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The Curious Case of the Withdrawal from the Joint Commission Plan of Action (JCPOA): Islamophobia, Racism, and Foreign Policy
(2022-04-21)
The United States' relationship with Iran has been more negative than positive over the last forty years. That relationship seemed to change when the 45th President of the United States, President Barack Obama, and five ...
Quelling urban violence: A comparative analysis between humanitarian and peacebuilding approaches to engaging with street gangs in North and Latin America
(2022-05-10)
This research examines and compares how humanitarian and peacebuilding organizations approach engagement with street gangs in North and Latin America for risk management purposes. Drawing from multiple semi-structured ...
Collective Psychology as a Correlate of Violence in the International Arena: The Influence of the Victim-Offender Cycle among Groups
(2022-09-14)
Relentless civil wars, long-standing interstate conflicts, and ongoing human rights abuses by sovereign powers have devastating effects on civilian populations. Theories seeking to describe and explain the etiology of ...
The Impact of German Nationalism on the Willingness to Integrate and Assimilate Foreigners in Germany
(2022-05-12)
Owing to its complex nature and historical variety, German nationalism is a subject that has been meticulously researched. Yet few researchers considered its possible connection to older and even contemporary issues that ...
Exploring the Influence of Sociocultural Norms and Gender Biases on Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan
(2023-05-01)
Gender-based discrimination continues to be widely prevalent across the globe, particularly in developing countries. The WEF Global Gender Gap Report 2021 ranks Pakistan as one of the five worst countries for women on the ...
Forging new just war principles for the virtuous war era
(2023-01-10)
The Just War ethic, with its two pillars jus ad bellum and jus in bello, is central to the evaluation of the morality of entering into and the conduct of war. Whether grounded in custom and tradition, or based on developments ...
Temporary Marriage as a Vehicle for Human Trafficking: A Study of the Practice of Temporary Marriage among Syrian Refugees
(2022-05-23)
In-person trafficking reports and recent journalism on temporary marriage in refugee camps raise concerns about the exploitative nature of such marriages. This exploratory thesis examines the temporary marriage of refugees ...
The Scottish Independence Referendum: A Lesson in How Not to Listen to the People?
(2022-09-21)
The issue of Scottish independence has been and remains of much discussion in United Kingdom (UK) politics, and in this matter no voice has been more committed than that of the Scottish National Party (SNP) who to this day ...
The Shared Frontiers of Economic and Civil Society: Toward Optimal Political Context for Distributed Ledger Technology in Finance
(2022-05-12)
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) facilitates a new chapter for the internet, one
known as Web3. It is a back-end upgrade (Voshmgir, 2020, p. 28) that drives particularly
rapid innovation in the finance industry. Its ...
Biopolitics as an Enabling Function of Genocide: Revisiting Foucault’s Theory of Biopower to Conceptualize Mass Mobilization for Genocide
(2023-04-28)
Why do people participate in genocide? This thesis seeks to answer the question of what prompts civilians to actively participate in genocide or, alternatively, to passively support genocidal policies. Through the concept ...