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The Alliance Dilemma: A Stronger Japan and Regional Stability
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper is an attempt to explain the United States's puzzling silence on Japan's potential development of autonomous strike capability. I argue that this is due to the U.S.'s fear of entrapment vis-à-vis Japan, which ...
Modeling State Decisions to Pursue Nuclear Weapons
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper addresses the puzzle of why states proliferate nuclear weapons, despite a widespread call for global nuclear disarmament and the high costs of non-compliance behavior that follow. Most existing research on the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Click and Dagger: Cyber-Espionage and the Need for a New Ethical Paradigm
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Referred to as the second oldest profession, espionage has been employed by states since time immemorial in the furtherance of national security. With the rise of computer-based technology and the integration of cyber into ...
Myanmar's Rohingya Refugees: The Search for Human Security
(Georgetown University, 2014)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the human rights violations against one minority group in Myanmar - the Rohingya - by the majority Buddhist Rakhinese population with central government support, in order to call the ...
El giro en la política exterior argentina en la cuestión Malvinas: nuevos diagnósticos y posicionamientos a partir del año 2003
(Georgetown University, 2014)
La presente tesis se propone investigar el giro en la política exterior en la cuestión Malvinas a partir del año 2003. Para ello, nos centramos en la perspectiva y posiciones de la Argentina en dos períodos: 1) desde el ...
Arresting Decline: Great Powers and Strategies of System Management
(Georgetown University, 2014)
How do great powers cope with relative decline? What strategies do they employ to counter or mitigate adverse shifts in the balance of power, and under what conditions will they favor one strategy over another? While ...
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 ...
THE BLIND MAN'S ELEPHANT: BROADENING PERSPECTIVES TO SAVE THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Ivory poaching has evolved from a local and regional nuisance to a vexing global threat in need of immediate action. The ivory trade is one of the world's largest illicit activities, funneling money to terrorist groups, ...