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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 ... -
Inuit Compromise and Resurgence: The Legacies of the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement
Tension between Anglophone and Francophone Canadians is well documented, and these disparate parts have been infamously dubbed the “two solitudes.” However, there is another, often ignored solitude - the Indigenous population ... -
Unsustainable and Uncontrolled: Framing Immigration During the Brexit Campaign
The British vote to leave the European Union in 2016 came as a major surprise to politicians and scholars. Pre-referendum scholarship indicated that while British voters had concerns about cultural issues, such as identity ... -
Islamist Radicalization in France Since the Algerian War
Despite France's history as a victim of violent extremism, France is the largest source of Western fighters to the conflicts in Iraq and Syria, which signals the presence of a disproportionately large radicalized population ... -
21st Century European Populism: Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion
What factors determine if a populist movement will bend ideologically left or right? Specifically looking at Europe, I investigate why populism takes left-leaning ideological manifestations in Southern Europe (Spain and ... -
The Paradoxes of Peruvian Infrastructure: NGO Governance, Rural Energy Transitions, and Public-Private Partnerships
What are the policies and procedures that have led to successful NGO delivery of solar energy in Peru, from both the perspective of the institution, as well as the rural campesinos it serves? And how can the Peruvian ... -
Let My People Stay: Irregular Migrants' Struggle for Rights and Recognition
In January 2014, a mass protest of 40,000 African migrants, demanding rights, recognition and a fair asylum process took place in Tel-Aviv. Their demonstration was unprecedented in its nature and magnitude offering a unique ... -
Between the Ground and the Air: Refugee Residences and Integration in Berlin, Germany
Integration is of critical importance to refugees displaced from their home countries and to host countries with large influxes of refugees. This actuality is especially evident in Germany, where the government introduced ... -
Plagiarism in Chinese Popular Fiction: Tolerated Copyright Infringement in a Money-making Industry
This thesis is built upon a research project aimed at providing interesting insights into plagiarism in the field of popular Chinese fiction, which has been a controversial issue on the Internet in China for the past decade. ... -
Projecting South Korea’s Future as a Middle Power in the Arctic
Because of thinning of Arctic sea ice and economic opportunities such as access to natural resources and new shipping routes caused by climate change, the Arctic has become an area of interest not only of the Arctic states ... -
"That Stinks": News Framing of a Corruption Scandal
Whereas political scandals expose the corrupt nature of a society’s public affairs, media play a central role in publicizing a scandal and influencing public opinion. The summer 2015 garbage management scandal in Lebanon ... -
"Scotland's Future in Scotland's Hands": Identity, Memory, and Grievance in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum was a benchmark moment in the history of Scottish nationalism, resulting directly from the Scottish National Party’s landslide victory in the 2011 Scottish parliamentary elections ...
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