Personal Stuff - MA papers

Between September 2002 and December 2003 I read International Studies at the University of Birmingham to earn a Masters degree. The full degree title is MA in International Studies: Globalisation and Governance. During this period I produced a number of academic essays on a variety of topics, and they are all collected below. My thesis was on cybernetic warfare, and it has a dedicated site that you can access here.

Globalisation and Governance papers

• Is there a future for the nation-state in an era of globalisation? If so, what future?
• Is a comprehensive welfare state simply unfundable in an era of globalisation?

Security Studies papers

• Is there a role for nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War era?
• An analysis of the changing nature of security in Western Europe and North America since 1989.

International Political System papers

• Can states cooperate in an anarchic environment?
• There can be no unified approach to international relations, since there is no single understanding of the 'international'.

Please feel free to cite my academic papers in any research you undertake, but remember to give the full URL of this page when doing so. All the papers are copyrighted under my name, and should not be used without proper attribution.

The homepage of my department (Politics and International Studies) at the University of Birmingham can be found here.

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