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Potential Outcomes of the Syrian Conflict: A Case Study for Understanding Civil War Termination
(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 ...
Climate Threats from Kyoto to Paris: Framing and Images in Securitizing Climate Change Discourses
(2017-08-01)
Climate change is an issue that presents many threats that are dispersed according to geography and vulnerability. Climate change exists within separate discourses and is framed uniquely in each discourse. The question ...
Germany's Refugee Policy Making Crisis: How the Clash of Normative Systems Affected the Decision Making Process
(2017)
Although Germany has had a long history of restrictive and uncoordinated immigration and integration policies, the country seemed to experience a paradigm shift during the refugee crisis in 2014/15. In the light of ...
THE REFUGEE CRISIS AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE STABILITY OF POST-CONFLICT TRANSIT COUNTRIES IN THE WESTERN BALKANS
(2017-12-15)
The 2011 Arab Spring has created a serious migration and humanitarian crisis.
Asylum seekers began attempting to reach Europe through various routes due to
brutal conflict in their home countries. This influx has affected ...
U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation: Explaining Outer Space Partnership in the Midst of Earthly Rivalry
(2017-05-12)
Literature that covers the topic of U.S.-Russian space cooperation tends to isolate it from the overall context of U.S.-Russian relations, while literature that does take the rivalrous relationship into account tends to ...
Indigenous Rights in Japan: The Effects of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Ainu
(2017-05)
This thesis examines how Japan internalizes international Indigenous rights norms. The application of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) in Japan relating to Ainu Indigenous rights provides a narrow ...
The Dynamics of Identity in Determining French Bilateral Aid: An Empirical Study of Colonialism and Françafrique
(2017-05-12)
In 2013, France sent more than $3 billion in Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the African continent. The biggest aid recipients were Senegal and Morocco, both former members of the short-lived French Union. Senegal ...