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China’s Behavior in Maritime Dispute with its Neighbors: The Double-edged Sword Model
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This paper presents the “double-edged sword model” as a theoretical explanation for China’s puzzling behavior in maritime disputes with its neighbors. This paper argues that two factors are salient in determining a state’s ...
ICT FOR DICTATORS: HOW GLOBAL POPULISTS LEVERAGE INTERNET FOR POLITICAL GAIN
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This study outlines the ICT impact on the international success of populism, a style of antagonistic and charismatic politics that exploits grassroots concerns. Data driven findings indicate little direct connection ...
China’s Decision to Deploy HYSY-981 in the South China Sea: Bureaucratic Politics with Chinese Characteristics
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This paper sheds light on developing a hybrid analytical construct by combining Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) theory and modifications which are based on China. It employs the bureaucratic politics model to China’s ...
Three Papers on Politics and International Dispute Settlement
(Georgetown University, 2017)
There is a wide degree of variation in how countries behave with respect to international dispute settlement. This includes the time they wait before initiating a dispute, as well as their actions with the dispute settlement ...
STATE FORMATION AND CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ 2003-2016: A QUESTION OF SECT OR STRUCTURE?
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Ethno-sectarian diversity is often cited as a strong indicator, if not a cause, for higher likelihood of civil war. Ethno-sectarian dominance is even more so. Iraq is a case not only of ethno-sectarian diversity. It is a ...
Authoritarian Management of (Cyber-) Society: Internet Regulation and the New Political Protest Movements
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Over the last two decades, states around the world have struggled with the challenge of understanding the impact of the Internet and networked information and communication technologies (ICTs) within their societies and ...
China's Crackdown on North Korean Refugees: North Korean Provocations Intensify Border Control
(Georgetown University, 2018)
What domestic and external conditions explain why the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at times intensifies its crackdown on North Korean border crossers? With the 1986 bilateral repatriation agreement between the PRC and ...
A Compromise for Control: Understanding North Korea's Private Market Economy
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Free market enterprise embodies values of independent thinking and self-reliance, which are antithetical to the North Korean regime’s ideological values inherent to Marxist-Leninism. However, in recent years, the Kim Jong-un ...
Contemporary Chinese Environmental Governance and Regime Legitimacy
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This paper aims to explain the causal variable which motivates the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) environmental policies up to 2016. In the wake of environmental degradation with an ongoing transition from an export-based ...
Becoming Electable: The Causes of the Successes and Failures of Opposition Parties in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
(Georgetown University, 2018)
In the past twenty years, opposition parties in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have been experiencing different levels of success in elections, despite similarities in the three countries’ institutions (particularly the ...