Search Full Text
Now showing items 1-10 of 62
Regional Planning in China: The Lanzhou-Xining Urban Cluster Plan and Development Outcomes
(Georgetown University, 2021)
China’s 13th Five Year Plan (2016-2020) emphasized “New-Style Urbanization” as a key goal. The State Council’s “New-Style Urbanization Plan: 2014-2020” addressed unbalanced development, regional spatial inequalities, food ...
Dangerous by Design: The American Special Operations Institution and Strategy in Irregular Warfare
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The United States Department of Defense defines irregular warfare as a struggle among state and nonstate actors to influence populations and affect legitimacy. Yet, despite the centrality of influence and legitimacy in ...
Con Mis Hijos No Te Metas: “Disputas y Tensiones en Torno a la Implementación de la Educación Sexual Integral"
(Georgetown University, 2021)
La tesis aborda al movimiento CMHNTM, sistematizando información acerca de sus ejes de acción, los paradigmas que sostienen sus reivindicaciones, las características de sus referentes y de las personas que conforman el ...
Supreme Gentlemen or Radicalized Killers: Analyzing the Radicalization Paths of Involuntary Celibate Killers and the Role of the Online Incel Forums
(Georgetown University, 2021)
For its first seventeen years of existence, the involuntary celibate or “incel” online community was largely unknown. What began as an online forum for both men and women to commiserate about their dating woes has morphed ...
Open and Shut Cases: Irregular Migration Management and Policy Convergence in the European Union
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Why have European states adopted similar approaches to managing irregular migration? Existing explanations of migration policy development posit that the relative political power of interest groups that are favorably or ...
Varieties of Countering Violent Extremism: How Culture Shapes Perception, Policy, and Programs
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The last ten years have tested Europe’s counterterrorism agencies like no time before. To meet this challenge, more than half of EU member states have established Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs. Despite the ...
Ningún hecho nace para estadística Procesos de producción de estadísticas de trata de personas con fines de explotación sexual en la Policía de Seguridad Aeroportuaria (2011–2017)
(Georgetown University, 2021)
El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar los procesos de producción de estadísticas de trata de personas con fines de explotación sexual dentro de la Policía de Seguridad Aeroportuaria, particularmente a través del ...
Policy Change and the Politics of Obesity in Germany and the United States of America
(Georgetown University, 2020)
What drives policy change and innovation when food policy meets health promotion and prevention? My dissertation studies contemporary and historical policy change in the context of obesity-related food and public health ...
Debiasing and the Abortion Debate: An Analysis of Integrative Complexity
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Research has indicated that partisan polarization is growing, and while partisanship itself is not inherently destructive, unchecked polarization may debilitate the healthy functioning of the American democracy. Additional ...
The Successes and Failures of the United States to Grant Reparations to Greenwood, Oklahoma following the 1921 Destruction of Black Wall Street
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why is it so difficult to get reparations for Greenwood? The United States has struggled with giving reparations for certain groups although they are an international standard for human rights outlined by the Office of the ...