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UN PEACEKEEPING AND THE LINKS BETWEEN CIVIL WAR PEACE PROCESSES
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Why do combatants in civil wars engage in UN-led negotiations even when they believe the UN is a failed, flawed contributor to the peace process? Drawing on regression analysis, extensive archival work, interviews, and two ...
Three Papers on Trade Politics
(Georgetown University, 2016)
How did the U.S. government liberalize trade despite public opposition? Over the last three decades, the United States forged free trade agreements with countries on five continents, pursuing a strategy of bilateral ...
POWER AND INFLUENCE: IDEATIONAL AND MATERIAL FACTORS IN THE INTERNATIONAL POSTURE OF CHINA RISING AS A GREAT POWER
(Georgetown University, 2012)
POWER AND INFLUENCE: IDEATIONAL AND MATERIAL FACTORS IN THE INTERNATIONAL POSTURE OF CHINA RISING AS A GREAT POWER
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: A Failed State and Somali Piracy Threat Assessment: Criminal Deviance or Maritime Terrorism
(Georgetown University, 2011)
Current anti and counter-piracy strategies and operations by both the United States and the international community at large in the Gulf of Aden are fundamentally flawed. These strategies and resulting operations address ...
US Political Transition Policy and Post-2003 Violence in Iraq
(Georgetown University, 2012)
In attempting to understand post-invasion violence, particularly in the years 2005 - 2007, policymakers, government officials, military personnel, and scholars have identified numerous and legitimate factors that contributed ...
Combating Nuclear Trafficking in the Former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe: U.S. Nonproliferation Assistance and the Illicit Nuclear Trade, 1997-2009
(Georgetown University, 2011)
The illicit trafficking of fissile and radioactive materials emerged as a prominent threat following the collapse of the USSR. In the aftermath of September 11th, the issue has received renewed attention due to the ...
Faustian Bargains: Electoral Violence and Transitional Power Sharing in Kenya and Zimbabwe
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Power sharing agreements have become an increasingly prevalent means of ending civil war and a logical institutional approach to long-term conflict management in divided societies. While existing literature has focused ...
Methods to Their Madness: Understanding the Behavior of Rogue Regimes
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Despite the urgency of rogue states for U.S. policy, scholars have not developed an understanding regarding their definition and emergence. My dissertation seeks to resuscitate rogue states as a subject of inquiry for ...
Korean Perception on Defense Cooperation with Japan
(Georgetown University, 2017)
The Republic of Korea and Japan are two most important security allies of the United States in East Asia, yet they lack substantial defense cooperation between each other. This thesis looks at the current condition of ...
THE COMFORT WOMEN AGREEMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIVATIONS THAT LED TO PARK GEUN-HYE’S ACQUIESCENCE
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Since normalization in 1965, bilateral relations between Japan and South Korea have been perennially mired in historical acrimony. However, in December 2015, the South Korean and Japanese Foreign Ministries consummated ...