School of Public and International Affairs

The bargaining model of war assumes that two states compete over an issue. In the model, each side is assumed to be willing to pay a certain fixed price to obtain the iss[...]

This piece engages in qualitative research in order to better understand the relationship between far right politics, gender and the media. Print media in Norway and Denm[...]

This paper is a case study on the grand strategy adopted by major actors during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and the deeper motivations for their choice of strategy. It g[...]

The challenge of integrating Muslim immigrants in Western societies has become salient, as evidenced by burkha bans in France and Belgium, cartoon protests in Denmark, an[...]

The debate over the importance of cyber has resulted in the consideration of a new domain of operation vital to national security. States find themselves in an increasing[...]

The students impacted by exclusionary discipline policiese.g., suspension, expulsion, and placement at alternative schoolscomprise a consistently large population among S[...]

This paper explores how external actors promote democratization in contentious environments by examining the US response to the Arab Spring in Tunisia between 2011 and 20[...]

This research examines the overall effectiveness of both domestic and international social movements that form in reaction to a host nations success in acquiring a mega-e[...]

This dissertation is simultaneously an exercise in theory testing and theory generation. Firstly, it is an empirical test of the means-oriented netwar theory, which asse[...]

Intelligence support is crucial to the development of good foreign policy. Considerable research within the field of intelligence studies focuses on intelligence process[...]

Why do courts appear to be independent in some legal areas and not others? How should scholars assess judicial independence for courts of special jurisdiction, including [...]

In 1973, the United States engaged its intelligence and economic resources in the overthrow of the democratically-elected, socialist government of Chile. A manifestation[...]

What explains cross-national differences in rights-allocations of highly-skilled immigration (HSI) policies among Western industrialized countries? This study is motivate[...]

This thesis investigates the perceived second-class citizenship among East Germans after German reunification in 1990 in scrutinizing the relationship between societal ex[...]

This dissertation focuses on the everyday discourses on the welfare state in Germany, Sweden and the USA to explore the link between welfare regimes and national politica[...]

This study focuses on multinational corporations (MNCs) and their role in chemical nonproliferation. It seeks to understand the influence of MNCs on government commitment[...]

This dissertation addresses the electoral consequences of social democratic parties' shifts to the political center in left/right positioning. Although the move to the ce[...]

This thesis investigates the relationship between transnational interest groups, The United Kingdom (UK) and The European Union (EU) on the issue area of climate change. [...]

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and the advancing globalization multilateral export control regimes face increasingly complex challenges an[...]

Why are some multi-ethnic communities able to achieve mutually beneficial collective action while others remain trapped in social dilemmas? Across a wide variety of setti[...]

Why has Botswana, arguably the best run country on the continent of Africa, with a stable, transparent, and legitimate government as well as a capable public health care [...]

In recent years, fiscal decentralization has been advocated worldwide. The common motive is that fiscal decentralization is considered to have the potential to improve [...]

This project examines United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, which in part seeks to correct the near-universal absence of women fro[...]

This study examines how the external pressures of globalization and internationalization have impacted the economic policy-making autonomy (or economic sovereignty) of ei[...]

International relations theorists have long sought to better understand geopolitical alliances and the factors that influence their creation and development. Previous lit[...]