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A Certain Idea of Space: How Leaders Shape Military Space Posture in Europe
Why do regional powers facing similar external constraints adopt different approaches to the military uses of space? The history of Western European space actors, from the Cold War through the present, demonstrates variation ... -
Indigenous Participation in the Arctic Council: An Analysis of Principle and Practice
The Arctic is an ever-changing region, specifically in its environment and the increasing number of political actors interested in natural resource development in the region, which requires innovative modes of policy ... -
Who is in Charge of Making Decisions? The Competition between the Government and the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy in Turkey (1991-2014)
This study argues that the fragmentation in foreign policymaking due to adopting different foreign policy ideas, that is, ideas of the elected leadership and the bureaucracy, is likely to generate competition between the ... -
The Impact of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Mechanisms on Reconciliation in Africa: A Case Study of Côte d’Ivoire
The dissertation analyzed how adopting multiple peacebuilding mechanisms and their implementation affects national reconciliation and social cohesion in post-conflict societies in Africa, with Côte d’Ivoire as a case ... -
Technology Innovation and Digital Revolution: Adoption and Diffusion of Digital Network Platforms, 1995-2001, with Implications for Future Development
Leading digital platforms as of the early 2020s are valued in the trillions of dollars. Web-based technology pioneers such as Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta, among others, have reshaped the world. The work introduces ... -
How to Hide a Mushroom Cloud: An Examination and Oral History of Nuclear Hagiography in Richland, Washington.
In the waning days of World War II, two Japanese cities were annihilated. Each bombing run contained only one plane and one bomb. The names of the two Silverplate-class B-29 Superfortress bombers, and their solitary payloads, ... -
To Russia With Fear: American Evangelicals and the Russian Orthodox Church
This dissertation argues that ambitious American Evangelical leaders built a comprehensive political and religious global vision in the early 1980s that would ultimately lead them to forge strategic transnational connections ... -
National Security Expertise, and Borderland Saints: Policing Religion and Police Religion
A skeletal saint graces the side of DEA collectable coin, busts of a mustachioed bandit fill sets of crime-drama television, white blocks of cocaine top shrines during police press releases. Images of borderland religion ... -
“We Walk Out”: Global Discourses and Local Practices of Disability Rights in China
This dissertation unravels the globalization and localization of disability rights through the lens of disability associations in China. Current studies conceptualize global rights discourses as a set of normative ideologies ... -
Together but Alone: The Effect of Husband's Migration on Mental Health of their Wives in Rural Nepal
This dissertation aims to understand the relationship between husband's migration and the mental health of their wives who stay behind. It identifies, describes, and analyzes different pathways of this relationship, with ... -
Women’s Leadership Motivations and State-Sponsored Empowerment: The Case of Moroccan Associative Leaders
This dissertation examines the impact of participatory development programs promoted by theInternational development banks and International NGOs (INGOs) on gender equality in Morocco. Looking at a country case study of ... -
The decline of civil nuclear power programs: Why state-owned enterprises hold the key to success in the Post-Fukushima Era.
Civil nuclear power is declining in Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and rapidly expanding in China, France, India, Russia, and South Korea. The disaster at Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power ... -
Why So Little? The Curious Case of Taiwan’s Defense Spending
Taiwan’s defense budget continues to be a friction point in U.S.-Taiwan defense relations. Despite having adopted allocating 3 percent of its GDP towards defense as a target, Taipei continues to hover around 2 percent in ... -
Resisting Erasure: The Practice of Learning from Maya Mam Narratives of Survivance in Guatemala
Through the implementation of innovative research methods and engagement with Indigenous scholarship, scholars of transitional justice and archival studies can learn important lessons from Indigenous scholars and communities ... -
Bearing the Burden: An Ethnographic Account of Women’s Online Entrepreneurship in the Jordanian Political Economy of Development
This study evaluates whether and how information and communication technologies (ICTs) help overcome constraints to female labor force participation in Jordan. It yields insights about how women’s ICT-enabled economic ... -
Heliocracy: A Comprehensive Reevaluation of Japanese Political History
Who governs? This question has hounded scholars of Japan Studies of the modern era. Some have argued that it is the bureaucracy that governs. Others claim that it is a combination of corporations and the bureaucracy. ... -
Legitimated State Repression in Authoritarian Regimes: Russia, 2010 - 2017
This research aims to reveal and to account for the moderate levels of state repression under contemporary authoritarian regimes, focusing on the case of Russia. I show in this research that, contrary to the previous ... -
Three International Studies Computational Social Science Inquiries Examining Large Corpora of Natural Data
Computational methods provide novel and important approaches for social science inquiries. Due to the ever-increasing availability of large sets, or corpora, of mixed qualitative/quantitative data to the social scientist, ... -
Space, Security, and Trust: Federal Contracting in the Commercial Space Industry
The space industry is intrinsically tied to national security, nonetheless the U.S. government has entrusted commercial entities with the provision of critical space-based data systems and land sensing technologies. By ... -
How Citizenship Informs Political Authority: The Case of Kuwait and Bahrain
Both Bahrain and Kuwait’s monarchies use citizenship as a reward and punishment system to maintain political authority. The ability to award or revoke citizenship is perhaps the most important tool for political governance ...