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Taiwan’s Purchases of U.S. Defense Equipment and the Impact of Offset Agreements
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The government of Taiwan has an obligation to provide security from international threats. The credibility of security deterrence relies on the acquisition of modern defense equipment. Taiwan does not possess the resources ...
Non-Nuclear Threats to Nuclear Deterrence and Stability: The Case of South Korea
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The United States’ most vulnerable allies in East Asia are beginning to rethink their security strategies. Historically, “nuclear umbrella” states in East Asia, or major non-nuclear U.S. allies who are threatened by the ...
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 ...
"By Means of Sports": U.S.-Japan Baseball Exchange and the Construction of Post-War Japanese Identity
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Scholarship has recognized that a shared passion for baseball between the United States and Japan helped facilitate reconciliation between the two states after World War II, but not enough focus has been put on the role ...
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 ...
The Economics of Cross Strait Instability: The Methods and Limits of China's Economic Coercion against Taiwan
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This article examines the ways China employs economic coercion to influence Taiwan, and the limitations of these tactics in influencing Taiwan’s domestic politics. Although there is ample research conducted on the broader ...
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 ...
Analysis of Parasite Chloroquine Resistance Transporter Proteins and Their Roles in Drug Resistance Phenomena
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The development of drug resistance in Plasmodium parasites continues to present a major challenge in abating the global malaria burden. It has been well established that mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine ...
Th(IV) and U(IV)-Carboxylates: Species Formation, Stability, and Reactivity
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This dissertation focuses on the synthesis and characterization of An(IV)-carboxylates, (An = Th and U), with the aim of gaining a more thorough understanding on how the identity of the organic ligand influences species ...
Hypo-Pigmented Burn Hypertrophic Scar Contains Melanocytes that Can Be Signaled to Re-pigment by Alpha Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Despite good acute burn management, hypertrophic scars (HTSs) can develop, and has been reported in 70% of healed burns. An understudied symptom of HTS is the dyschromia of the epidermal cells, and no current treatments ...