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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, ...
Violence & Misconstruction: Understanding Why CounterTerrorism Measures Are Failing - the Case of Pakistan
(2016-02-22)
For the past ten years, Pakistan has been implementing counterterrorism strategies to eradicate terrorism, yet cessation of violence has not been achieved. In this thesis I explore the reasons for failure of counterterrorism ...
Israel, Palestine, and the Last Four U.S. Presidencies: An In-Depth Analysis
(2017-01-09)
The Israel-Palestine conflict is, at the same time, one of the most important challenges in international politics and one of the most difficult issues to solve. The problem is made worse by the fact that stakeholders ...
Quantifying Sovereignty: A New Way to Examine an Essential Concept
(2017-04-12)
There were three primary reasons for this study. First, the study attempted to create a quantitative framework for measuring the concept of sovereignty in order to facilitate easier comparative analyses. This framework, ...
Posturing for Prevention: Extended Claim on the Use of Force Against the Threats of Nuclear Terrorism
(2017-07-18)
The threat of terrorism, nuclear weapons program by hostile states, and the possibility that these threats could aggregate and converge into more devastating threat of nuclear terrorism has been challenging the international ...
Belt and Road Initiative: Defining China's Grand Strategy and the Future World Order
(2018-01-15)
The current U.S.-China relationship involves grand strategic rivalry. China launched its grand strategy of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, connecting 65 countries along the Asia Pacific through China-led infrastructure ...
Tunisia: Reinventing Democracy in the 21st Century
(2018-04-21)
This study posits that democracy is possible in Muslim nations and uses Tunisia as a case study. Unique factors along the nation’s historical arc are isolated and identified as moderating variables which impress upon ...
Anti-Terrorism Policy Reform in Indonesia: Consequences and Implications for Internal and External Counterterrorism Cooperation
(2018-04-17)
This thesis investigates the implications and consequences for Indonesia's counterterrorism efforts should its military succeed in carving out a greater internal security role through the passage of the proposed revision ...