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The Impact of the Internet on Chinese Nationalism: The Emergence of Contentious Spaces Onlines
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper seeks to answer the question of why anti-Japanese nationalism related to historical memory of World War II has grown at such a rapid pace among Chinese internet-users despite several elements commonly understood ...
THE WAR ON TERROR IN POSTMODERN MEMORY: EXPLANATION, UNDERSTANDING, AND MYTH IN THE WAKE OF 9/11
(Georgetown University, 2014)
War, like all human endeavors, is at some point of consideration a cultural event; understanding it fully requires an appreciation of war's events, its cultural context, and the interaction between them. In all wars there ...
Of Fear, Hope and Other Demons: Rhetoric Tailoring in Colombia during Alvaro Uribe's Presidency (2002-2010)
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Presidential rhetoric is an important mechanism to communicate to the public the issues that matter to him and his government. Most of the literature has found that what the President says has small or inconclusive effects ...
Theorizing the Nation: The French Revolution and the Social Contract
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Recent strides in the scholarship on nations and nationalism have proceeded almost entirely without reference to the history of political thought. This neglect has been supported by the received wisdom that there are few, ...
Lustration and Democracy: The Politics of Transitional Justice in the Post-Communist World
(Georgetown University, 2012)
In transitions from authoritarian regimes, justice has normally encompassed a variety of approaches, from amnesty to public trials. The oddity about the post-communist world is that transitional justice has been reduced ...
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 ...
Guardian Politics in Iran: A Comparative Inquiry into the Dynamics of Regime Survival
(Georgetown University, 2012)
The Iranian regime has repeatedly demonstrated a singular institutional resiliency that has been absent in other countries where "colored revolutions" have succeeded in overturning incumbents, such as Ukraine, Georgia, ...
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 ...
Madison's Metronome: The Constitution and the Tempo of American Politics
(Georgetown University, 2010)
Scholarship on the political thought of James Madison has long been preoccupied with whether he believed in majority rule, but Madison himself would scarcely recognize the terms of that discussion. For Madison, there was ...
THE INFLUENCE OF PROFESSIONAL CULTURE ON AMERICAN MILITARY INNOVATION IN COUNTERINSURGENCY
(Georgetown University, 2011)
This dissertation critically explores military innovation in counterinsurgency in the American experience. It examines innovations in the operational strategy of the U.S. military in the Philippines War from 1898-1902, ...