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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

After defining military business and briefly discussing its significance, this paper will evaluate the success of three hypotheses in the positive cases of the People's Liberation Army in China, the Iranian Revolutionary ...