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Decoupled from the “Win-Win” Rhetoric: Remittances Mechanism of Chinese Business Owners in Kenya
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The Chinese government has become Africa’s most important economic partner across trade, investment, infrastructure financing, and aid. While China’s increasing economic engagement with Kenya has encouraged more and more ...
Reinterpreting the US-China Trade War: Domestic Reforms and International Negotiation
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The U.S.-China trade war ends up with China making substantial concessions as the first-phase deal is signed on January 15, 2020. China not only agreed to decrease the trade deficit by purchasing $200 billion U.S. products, ...
Bulletproof Knowledge: How Foreign Service Generalism and Fortress Diplomacy Produce "Pseudo Expertise" About the Arab World
(Georgetown University, 2022)
What is the nature of Arab regional expertise within the US Foreign Service? Relying on numerous interviews with Foreign Service Officers (FSOs), staff from the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), and FSI guest speakers, I ...
The Eastern Question, Great Game, and Modern Hot Wars: Policy Lessons and Statecraft Implications for US Relations with Russia, Turkey, and Iran in the 21st Century
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This study provides additional context for unacknowledged but sustained Russian and Iranian hot wars against the United States that unfolded and became normalized in the 2010s. It examines key events through four constructs: ...
The Words That Matter: Terminology and Performance in the U.S. Army
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This dissertation explores the history and uses of U.S. military terminology, jargon, and buzzwords. Drawing on bureaucratic, sociological, and linguistic literatures, I build a theory for understanding the functional and ...
Networked Hegemonic Shocks: Hegemonic Transition and Post-Cold War Democratization
(Georgetown University, 2022)
The rise and fall of great powers produce a wave of regime changes. Why do some states take part in the wave but others do not? During the post-Cold War wave of democratization, for instance, why did some states become ...
Sorry for the Things We Did When We Rebelled: Why Do Rebel Groups Apologize?
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Since 1989, nine rebel groups have apologized after civil wars; despite the prevalence of literature on public apologies by states, apologies by non-state actors have not been studied. Why do rebel groups apologize? This ...
Why Do Guerrilla Groups That Had Enough Capabilities to Continue in an Armed Struggle Shift Their Strategies from Military to Political and Participate in Negotiations?
(Georgetown University, 2021)
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Open and Shut Cases: Irregular Migration Management and Policy Convergence in the European Union
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Why have European states adopted similar approaches to managing irregular migration? Existing explanations of migration policy development posit that the relative political power of interest groups that are favorably or ...
The Benefits of Promoting Women-Owned Micro and Small Businesses Through the United States’ Trade Policy
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Rather than viewing trade policy as merely a means of expanding the commercial opportunities, U.S. trade policymakers should consider trade as an international economic development tool that can be targeted to promote women ...