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China's Crackdown on North Korean Refugees: North Korean Provocations Intensify Border Control
(Georgetown University, 2018)
What domestic and external conditions explain why the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at times intensifies its crackdown on North Korean border crossers? With the 1986 bilateral repatriation agreement between the PRC and ...
A Compromise for Control: Understanding North Korea's Private Market Economy
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Free market enterprise embodies values of independent thinking and self-reliance, which are antithetical to the North Korean regime’s ideological values inherent to Marxist-Leninism. However, in recent years, the Kim Jong-un ...
Contemporary Chinese Environmental Governance and Regime Legitimacy
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This paper aims to explain the causal variable which motivates the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) environmental policies up to 2016. In the wake of environmental degradation with an ongoing transition from an export-based ...
Becoming Electable: The Causes of the Successes and Failures of Opposition Parties in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
(Georgetown University, 2018)
In the past twenty years, opposition parties in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have been experiencing different levels of success in elections, despite similarities in the three countries’ institutions (particularly the ...
South Korean Democracy at Stake: How Close State-Business Relations Inhibit Democratic Development
(Georgetown University, 2018)
As South Korea is considered a bastion of democracy in Asia, it is important to understand not just the country’s accomplishments, but the limitations of its system as well. In light of the impeachment of former President ...
Dynamic Institutionalization: The Foundations of Japan's Radioactive Problem
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This thesis examines Japan’s policies of implementing a closed nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear hedging. Many scholars have argued that Japan specifically pursues closed fuel cycle development in order to maintain the ...
Historical Memory and Domestic Civic Trust in Japan-South Korea Security Relations
(Georgetown University, 2018)
South Korea and Japan were unable to implement the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) or pursue an Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) in 2012 despite recent violent provocations from ...
Authoritarian Counterstrategy to Cope with Western Democracy Promotion: The China Model
(Georgetown University, 2018)
China is distinct for its openness to the programs of Western democracy promotion. The Chinese government has cooperated with a number of Western NGOs for the last thirty years to improve rule of law, village election, ...
The Differential Effects of Development Aid and Democracy Aid on Conflict Alleviation
(Georgetown University, 2018)
How effective is aid in reducing conflicts? Are there any differential effects of development aid and democracy aid? This study builds on the neo-liberal theory of inter-democratic peace and that economic development leads ...
Cure or Disease: The Civil-Military Consequences of American Foreign Military Aid
(Georgetown University, 2018)
U.S. foreign military aid amounts to billions of dollars per year spread across nearly every nation in a variety of programs. However, the actual impact of this aid on the civil-military relations of recipient nations ...