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Obama’s vs. Trump’s Taiwan Policies: Understanding China’s Military Incursions in the Taiwan Strait
(2022-09-21)
For decades, China has utilized credible threat as a means of coercive diplomacy to deter U.S. policies that indirectly support Taiwan’s sovereignty (Ross, 2000). The growth of Chinese military capabilities, tension in the ...
"Combating" Trafficking in Persons: An Examination of the Role of the United States in Qatar's Exploitative Guestworker Program
(2022-09-30)
Contemporary scholarship contends that guestworker programs are structurally exploitative enabling labor trafficking of vulnerable migrant communities. Such programs are common throughout the globe, though none are as ...
Selling Innocence: The Sexual Exploitation of Unaccompanied Boys in Refugee Camp Settings and the Limitations of Sexual Gender-Based Violence Conversations
(2022-05-10)
The illicit and exceedingly lucrative act of sexually exploiting vulnerable populations of refugees continues to thrive, especially in the often-unchecked environments of refugee camps. Unaccompanied and separated children, ...
Shifting Tides: New Zealand’s Foreign Policy Shift in the Pacific A small state’s response to changing global challenges
(2022-09-30)
New Zealand’s 2018 “Pacific Reset” overhauled its foreign policy approach in the Pacific. The explanation for this policy shift remains primarily the official account offered by the New Zealand Government. This thesis ...
Emerging Anti-satellite Capabilities and the Recourse to Deterrence Theory in Practice
(2023-04-20)
The expansion of space-based capabilities has ballooned over the past six decades in response to the rapid growth of technological advancements and simultaneous lowering of costs for their production. Satellites are now ...
Convergent Evolution in Aspiring Dictatorships: Developing a Generalized Theory of the Strategy Used to Undermine Democratic Development in Middle Hybrid Regimes
(2022-10-13)
This thesis develops and tests a generalized theory of democratic backsliding. It proposes that only three factors, ethno-nationalist rhetoric, control of the judiciary, and control of the media are both necessary and ...
An Oasis of Democracy: Tunisian Democratization and its Western Influences
(2021-05-14)
10 Years on from the Arab Spring, Tunisia is positioned to show how democracy
can be successful in the Arab World. Tunisia had significant international influence on
this possible success from various actors with their own ...
A Formative Evaluation of a Video Game to Educate on Gender-Based Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(2021-05-07)
Gender-based violence (GBV) impacts one in three women in the world. GBV encompasses physical, psychological, economic, emotional and other abuses within the home, on the street, at work, and in other social structures. ...
Expo 2020, Cultural Diplomacy, and the UAE’s Pursuit of Soft Power
(2023-05-01)
This thesis explores how World Expos, and Expo 2020 Dubai specifically, have been utilized by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to further its soft power goals. The UAE has evolved from a fledgling nation established in 1971 ...
Examining US-Involved Gang Prevention Efforts in the Northern Triangle Central America
(2021-05-21)
Over the past two decades, gang-related violence and control has plagued the Northern Triangle: the Central American (NTCA) countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. This gang-related behavior has propelled the ...