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Overcoming the Hesitations of History: An Analysis of U.S.-India Ties
(Georgetown University, 2020)
U.S.-India relations have not progressed as far or as fast as advocates have hoped. There is little doubt as to India’s strategic importance to the United States, as well as the critical role it will undoubtedly play on ...
Legitimacy and the Maritime Border: China's Legitimation Strategy in the South China Sea
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Legitimacy, in constructivist international relations theory, is an asymmetric concept that can restrain or embolden rising powers. Sticking to foreign policy that is seen as illegitimate in the eyes of established norms ...
The Praetorian Bomb: How Nuclear Weapons Improve Political Durability
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This project examines the impact of nuclear proliferation on regime and leader survival, proposing two mechanisms for this interaction. First, a bomb program can generate internal legitimacy by rallying support among ...
The Emerald City
(Georgetown University, 2020)
According to data from the latest Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) report, between 2017 and 2020, the Rohingya refugee population in Cox’s Bazar decreased by almost 100,000. Over the same timeframe, almost 76,000 new ...
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 ...
Sailor, Lawyer, Author, Judge: Culture, Delegation, and Customary International Law in the U.S. Navy
(Georgetown University, 2022)
How do executive branch entities in the United States help create, advocate for, and implement customary international law? I propose to answer this question by examining 1) how customary international law is embedded in ...
The Golden Key to South Korea’s Popular Culture’s Sensation in the West
(Georgetown University, 2023)
Continuing my work from my senior thesis as an undergraduate at Princeton University this master’s thesis dives into the niche aesthetic of Hallyu. The purpose is to expose that at the most deconstructed level of the success ...
The Effect of Foreign Military Education Competition on Foreign Policy Influence in Postcolonial Africa
(Georgetown University, 2023)
Foreign military education (FME) is education or training that a sponsoring state provides to military service members of a recipient state. Since World War II, most states in the international system participate in FME ...