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This paper examines the problems caused by treating human rights as an issue separate from intern... more This paper examines the problems caused by treating human rights as an issue separate from international power politics. The situation surrounding the Mexican Drug War presents a clear example of the limits of international attempts to depoliticise the issue of human rights. The War on Drugs has not only defined the extent of human rights abuses in Mexico for at least the past decade, it also acts as the major factor in debilitating both internal and external attempts to address such abuses.
This essay is an argument in favour of adopting a post-structuralist understanding of the employ... more This essay is an argument in favour of adopting a post-structuralist understanding of the employment of power in world politics, as opposed to more conventional realist approaches. In making this argument, I put forward changes in the nature of international politics which are better explained through post-structralist theory and more traditional instances of 'power politics' where traditional realist explanations are more limited than they at first appear.
Undergraduate essay on the specific impacts of European Monetary Union on the financialisation pr... more Undergraduate essay on the specific impacts of European Monetary Union on the financialisation process which has been observed across advanced capitalist economies.
This paper examines the problems caused by treating human rights as an issue separate from intern... more This paper examines the problems caused by treating human rights as an issue separate from international power politics. The situation surrounding the Mexican Drug War presents a clear example of the limits of international attempts to depoliticise the issue of human rights. The War on Drugs has not only defined the extent of human rights abuses in Mexico for at least the past decade, it also acts as the major factor in debilitating both internal and external attempts to address such abuses.
This essay is an argument in favour of adopting a post-structuralist understanding of the employ... more This essay is an argument in favour of adopting a post-structuralist understanding of the employment of power in world politics, as opposed to more conventional realist approaches. In making this argument, I put forward changes in the nature of international politics which are better explained through post-structralist theory and more traditional instances of 'power politics' where traditional realist explanations are more limited than they at first appear.
Undergraduate essay on the specific impacts of European Monetary Union on the financialisation pr... more Undergraduate essay on the specific impacts of European Monetary Union on the financialisation process which has been observed across advanced capitalist economies.