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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 ...
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 ...
Grey Zone Tactics as Catalysts for Balancing Coalitions: A Level of Analysis Approach
(2022-05-10)
This paper frames the efficacy of grey zone tactics and their ability to trigger balancing coalitions as a level of analysis question.
External players usually analyze People’s Republic of China (PRC) grey zone tactics ...
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 ...
Democratic Taiwan in the Twenty-first Century
(2023-04-25)
This thesis frames the Taiwanese struggle to defend democracy in the face of growing aggression from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Despite past agreements between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, ...
Awakening China: A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Chinese Investment on the Governance of Emerging and Developing Market Countries
(2023-10-05)
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has pursued a Go Global strategy to integrate itself into the international economy and increase its political influence. Central to this pursuit is China’s engagement ...
The Role of Private Multinational Corporations in Strategic Competition: A Comparative Analysis of Economic and Informational Contingencies
(2024-05-14)
In today’s globalized society many activities that effect national security occur outside of the traditional realms of diplomacy, military, and trade. Outside of these realms democratic state governments have fewer response ...