Browsing by Author "Landis, Joshua"
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Billions of Dollars Lost Along the Checkpoints? An Econometric Analysis of Labor Mobility, Economic Development, and Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Moses, Daniel (2016-05)The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has now persisted for nearly 70 years with little progress towards a solution, and the conflict continues to exact high costs on both societies year after year. Unfortunately, the failure ... -
Building states, building nations: India and Lebanon in comparative perspective
Leake, Britt (2020-05-08)After independence, India and Lebanon attempted to manage their diverse societies through the framework of democratic states. Both countries deliberately eschewed the traditional nation-state model in which a mostly ... -
FAILURE IN IRAQ? AN EXAMINATION OF AMERICAN SUCCESS REBUILDING A POST-SADDAM IRAQ
Pope, Kevin (2018-05-11)This thesis project examines the United States’ involvement during the second war in Iraq from 2003-2011. The question that this thesis aims to study is why the Iraq War unfolded the way it did, and to disprove the notion ... -
How Far "Above the Fray"? Unpacking the Mechanisms of the Monarchical Advantage in the Arab Uprisings
Brown, Daniel (2018-05)Every one of the eight monarchies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remained standing in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings, giving rise to claims of a “monarchical advantage” or “monarchical exceptionalism.” ... -
No Easy Thing to Understand: A Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Akhlaghi, Andrew (2016-05-14)The historiography of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran centers on the root causes of social change in Iran. In this way, authors must generally accomplish two things in their histories of the Constitutional Revolution. ... -
Potential Outcomes of the Syrian Conflict: A Case Study for Understanding Civil War Termination
Peach, Kaitlin (2017-05)The Syrian conflict has been ongoing for the last six years and has left the international community unsure of how or when it will end. Existing literature on civil war termination creates a framework in which we can better ... -
Qualifying Qatar's Sports Investments as Levers of Subtle Power
Fitzgerald, Jonathan (2021)Qatar has recently risen from relative obscurity and ascended to a role as a larger regional power, with greater geopolitical ambitions still. One major part of this rise has been Qatar’s recent heavy investment into sport, ... -
Shadows in the Cognitive Terrain: Suicide Terrorism and the Role of Ideology
Walker, Justin (2016)Presents a historic review on the role of ideology on suicide terrorism. Reviews research from cognitive psychology and anthropology to describe how ideology influences individual perception and decision making to become ... -
Understanding Corruption in Iraq
Mahdy, Sali (2016-05-14)Thirteen years ago the US invaded Iraq and brought down the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. While Iraqis have many grievances with the new political elite, pervasive corruption has been a primary focus of public ...