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Left Out?: The Political Left in Contemporary German Politics
(2016)
This thesis argues that the left wing in Germany is primed to form a governing coalition in Germany following ten years of center-right rule. Thuringia is the case study within this paper because of the unique position of ...
THE BRICS COUNTRIES: STRIDES TOWARD GREATER REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
(2016-05-14)
This thesis discusses the BRICS organization and its recent creation of the New Development Bank to serve as an alternative to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It also addresses the various attempts by ...
LEGACIES OF EMPIRE: GREATER FRANCE FROM COLONIALISM TO TERRORISM
(2016-05)
In this thesis, I argue that the legacies of empire and colonization are influencing the development of French identity and are challenging notions of contemporary French society. I argue that these colonial legacies reached ...
BAD APPLES DON’T FALL FAR FROM THE TREE: THE ROOTS OF TORTURE IN U.S. IDEOLOGY
(2016-05-13)
This paper seeks to explain the extraordinary persistence of torture as an element of U.S. foreign policy. The strong international consensus against the use of torture and the apparent commitment of the U.S. to the rule ...
Billions of Dollars Lost Along the Checkpoints? An Econometric Analysis of Labor Mobility, Economic Development, and Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(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 ...
URBAN MOBILITY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION: THE TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN THE METROPOLITAN REGION OF RIO DE JANEIRO
(2016-05)
In this paper, I evaluate urban mobility in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, giving special consideration to the public transport system, in order to answer the question of whether or not Rio’s mobility system ...
No Easy Thing to Understand: A Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
(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. ...
Presidential Discourse on HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(2016)
This project analyzes the public discourse of three heads of South Africa on the spread of HIV/AIDS in the post-apartheid era. Each of these individuals – Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, and Jacob Zuma – exemplify the historical, ...
Global Development Through International Labor Mobility
(2016-05)
International labor mobility is currently heavily restricted by tight immigration controls around the world, and most people who want to migrate in search of employment and higher wages are either unable to or must do so ...
The Intersection of Gender and Land in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Land Tenure Regularization and its Impact on Women
(2016)
Following the violent and destructive genocide of 1994, Rwandan women were especially vulnerable because social and legal barriers kept them from accessing resources that were already scarce. The government of Rwanda, ...