Despite a growing literature on Japanese soft power and public diplomacy, little research quantifies its effects or orients it in policy discussions. This paper investigates the relationship of consumption of Japanese ...

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 ...

POWER AND INFLUENCE: IDEATIONAL AND MATERIAL FACTORS IN THE INTERNATIONAL POSTURE OF CHINA RISING AS A GREAT POWER

In attempting to understand post-invasion violence, particularly in the years 2005 - 2007, policymakers, government officials, military personnel, and scholars have identified numerous and legitimate factors that contributed ...

Power sharing agreements have become an increasingly prevalent means of ending civil war and a logical institutional approach to long-term conflict management in divided societies. While existing literature has focused ...

ALL RESOLUTIONS, LITTLE RESOLVE: FULLFILLING THE

Why are locally owned processes so critical to producing sustainable security sector reform? While academic literature has long noted that a central component of durable reforms is that they be context specific and involve ...

The purpose of this work is to analyze what occurred in Honduras during June 28thof 2009. The analytical model of Kenneth Waltz (individual level, domestic level and systematical level) was applied in order to explain it´s ...

It has been three decades since religion has gone "public." The Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Nicaraguan Revolution, and the establishment of the Moral Majority in the United States, all of which occurred in 1979, signified ...

Leaders at times select policies that pose significant long-term strategic risks. In order to explain why decisionmakers knowingly pursue policies that pose a security risk over time, this dissertation uses process tracing ...