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The Shift Towards Non-Monetary Currency and the Rise of Crypto-Currencies: Incorporating Non-Monetary Measurements to Allow a Nation to Take Stock of Its Well-Being
(2015-11-12)
This thesis posits that governments around the world have failed to account for a vast percentage of the economic output of their citizens in their recordkeeping and policy-making. Through ineffective measures such as the ...
The Role of Conflict in Shaping Iraqi Identity
(2016-04-14)
This thesis shows how four sources of conflict have been particularly divisive to Iraqi identity: sectarian legacies, ethnic tensions, internal political conflict, and foreign involvement and intervention. This thesis ...
Building Climate Resiliency in the Philippines: A Bottom-Up Approach to Implementing Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies Through Analysis of the Impacts of Super Typhoon Yolanda in 2013
(2016-04-18)
Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan), which pummeled the Philippines on Nov. 8, 2013, showed the full destructive force of a climatic event. Yolanda decimated the coastal communities that lay directly in its ...
Small Scale Innovation for Large Scale Progress: A Clean Tech Rural Development Model Using Quality of Life Indicators to Select Optimal Renewable Energy Solutions
(2016-05-22)
The energy poverty challenge sits in an estimated $6.4 trillion clean technology market opportunity in developing and emerging markets over the next decade (World Bank, 2014). As a result, private sector investments have ...
How Policymakers Started the Federal Charter School Movement: A Case Study in Policy Entrepreneurship
(2016-05-28)
The objective of this study is to show how policy entrepreneurship can serve as a theory of policy change. The federal charter school movement served as a prime example of policy entrepreneurship in action. Four policymakers ...
Effects of Political, Legal, and Governance Challenges: Case Study of East African Community
(2016-10-08)
This thesis investigates the effects of political, legal, and governance challenges regional integration policy within the East African Community (EAC), and questions the motivations of partner states and their institutional ...
The Relationship between Norwegian Media Coverage and Policy Changes: The War in Afghanistan.
(2016-10-21)
This thesis examines three online newspapers’ coverage of the Norwegian involvement in the Afghan war during 2006 and 2007, and foreign and defense policy changes from 2006 to 2008. Three research questions were explored, ...
Reinventing the International Human Rights Regime: Evolution and Effectiveness of the UN Human Rights Council
(2016-10-09)
The United Nations human rights regime was transformed into a new apparatus that received the approbation of the international community. The past United Nations human rights regime was seen as ineffective, divisive, ...
The Witch-Hunt Against Online Gambling: Why the United States Government Hasn’t Regulated Internet Gaming and Why States’ Rights Are Being Trampled.
(2016-02-16)
This study investigates why the United States Government and other parties have systematically targeted online gambling/poker since its inception. Gambling is and always has been a divisive issue, but for the most part ...
Why Singapore Was Able to Attract $338b Foreign Direct Investment in the Past 10 Years While Sierra Leone Attracted Only $1.9b
(2016-04-24)
This study seeks to understand the reasons Singapore attracted far more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) than Sierra Leone. The choice of these two countries is based on their historical similarities. Both Sierra Leone and ...