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Putin's Imperial Aspirations: How Russian Nationalism Drives Foreign Policy and Military Strategy
(2024-05-03)
Vladimir Putin became prime minister in 1999 and has been in federal office as either prime minister or president ever since. His control over Russian politics has cemented his position and furthered his influence over the ...
Probabilistic Predeterminism in International Security: Historical Institutionalist and Path-Dependent Perspective on the U.S. Colonial Institutions and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance.
(2024-05-03)
This research presents a fresh perspective on the nature of the U.S.-Philippine alliance outside of political actors and threat-centric explanations, which presently dominate international security literature. It proposes ...
Economic Development Opportunities and Challenges in Morocco: Corruption and Bureaucracy
(2024-05-06)
Criticisms of foreign aid are frequent and well justified, corruption at a local level diminishes efficiency, bureaucratic processes hinder progress, and donor politics sideline the real priorities of those in need. Economic ...
Applying Women, Peace, and Security in the Intelligence Community: Integrating Gendered Perspectives into Intelligence Analysis
(2024-05-06)
The Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) framework serves as a set of guiding principles essential for effective integration of gender perspectives into the intelligence community, aligning with the United Nations Security ...
Admission into NATO without a Membership Action Plan: Sweden’s Discreet March Towards NATO Membership
(2024-05-06)
This paper analyzes the intentional, and incremental, path that Sweden took to ascend to NATO without the aid of NATO’s Membership Action Plan (MAP). It also uses a constructivist framework to rebut the narrative that ...
The Viability of Nuclear Energy in Africa: A Technical, Economic, and Political Review
(2024-05-13)
The announcement at COP28 in December, 2023, of a multilateral agreement to triple nuclear energy production by 2050 was a significant milestone in the advancement of the nuclear industry. It demonstrated a global ...
Bigger Isn’t Always Better: An Assessment of the Use of Hypersexualized Video Game Character Models and Player Preference in Video Games
(2024-05-14)
From television and movies to music videos and magazines, the media we consume has a significant impact on our attitudes, behaviors, social norms, and gender stereotypes. The sexualization of women in the media has been ...
Understanding Bangladesh’s Historical Perspectives Through the 2017 Rohingya Crisis
(2024-05-14)
Bangladesh, an independent country since 1971, has been called a country built on its refugee past (Dasgupta, 2016, pp. 161, 166, 177). In this thesis, I will examine the country’s historical refugee experiences in order ...
Does Good Governance Result in Greater Racial Equity and Racial Harmony?
(2024-05-13)
This thesis aims to discover whether Hawaii’s good governance indicators of
voice and accountability (VA), control of corruption (CC), and government effectiveness
(GE) from 2020-2023 affect Hawaii citizens’ current ...
Lessons from International Relations Theory and Terrestrial History for a 21st-Century Moon Race
(2024-05-13)
Space agencies from the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, Russia, and beyond are preparing to take another giant leap for humankind: establishing permanent research stations on the Moon. These efforts raise important questions ...