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By Any Other Name: Challenging Non-State Armed Groups Ontologies
(2023-05-01)
Existing terms for non-state armed groups (NSAGs) such as terrorist, militia, insurgent or guerrilla poorly explain the realities of NGAG capabilities and behaviors. This obscures the roles and impacts of these organizations ...
Saving Lives While Sharing Power: The United States and China in United Nations Peacekeeping Missions in Africa
(2021-05-21)
In past years, many American politicians, intelligence officials, academics, and foreign policy analysts have predicted a dire fate for the future of the international system, especially global issues that may become harder ...
Business as Mission in North Korea: The Need for Contextual Understanding of Autocratic Regimes
(2022-04-20)
This thesis aims to assess the extent to which Business as Mission (BAM) can be
viable in an autocratic setting like North Korea. By understanding the country’s frame of
reference and cultural values, BAM seeks to acquire ...
Personal Details Exposed: Spyware and Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
(2023-04-28)
Much attention has been devoted in recent years to the dangers of spyware such as Pegasus, which its creators said would make the world safer by allowing government agencies to monitor and thwart terrorism and criminal ...
Gender All the Way Down: Proposing a feminist framework for analyzing gendered climate security risks
(2022-11-22)
According to mythical world views from many traditions, there is a World Turtle that rests on a larger turtle, and that larger turtle rests on an even larger turtle, and on and on the turtles go. In other words, earth is ...
National Legislation and the Influence of the United Nations: The Impact of Declarations of International Governmental Organizations on National Regulation of the Private Sector
(2023-04-28)
This research focuses on the impact of international treaties and implementing
decisions of international governmental organizations on national regulation and the
private sector, specifically in the areas of health and ...
War With Cold Characteristics: How China Used the WTO Against America, a Historical Case Study
(2022-10-05)
In the 1989-2012 period, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) gained influence on the world stage vis-à-vis the United States of America (USA) in virtually all spheres of geopolitical competition, emerging in its present ...
The Cost of Development: Managerialism and Mahaweli in the Age of CKDu
(2022-01-13)
This thesis opens by presenting the curious epidemic of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) which has affected primarily poor agricultural workers in certain areas of the global south for decades, yet remains ...
A Theoretical Assessment of the Nexus between Universal Child Legal Identity and Universal Principles of Child Protection: A Case Study of Emirates ID
(2021-10-15)
The legal identity of an individual permeates every aspect of human life. It acts as proof of existence, confirms one’s nationality, and enables one to carry out daily life. It further formalizes the relationship between ...
Thirty Years of Democracy in Estonia and Lithuania: Understanding the Drivers of People’s Satisfaction with Democracy and Their Expectations from It
(2022-09-08)
Lithuania and Estonia regained their independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Both countries are now viewed as established democracies with free-market economies; however, the transition to both was fraught ...