A river knows no boundaries. The world’s rivers and water basins do not fall in line with states’ borders and often border multiple states. There are approximately 261 international river basins covering 46% of the Earth’s ...
This paper is written in correlation with a project that aims to provide a distinctly new perspective to current trends in terrorism research by allowing for a new and more nuanced study of statements made by al-Qaeda. ...
This thesis examines the circumstances and motivations underlying the decisions to intervene in Lebanon in 1958 and 1982 and two other case studies (1975‐6 and 2006) where the U.S. could have intervened in Lebanon but chose ...
In this thesis, I seek to explain why some authoritarian states choose to pursue nuclear weapons development while others do not. In particular, I probe one potential explanation for nuclear proliferation that has been ...
In 2003, the Taliban in Afghanistan were largely crushed; their attacks were down severely, they lost more than 90% of the land that they held in the 1990s, including all major towns and cities. It appeared the Taliban had ...
The purpose of this thesis was to identify a viable explanation for the presence or absence of cooperation within a counterinsurgency partnership between a host nation and a foreign power. Before the completion of this ...
Violence, specifically ethnic violence is not a new phenomenon, but has recently gained the attention over the past few decades of academia. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting ethnic conflicts furthered ...
Why do China and Russia adopt different institutional arrangements for the use of cyber proxies, defined as a "non-state actor that conducts cyber operations to achieve political objectives on behalf of the patron state". ...
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is often presented as a uniform and homogeneous terrorist organization. But in reality there are important differences in the way ISIS’ provinces (wilaya) operate. This research ...
Given the ideological differences between the traditional Maghrebi Islamists and Bin Laden's radical anti-American vision, this situation is a puzzle. Why do revolutionary Islamist groups in the Maghreb join al-Qaeda's ...
The literature on European Union foreign policy decision-making is fairly new and incomplete. This thesis seeks to fulfill a gap in the literature, which ignores the role of external great powers in EU foreign policy ...
My research explores why state strategy has changed in the Arctic Circle in light of the geopolitical calculus being altered by climate change. In this region, rising global temperatures have caused the ice to recede at ...
In principle, ‘international relations' is the study of the foreign policy behavior, commitments, interactions, and power dynamics of all states in the existing international order. In practice, however, this subject has ...
Since their inception in 2009, cryptocurrencies have been used to carry out unlawful activities around the world. More recently however, various terrorist organizations have begun to become practitioners of this technology, ...
The puzzle in my thesis stems from why in certain situations states have opted to using international courts as the response to an espionage incident in peacetime. International courts do not deliver results quickly, they ...
Why does Iran sponsor armed non-state proxies? Since its declaration as an Islamic Republic in 1979, Iran has proven one of the most puzzling actors in the international system. Its foreign policy objectives have oscillated ...