Since the Arab Spring in the beginning of 2011, Egypt has experienced many social and political changes. Islamist parties have gained a firm foothold in the political arena after years of secular rule by the Mubarak regime and the interim SCAF government. A new constitution, in which men and women are …

This thesis aims to test the credibility of the Responsibility to Protect principle ("R2P") by looking at how the principle was applied in Libya and addressing the question of why R2P was not applied in Syria. The first part of the thesis is about the origins and definition of R2P. The second part compares …

In this dissertation, the changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty to Common Foreign Security Policy (CFSP) in order to address and improve the coherence of the EU's external action are examined. In order to understand the coherence problem that existed in the EU's external action before the Lisbon Treaty …

Over the past decades, international terrorism started to reach its ideological peak, challenging and disrupting whole societies and governmental organs. This modern form of terror contains violent implications, psychologically pressing the innocent masses. Initially inspired by occasional, domestically …

In 2010 voerde Marco Snoek de eindredactie over een beleidshandboek van de Europese Commissie rond inductieprogramma's voor beginnende leraren. Dit inductie handboek is het resultaat van een peer learning proces waarin ervaringen vanuit verschillende landen rond inductieprogramma's gedeeld zijn. Het …

De docenten die drama en beeldend doceren in de onderzochte Reboundvoorzieningen werken in relatief kleine groepen van gemiddeld acht. Het grote verloop, het korte verblijf en de korte spanningsboog van de leerlingen zijn beperkende factoren bij het samenstellen van een coherent lesprogramma. De doelen …

After 2001, nine years after the fall of the Taliban, women's socio-economic position in Afghanistan has hardly improved. To this day, women are subjected to many cruelties such as torture and rape. After the Taliban had been defeated in 2001, the total amount of development assistance by the international …

This paper presents the search for a categorizing framework that can be used to identify and discuss teacher quality. Both policy documents on national and European levels and academic literature show a remarkable variation in categories that are used to describe teacher education. As part of a larger …

Aytel telecom is a telecommunications company located in The Hague, The Netherlands. As a start-up company trying to approach the Dutch telecom market, Aytel wants to explore on a new market within the Chinese community in the Netherlands. The purpose of this report is to create a marketing plan in …

One needs three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed. (Graham, 2005) Five …