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By Other Means: Combatant Capabilities, Institutional Choice, and Electoral Competition after Civil War
(Georgetown University, 2015)
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 ...
THE HISTORY OF THE NICARAGUAN SOCIAL SECURITY INSTITUTE/ AN ANALYSIS OF PATH DEPENDENCY
(Georgetown University, 2015)
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 ...
Trajectories of the Colombian Foreign Policy
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This research characterizes the trajectories traversed by the Colombian Foreign Policy (CFP) in different historical periods, exposing the incidence, scope and interaction of domestic and external variables on its development. ...
Politics and Pedagogy in Aristotle's Metaphysics
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Most scholars of Aristotle see him as disagreeing fundamentally with Plato on the character of philosophy and what philosophy can and should achieve. Some see Plato as an idealist and Aristotle as a realist; others see ...
In His Image: God and Man in the Political Philosophy of Reinhold Niebuhr
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Political theories inescapably present anthropological questions; there is no such thing as a political theory without an anthropology. Political action requires political actors, and the accounts offered to describe, ...
La mirada ciudadana sobre los comicios: Evaluación de la puesta en práctica de la política de Acompañamiento Cívico en las elecciones nacionales de 2011 y 2013
(Georgetown University, 2015)
El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objeto de estudio el caso de la observación electoral nacional en Argentina. La observación electoral nacional o doméstica refiere a la posibilidad de que los ciudadanos y ...
REGIME, GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTIONAL CRISES: THE ROLE OF RULE OF LAW AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN LATIN AMERICA
(Georgetown University, 2015)
After the third wave of democratization (Huntington, 1991) there are different moments of crises in different countries throughout the region. Since the end of the 1980s, governments were the focus of popular protests, ...
China’s Behavior in Maritime Dispute with its Neighbors: The Double-edged Sword Model
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This paper presents the “double-edged sword model” as a theoretical explanation for China’s puzzling behavior in maritime disputes with its neighbors. This paper argues that two factors are salient in determining a state’s ...
The Chinese Communist Party’s Sensitivity to Legitimacy and its Rush for Hydropower
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This paper seeks to explain why China suddenly sped up its hydropower development on trans-boundary rivers, despite neighboring countries and environmental activists’ opposition and the fact that it did not have any ...
People, Power, and the State: The Effect of Patron Intervention on Unarmed Insurrections
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Unarmed insurrectionary (UI) campaigns demanding irregular regime change seem destined to failure, but such social movements surprisingly succeed more often than not. Explanations for campaign outcome tend to focus on ...