- FALL 2017
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Fall 2017 Issue (full)
- SPRING 2017
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Spring 2017 Issue (full)
The Water Crisis in Syria and Iraq, by Leonardo Dinic
US-Mexico Border Policy in the Age of Terrorism, by Ionut Gitan
The Re-Commodification of US Higher Education, by Alexander Montero
Oil Revenues and Rentier States, by Dena Motevalian
Citizenship Rights in West Africa, by Laura Powers
The Haitian Anomaly, by Timothy Robustelli
MDGs and SDGs, by Brittany Stubbs
The Failure of Political Reform in Egypt, by Danielle Warren
Individual Attitudes Toward Free Trade, by Alina Zheng
- FALL 2016
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Exploring an Unconventional Approach to Denuclearization: Applying Lessons from the Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Cooperation to Curtail the Nuclear Arms Race in South Asia
Jirawat ChotipatoomwanEconomic Diversification in Saudi Arabia: The Challenges of a Rentier State
Doreen Horschig“Reform or Die:” Doi Moi, TPP, and the Legitimacy of Power in Vietnam
Andrew KeoughMill on Paternalism
Eunseong OhThe Making of Modern Human Rights
Brittany Stubbs - SPRING 2016
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Modern US National Security: Enduring Long-Term Core Objectives and Changing Short-term interests
Doreen HorschigThe Development of Indian National Identity: What Was the Impact of the British Raj?
Zainab ZaheerHuman Rights: An Overlapping Consensus among Realism, Liberalism, and Marxism?
Brittany StubbsRegime Type and Civil War Susceptibility
Mark Sizwebanzi MngomezuluBetween Balance and Bandwagon: Why the United States and Japan Are Best Friends?
Kazumichi UchidaThe Judicialization of Politics and the Independence of Constitutional Court: The Case of South Korea
Eunseong OhWar on Terror: An Actual War or a Social Construct by the Bush Administration
Sinan ZhangBorn to Be Different: The national identity and the other in the Russian Political Elite Discourse
Anastasiia Vlasenko - FALL 2015
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Citizenship in Colonial Africa: An Overview of British and French Repertoires
Mark Sizwebanzi MngomezuluA New Colonialism for Africa?: Towards An Understanding of China-Africa Relations
Karim DewidarConflict Escalation, Signaling and Screening: Compatibility or Competition?
Kazumichi UchidaBordered Citizenship: Why Distributive Justice Requires Republic Citizenship
JiMin KimIssues of Legality and Legitimacy: The Responsibility to Protect and NATO’s intervention in Libya
Lesley Connolly - SPRING 2015
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Sexual Citizenship and EU Conditionality
Séhzad M. SooklallDoes Official Development Assistance Contribute to Long- Term Growth and Stability in Afghanistan?
David EsmatiFrom Operation Serval to Barkhane: Understanding France’s Increased Involvement in Africa in the Context of Françafrique and Post- colonialism
Carmen Cuesta RocaChina’s Economic Espionage: Stealing, not Destroying
Reema HibrawiThe Anti-Communist Myth: A critical examination of aggregate U.S. foreign policy analysis of the Cold War
Dylan HeydenAn Appraisal of the Joint Development Approach to the South China Sea Dispute: Prospects and Challenges
Guan Hui LeeIs Sustained Economic Growth in Russia’s Future?
Joel AlexanderIraq: State Or National Collapse?
Paul MutterPower to the Babushkas? Reconsidering the Relationship between Russian Politics and the Elderly
Ilaria ParogniEmpowering Women or Hollow Words? Gender References in Peace Agreements
Lori PerkovichA New Cold War in the Arctic?
Roma ParhadFaculty Spotlight: A Conversation with Professor Michael Williams
Jordan Clifford - FALL 2014
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MADELEINE WYKSTRA
The Faces of D-Company: An Analysis of the Terror-Crime Nexus
ELIZABETH BENNETTAcquiescence and Consent in Democratic Theory
ANDREW TRIPODOScottish Independence: The Thistle in Europe’s Side
ELIA FRANCESCO NIGRIS AND JAMES LEESIs Liberal Hypocrisy Causing Politic DISENGAGEMENT?
JAMES LEESNauru: An Experiment
HANNAH THOMAS - SPRING 2014
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Research Papers:
In Search of New State Capitalism: Reflections on SOE Management in China, Brazil and Turkey
Mustafa Ozgur BozcagaA Critique of John Locke’s Conception of Property
Ramiro S. FúnezForecasting Egypt’s Future Policies and Politics
Jonathan GradyA Critique of Confucian Legitimacy
Sihang LuoThe Question of Status in Puerto Rico Revisited: Rational-Choice, Spatial Analysis, and Heresthetics
Rashid C.J. Marcano-RiveraPower Shifts in the City of Milan: An Analysis Using Selectorate Theory
Elia Francesco NigrisThe Italian 2013 General Elections: Using the Sequential Negotiation Model to Understand the Outcomes
Elia Francesco NigrisApportionment and Sequential Allocation: Toward a Fair Division Method for the Spratly Islands Dispute
Daniel SmithBook Reviews:
Civilizations in International Affairs: An Examination of Samuel P. Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations
Zhewen Jiang - SPRING 2013
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The Battle for the Secession: Catalonia versus Spain Joan Barceló-Soler
Aid-For-Policy Deals: The Logic of U.S. Military Aid to Colombia Kyle Barron
How the International Criminal Court Exceeds Expectations Lauren Bishop
Institutional Failure in Kenya and a Way Forward Mongoljingoo (Mona) Damdinjav, Isabel Garcia, Emily Lawson, David Margolis, and Ben Nemeth
Stable System, Changing Climate: Capitalism and the Warming of the Arctic Cecilia Gingerich
Regime Type and Economic Performance in West Africa, 1972-2010 Adam Krupinski
Holding Leaders Accountable for Human Rights Abuses in Chile, Argentina, and the United States Joshua Pringle
China’s Democratic Future Ryan Rappa
Financial Deglobalization: Resurgence of Nation States During and After the Great Recession Nils Röper
- FALL 2012
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Fed’s Quantitative Easing the Right Call Adam Krupinski
From Recklessness to Leadership Serhan Ayhan
China a Bully? Depends on Who’s Judging Susy Tekunan
The Virtues of Leaks James Gold
Whether You Like It or Not: Building U.S. Stability Operations Capability Jacob Cedusky
The Army We Need: A Case for Matching Structure to Mission in the 21st Century Ryan Scadlock
- SPRING 2012
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Labor Market Insecurities and the Rise of Far Right Parties Kasia Borussalian
The Costs of Excessive US Commitments Abroad: What Makes a Superpower? Garni Gharekhanian
Review of Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour Sheeva Ghassemian
Selectorate Theory: Solving Italy’s Instability Sebastiano Lustig
A Convenient Excuse: Apartheid South Africa and the “Soviet Menace” during the Cold War Michael S. Lerner
The Future of the Mercosur-EU Free Trade Agreement Jamie Hancock
Review of Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan by Pepper D. Culpepper Michael Luke
Consociational Politics: The Influence of Hezbollah on the Stability of Sectarianism in Lebanon Christine Martin
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Counterterrorism Strategies in Yemen. Awo Abdi Osman
Pakistan: Implications of Insecurity and Policy Prescriptions Michael D. Rettig
On the Need of a Harmonized and Progressive Refugee Policy in the European Union Nina Verdelli
Putin’s Russia as a Model for Erdogan’s Turkey Afife Yasemin Yilmaz
- SPRING 2011
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Gender Diversity and Environmental Performance: A Quantitative Assessment Miriam B. Ott
The goal of this paper is to quantitatively assess the empirical validity of the claim that gender diversity is an important determinant of environmental performance. My research question is: Does a causal link exist between increased participation of women in environmental politics and a country’s environmental performance? If the answer is yes, how strong is the effect? To answer this question, I will estimate five Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression models testing the validity, robustness, and causality of the hypothesized positive relationship between women’s participation in environmental politics and a country’s environmental performance.Roots of the Headscarf Debate: Laicism and Secularism in France and Turkey Gulce Tarhan
This paper will try to answer two questions: 1. How can we explain the emergence of laicité as a unique state policy towards religion in France and Turkey? 2. Why and how laicité/laiklik, which has origins as an inclusive and cohesive principle, caused such great social polarization within these societies? To start, the paper explains the historical conditions that led to this principle. The existence of an ancient regime based on an alliance of monarchical and religious authority was the main reason for the emergence of exclusionary religious policies. Additionally, the principle of laicité/laiklik was/is strongly linked with national identity. The second part of this paper unravels the current debates over headscarves. Contrary to the claims of Republicans, this principle caused polarization within society by creating a separation between public and private spheres and by excluding ethno-religious differences from the former.Contemporary Financialization: A Marxian Analysis Gilad Isaacs
Over the past forty years, there has been a resurgence of global financial capital. Finance, always having played an important role in the circulation of capital and reproduction of capitalism, has taken on distinctive and more expansive roles. Financial profit, and new ways of harnessing it through an array of more and more exotic financial assets, has become central to both financial and non-financial corporations. Intricately connected with this has been the financialization of the household through household and consumer debt and the related growth in asset bubbles. This system, as vividly demonstrated in the 2008 global financial crisis, has become increasingly unstable. This paper unpacks various facets of contemporary financialization using Marxian political economy to ground the phenomenon in a theoretical framework and real historical movements.Overcoming Colonial Vestiges in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana Kasia Broussalian
Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana are examples of nations still dealing with the aftermath of over a hundred years under colonial rule. In Cote d’Ivoire, the French created a centralized bureaucratic administration focused on suppressing an African identity and replacing it with their own. The British, in seeking a self-sufficient colony, took a more hands-off approach in Ghana, setting up an administration adaptable to local institutions already in place. These two Sub-Saharan nations started in similar colonial contexts, but the French, through their assimilation policies, failed to install a foundation of effective institutions and concrete national identity that resonated with the people and the existing government. On the other hand, the UK’s policy of self-help and indirect rule reinforced traditional institutions, hierarchies and identity, which not only made independence desirable for the people, but also facilitated its easy transition. The British system, even if unintentional, fostered nation building, a component crucial to development.Baldwin on History Joe Beaglehole
James Baldwin’s powerful essays on life as a black citizen are not traditional fodder for political theorists. By abstracting far-reaching lessons about the role that history plays in politics from these works, I show them to be an immense resource for inquiry into social life. While Baldwin is most well known for his analysis of racial and sexual politics and identity, his work also provides an important model for thinking about politics historically; that is to say, for considering and valuing the historical legacy of political and social institutions and exploring what it means to come to terms with these legacies in the present. Baldwin helps us to recognize the dead hand of the past in the minds and language of the living, and in doing so reveals the significance of history to any theory of politics. He is one of the great theorists of the idea that “acceptance” is required to break with the past and make possible a politics of social change. Only by acknowledging history can we escape its grasp.How Effective is Disarmament, Demobilization and Rehabilitation Research on the Cases of Burundi and Sierra Leone? Simone Peloquin
There are many organizations and program dedicated to restructuring and rehabilitating post-conflict states, yet not much is known about the effectiveness of one relatively new type of program – Disarmament, Demobilization and Rehabilitation (DDR). Through a DDR program, former rebel combatants are reintegrated into civil society. There has been some experimental evidence on the effectiveness of DDR, drawn from programs in Burundi and Sierra Leone. Both of these case studies however, show inconclusive results. Further study into the effectiveness of DDR programs is needed in order to improve the tactics used to rehabilitate societies and further protect the people within them from the economic and psychological damages of civil war.The Great Transformation of the Poulantzasian Modern Capitalist State Under Globalization Clement Salomon
The Poulantzasian Western capitalist state has reconfigured its national, territorial structure upward towards supranational bodies such the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank or the EU, and downward towards a sub-national network of global cities. In both cases, the state has delegated to the latter its economical, political and ideological functions to reproduce the process of capital accumulation and labor production on a global scale. At the supranational level, Western modern capitalist states have mainly utilized international bodies to assert their political domination and economical exploitation of Third World states to benefit the TCC. At the sub-national level, they have favored the formation and growth of global cities within their territory to maintain their competitiveness with each other and establish key central locations from which to direct the flows of transnational capital on a global scale.Nuclear Normalization: Rapprochement with a Nuclear Iran Kayvon Afshari
On an almost daily basis, American pundits and government officials warn of the consequences of a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of Iran and outline what the United States must do about it. Some argue for preventive action to fend off apocalypse, as President George W. Bush famously warned of a “Middle East under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.” Others temper this dystopia with reassurances that Iran, even with nuclear weapons, can be effectively contained and deterred from first strike. Neither scenario addresses the broader implications on US-Iran relations. In fact, Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons capability would have a stabilizing effect on US-Iran relations. The two states would move toward rapprochement because the benefits of normalization and the costs of non-normalization will become greater and more obvious to both sides.Defining the Rogue State – A Definitional Comparative Analysis Within the Rationalist, Culturalist, and Structural Traditions Jason Rose
This paper demonstrates that norms are a weak and muddled approach that nearly all scholarly literature employs to define the behavior of rogue states. This confounds rather than clarifies rogue state membership. Instead, this paper insists that future scholarship acknowledge interests and not norms as the definitional foundation of classifying rogue states. Corroborating evidence to support this clarified definition is provided through the scrutiny of the three comparative analytical traditions.
- SPRING 2010
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Latin America’s Democratic Alternative: Can Populism Sustain and Consolidate Democracy? Maggie Shum
Corruption and Organized Crime: Does Governance Impede Symbiosis Alejandra Lopez Martinez
Deterrence Against a Nuclear Iran Jason Rose
Costa Rica: Costs of Foreign Direct Investment Led Development Joseph Tutt
A Disastrous Misperception of the Kenyan IDP Crisis: A Game Theoretic Analysis Adeline Lo
The Political Psychology of Alexis de Tocqueville: An Appraisal of His Account of the French Revolution Javier Calderon
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Molly O’Toole
- SPRING 2009
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Three Paradigms of North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions Yewon Ji
Misappropriation Of Aid: Why is Aid Not Reaching the Internally Displaced People in Northern Uganda? Lindsey Leonard
Democracy as the Conceptual Battlefield of East-West Encounters: A destruction of the ‘Incompatibility Claim’ and Islamist Discourse of Democracy Sarah Rendtorff-Smith
A Tale of Two Parties: Social Islamism in Modern Turkey and the Palestinian Territories Daniel Urbankowski
Book Reviews: The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War (Conor Foley); Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War Joel Wilson
- SPRING 2008
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JPI 2007-2008 Editorial Board
Editor’s NoteConsolidation of Democracy-Albania Najada Tafili
Pakistan-A Strange and Vital Bedfellow Adam Stern
Balancing Power? An Empirical Text of Realist Theories of Alignments Andrey Tomashevskiy
Review-Comparing Terror and Liberalism to Faith and Reason by Paul Berman & George Wiegel Patrick Frost
Review-The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mersheimer & Stephen M. Walt Basel Hamdan
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