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Bulletproof Knowledge: How Foreign Service Generalism and Fortress Diplomacy Produce "Pseudo Expertise" About the Arab World
(Georgetown University, 2022)
What is the nature of Arab regional expertise within the US Foreign Service? Relying on numerous interviews with Foreign Service Officers (FSOs), staff from the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), and FSI guest speakers, I ...
Sailor, Lawyer, Author, Judge: Culture, Delegation, and Customary International Law in the U.S. Navy
(Georgetown University, 2022)
How do executive branch entities in the United States help create, advocate for, and implement customary international law? I propose to answer this question by examining 1) how customary international law is embedded in ...
How Do World Leaders Judge Each Other? Personal Diplomacy at the End of the Cold War
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This dissertation examines how state leaders shape—and are shaped by—face-to-face, personal diplomacy with each other. I examine the role that psychological traits of leaders play in their behavior during these meetings ...
The Words That Matter: Terminology and Performance in the U.S. Army
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This dissertation explores the history and uses of U.S. military terminology, jargon, and buzzwords. Drawing on bureaucratic, sociological, and linguistic literatures, I build a theory for understanding the functional and ...
Networked Hegemonic Shocks: Hegemonic Transition and Post-Cold War Democratization
(Georgetown University, 2022)
The rise and fall of great powers produce a wave of regime changes. Why do some states take part in the wave but others do not? During the post-Cold War wave of democratization, for instance, why did some states become ...
Fishing in Troubled Waters: China, Turkey, and the Eastern Mediterranean
(Georgetown University, 2022)
The article seeks to explain the conspicuous lack of alignment and mutual support between Turkey and China on their respective regional maritime disputes. A comparison of the maritime disputes between Turkey and its neighbors ...
One Country Two Systems in Taiwan and Alienation after the 2019 Hong Kong Protest
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Compared with 2019, 2020 saw a drastic increase in Communist Party of China (CCP) flight violations into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Chinese warplanes crossed the median line, a vital part of Taiwan’s ...
Space Warfare and Great Power Competition
(Georgetown University, 2022)
While previous studies have highlighted the strategies and space policies China, Russia,and the United States will pursue, my thesis will offer an insight to evaluate the
capabilities and space policies of each of China, ...
Immigrants in the World Cup: How Do Foreign-Born Players Impact World Cup Team Performance from 1970-2018?
(Georgetown University, 2022)
The FIFA Men’s Soccer World Cup is seen as the most important sports competition in the world. Despite close connection between team performance to national pride, the impact of foreign-born players is largely seen but ...
Conciliarity, Nationalism, and the Roman Social Imaginary: A History of Political and Ecclesiastical Ideas on the Separation and Integration of Powers
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This project investigates the impact the conciliar theory had on the separation and integration of powers in political and ecclesiastical thought. Taking a long period approach, the project draws parallels between the ...