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TERRORISM IN YEMEN: CHALLENGES AND UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY
(Georgetown University, 2013)
TERRORISM IN YEMEN: CHALLENGES AND UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY
The Dahiyeh Doctrine: The Conditions Under Which States Can Establish Asymmetric Deterrence
(Georgetown University, 2013)
For the last decade, a growing body of research has sough to understand how classical deterrence methods could be adapted by states to establish asymmetric deterrence against non-state militant groups. Various strategies ...
DIPLOMACY AND POLITICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND SAFAVID IRAN, 1639-1722
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Formally characterized by uninterrupted peace, dismissed as a period of marginal importance, and assumed not to have produced sufficient documentation for a monograph, the third and last phase of Ottoman-Safavid relations ...
‘ALLAH, AL-WATAN, AL-QA’ID’: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF REGIME MILITIAS IN IRAQ, 1991-2003
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the emergence and dominant position of militias in the country has become common knowledge. In terms of conceptualization, the rise of militias is generally viewed in isolation ...
Methods to Their Madness: Understanding the Behavior of Rogue Regimes
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Despite the urgency of rogue states for U.S. policy, scholars have not developed an understanding regarding their definition and emergence. My dissertation seeks to resuscitate rogue states as a subject of inquiry for ...
A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS FACTIONS OF THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL AUTHORITATIVE GOVERNMENT AND ITS EFFECTS ON A FUTURE AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Although the PLO is the official government recognized by the international community to represent the Palestinian people, the political factions within the PLO differ deeply in ideology, philosophy and religiosity. This ...
THE ASSAD REGIME'S PROPAGANDA
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Propaganda is used by authoritarian regimes to maintain political order and influence internal and foreign opinion. With this general observation as a starting point, this thesis will analyze the presentation of events ...
ISRAEL AND IRAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
(Georgetown University, 2016)
With the recent events of the new nuclear agreement with Iran, the issue of Iran’s relationship with Israel has once again come into the spotlight. From media reports one can deduce that Israel and Iran are countries that ...
PUBLIC DIPLOMACY GANGNAM STYLE
(Georgetown University, 2014)
The diplomatic impasse between the United States and Iran is officially broken after thirty-four years of mutual recriminations and mistrust. The need for a reinvigorated U.S. public diplomacy is essential to forge a new ...
The Eastern Question, Great Game, and Modern Hot Wars: Policy Lessons and Statecraft Implications for US Relations with Russia, Turkey, and Iran in the 21st Century
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This study provides additional context for unacknowledged but sustained Russian and Iranian hot wars against the United States that unfolded and became normalized in the 2010s. It examines key events through four constructs: ...