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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 ...
Explaining Cambodia’s Foreign Policy: The Importance of Domestic Factors and Sino-Cambodia Relations on ASEAN
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This paper studies the Cambodia decision to block the ASEAN Foreign Minister Statement from supporting the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s reward to the Philippines in the Philippines v China 2016 case on their disputed ...
State (In)security: The Impact of Insurgencies on Economic Integration
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do we witness divergent levels of economic integration around the world? Predominant explanations focus on the dampening effect of inter-state conflict on integration. However, internal security considerations have ...
Governing the Militia: Insurgent Command and Control in the Levant
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do some insurgencies struggle to maintain a clear chain of command while other insurgencies do not? Although some conceptualize rebel groups as monolithic militant organizations, nearly all of these actors are formally ...
The Praetorian Bomb: How Nuclear Weapons Improve Political Durability
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This project examines the impact of nuclear proliferation on regime and leader survival, proposing two mechanisms for this interaction. First, a bomb program can generate internal legitimacy by rallying support among ...
Decoupled from the “Win-Win” Rhetoric: Remittances Mechanism of Chinese Business Owners in Kenya
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The Chinese government has become Africa’s most important economic partner across trade, investment, infrastructure financing, and aid. While China’s increasing economic engagement with Kenya has encouraged more and more ...
The Effect of Foreign Military Education Competition on Foreign Policy Influence in Postcolonial Africa
(Georgetown University, 2023)
Foreign military education (FME) is education or training that a sponsoring state provides to military service members of a recipient state. Since World War II, most states in the international system participate in FME ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Effect of Cell Phone Use on State Fragility in Southeast Asia
(Georgetown University, 2023)
Cellphone use has become an affordable way for individuals to communicate with their communities and access media. This technological development has improved access to
resources for low- and middle-income Southeast Asia ...