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EXAMINING THE WRITINGS OF NANA ASMA'U: AN INVESTIGATION OF PASTORAL CONNECTIONS AMONG CONTEMPORARY SUFI WOMEN
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Nana Asma'u, the daughter of a prominent Nigerian shaykh held a leading role in providing religious instruction to the women of the Sokoto Caliphate in the 1800s. Asma'u is an example of many Sufi women whose role and ...
GEORGETOWN'S OLD STONE HOUSE: AN ANCHOR TO OUR PAST AND THE CHALLENGE OF INTERPRETING IT
(Georgetown University, 2013)
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Striking First: Efficacy, Legitimacy and Morality of Preemptive and Preventive Acts of State
(Georgetown University, 2011)
Preemptive and preventive acts of state often decide the issue of peace or war--basic human values are risked on the outcome. The current debate about preemption and prevention, however, is sometimes marred by partisanship ...
"Ubiquitous and Unremarked Upon": Militarized Prostitution and the American Occupations of Japan and Korea
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This thesis employs feminist international relations theory to examine the United States' reliance on foreign women to fulfill its international agenda. Specifically, this thesis parallels the development of military ...
Made in America, Maybe: The Potential Renaissance of Domestic Apparel Manufacturing in the United States
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Apparel manufacturing is widely considered to be an industry that will never return to the United States so long as rising transportation costs are balanced by rock-bottom labor rates outside our borders. This paper explores ...
SUPERBIA: A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF A KEY MORAL AND POLITICAL CONCEPT IN ROME'S LATE REPUBLIC
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Understanding that Livy, Cicero, and Sallust were rough contemporaries enmeshed in the same political turmoil of the late Roman Republic and aware of the same political terminology, this thesis will track the use of the ...
POP IN THE BLOC: HOW POPULAR MUSIC HELPED THE UNITED STATES WIN THE COLD WAR
(Georgetown University, 2012)
POP IN THE BLOC: HOW POPULAR MUSIC HELPED THE UNITED STATES WIN THE COLD WAR
Aggregate Effect: Jackson, Rehnquist, and the Remaking of American Federalism
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This thesis explores the influence Robert H. Jackson had in shaping William H. Rehnquist's Commerce Clause jurisprudence. Jackson and Rehnquist were two of the most influential Justices of the twentieth century and perhaps ...
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 ...
White Sow, White Stag, and White Buffalo: The Evolution of White Animal Myths from Personal Belief to Public Policy
(Georgetown University, 2012)
WHITE SOW, WHITE STAG, AND WHITE BUFFALO: THE EVOLUTION OF WHITE ANIMAL MYTHS FROM PERSONAL BELIEF TO PUBLIC POLICY