The diversity of the movement, the informality and speed of the network, the rituals of the assembly and the formal power of the party: each political form has its distinct features and dynamics. Medium theory always taught us that expression is shaped by the contours and material properties of communication …

Silvio Berlusconi was Italy's longest serving Prime Minister since the Second World War. As Prime Minister, he exercised control over the three public television channels in Italy. The combination of a strong political figure that controls large parts of public media and has considerable business interests …

The nation-state had a long history of success, but today it is failing its citizens on a global scale. Over the last hundred years, nation-states focussed on maximizing internal unity and jurisdictional sovereignty. Benjamin R. Barber’s ‘If Mayors Ruled The World’ is the central source of this thesis …

Nowadays, the Rule of Law is seen as more and more important for international relations. The concept of the Rule of Law means that ordinary citizens and those who govern should obey the law. It means that the society is ruled by law and not by men. Several main principles are identified, namely government …

After the “Rose Revolution” in 2003, Georgia’s political elite announced its new policy direction to follow democratic and liberal beliefs norms, values and ideas. This has formed Georgia’s national identity, which, the country claims, has always been European. Georgia’s powerful neighbor country – Russia …

Analysing the questions “How profitable is the industry made with war and can peace become a profitable business as well?” is very difficult, as it is important to not just identify the profits made by the arms industry, but also to identify the industry focused on peace and built around connected values. …

Anthropology is traditionally broken into several subfields, physical/biological anthropology, social/cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and sometimes also applied anthropology. Anthropology of the environment, or environmental anthropology, is a specialization within the field …

This dissertation examines how European integration and Welsh devolution have affected the Welsh identity. Devolution and European integration are the most important institutional process to have affected Wales in the last 40 years. These political processes have caused shifts of power leading a rethinking …

The present document concludes my time as a European Studies bachelor degree student within The Hague University of Applied Sciences and it aims at discovering the possible repercussions of the economic crisis on the cooperation within the European Foreign Policy realm. It is intended to observe how …

The western, capitalistic world has been trying to influence the political values of the Russian government since the collapse of the Soviet Union, advocating for implementation of a strong democracy and improvement of human rights. Putin has been active in the centre of power of Russia since he became …