Mackay, Fiona (The University of Edinburgh, 1996)

  This thesis aims to further our understanding of the relationship between gender relations, political structures and political action. There are two broad questions posed by the study of women in political elites. The ...

• Politics of speculation : on power and utopia 

  Jenson, Michael Kent (The University of Edinburgh, 1996)

• Towards a redefinition of freedom and subjectivity in contemporary society 

  Hawa, Salam (The University of Edinburgh, 1995)

• 'Be polite, be professional, be prepared to kill' : counterinsurgency, masculinity and British military doctrine 

  Cornish, Hilary Ann (The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)

  Contemporary counterinsurgency has been characterised by a shift from the ‘kill or capture’ of insurgents to prioritising winning over civilian populations. This focus on the population brings a particular skillset to ...

• Faithful agent or independent actor? The European Commission in the external dimension of EU Energy Policy 

  Batzella, Francesca (The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)

  Energy policy in the European Union (EU) is a patchwork of diverging interests and preferences. While the European Commission pushes for a common energy policy, Member States are responsible for their own separate energy ...

• Agroexports and Sandinismo : the political economy of social transformation in Nicaragua (1979-1990) 

  Brown, Ed (The University of Edinburgh, 1996)

• Shadow foreign policy: the relationship of the Social Democratic Party of West Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany and the negotiations surrounding the "common dialogue", 1984-1987 

  Moeller, Richard R. (The University of Edinburgh, 1995)

• Income stabilization policies for the cotton producers of the Sudan 

  Suliman, Ali Ahmed (The University of Edinburgh, 1964)

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