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Dangerous by Design: The American Special Operations Institution and Strategy in Irregular Warfare
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The United States Department of Defense defines irregular warfare as a struggle among state and nonstate actors to influence populations and affect legitimacy. Yet, despite the centrality of influence and legitimacy in ...
Open and Shut Cases: Irregular Migration Management and Policy Convergence in the European Union
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Why have European states adopted similar approaches to managing irregular migration? Existing explanations of migration policy development posit that the relative political power of interest groups that are favorably or ...
Explaining Cambodia’s Foreign Policy: The Importance of Domestic Factors and Sino-Cambodia Relations on ASEAN
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This paper studies the Cambodia decision to block the ASEAN Foreign Minister Statement from supporting the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s reward to the Philippines in the Philippines v China 2016 case on their disputed ...
State (In)security: The Impact of Insurgencies on Economic Integration
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do we witness divergent levels of economic integration around the world? Predominant explanations focus on the dampening effect of inter-state conflict on integration. However, internal security considerations have ...
Governing the Militia: Insurgent Command and Control in the Levant
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do some insurgencies struggle to maintain a clear chain of command while other insurgencies do not? Although some conceptualize rebel groups as monolithic militant organizations, nearly all of these actors are formally ...
Liberalism Outsourced: Why Oligarchs and Autocrats Fight in Foreign Courts
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Globalization allows business to arbitrage liberal institutions. Actors from the same emerging market can now adjudicate their domestic disputes abroad: Kazakh banks sue Kazakh billionaires, and Nigerian royals sue Nigerian ...
The Praetorian Bomb: How Nuclear Weapons Improve Political Durability
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This project examines the impact of nuclear proliferation on regime and leader survival, proposing two mechanisms for this interaction. First, a bomb program can generate internal legitimacy by rallying support among ...
Decoupled from the “Win-Win” Rhetoric: Remittances Mechanism of Chinese Business Owners in Kenya
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The Chinese government has become Africa’s most important economic partner across trade, investment, infrastructure financing, and aid. While China’s increasing economic engagement with Kenya has encouraged more and more ...