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The Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1954-1955 : the contemplation of going to war over foreign troop morale.
(2013)
This study examines the Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1954-55 and how the Eisenhower administration handled the imbroglio and attempts to explain why the crisis lasted for such a long period of time. Secretary of State John ...
Post-UNDRIP makes a difference : UNDRIP promotes indigenous rights in liberal democracies.
(2013)
This comparative case study examines the use of Constructivist International Relations theory on indigenous issues in liberal democracies. The thesis focuses on the impact of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights ...
Power in the 21st century : China's soft power in Latin America and its global rise.
(2013)
The People's Republic of China pursues soft power in the western hemisphere to support its national interest. Joseph Nye's concept of soft power lacks the necessary detail to be considered mature theory, focuses far too ...
Chinese foreign policy decision-making : a neoclassical realist approach.
(2011)
Despite its sudden rise, China has not engaged in balancing US power contrary to the prediction of the balance of power theory. The structure of a unipolar world restricts balancing which is effectively a revisionist act ...
Arbitraging geoeconimic and geopolitical logic : the US-Iranian case.
(2018)
Through scrutinizing US-Iranian relations through the lens of radical geopolitics theory, it will be shown that a core proposition of radical geopolitics theory is too restrictive, and ought to be weakened to account for ...
"Purposes of prestige," 1933 : the Roosevelt touch and U.S. diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union.
(2016)
This thesis examines the United States government's official diplomatic recognition of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1933. I argue that in severing sixteen years of executive policy President Franklin D. ...
The correlation between international trade and economic interdependence and the propensity to engage in conflict.
(2013)
Unlike domestic politics, which is governed by laws and regulations, interstate politics takes place in an anarchic arena. There are few laws that govern relations among states which provide opportunities for strong states ...
China, Japan, South Korea and the United States : Resisting Change in Northeast Asia.
(2019)
Though it appears much has changed for the players in Northeast Asia, when considering actual shifts in military resources and alliance strategy, many things have stayed the same. When taking the role of the United States ...
The effect of resource curse in Africa : varied resources in varied conflicts.
(2015)
This work seeks to interpret resource curse on the African Continent by analyzing three separate cases: Sierra Leone, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria. In respect to each case's civil war, these will ...
Repairing a strategic partnership : Congress and US foreign policy with Turkey.
(2012)
The United States and Turkey have shared an important strategic partnership since Turkey was admitted to NATO in 1952. This relationship began to decline following Turkey's denial of Washington's request to position US ...