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IS THE UNITED STATES PREPARED FOR THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM? AN ANALYSIS OF CURRENT SAFEGUARDS AND POLICIES
(Georgetown University, 2011)
IS THE UNITED STATES PREPARED FOR THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM? AN ANALYSIS OF CURRENT SAFEGUARDS AND POLICIES
Perilous Waters: The Political Economy of International Warship Exports
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Why would a state export warships that could be used against it? Strategic logic suggests that increasing another state's combat power is bad policy, as the United Kingdom discovered when it faced British-built destroyers ...
THE WAR ON TERROR IN POSTMODERN MEMORY: EXPLANATION, UNDERSTANDING, AND MYTH IN THE WAKE OF 9/11
(Georgetown University, 2014)
War, like all human endeavors, is at some point of consideration a cultural event; understanding it fully requires an appreciation of war's events, its cultural context, and the interaction between them. In all wars there ...
MILITARY SOFT POWER IS NOT AN OXYMORON: USING PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ANALYTIC APPROACHES TO EXAMINE GOALS AND EFFECTS OF U.S. MILITARY EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
(Georgetown University, 2011)
Current, less traditional threats to global security and stability call for changes in how we address national security goals. A number of studies have highlighted the importance of soft power in this new international ...
How This All Ends: Nixon's Path From Vietnam, Obama's Afghan Gamble and Forging Peace From War
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This thesis is a conflicts study - but rather than primarily examining origins or conduct, it aims to explore and illuminate the causes and conditions for reconciliation in wartime, successful and unsuccessful. This study ...
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: A Failed State and Somali Piracy Threat Assessment: Criminal Deviance or Maritime Terrorism
(Georgetown University, 2011)
Current anti and counter-piracy strategies and operations by both the United States and the international community at large in the Gulf of Aden are fundamentally flawed. These strategies and resulting operations address ...
Beyond "Hearts and Minds"
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Ever since Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer proclaimed that "the answer lies not in pouring more troops into the jungle, but in the hearts and minds of the people," common wisdom suggests that the key to military victory ...
COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION AND NONPROLIFERATION PROGRAMS: THE NEED FOR COORDINATION
(Georgetown University, 2013)
The growing number of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats requires the government of the United States to take an aggressive approach to protect its citizens and the world. This thesis examines the creation and ...
Do Drones Work? The United States Targeted Killing Program and Terrorism in Pakistan
(Georgetown University, 2015)
There has been heavy debate on the United States targeted killing program, but very little on the effectiveness of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or drone, strikes as a counterterrorism tactic. The prevailing notion asserted ...
ALLAH, AMBIVALENCE, AND DEATH FROM ABOVE: A PERPETUAL CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN PAKISTAN AND IRAQ
(Georgetown University, 2016)
The War on Terror has become inextricability linked with Islam. The Bush and Obama administrations have fought a mostly military-centric campaign against radical Islamist groups across the world that the U.S. State Department ...