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Transnational Water Issues in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq: Planning and Investing for the Future Undergraduate
(2016)
The connection between access to clean and reliable water and social
unrest is a relationship that is beginning to be fully understood. The
Euphrates River provides drinking water for nearly 27 million people,
water for ...
Russian-Syrian Relations: Past and Present Undergraduate
(2016)
Drawing heavily on Andrej Kreutz’s Russia in the Middle East and
Robert Freedman’s “Russia and the Arab Spring: A Preliminary
Appraisal” along with numerous news sources, this essay serves a twofold
purpose of sketching ...
In Memory of Daniel Holland Undergraduate
(2017)
This issue of the Journal of Global Affairs is dedicated in loving memory to Daniel Holland, who passed away while traveling abroad on June 11, 2017. Daniel was a National Merit Scholar earning his bachelor's and master's ...
Countering ISIS's Propaganda: Islamic Piety, Belonging, and Exposure of Life under ISIS's Rule Undergraduate
(2017)
The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham's (ISIS) recruitment tactics have yielded substantial results in the Western world. Recruiters use a variety of push and pull factors to separate potential recruits from their society ...
Turkey's Temporary Protection Regulation and the Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Feminist Policy Analysis Undergraduate
(2017)
As Syria's deadly civil war rages on, more and more Syrians are fleeing to Turkey as refugees, testing the policies Turkey has put into place to manage irregular migrant flows. The authors of this paper sought to analyze ...
Confucianism: The New Wave of Ancient China Undergraduate
(2016)
Confucianism, a Chinese philosophy founded roughly 2,500 years ago,
has traditionally been understood to be, by historians and philosophers
alike, a strongly conservative philosophy. Yet after taking a look at the
historical ...
Compromising Refugeehood: Access to Asylum and Non-Refoulement in the European Union Undergraduate
(2017)
This paper explores the intersection of European and international refugee and human rights law. While numerous treaties incorporate the rights of forced migrants, the Refugee Convention with the 1967 Protocol represents ...
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 ...
Uganda's Path to Energy Access - Is it Climate Friendly? Undergraduate
(2016)
Only 18 percent of Ugandans have access to energy. Compare this to
100 percent access in the similarly sized United Kingdom or 23 percent
for their neighbors in Kenya. Uganda does not have energy security, or
“the ...
The Intersection of Slums and Environmental Justice in Morocco Undergraduate
(2016)
The purpose of this research paper is to address environmental justice in
Morocco as it relates to slum life and slum relocation efforts. As such,
the paper deals with the kingdom’s waste management activities in both
rural ...