Example international political economy dissertation topic 6:

A paradigm in global justice and human rights: Kosovo, Libya, and Syria.

During the last sixty years, global justice and human rights have become major preoccupations of the international world. However, this dissertation argues that there has been a major paradigm in the approaches taken by global powers with regard to intervention and the protection of justice and human rights over the past twenty years. Focusing on the conflicts in Kosovo, Libya and Syria, this dissertation first provides a brief synopsis of the three conflicts before providing a critique of the international communities reactions to them; in so doing, it suggests that with regard to Libya – regime change was the primary political driver and that in Syria active involvement to safeguard human rights has been abandoned.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Benhabib, S. (2012). ‘Is there a human right to democracy? Beyond interventionism and indifference’. Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights, SpringerLink, pp. 191-213.
• Tutuianu, S. (2013). Towards global justice: Sovereignty in an interdependent world. The Hague: Asser Press.
• Williams, P.D. and Bellamy, A.J. (2012). Principles, politics, and prudence: Libya, the responsibility to protect, and the use of military force. Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, vol. 18(3), pp. 273-297.