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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 ...
Aiding and Abetting or Aiding to Free: An Analysis of the Effect of US Economic Aid on Political Repression
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The purpose of this study is to assess whether US bilateral economic aid increases, decreases, or has no effect on political repression in recipient countries. Though not highlighted as a top policy goal in most aid packages, ...
U.S. Military Aid and Troop Deployments: Third-Party Effects on Regional Levels of Terrorism
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The United States gives military aid to countries in order to bolster host nation security, improve diplomatic ties, and give the U.S. strategic access to locations of interest. The United States deploys troops in a number ...
The Frontiers of American Grand Strategy: Settlers, Elites, and the Standing Army in America's Indian Wars
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Much work on U.S. grand strategy focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. If the United States did have a grand strategy before that, IR scholars often pay little attention to it, and when they do, they rarely ...
State (In)security: The Impact of Insurgencies on Economic Integration
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do we witness divergent levels of economic integration around the world? Predominant explanations focus on the dampening effect of inter-state conflict on integration. However, internal security considerations have ...
Governing the Militia: Insurgent Command and Control in the Levant
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do some insurgencies struggle to maintain a clear chain of command while other insurgencies do not? Although some conceptualize rebel groups as monolithic militant organizations, nearly all of these actors are formally ...
From No, to Yes, Maybe, and NIMBY: Explaining Variation in Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Adoption between the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps since 1993
(Georgetown University, 2020)
When millions of Americans watched on CNN as precision-guided munitions struck targets in Baghdad during the 1990-1991 Gulf War, the U.S. Air Force did not have a single operational remotely-piloted aircraft (RPA). At the ...
Playing the Generals' Game: Superpowers, Self-Limiting, and Strategic Emerging Technologies
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This dissertation explores how states make foreign policy decisions by focusing on superpowers and their decision calculus over strategic emerging technologies. It brings together work on arms control, advanced defense ...
To Defend or Not to Defend: Understanding How States View Strong and Weak Reputations
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do states back down during crises despite the risk of harming their reputation for resolve? The existing literature contends that leaders believe, perhaps more than they should, that cultivating a strong reputation for ...