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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Adversaries to Allies: Albania’s Alignment with the United States
(2023-10-11)
This paper examines the reversal of Albanian-American relations following the
end of the Cold War until Albania acceded to NATO membership: 1991 – 2009. During
Albania’s communist era, it considered the United States to ...
Out in the Open: U.S. GEOINT and OSINT in the Cold War 1946-1986
(2024-01-11)
This thesis explores and describes the ways in which spaceborne and aerial
reconnaissance platforms and open source intelligence together provided the U.S. with a
distinct strategic advantage over the USSR in the Cold War. ...
The British Effect: Is colonial legacy a contributing factor to post-colonial democratization?
(2024-01-05)
The drivers of democratic success are well-studied and comprise a complex topic with a plethora of economic, environmental, and historical factors given to explain the relative degree of democratic performance across ...