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Progressive Arab nationalism was built upon a concept of emancipation. Emancipating states from imperialism, peasants from feudalism and creating truly independent and sovereign states. From 1952 to 1958, Arab nationalists aimed to free...
This thesis reviews China's state policies, reforms, and public investment patterns—over the last fifty years—as a major cause of regional disparities in growth rates and income distribution. During the pre-reform period—under the...
This paper investigates the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and the implications of the commitments of the agreement upon Indian agricultural trade. It begins with a discussion of the histories of the two most powerful developed...
This thesis looks at how civil society organizations (CSOs) are working to address the issue of violence against women in Uganda. Specifically, it examines what types of organizations are working to address this issue, where their...
On March 11, 2004 thirteen terrorists attacked the Madrid commuter rail system, killing 191 people and wounding 1, 741 just three days before Spanish elections. The ruling Popular Party led by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar...
Globalization has been associated with the hegemony of traditional Western economic powers. However, the twenty-first century announced the emergence of new economic powers. The financial crisis crippling the West has not been as...
This thesis is a comprehensive study of the negotiations on the Palestinian refugees in the Middle East peace process from 1948 to the present. The Palestinian refugees are an integral part of the Middle East peace process and, according...
Resolving ethnic conflicts is no easy task. In the 1990s, civil wars engulfed Somalia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Cambodia, Yugoslavia...the list goes on. In the Balkans, the disintegration of Josip Tito's pan-Slavic dream destabilized the...
Only a fraction of armed forces in Vietnam made the "other war" â the war for hearts and minds â their primary struggle. These were the U.S. Marines comprising the Combined Action Platoons, who lived and worked in individual hamlets, ...
This qualitative study, which examines media representation issues of China’s Zhuang people and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, is based on a content analysis of the People’s Daily, the official media organ of the Chinese Communist...
The end of the Cold War forced the United States to formulate a new foreign policy that was no longer defined by the ideological struggle that dominated the latter half of the twentieth century. Although post-Cold War foreign policy...
The Iraqi Refugee Crisis began in 2006 as a result of the instability and violence that prevailed in Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion and occupation. Instead of being directed to camps, Iraqis flowed across international borders...
Was aviation a true Soviet success story or did it remain dependent on imported technology in order to advance? Aircraft and aviators were frequently occurring images in Soviet culture. What purpose did this significant social role serve...
The Russian Civil War is an incredibly complex topic that is frequently oversimplified to a Red vs White framework, where the Bolshevik forces face a perceived monolithic ‘White’ opposition. While this conceptualization can be useful, ...
The human right to water entitles everyone to basic water and sanitation, but over 2.6 billion people lack access to these essential services. Private sector participation has emerged as a potential model for improving these conditions, ...
Scholars of economic interdependence argue that economic trade will diminish the longstanding disputes and rivalry, if any, leading nations to closer cooperation. However, this argument has failed to exhibit any validity in the case of...
Serbia occupies a central position in Southeast Europe in a geographical as well as political sense and events and developments within its borders throughout the last century have had a major effect on neighboring nations. Numerous...
Iran's foreign policy in Central Asia and the South Caucasus since 1991 serves to show Tehran's foreign policy shift from revolutionary Islam to realpolitik. The Islamic Republic's failure to export the Islamic Revolution as well as...
While the use of private contractors in United States military operations is not a new phenomenon, the expansive use of private security providers in Iraq is unprecedented in modern warfare. Over the course of the U.S.-led occupation of...
The invention of the steamship had a widespread effect on both the world of trade and military conflict. However, current scholarship does not give sufficient credit to how important this piece of technology was. While not the sole cause...
This study examines the United States anti-communist psychological campaign in France during the Fourth Republic. Students of the Cold War have often neglected this American "psywar" as playing a defining role in the Franco-American...
Nationalism has been a driving force in both nation building and in spurring high levels of violence. As nations have become the norm in modern day society, nationalism has become detrimental to international law, which protects the...
The Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Things were fine for a time, but in recent years tensions have begun to emerge between these two nations. Policy makers in both Washington and Moscow seem to be...
Saudi Arabia has long been held as one of the largest oil producers in the world with a vast amount of wealth. The country's meteoric rise to their current status can be attributed to the development of its oil fields by an American...
A number of suggestions about the source and nature of Euroskepticism have been put forward over the last few decades, but none of these broad definitions truly capture the phenomenon in all of the European Union's member states. In the...
Throughout the course of the First World War and the Civil War that devastated the country after, Russia's military logistical network continually failed to provide the supplies necessary for its forces to win the colossal conflict which...
North Korean foreign policy decision process has complexity and differences from that of democratic states. Pyongyang has multiple motivations related to developing nuclear weapons, which are derived by both international and domestic...
Given its geographical position as a bridge between Europe and Asia, the North Caucasus plays an important role in buffering Russia from outside threats. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and the stabilization of the region, Russian...
The purpose of this research is to explore ways in which excess foreign exchange reserves can be effectively used in the Indian foreign exchange scenario. The research is based on the voluminous literature available on foreign exchange...
Out of the roughly 13 departments mentioned in the final report of Peru's Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (Truth and Reconciliation Commission), the department of Ayacucho sustained the most damage and the largest internal...
The driving forces in the international oil industry have changed over time. The "threat for new entrants" was the determinant force until the 1960s, during the period when the majors dominated the industry through cartels. It was...
The case of Dražen Erdemoviæ before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is among the most important in modern international legal history. It represents the first time an accused has pled guilty to committing...
This thesis discusses an area of key interest in modern-day Iraq â the Kurdish military, or peshmerga. Translated as "those who face death", the peshmerga have become a staple of Kurdish culture in the last 100 years. Officially...
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