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Learning from Experience: Local Perception and Transboundary Institution Building on the Lower Great Lakes, 1900-1972
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This dissertation argues that between 1900 and the mid-1940s, Canada and the United States developed a suite of water institutions in order to manage the fisheries, water quantity, and water quality of the lower Great Lakes ...
The Politics of Reform: How Elite and Domestic Preferences Shape Military Manpower Systems
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Why do states reform their military manpower policies? Changing military manpower systems (MMS) entails economic, social, and political costs that often prevent states from adopting reforms even when doing so would better ...
Warfare’s wiring: Nervous system responses to combat service and the policy preferences of combat veterans
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Americans prize military service, particularly combat service, in their political decision-makers. Indeed, combat service is supposed to create a colloquial 'band of brothers' among veterans—a homogeneous group expected ...
THE SPECIAL IMMIGRATION VISA PROGRAM AND THE ROLE OF IRAQI TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS
(Georgetown University, 2018)
During the United States-led invasion in Iraq in 2003, it became increasingly important to find local translators and interpreters who could assist the U.S. military in its efforts to win the war and then stabilize and ...
An Empirical Study of the Influence of Foreign Direct Investment on U.S.-China Trade Deficit
(Georgetown University, 2018)
With a recent trend of possible trade war between the United States and China, international trade has become a hot topic and played a more important role in political world as well as for academic research. This study ...
An American in Paris: Investigating the Discourse of "No-Go Zones" Through Documentary Film
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Despite retractions, inconsistent definitions, and insufficient evidence circulating around claims of “No-Go Zones” (NGZs)—the areas of Europe and the United States allegedly under localized Sharia law—belief in the ...
Cities and Vulnerabilities: International Security in the Urban Era
(Georgetown University, 2018)
How do urbanization and urban geography affect international security? Urbanization is one of the most important transformations in modern history, but its impacts–and the impacts of persistent inequalities in urbanization ...
Towards a Theory in Counternarcotics Intelligence: Building a Framework for Security in America
(Georgetown University, 2018)
The U.S. ‘War on Drugs’ has been met with significant obstacles and the need for an overhaul and improvement in counternarcotics intelligence. The importance of the development of an analytical theory is accentuated by the ...