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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 ...
From Sunningdale to Good Friday: Power Entrenchment and Paramilitary Inclusion
The central question that guides my research is: how do civil wars end? In answering the question, I focus on the case of Northern Ireland to emphasize the importance of history in political outcomes. My argument isolates ...
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 ...
From Nuclear Arms Reductions and Détente to PD-59 and Limited Nuclear Strikes: Understanding the Change in the Carter Administration's Nuclear Strategy
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President Jimmy Carter took office with the intention to halt nuclear proliferation, to implement reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal and to maintain détente with the Kremlin. Yet the president ended his ...
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 ...
Damned Cascades: The Stochasticity of Behavioral Models vis-à-vis the Motivations of First Movers, and the Mechanics of Popular Movements
(2022-12-20)
This study shows that there is a correlation between the founders and co-founders of start-ups and first movers in popular uprisings in terms of their motivations at different points in their respective journeys. It argues ...
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 ...
The Threat Multiplier: Analyzing the Relationship between Climate Change and the Emergence of Violent Non-State Actors in Western Africa
(2021-05-07)
The impact of climate change on the growth of violent non-state actors is a hotly debated topic with great implications for the stability and growth of the Africa. In the last few years, several groups have made significant ...