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Inside the Blue Box: Organizational Identity and Turf Decision-Making in the United States Air Force
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Why would a US military service relinquish a mission—a mission that could justify millions of dollars in new assets—while pursuing another to the point of near obsession? Why do these decisions regarding “turf,” that is, ...
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 ...
Public Opinion, Refugee Programs, and State Welfare in Twenty Countries
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Refugee programs bolster global human rights by promoting responsibility-sharing and assisting the 25.9 million people who have been forced to flee their countries for fear of war or persecution. As refugee numbers soar ...
Citizen-Generated Data? Participation as a Lever for Improving National Statistical Capacity
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Quality national statistics can help steer domestic policymaking, public and private investment, and civic engagement. As such, increased funding for national statistical capacity has become a key advocacy target in ...
The Impeding Effects of United States Sanctions on Humanitarian Trade with Iran
(Georgetown University, 2021)
I set out to examine the relationship between United States sanctions on Iran and humanitarian trade in the form of pharmaceutical imports. To measure this relationship, I used the gravity model of international trade. In ...
Political Motivation in Individual Trade Opinion: Public Opinion Change on the Trade Agreement during Elections
(Georgetown University, 2021)
A huge trade opinion shift occurred among Republicans, but not among Democrats during the 2016 election campaign period. Support for free trade agreements (FTAs) among Republicans and Republican leaners dropped to 29%, a ...
Victim and Accomplice? The Role of Overseas Chinese in China’s Foreign Interference Activities in the Xi Jinping Era
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Drawing upon previous diaspora studies’ findings and a wide range of primary data including government policy documents, archives, and news articles, this paper first provides an overview of the history and origins of ...
Cautious Cooperation: Chinese Perspectives of U.S.-China Crisis Management
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Crisis management is but one example of U.S.-China security cooperation that has been a significant factor in U.S. strategic thinking on the Asia-Pacific region. Most English-language studies of U.S.-China crisis management ...
An Exploitable Theory: Thucydides' Trap Model Perceived by the Chinese Government
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This thesis examines the model of Thucydides' Trap and its effect on current international relations. Answering the question that why China and the United States, two supposed parties in Thucydides' Trap model, react ...
Oil as a Strategic Resource: Impact of the 1973 Oil Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The 1973 oil crisis caused more significant economic fluctuations in the economic performance of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) compared to that of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). Many scholars ...