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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 ...
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 ...
‘ALLAH, AL-WATAN, AL-QA’ID’: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF REGIME MILITIAS IN IRAQ, 1991-2003
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the emergence and dominant position of militias in the country has become common knowledge. In terms of conceptualization, the rise of militias is generally viewed in isolation ...
A Grand Unified Theory of World Politics: The Stability Imperative and Reifying Imagined Communities in a Global Society
(Georgetown University, 2016)
The emerging global structure is wrought with tension. The contemporary international system, marshaled by the communications-and-information revolution and characterized by dense interaction capacities among transnational ...
A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS FACTIONS OF THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL AUTHORITATIVE GOVERNMENT AND ITS EFFECTS ON A FUTURE AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Although the PLO is the official government recognized by the international community to represent the Palestinian people, the political factions within the PLO differ deeply in ideology, philosophy and religiosity. This ...
DEMOCRATIC PEACE THEORY & THE DRAFT: AN ANALYSIS OF CONSCRIPTION METHODS, DEMOCRACY, & INTERSTATE CONFLICT
(Georgetown University, 2016)
As a theory of international relations, Democratic Peace Theory posits that democracies are less likely to go to war with each other, thereby reducing the overall incidence of interstate conflict. Immanuel Kant suggested ...
PREDICTING THE LIKELIHOOD OF GENOCIDAL VIOLENCE: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Genocide is a crime against international law that destroys groups of people and destabilizes societies. Although most world leaders admonish acts of mass violence, others choose to ignore the indicators that genocide may ...
DISCOURSE AND EMOTION IN SUSTAINING VIOLENT SOCIAL MOVEMENTS DURING MILITARY OCCUPATIONS: IRAQ, NORTHERN IRELAND, AND THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Why do violent social movements rise or fail during military occupations? How are some leaders able to overcome the problem of collective action and sustain violent campaigns that require voluntary, risky actions, but ...
Civil War as State Building: The Determinants of Insurgent Public Goods Provision
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Why do some insurgencies provide public goods when most other insurgencies do not? Some rebel groups provide critical services, such as education or health care, to all people--even those unlikely to support the movement. ...