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Unlikely compromise : a history of the Iran-United States Claim Tribunal, 1981-2015 Undergraduate
(2016)
The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal was one of the twentieth century’s most important tribunals of international arbitration.1 Furthermore, it stood apart from the likes of the arbitral tribunals following the peace ...
The American Media and the Soviet Union at the Onset of U.S. Intervention in World War II Undergraduate
(2016-04-01)
1942 was a crucial year for America and the Soviet Union. For the past twenty years, the United States had been fearful of the U.S.S.R. and the possibility that communism would spread. However, World War II forced Americans ...
Le Prix du Sucre Undergraduate
(2016)
Today’s society, as many before it, views sugar as the
embodiment of pleasure, luxury, and jubilance. Society’s infatuation
with sugar is seen in the figurative usage of the word sweet, the
association of children with ...
Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood Democratic Changes to Islamist Groups Undergraduate
(2016)
Despite a promising start, the Arab Spring of 2011 has resulted in the
creation of only one democracy: Tunisia. In Tunisia, an Islamist party
called Ennahda has greatly aided this successful democratic transition.
This ...
Painful desires : the creation of the Iran-Contra affair Undergraduate
(2016)
The Iran-Contra affair was one of the most significant scandals in 20th century U.S. history. Although the name, Iran-Contra, appears to mainly involve the Islamic Republic and the Nicaraguan rebels, the affair heavily ...
Celebrity on the Peacock Throne : Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's superstar portrayal in U.S. popular culture, 1965-1978 Undergraduate
(2016)
Foreign policy is not a science; it is an art. The creation of policies, the opinions formed towards other countries, and the relationships between nations are all part of the delicate balance that leads to foreign relations ...
Perseverance Undergraduate
(2016-04)
The Indian Removal Act and resulting factions among the Cherokee Nation Undergraduate
(2016)
On May 28, 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the forcible relocation of southern Indian tribes to the flatlands of America. While this signature only took a moment, consequences of ...
Arabella Buckley's Epic: Uniting Evolutionary Epic & Spiritualism to Account for the Evolution of Morals from Mutualism Undergraduate
(2016)
Utilizing OU’s History of Science Collections, I focused my Honors College Research project on exploring the popularization of Victorian science, specifically that conducted by Arabella Buckley. Many of Charles Darwin’s ...
Conflicting Narratives of the 1948 War Undergraduate
(2016)
The 1948 War was a triumphant victory for the Jews of Israel and a
tragic disaster for the Arabs of Palestine. The traditional Zionist
rendition of the war, or “old” history, depicts Israel as a fledgling
Jewish state ...