Articles

• Did the Red Dragon Slay the Land of Opportunity? Analysing the Trump Administration’s impact on Sino-Asian relations - Maddy Baskerville 
• An Unlimited Right to Life: the Incompatibility of Capital Punishment with Human Rights  - Jasmine Chatwin  
• Defending Floyd’s Normative Behaviourism  - Harvey Dryer 
• Is Gender Equality ‘Smart Economics’: An Analysis of the World Bank Gender Equality Policy  - Isabel Hawley  
• Righting Climate Wrongs Together: Green Citizenship and Climate Rights  - Naz Iskandar  
• Making Periods Political: Evaluating the Effectiveness of International Human Rights Frameworks in Promoting Good Menstrual Hygiene Management in the Global South  - Caitlin O’Brien  

 

Editor’s Foreword 

I’m pleased to present the offering from Politics and International Relations this year. These six papers cover a diverse range of topics and some of the most pressing issues of our age. The desire to understand and work towards a better, fairer and more equal world is a common theme running throughout, demonstrating the positive spirit and aims of our subject.  

It’s been an honour to lead this year’s editorial team and to be part of an initiative that celebrates the best of student research. I hope this journal will go from strength to strength as the years progress because it provides a unique opportunity for student collaboration across year groups and showcases the high calibre and hard work of students at the University of Bristol.  

My thanks go to the Politics and International Relations editorial team, and the deputy editors in particular who were instrumental in shaping our subject’s selections this year.  

Vanessa Cherry 

Subject Editor for Politics and International Relations

 

With thanks to:

Siubhan O'Donnell - Deputy Editor

Alice MacLeod - Deputy Editor

Dan Coffey - Deputy Editor

Elisabeth Moerking - Copy Editor

Oscar Wollen - Peer Reviewer

Yasmeen Yagoobi - Peer Reviewer

Harry Gray - Peer Reviewer

Victoria Rochelois - Peer Reviewer

Sai Lalitha Aiyer - Peer Reviewer

Witek Augustowski - Peer Reviewer