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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 ...
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 ...
Work Integration for Beneficiaries of International Protection: What Laws Work Best in the United States of America and in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg?
(2017-04-26)
The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (Geneva, 28 July 1951), as amended by its Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (New York, 31 January 1967), confers on refugees the right to gainful employment ...
International Collaboration to Stop Human Trafficking: Using Lessons From the Field to Create a Framework for Data Sharing in Eastern Europe
(2017-09-29)
Human trafficking is a problem faced all over the world. Recent estimates by the International Labour Organization estimate that approximately 21 million people are in situations of forced labor alone (ILO, 2012). Although ...
Kosovo War and Changing Ethnic Boundaries: 1980-2015
(2017-04-17)
The Kosovo War and the resulting humanitarian crisis of 1990s, gained international attention from the nature of massacres and war crimes, as well as the Serbian government’s systematic ethnic cleansing campaign against ...
American Foreign Policy Toward the Syrian Civil War
(2017-04-17)
This thesis investigates the shift in the “schizophrenic” American foreign policy toward the Syrian Civil War from 2011 to 2015, following the Arab Spring protests. What objectives were outlined, and what events on the ...
Social Media as a Tool for Political Change: The Uprising in Iran (2009) and Egypt (2011)
(2017-04-07)
The 2009 Iranian uprising and the 2011 Egyptian uprising were widely publicized and closely followed by the global community. Social media became central to the way each uprising was experienced, and social media made a ...
Peace Over War, the Future of the Taiwan Straits
(2017-04-15)
Between 1954 and 1996, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) were involved in three crises that encompassed military actions. Many scholars have suggested that military conflict or intervention ...