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Honor-related social contract disconnects and a bilateral U.S.-Russia modus vivendi
(2023-04-20)
Is strategic stability between the United States (U.S.) and Russia realistic or are post-Cold War U.S.-Russian relations destined to fail? Is it possible for U.S.-Russian negotiations to result in a mutually acceptable ...
Subordinate Frames: Testing the Political Effects of Color and Music in Television News
(2023-04-28)
Contemporary television news programs routinely add colorful title animations and dramatic music to otherwise substantive issue coverage. These market-driven aesthetic choices—principally deployed as psychological advertising ...
The Search for Racial Justice in America: The Movement for Black Lives
(2023-05-01)
This paper addresses the ongoing quest for racial justice in America, determining how best to accomplish this task. It briefly reviews the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) in the 1960’s, examining contrasts and similarities ...
The Evolving Nerve Center: Core Roles and Responsibilities of the White House Situation Room.
(2023-04-25)
The Situation Room was established to be a nerve center of information for the President; a single touch point for the President to access unbiased apolitical information to aid in their decision-making. The need for a ...
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 ...
The Political Transformation of Elections in Regard to Voter ID Laws in the United States and their Effect on the Electorate in the Last Six Presidential Elections: 2000-2020
(2023-04-20)
Over the last twenty years there has been a political trend where states have been attempting to increase election requirements on registering and voting in-person. These new requirements are in the form of strict voter ...
Words and Actions: Understanding Russia’s Information Security Strategy
(2023-04-25)
Do Russia’s resource allocations and observable behavior in the sphere of information security correspond with its stated strategy in that domain? The answer to this question is important because Russia increasingly relies ...
Fraternal Revolutionaries: Masonic Founding Fathers and their Influence on the United States Constitution
(2023-01-09)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the extent of how influential Freemasonry was, as a social order, in the drafting of the documents pertaining to the Supreme Laws of the Land. Since Freemasonry was the first ...
Investment for Bases: China’s Military Experiment in Africa
(2023-01-10)
This thesis analyzes Chinese power projection in sub-Saharan Africa through a comparison and contrast of China’s “Investment for Resources” and “Investment for Influence” models from 2000 to 2020. In contrast to these two ...
Towards upright city halls: Mechanisms of corruption at the local level in Spain
(2023-01-10)
A considerable amount of literature points to the fact that corruption is especially relevant at the local level of government in several countries. However, academia has not paid sufficient attention to the factors that ...