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THE POSSIBILITY OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: NATURAL LAW IN ANCIENT GREEK, MEDIEVAL MUSLIM AND EARLY CHRISTIAN SOURCES
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This dissertation examines whether and how theories of unwritten and natural law can provide a better basis for religious freedom than prevailing concepts. I argue first that the fundamental problem of religious freedom ...
State Capacity to Implement Public-Private Partnerships for Transport Infrastructure in Costa Rica between 1994-2013. A Case Study of the National Council of Concessions
(Georgetown University, 2015)
In 2013, the World Economic Forum placed Costa Rica in the position 131 out of 144 economies for the category of “quality of roads”. The following year, Costa Rica showed an improvement in the same study ranking 119; yet, ...
Postsecularism and the Ethics of Ethno-Religious Pluralism in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Zadie Smith's NW
(Georgetown University, 2015)
What I aim to accomplish below is an analysis of the commitment exhibited within The Satanic Verses and NW to portraying the complexities of the relationship between the religious and the secular in a postcolonial and ...
THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON VOTER PARTICIPATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LAST 3 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN MEXICO
(Georgetown University, 2015)
The low levels of voter participation in Mexico's presidential elections, and the high levels of corruption constitute the center of this study. Specifically, I focus on analyzing the potential impact of corruption on voter ...
How Does Holding Foreign Denominated Debt Going Into A Financial Crisis Affect The Level Of Domestic Political Trust?
(Georgetown University, 2015)
In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, many transition countries' politics have moved increasingly towards the extreme right. Elections held after 2008 have seen the rise of ultranationalist parties, such as ...
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. ...
INDISPENSABLE ARBITERS: ISLAMIST MOVEMENTS AND THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION IN EGYPT
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This study theorizes the determinants of Islamist groups’ entry into formal political life and examines how their participation shapes the politics of neoliberal economic reform in authoritarian settings. Employing an ...
Talk is Not Cheap: China's Assurance and Reassurance Strategy in East Asia
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This dissertation addresses the conditions under which weaker states balance against or bandwagon with a strong state. China's rise provides an opportunity to examine this question, as over the last two decades, China has ...
Elections Gone Wrong: Political Polarization and Post-Election Conflicts in Presidential Elections in Latin America
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Despite international observers’ endorsement and relatively functional electoral institutions, sometimes losers still reject election results. Under what circumstances does this occur? And when post-election conflicts ...
Divided States: How Bargaining At Home Affects U.S. Foreign Policy
(Georgetown University, 2015)
A longstanding puzzle in international relations theory concerns why states choose different foreign policies in similar situations. Existing explanations for this result range from assuming the problem away to focusing ...