Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Complex Landscape of LGBTQ+ Inclusion Within the Politics of Africa and the Dynamics of Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws and Development, Barbara Agyapong
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
All Infrastructure Projects Lead to Beijing : How the Belt and Road Initiative Has Influenced China's Regional Policy, Katherine Grof
The Level of Trust Between International Election Observers and Incumbents in Unconsolidated Democracies, Rogers Mtui
What Makes States Comply with Their Environmental Treaty Commitments : A Comparative Case Analysis of Australia and Canada during the Kyoto Protocol, Brandon Enric Weeber
The Balance of Convertibility: Manipulating External Support in Civil War, Kimberly L. Wolfe
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
A Model of Regime Change: The Impact of Arab Spring throughout the Middle East and North Africa, Omar Khalfan Bizuru
The State and Cannabis : What is Success? A Comparative Analysis of Cannabis Policy in The United States of America, Uruguay, and Canada, Gideon C. Cunningham
Exploitation and Domination: A Marxist Analysis of the Impact of Class Structure on State Terrorism, Joseph J. Hammons
China’s Legal Environment for Domestic NGOs: Standardized Policies for Greater Party-State Control over Civil Society, Kelly E. Tursic
Offensive Cyber Operations: An Examination of Their Revolutionary Capabilities, Madelyn Wardle
Clinging to Power: Authoritarian Leaders and Coercive Effectiveness, Christian J. Wolfe
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Targeting the Minority: A New Theory of Diversionary Violence, Nathaniel M. Arnold
How does relative deprivation cause people to condone political violence? A case study of Bangladesh, Md Mamunur Rashid
Chinese Nationalism and the South China Sea, Jordan M. Sandy
Game of Survival: External Actors' Support for Separatists, Joshua C. Underwood
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Homeward Bound-Ness of Crimean Tatars: A Clash of National Identity, the State, and the Crimean Peninsula, Nicholas Daniel Higgins
The Use of Force: Hard Offensive Counterterrorism, Daniel Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Revisiting Afghanistan's Modern History: The Role of Ethnic Inclusion on Regime Stability, Rahimullah Akrami
How Do Voters Decide? A Study of the Determinants of Voting Behavior in Ghana, Richard Boateng Antwi
Europe's Parallel Media Universe: Cross-national analysis of populist media oppression in the EU, Csongor Bajnoczki
Economic Statecraft and Ethnicity in China, James Bell
Explaining Nuclear Rollback: Examining the Cessation of Nuclear Weaponization in Argentina and Brazil from 1964 - 1994, Billy Michael Douglas
Chinese Satellite Diplomacy: China's Strategic Weapon for Soft and Hard Power Gains, Nicholas Jackman
Red Skies: The Impact of Environmental Protests in the People's Republic of China, 2004-2016, Porter Lyons
With Liberty and Justice for All: An Examination of the United States' Compliance with Rule of Law as it relates to Domestic and International Terrorism, Jonathan William Maze
Politics of International Recognition: The Case of Aspirant States, Wais Mehrabi
Nationalism and Regional Relations in Democratic Transitions: Comparing Nepal and Bhutan, Deki Peldon
Abandoned by Home and Burden of Host: Evaluating States' Economic Ability and Refugee Acceptance through Panel Data Analysis, Ummey Hanney Tabassum
Japan's Article 9 and Japanese Public Opinion: Implications for Japanese Defense Policy and Security in the Asia Pacific, Julie Jo Tollefson
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
When Words Are Worse Than Bullets: a Study of Corruption as an Unintended Consequence of Threats of Sanctions, Aleksei Balanov
Work and Women's Empowerment: An Examination of South Asia, Kathryn Elise Chaney
Assessing the Conditions for Post-Cold War Conflict Interventions, Daniel Wesley Clark
Post Arab Spring Examination of American Foreign Aid: Libya and Egypt, Andrew Robert Dickerson
Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping: A Trait Analysis, Dan Douglas
Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping: A Trait Analysis, Dan Douglas
Improv in International Diplomacy: Creating a Cooperative Narrative, Preston J. Eberlyn
Governed by Guerrillas: When Armed Insurgents Become Political Leaders, Megan Patsch
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
An Unrelenting Past: Historical Memory in Japan and South Korea, Hannah Elisabeth Collins
Chinese Soft Power Promotion in the United States: 2005-2014, Martin Daniel Kalfas
Determining the Significance of Alliance Pathologies in Bipolar Systems: A Case of the Peloponnesian War from 431-421 BCE, Anthony Lee Meyer
Feminist International Relations and “Epistemic Blank Spots”: Entrenching Hegemony?, Jasmine Underwood
HIV/AIDS Health Policy, Feminism, Backlash, and Anti-LGBT Attitudes in Uganda, Michael Andrew Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Why the Rise in Drones, Sean David Duffy
Understanding Paths Toward Strategic Success in NVR Campaigns: A Comparison of Palestinian and South African Resistance, Archibald A. Grieve
A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Web 2.0 Technology use in Egypt & China, 2005-2010, Monica D. Morales
Self-Determination in the People's Republic of China: Elite Responses, 1949-2012, Hanna M. Tarbert
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Multicultural Public Policy and Homegrown Terrorism in the European Union, Macklin Keith Everly
When Insurgents Go Terrorist: The Role of Foreign Support in the Adoption of Terrorism, Jeffrey F. Fourman
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: A Last Ditch Effort to Turn Around a Failing War, Benjamin P. McCullough
Information Communication Technologies and Identity in Post-Dayton Bosnia: Mending or Deepening the Ethnic Divide, William David McIntire
The Impact of Changing Narratives on American Public Opinion Toward the U.S.-Israel Relationship, Rana Kamal Odeh
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Little Brother Syndrome And Nuclear Proliferation, An Exploratory Analysis of Pakistan and North Korea's Risk Prone Policies, Richard Ellis Hebblethwaite
Al Qaeda's Propaganda War: A War for Hearts and Minds, Jill Hannah Pohl
Rwanda: (Limited) Effects of the First Female Parliamentary Majority in the World, Charlene Anita Raman-Preston
Religious Fundamentalism vs. Security: What Really Drives LIKUD's Policies Towards Israeli Settlements?, Claudio Vinicius Santo
The Power of Perception: Securitization, Democratic Peace, and Enduring Rivalries, Derrick Charles Seaver
Is the Motherist Approach More Helpful in Obtaining Women's Rights than a Feminist Approach? A Comparative Study of Lebanon and Liberia, Crystal Marie Whetstone
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
When "Boys Will Not Be Boys": Variations of Wartime Sexual Violence by Armed Opposition Groups in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, and Nepal, Matthew Bolyn Conaway
Hearts and Minds: US Foreign Policy and Anti-Americanism in the Middle East An Analysis of Public Perceptions from 2002-2011, Joshua I. Cummins
How the City State Fares Under State Capitalism in the PRC: Local and State-Wide Reform, Alex Gregory Elkins
Social Movements' Emergence and Form: The Green Movement in Iran, Afsaneh J Haddadian
When Laws and Representation Are Not Enough: Enduring Impunity and Post-Conflict Sexual Violence in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Ashley D. Kitchen
The Effects of Chinese Petroleum Diplomacy on US Energy Policy Objectives in Nigeria (1993-2010), Jennifer Lynn Leapley
'Counting Votes and Bodies,' Election-Related Conflicts in Africa: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Kenya, Ibrahim Mahama Nambiema
NGO-State Relations: Freedom House Status and Cooperation Versus Conflict, Jacquelyn Ann Schroeder
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
When Prohibition and Violence Collide: The Case of Mexico, Kyleigh M. Clark
Accounting for the Role of the Public in Democratic States' Counterterrorism Policies: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Spain and the United Kingdom, Megan R. Cronenwett
Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a Counterbalance against the United States, Bakhtiyar T. Dauekeev
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dammed and the Damned: Draining the Bucket Dry, Carla Steiger
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
How Does a Democratic Brazil Constrast with Authoritarian Brazil in Terms of Promoting Human Security?, Pablo Albuquerque Banhos
Gender Politics: A Case Study of Feminism in Iran, Sara A. Hoff
The Origins of Ethno/National Separatist Terrorism: A Cross-National Analysis of the Background Conditions of Terrorist Campaigns, Brandon Charles Snell
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Religious Pluralism in Mauritius and Turkey, Morgan J. O'Brien III
The Value of Deliberative Democratic Practices to Civic Education, Brooke M. Shannon
The False Promise of International Financial Institutions in Building Stable Democracies in Third World Countries, Foday Sulimani
Non-State Actors and Asymmetric Warfare: A New Paradigm for International Relations, Matthew H. Wahlert
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Successful Social Movements and Political Outcomes: A Case Study of the Women's Movement in Italy: 1943-48, Francesca Luciana Rubino
Anti-System Parties:Policy Choices for Democracies A Study of India's Bharatiya Janata Party and Austria's Freedom Party, Kristina M. Teater