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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 ...
Taiwan First: The Role of National Identity in Protectionist Trade Policies
(2018-05-11)
Taiwan’s modern history of rapid economic growth has given the country the reputation as the “Taiwan Miracle”. The country’s emphasis on economic growth has become a core tenet of the nation’s policies and attitudes, both ...
Speaking of Walls: Ontological Security Discourse and the West Bank Barrier
(2018)
The official government justification for the construction of the West Bank barrier is that it was a security measure necessitated by an increase in Palestinian terrorism during the Second Intifada. There are many challenges ...
The OSCE in Twenty-First Century Ukraine: An Exploration of Best Practices Applied
(2018-05-11)
With fifty-seven member states and a remarkably broad definition of security, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) offers an unparalleled platform for crisis management across Europe and the Former ...
FAILURE IN IRAQ? AN EXAMINATION OF AMERICAN SUCCESS REBUILDING A POST-SADDAM IRAQ
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...