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A Comprehensive Approach to Water Diplomacy. Embracing decoloniality, intersectionality and multi-track analysis. Case-study: the GERD dispute between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan
(2021)This paper provides an unorthodox approach to water diplomacy, concretely, in the GERD dispute framework. It analyses water diplomacy as a subject that goes beyond the state-centric, Western and ... -
A Realist Approach to Universal Jurisdiction: the Case of Spain
(2021)Universal jurisdiction is a powerful tool to bring individual accountability for the commission of international crimes, and yet states seem to be reluctant to use it. This research aims at explaining ... -
Beyond Words: the Potential of Playback Theatre in Promoting Reconciliation in Post-Armed Conflict Societies
(2023)For decades,peace and reconciliation procedures within communities in post-armed conflict scenarios have been approached through mainstream lenses, focusing solely on justice and truth-finding.This study ... -
Big Tech’s material contributions to digital authoritarianism in the GCC countries
(2023)Digital authoritarianism has been on the rise in the Gulf since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011. Through practices such as surveillance, censorship, and social manipulation and disinformation, the ... -
Chagos: Dispossession and Exile in Paradise
(2021)The expulsion of Chagossians in the late 1960s and early 1970s by British authorities resulted in the dispossession of the whole population and the survival of colonialism in the Indian Ocean. Following ... -
Co-housing as a tool to mitigate the care crisis: Case studies of La Borda and Les Voirets
(2021)Current figures show that housework is still carried out by women, being an obstacle to their emancipation. This paper examines in what manners can the model of co- housing reduce the care crisis at ... -
Comparative Analysis of Regional Integration Mechanisms in the EU and ASEAN: A Study of EU and ASEAN's Pathways towards Regional Integration
(2023)This research undertakes a longitudinal comparison between the EU and ASEAN, investigating the political, economic, and social policies that shape their respective regional integration.The EU is commonly ... -
Ethnonational Identities in a Protracted Social Conflict: An analysis of the Israel-Palestine conflict and of the proposals for its resolution
(2021)This study analyses and discusses the Israel-Palestine conflict from a social and non-material perspective through political and social-psychology theories. To do so, it poses the following research question: ... -
From childs to heroes: constructions of masculinity in the African National Congress during Apartheid and post-Apartheid South Africa
(2021)In line with feminist analyses of the gendered dimensions of domination, the present research work is aimed at developing an intersectional understanding of the processes through which the figures of ... -
Gendering Positive Peace: A Feminist Approach for the Cases of Mexico and Turkey within the Positive Peace Index
(2021)Peace research has often left aside the inclusion of an extensive gender-sensitive approach that goes beyond the consideration of gender-based violence. However, feminist analysts have been proposing a ... -
Internationalisation plan of a song to the German Music Market
(2021)In today's world, it is believed that globalisation has had a significant impact on the field of international relations. One of the most affected industries has been the entertainment field due to the ... -
Ipso Facto: a Podcast to Fight Disinformation
(2022)With globalization and the technological revolution, new digital platforms have been established which have unleashed innovative journalistic practices that enable new forms of communication. Thus, ... -
Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management into Cyber Risks: Proposing a Policy Brief to the Barcelona City Council
(2021)Cyber risks and incidents have augmented in the past decade with the increasing usage and development of internet services. Consequently, national and regional cybersecurity agencies have been set to ... -
#Metoo or the art of call-out culture: Assessing the impact of Social Movements in International Relations
(2021)We do no longer live in a state-centric world. New actors such as transnational companies, cities, or social movements are earning their place within IR. The aim of this research is to highlight social ... -
#MilkTeaAlliance, more than spectators of disaster. The new alter-globalization movement?
(2022)The COVID-19 outbreak has been instrumentalized as a catalyst for further autocratization, especially in South and Southeast Asia. The #MilkTeaAlliance, a Pan-Asian solidarity networked social movement, ... -
Mohammed Bin Salman and his Foreign Policy: Shifting Tendencies in his Quest for Legitimacy
(2023)The unexpected irruption of the young Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) into the highest levels of the Saudi political arena has been accompanied by his decision to distance his regime from the two traditional ... -
Parochialism in Libyan Political Culture: understanding the authoritarian tendencies in Libyan Political Culture and their role in the failure of the 2011 revolution
(2022)Following four decades of authoritarian rule under the Gaddafi regime, and a decade marked by trends of fragmented rule, violence, chaos and instability, Libya’s political culture undoubtedly suffered ... -
The art of indigenous struggle. The strategies of the Awas Tingni and Sarayaku communities in their international fight for land rights
(2021)Indigenous peoples have been repressed for centuries, unheard by states which disregarded their rights. This research is an analysis of the strategies local indigenous movements in Latin America have ... -
The Governmental Instrumentalization of Migration at the EU's Borders: the Cases of Morocco and Belarus
(2023)The present final degree project analyses two external borders of the EU to understand what the pre-conditions of the governmental instrumentalization of migratory fluxes are. In order to find what ...