Since the failure of the Doha round of negotiations, the number of trade agreements between countries has increased exponentially worldwide. The premise being that trade agreements tie nations closer together lessening the ...

This is a study of developmentalism as the ideology that guides economic policy in Brazil. The focus is the military regime that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985. The main argument is that, contrary to what most of the ...

Though nearly all states in the international system are signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the same cannot be said of the more recent nonproliferation agreements designed to advance the goals of ...

Since the end of the Cold War, democratization has been treated in both theory and practice as a crucial element of peacebuilding after civil war, promising the transfer of social conflict from the battlefield to the ballot ...

While decades have passed since 1994’s Violence Against Women Act, do we see American judges employing inaccurate, though widely held, myths about rape? Sexual assault has become an increasingly contested social, political, ...

The concept of citizenship is ancient, but it remains a subject of ongoing debate and contestation. As the history of political exclusions reveals, fundamental claims to universality or human rights prove insufficient for ...

How did the U.S. government liberalize trade despite public opposition? Over the last three decades, the United States forged free trade agreements with countries on five continents, pursuing a strategy of bilateral ...

The use of path dependency in political science explanations of institutional development, especially social security helps us to better understand continuities and departures of a policy. The lack of theoretical work on ...

The American press, citizenry, and government are in a multi-dependent, triangular relationship. The disintegrating role of the media in American government is a threat to America’s federal democratic republic and the ...

Existing scholarship suggests that the extent of female representation in government at the national and sub-national levels is positively correlated with the existence of equal pay laws, spending on welfare benefits and ...