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The Influence of Trade Agreements on Foreign Policy
(Georgetown University, 2016)
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 ...
UNBREAKABLE: DEVELOPMENTALISM AND MILITARY RULE IN BRAZIL
(Georgetown University, 2016)
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 ...
AMERICAN HEGEMONY AND THE POLITICS OF THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION REGIME
(Georgetown University, 2016)
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 ...
Sexual Assault Jurisprudence: Rape Myth Usage in State Appellate Courts
(Georgetown University, 2016)
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, ...
Industry and Inclusion: Economic and Political Membership in French Liberal Thought
(Georgetown University, 2016)
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 ...
Three Papers on Trade Politics
(Georgetown University, 2016)
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 ...
MEASURING THE EFFECT OF RIGID PATRIOTISM ON TRUST IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WITHIN ITS MEMBER-STATES
(Georgetown University, 2016)
The June 2016 Brexit vote along with rising populist movements in Europe and the United States has made relevant discussions regarding nationalism as a potential roadblock to the increasingly globalized world. Though ...
Capitalising on Collective Punishment: Siege Tactics in the Syrian Conflict
(Georgetown University, 2016)
The conflict in Syria has had a devastating impact on its people – by the end of 2015, the United Nations estimated that over 250,000 people had died throughout the previous four years of conflict, over half of Syria’s ...
Elementos para la participación ciudadana en la fiscalización pública: una aproximación desde la experiencia de la Contraloría General de Paraguay (2006-2014)
(Georgetown University, 2016)
In the frame of an international debate which states that citizen participation in external oversight contributes to improving control performed by supreme audit institutions, to strengthen government accountability and ...
Do Political Film Adaptations Affect Voter Knowledge?
(Georgetown University, 2016)
"Do Political Film Adaptations Affect Voter Knowledge?" examines the educational influence of films on viewing audiences. Using the film "Recount" (2008), an HBO television movie, as a case study, I conducted a multi-method ...