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Ambassador Doraemon: Japan's Pop Culture Diplomacy in China and South Korea
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Despite a growing literature on Japanese soft power and public diplomacy, little research quantifies its effects or orients it in policy discussions. This paper investigates the relationship of consumption of Japanese ...
The Impact of the Internet on Chinese Nationalism: The Emergence of Contentious Spaces Onlines
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper seeks to answer the question of why anti-Japanese nationalism related to historical memory of World War II has grown at such a rapid pace among Chinese internet-users despite several elements commonly understood ...
FOREIGN AID IN AFRICA IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: THE CHINA AND U.S. MODEL FIGHT FOR RELEVANCE
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Poverty remains the scourge of the modern world. Millions of people live in poverty despite the best efforts of the most powerful governments in the world. Due to a myriad of political and historical reasons, the most ...
A FRUITFUL FUTURE FOR THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA: ALTERING THE UNITED STATES-TAIWAN RELATIONSHIP
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This is an investigation of the delicate trilateral relationship between China, Taiwan, and the United States. Currently, the United States employs a policy of strategic ambiguity to deal with the contentious relationship ...
Standing Up: An Assessment of Modern Chinese Nationalism's Role and Impact Within China and Beyond
(Georgetown University, 2011)
In the past three decades, Chinese nationalism has proven to be a strong yet often unpredictable force throughout the People's Republic of China's (PRC) government and society. As such, any understanding of China must ...
RELIGION, ETHNICITY, AND ECONOMIC MARGINALIZATION AS DRIVERS OF CONFLICT IN XINJIANG
(Georgetown University, 2011)
This thesis critically evaluates the role of Islam and ethnic differences as driving forces of conflict in Xinjiang. As China grows and becomes more vested in the global system, its continued stability is in the interest ...
The Negative Impact of the One Child Policy on the Chinese Society as it Relates to the Parental Support of the Aging Population
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This thesis examines the one child policy and how it has impacted the overall family structure, for the purpose of this thesis, mainly the elderly. When the one child policy was introduced by Deng Xiaoping in 1979, the ...
Hindering Speech and Halting Progress: Sacrificing Freedoms for National Control in China and Turkey
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Speech exists as a weapon in our increasingly networked world today. Every day there is a new case where a dissident spoke out against a repressive regime and disappeared; an Olympic athlete `Tweeted' a racial slur and ...
Civilization and Statecraft: The Foreign Policy of China and India during the Cold War
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This thesis intends to show how the "genes" of culture express themselves in the behavior of a nation. It assesses the manner in which civilizational values inform the application of statecraft in foreign relations. The ...
Double or Nothing: How the Chinese Have Been Stealing Russian Technology and Why the Russians May Continue to Provide Opportunities
(Georgetown University, 2014)
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