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Apr 13, 2021 · The reasons for the current riots are complex. Loyalist discontent with the consequences of Brexit, long-term deprivation and disillusionment with governments both in Belfast and London, and low confidence in the police have all played a part. Observers have also been quick to point to the influence of paramilitaries with criminal motives.
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May 18, 2022 · of loyalist paramilitaries in particular, we believe that the approach by the UK Government and Northern Ireland Executive on the tackling of paramilitarism has failed and requires a fundamental rethink. The remainder of this briefing note gives evidence for this conclusion, offering both key judgements and recommendations.
The ambivalent position of Britain has been described as "wishing to seem to be a major part of Europe without wanting actually to take part". [5] The othering of European unity as a Continental issue and somebody else's problem has been a recurrent theme. [ 6 ]
Sep 14, 2023 · Brexit has led to major changes in UK trade policy after decades of collective trade agreements and regulatory alignment with the European Union. Following the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, the idea of ‘Global Britain’ was touted as the central goal in securing policy autonomy and regulatory independence with respect to trade, rooted in a strong sense of liberalization unencumbered ...
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- Trade as A Source of Material Power
- The Struggle For Power and The Promotion of Open Trade
- The British Experience Before The First World War
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Free trade is under attack in the United States. For the first time in many decades, top-level decision-makers, most notably President Donald Trump, are spearheading the assault. The rationale shared by the critics of free trade is simple yet powerful: American workers suffer owing to unfair trade policies of other states. It follows that Washingto...
For offensive realists, foreign trade needs to be taken seriously because it can be an important source of a state's material capacity. In particular, trade can significantly increase a state's material clout through specialization that enhances economic efficiency.
When reviewing its approach to foreign trade, the key concern for a state seeking to maximize its relative power is whether protectionist measures do indeed help it to maximize its material power vis-à-visthe state against which the protectionist policies are directed (‘the targeted state’). In fact, the ‘multipolar’ structure of specialized trade ...
In order to illustrate the offensive realist argument against protectionism, I present here a brief case-study of Britain's behaviour in respect of its trade policy in the early twentieth century. Many scholars compare pre-First World War Britain with the United States today, and consider it to be a particularly important historical case that offer...
This article suggests that offensive realism can be married to the insights of mainstream trade theories to offer a new perspective about open trade. For offensive realists, protectionism needs to be avoided since a protectionist state is likely to encounter significant relative losses in the multipolar international trade structure that characteri...
Dec 4, 2018 · Political Relations. In the discussion of any proposed trade agreement, the identity of the trading partner will be of special consequence. The prospect of increased trade ties and mutual economic gain is likely to appear more or less ominous depending on the state of political relations with the prospective trading partner, and on expectations of future conflict in particular.
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May 28, 2008 · It is argued that Loyalist paramilitaries have continually used violence to serve several objectives. These objectives of violence have shifted in dominance as the peace process unfolded. A typology of the objectives of Loyalist violence is presented which identifies violence as either between or within groups and in search of political, sectarian, economic, social and territorial aims.
