Browsing by FAS Department "International Relations"
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A Re-examination of the First Persian Gulf War and United States Foreign Policy towards Iraq: An Analysis of How Missed Dialogue and Missed Opportunities Changed the Fate of a Region
(2020-03-17)There have been a number of theories pertaining to the First Persian Gulf War (PGWI) including why or how the war started between Iraq and the United States (US) and the subsequent policy fallout in the Middle East. Some ... -
A Theoretical Analysis of the Capability of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Its Surrogates to Conduct Covert or Terrorist Operations in the Western Hemisphere.
(2018-05-09)The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of only three state sponsors of terrorism as designated by the U.S. Department of State. The basic goal of this project has been to determine what capability the Islamic Republic has ... -
African Spaghetti Bowl: Assessing State Rationales in African Peacekeeping Operations, 1999-2016.
(2018-11-14)Within Africa, transnational threats risk eroding the progress made on peace and security efforts during the past two decades. The growing reliance on multidimensional stabilization missions to address these complex ... -
Atatürk Reforms 1923-1946
(2020-09-28)Today, the problems of Muslim-majority countries are overwhelming: War, Oppression, Migration, Corruption and the list goes on. The Jasmine Revolution, that would supposedly bring peace and democracy to the Arab world, has ... -
Bargain, Babble, or Battle? Cheap Talk and the Judicial Review Process Under 8 USC § 1189
(2020-04-29)In this dissertation the judicial review process under 8 USC § 1189 is formally modeled as a cheap talk game. The model makes specific assumptions about the ways in which the judiciary and the FTO interact and bargain with ... -
Causes and Effects of Conversion to Islam by White and Latina American Women: A Study of Community, Ethnicity, and Geography
(2020-07-27)This study deepens our understanding of the processes of religious conversion to Islam by identifying similarities and differences in the conversion processes of white and Latina women in the US, and comparing the results ... -
Community Art Ownership: Do Local Heritage Museums Enhance Civic and Economic Implications?
(2019-03-04)Inspired by the art repatriation disputes that account for countless political rows between nations, this study asks: Are there civic and economic implications when a community owns their own heritage art objects? While ... -
Corporate Social Performance & the Quarterly Earnings Call: Insights From the Interactions Between Leading Companies and Wall Street Analysts, 2015-2017
(2019-01-30)This research examines 240 quarterly earnings call transcripts from the top 10 companies on the 2017 U.S. Fortune 500 and Fortune Future lists, respectively. The research aims to assess (1) the ways and extent to which ... -
De Jure vs De Facto Gender Equality Within the Commonwealth of Australia: A Disturbing Dissonance Between a Robust Legislative Framework and the Empirically Imbalanced Realities Across Government and Society
(2018-12-05)This project shows that there is a vast dissonance between de jure and de facto gender equality within Australia. Despite Commonwealth efforts to effect change, including: the adoption of an array of international gender ... -
Decolonizing Social Innovation for Global Development
(2019-04-24)Systemic barriers inherited from colonialism—read coloniality—block equitable access to resources and diminishes the agency of non-hegemonic actors in the world today. In the area of social innovation, coloniality limits ... -
Democracy and Income Inequality in Comparative Perspective: United States and South Africa, 1995-2015
(2019-04-01)My research is driven by two questions that investigate the relationship between democracy and income inequality amongst marginalized groups in the United States and South Africa: (1) Are marginalized groups steered toward ... -
Democracy and the Fallacy of the Post-Conflict Era in Northern Ireland
(2019-04-05)While Northern Ireland has experienced a period of relative peace since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, entrenched, age-old tensions persist between those of opposing political persuasions, and between ... -
Democratic Apathy: Exploring the Roots of Millennial Democratic Fatigue
(2020-01-31)Democratic fatigue is the extent to which citizens of a democracy are disconnecting or disengaging from democratic participation or practice. The Pew Research Center currently defines millennials (also known as Generation ... -
Demystifying Blockchain: A New Wave of “Creative Destruction” or Hype?
(2019-04-18)Much confusion surrounds the newly emerged blockchain technology—from critics denouncing it as the most over-hyped and least useful technology of all time, to others who consider it a panacea capable of saving the world. ... -
Do Words Matter? A Linguistic Analysis of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Race Riots that Followed.
(2020-03-23)What influence do legislative bodies have on racism in the United States? Is the language within congressional debate of a law similar to language reflected in public narrative? What influence does congressional and public ... -
Doing Good And/or Feeling Good: Examining International Citizen-to-Citizen Service Programs
(2018-03-28)This thesis explores international citizen-to-citizen service programs. It begins by identifying the various ways that citizens intentionally or unintentionally interact (as givers and receivers), with institutions to ... -
Dollar-Yen Exchange Rate: US-Japan Trade Conflict and Political Leaders' Strategy
(2020-07-29)The relationship between the exchange rate policy and trade policy has not been studied extensively in academia, particularly for the case of the US. While the US presidents have mostly supported free trade, exchange rate ... -
Drug War Origins:How American Opium Politics Led to the Establishment of International Narcotics Prohibition
(2019-04-11)In 1914, the United States criminalized the recreational use of opium. From this event developed over a one hundred year span the international War on Drugs. This examination stems from the belief the War on Drugs fails ... -
Effects of US Cold War Policy on the Modern State of Yemen: 1978 Through Unification and Civil War
(2018-05-08)The foes of the Cold War extended the boundaries of their respective conflict throughout the emerging developing world in a race for strategic placement and domination. Through vast and lucrative aid programs, young and ... -
Exploring Diaspora Ties to Homeland Neo-Colonialist Movements: The Case of Chinese Diaspora Influence During the "New Scramble for Africa"
(2019-01-25)This study explores diaspora group ties to origin countries in ways that broadly empower them to act as state agents of their origin state. This is achieved by examining the case of the Chinese migration to Africa during ...