Yes / The civil war in South Sudan raises the all-too familiar problem of the crisis of state formation and nation-building in post-colonial Africa. Based on extensive field research in Sudan and South Sudan between 2005 and 2013, this chapter argues that the international response to post-independence nation-building and post-liberation-war peacebuilding was not predicated on coherent and consistent timing and sequencing. If anything, the case of South Sudan illustrates that the rather inconsistent, uncoordinated post-war peacebuilding and statebuilding, as well as the lack of domestic legitimacy and ownership of the post-liberation-war peacebuilding and nation-building interventions, aggravated the fundamental grievances leading to the outbreak of the December 2013 civil war. What is more, South Sudan demonstrates how events on the ground and the pursuit of the strategic interests of the key national, regional, and international stakeholders framed and determined the nature, scope, timing, and even the sequencing of post-war peacebuilding and nation-building.

La tesis doctoral Actores y orden en las Relaciones Internacionales. El papel de la República Popular China y Japón en la construcción del orden regional de Asia oriental analiza el comportamiento de los actores internacionales en el proceso de gestación, consolidación y transformación del orden, así como los factores que lo motivan. La primera parte estudia la naturaleza del orden, plantea una propuesta de clasificación de los actores y formula diversas hipótesis. A continuación se contextualizan y desarrollan dos casos de estudio. La segunda parte describe el proceso de construcción del orden regional de Asia oriental, su estructura y contenido actuales. Las partes tercera y cuarta se centran en el análisis del cambiante papel desempeñado por la República Popular China y Japón en este proceso y en los factores explicativos de su evolución. Por último, el apartado de consideraciones finales recoge las conclusiones y esboza tres posibles escenarios de futuro. / The doctoral thesis Actors and order in International Relations: the role of the People's Republic of China and Japan in the construction of East Asia's regional order analyzes the behaviour of international actors in the process of order emergence, consolidation and transformation, as well as its underlying factors. First, the thesis reflects on the nature of order, sets out a proposal for the classification of international actors, and formulates several hypotheses. In order to test them, the following sections contextualize and develop two case studies. The second section describes the process leading to the construction of East Asia's regional order, as well as its current structure and content. The third and fourth sections analyze the changing roles of China and Japan in this process and the factors shaping their evolution. Finally, the last section summarizes the main findings and sketches three potential scenarios for the future.

Diploma thesis "the European Union's influence on the Middle East" is focused on problems of the European Union and its role and influence in that region. From this thesis is evidence that Europe or the EU took and still take interest in the Middle East and that its influence on that region from 90's of 20th century is getting bigger because of emergent common policy of EU in face of that region. EU increasing influence on the Middle East will be looked about EU foreign policy on the Middle East aimed at its economic and politic or security aims. This thesis is stressed at power-political and human-cultural structure among regions like the basis for understanding of complete influence the EU on that region. In next step the research characterizes foreign policy of the EU on the Middle East from the view of rise and development, actors, instruments and economic and politic or security aims. From the view of economic aims the thesis point out the energetic links focusing on oil and natural gas. From the view of politic or security aims the thesis approves that EU has increased its presence on the Middle East particularly by civil missions in Palestine and Iraq. The rise of Union for the Mediterranean in 2008 with the aim to institutionalize the running cooperation between the EU and...