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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, ...
Tradition Without Borders: Comparative Responses to the Shark Fin Trade After the Chinese Diaspora
(2016-09-21)
This research investigates variation in shark fin policy among nation-states and the possible causal pathways, specifically, from domestic institutional and domestic societal perspectives. Since the 1970s, demand for shark ...
The Legal Aspects of Crimea’s Independence Referendum of 2014 With the Subsequent Annexation of the Peninsula by Russia.
(2016-10-09)
This thesis examines Crimea’s 2014 unilateral declaration of independence and subsequent absorption by Russia. It examines the region’s volatile history and attempts to present a balanced view of the positions of the main ...
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 ...
The Case for Institutionalizing Nuclear Munitions: A Probabilistic Game Theory Analysis
(2017-02-03)
The spread of nuclear weapons is a hotly debated topic, with two dominating schools of thought. One school espouses the belief that horizontal nuclear proliferation is inevitable and that increased proliferation engenders ...
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 ...
No Mere Deodands: Human Responsibilities in the Use of Violent Intelligent Systems Under Public International Law
(2016-12-12)
The tide toward the militarization of autonomous technologies has prompted critics to propose a pre-emptive ban on their development for fear that they may not adhere to international laws and, worse still, that no one ...
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 ...