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Click and Dagger: Cyber-Espionage and the Need for a New Ethical Paradigm
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Referred to as the second oldest profession, espionage has been employed by states since time immemorial in the furtherance of national security. With the rise of computer-based technology and the integration of cyber into ...
Myanmar's Rohingya Refugees: The Search for Human Security
(Georgetown University, 2014)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the human rights violations against one minority group in Myanmar - the Rohingya - by the majority Buddhist Rakhinese population with central government support, in order to call the ...
Status Immobility and Systemic Revisionism in Rising Great Powers
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Rising states generally have incentives to pursue moderate, conciliatory foreign policies. Why, then, do they sometimes adopt grand strategic orientations that reject and challenge the set of rules, norms, and principles ...
The Dahiyeh Doctrine: The Conditions Under Which States Can Establish Asymmetric Deterrence
(Georgetown University, 2013)
For the last decade, a growing body of research has sough to understand how classical deterrence methods could be adapted by states to establish asymmetric deterrence against non-state militant groups. Various strategies ...
State Formation: When Power, Legitimacy, and Action Align or Collide
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Self-determination claims to statehood continue to be the basis for war, strife and contention. Often state power interests can either align or collide with legitimacy claims for self-determination. How, when and why is ...
DOES PROLIFERATION BEGET PROLIFERATION? WHY NUCLEAR DOMINOES RARELY FALL
(Georgetown University, 2010)
If Iran acquires nuclear weapons, or merely the capacity to do so on short notice, will other regional states attempt to acquire them as well? If North Korea does not give up, enlarges, or further weaponizes the modest ...
AMERICAN HEGEMONY AND THE POLITICS OF THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION REGIME
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Though nearly all states in the international system are signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the same cannot be said of the more recent nonproliferation agreements designed to advance the goals of ...
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 ...
DIPLOMACY AND POLITICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND SAFAVID IRAN, 1639-1722
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Formally characterized by uninterrupted peace, dismissed as a period of marginal importance, and assumed not to have produced sufficient documentation for a monograph, the third and last phase of Ottoman-Safavid relations ...