Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Thesis: Mobilizing Discomfort for Water Security as a Human Right: A Newspaper Analysis of Social Conflict in South Africa, Madison Gonzalez
Dissertation: Reinterpreted Europe: An Assessment of EU (In) Ability to Deal with Threats to the Rule of Law, Huso Hasanovic
Dissertation: Connectivism: Adopting Quantum Holism in International Relations, Grant Randal Highland
Dissertation: State Antifragility: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Understanding State Behavior, Rebecca Lee Law
Thesis: Institutional Stretching: How Moroccan NGOs Illuminate the Nexus of Climate, Migration, Gender and Development, Shelby Mertens
Dissertation: The Second-Order Impact of Relative Power on Outcomes of Crisis Bargaining: A Theory of Expected Disutility and Resolve, Tatevik Movsisyan
Thesis: Language and Cultural Identity in Post-Soviet Frozen Conflicts, Irina Paquette
Dissertation: Smart Power in the Iraq Surge 2007-2008, Russell N. Reiling
Dissertation: Re-Spatializing Gangs in the United States: An Analysis of Macro- and Micro-Level Network Structures, Ryan J. Roberts
Dissertation: Norm Contestation and Its Effects on Emergence of a New Norm, Khadijeh Salimi
Dissertation: Cybersecurity Legislation and Ransomware Attacks in the United States, 2015-2019, Joseph Skertic
Dissertation: Environmentally Related Urbanization and Violence Potential, Christina Bagaglio Slentz
Dissertation: The Politics of Medicine: Power, Actors, and Ideas in the Making of Health, Claire Wulf Winiarek
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Thesis: Shifting Sources of Humanitarian Aid: The Importance of Network Resiliency and Donor Diversification, Mackenzie Marie Clark
Dissertation: Wicked Ideas for Wicked Problems: Marine Debris and the Complexity of Governance, Dawn Helene Driesbach
Thesis: A Comparative Approach to Racial Stereotyping in South Africa and the United States and How It Has Obliterated the Black Image, Maylat Tedla Eyob
Dissertation: Faits Accomplis in the Shadow of Shifting Power, Joshua Adam Hastey
Thesis: Stratified Security Communities: Transatlantic Distrust and Identity Divergence, Afra Maike Herr
Dissertation: The Path to Victory: A Comparative Analysis of Mena Region Countries, Negar Moayed
Dissertation: A Rivalry of Necessity: An Analysis of Mechanisms of Contention Between The Islamic Republic of Iran and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Aras Syahmanssuri
Thesis: The Study of Motivation for Defection Within the Intelligence Community: Hindering the Government's Ability to Prevent and Detect Defection, William Virgili
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Thesis: Hyperborean Habits and Melting Ice: The Normalization of Arctic Space and Resurgent National Identity, Ian Birdwell
Thesis: From Compassion to Resistance: Lesbos Refugee Crisis, Luz Diaz
Thesis: The G5 Sahel: An Insufficient Organization for a Failed Region?, Beder Dine El Khou
Dissertation: The Messy Nuclear Landscape: Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping to Explore Plausible Nuclear Disarmament Scenarios, Ryan M. Nixon
Dissertation: The Trojan Horse in Your Head: Cognitive Threats and How to Counter Them, Lora Pitman
Dissertation: At the Hands of Fate: The Political Economy of Islamic Insurance in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan, C. 1980 to the Present, Muhammad S. Rahman
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dissertation: Measuring Vulnerability Interdependence: To What Extent Do Chinese Investments in Africa Make China Vulnerable?, Nurullah Ayyilmaz
Dissertation: When the Wind Blows: An Evaluation of Key Factors that Enabled the Proliferation of Wind Energy Generation in the United States Through 2016, Mary Sodini Bell
Thesis: Fem Media Matters: An Inqueery Into Campus Sexual Assault, Andrew Kennedy Garber
Thesis: Contemporary Russia in America's World: Russian Narratives on Post-Soviet Space, Marianna Portniagina
Dissertation: Throw Me a Lifeline: A Comparison of Port Cities with Antithetical Adaptation Strategies to Sea-Level Rise, Claudia Marie Risner
Dissertation: Beyond Carrots and Sticks: An Analysis of U.S. Approaches to Counterterrorism From 2000-2016, Margaret M. Seymour
Thesis: The “Trump Effect?” Challenges to the United States Hegemony in Higher Education Cross-Cultural Exchange: A Case Study of International Students at Old Dominion University, Raven Alexandra Showalter
Thesis: The Effect of Illicit Drugs Securitization in Indonesia, Yanu Widiyono
Thesis: The Kosovo Moment: The United States and the Post-Cold War Balkans, Visar Xhambazi
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Dissertation: Diffusion of Renewable Energy Policies, Khatera Alizada
Dissertation: New Regionalism in Global Order: Regional Trade Integration and Its Links with Financial Sector, Tulu Balkir
Dissertation: Jointness, Culture, and Inter-Service Prejudice: Assessing the Impact of Resident, Satellite, and Hybrid Joint Professional Military Education II Course Delivery Methods on Military Officer Attitudes, Charles Mark Davis
Dissertation: Endpoints After Empire: Explaining Varying Levels of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe, William John Eger Jr.
Dissertation: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to the Maritime Security Risk of Piracy and Lessons Learned From Agent-Based Modeling, Joanne Marie Fish
Dissertation: The Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in Democratizing Muslim Countries: The Securitization of Kurds in Turkey Versus the Autonomization of Acehnese in Indonesia, Maurizio Geri
Dissertation: A Dirty Dilemma: Determinants of Electronic Waste Importation, Jamila N. Glover
Dissertation: Empty Chair at the Table: Bargaining, Costs and Litigation at the World Trade Organization, Felicia Anneita Grey
Dissertation: Acquiring the Tools of Grand Strategy: The US Navy's LCS as a Case Study, Sean P. Murphy
Dissertation: The Little Lady that Could: Small Latvia Rejoins the Euro-Atlantic Community, Sandis Sraders
Dissertation: The Memorialization of Historical Memories in East Asia, Bo Ram Yi
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Thesis: The Effects of Using Natural Gas in Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet of the United States on Its Energy Dependency and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Nurullah Ayyilmaz
Dissertation: Assessing the Role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Extraterritorial Activities in Attaining Iran’s Foreign Policy Goals, Hamza Demirel
Dissertation: Culture and Military Effectiveness: How Societal Traits Influence Battle Outcomes, Eric Stephen Fowler
Dissertation: The Franchising Effect on the Al-Qaeda Enterprise and Related Transnational Terror Groups: Patterns of Evolution of Al-Qaeda Affiliates in the 21st Century, Nicholas Benjamin Law
Thesis: Under the Surface of Sex Trafficking: Socio-Economic and Cultural Perpetrators of Gender-Based Violence in India, Karmen Marie Matusek
Dissertation: Visegrad Revival: Where Less is More, in the Prospect of Smaller Numbers, Aaron G. Sander
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: Armed Humanitarian Intervention: The Role of Powerful Leaders in Framing and the National Security Decision Making Process, John Marshall Callahan
Dissertation: U.S. Military Aid and the Role of Foreign Armies in Civil Politics, Jennifer Jones Cunningham
Dissertation: Removing the Rust: Comparative Post-Industrial Revitalization in Buffalo, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, Scott Nicholas Duryea
Dissertation: 'Home was Congo': Refugees and Durable Displacement in the Borderlands of 1,000 Hills, Erika Frydenlund
Dissertation: Energy as a Factor for Turkish - Russian Rapprochement, Saltuk Bugra Karahan
Dissertation: Poverty Within Nation-States: The impact of Corruption, Trade, Income Inequality, Population Growth, Foreign Aid, and Military Expenditure, Mustafa Karapinar
Dissertation: Path Dependence in Intrastate Conflicts: Resources, Regimes, and Interventions, Ivan Medynskyi
Dissertation: Dwelling in Time, Dwelling in Structures: Disintegration in World Politics, Jan Adam Nalaskowski
Dissertation: Wildlife Crime and Other Challenges to Resource System Resilience, Patricia Anne Raxter
Dissertation: In Search of Autonomy: Nepal as a Wedge State Between India and China, Sagar Rijal
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Dissertation: Weak Links in a Dangerously Fractured Region: Fragile State as Global Threats, Tasawar ul-Rahim Baig
Dissertation: The Internet vs. the Nation-State: Prevention and Prosecution Challenges on the Internet in Republic of TürkiyI, Ersin Elibol
Dissertation: Ritualized Rhetoric and Historical Memory in German Foreign and Security Policy, Sara A. Hoff
Dissertation: What Constitutes the Success or Failure of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in Foreign Markets? A Case Study of Chinese and American MNCs, Shiwei Jiang
Dissertation: Tempering the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Explanatory Analysis of the Variance of the Resource Curse in Nigeria and Botswana, Jody-Ann Suzette Jones
Dissertation: Neglecting the 'Right on Which All Other Rights Depend': Press Freedom in the International Human Rights Discourse, Wiebke Lamer
Dissertation: State-Centric or State-in-Society: National Identity and Collective Memory in the Linkage Politics of Chinese Foreign Relations, Ning Liao
Dissertation: Explaining Nuclear Energy Pursuance: A Comparison of the United States, Germany, and Japan, Lauren Emily McKee
Dissertation: Great Powers, the Persian Gulf, and Global Oil: A Comparative Analysis, Katerina Oskarsson
Dissertation: Democratic Counterinsurgents: How Democracies Can Prevail in Irregular Warfare, William Roland Patterson
Dissertation: Nuclear Security Complexes: An Alternative Approach to Nuclear Nonproliferation, Beyza Unal
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Dissertation: Illiterate Women's Political Participation: A Case Study of Morocco's Soulaliyates, Melodee M. Baines
Dissertation: The 2002 National Security Strategy: The Foundation of a Doctrine of Preemption, Prevention, or Anticipatory Action, Troy Lorenzo Ewing
Dissertation: Promoting Gender and Building Peace: Evolving Norms and International Practices, Renata Avelar Giannini
Dissertation: Nonproliferation and the Domestic Politics Theory of Compliance, Kimberly Van Dyke Gilligan
Dissertation: The Transformation of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party): Exploring Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics, Akin Guneri
Dissertation: The Complexity of Armed Conflict in Mindanao: Beyond Economic Deprivation, Discrimination, and Inequality, Nasser Pendatun Lidasan
Dissertation: Soft Power Strategies in US Foreign Policy: Assessing the Impact of Citizen Diplomacy on Foreign States' Behavior, Stephen Macharia Magu
Dissertation: The Right to Bear Space Arms: U.S. Resistance to Arms Control in Space, Alessandro Shimabukuro
Dissertation: Piracy, Slavery, and the Limits of International Law: The Gap Between the Rhetoric and Reality of Jus Cogens, Stephanie Elizabeth Smith
Dissertation: Taking Centerstage: The Impact of Bollywood's Rise on India's Soft Power, Roopa Swaminathan
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dissertation: International Competition for Satellite-Based Navigation System Services, Robert F. Donnelly
Dissertation: Do international Corruption Metrics Matter? Assessing the Impact of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, Omar Elemere Hawthorne
Dissertation: All Is Fair in War---Violent Conflict and the Securitization of Rape, Sabine Hirschauer
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation: Social Trust in Contemporary Rural China: Its Sources and Impacts on Public Goods Provision, Narisong Huhe
Dissertation: The Absent Empire: The United States and the South American Regional Subsystem, Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixerira
Dissertation: The Relationship Between International Migration and Regional Integration, Christopher C. White
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dissertation: Energy Crises and Cooperation: Do International Institutions Matter?, Vessela P. Chakarova
Dissertation: Return to Unfinished Business: Re-Energizing U.S. Nuclear Arms Policy, William T. Eliason
Dissertation: Doubling NATO: Functional and Geographical Enlargement of the Alliance, Ergodan Kurt
Dissertation: Maturing International Cooperation to Address the Cyberspace Attack Attribution Problem, Jeff J. McNeil
Thesis: Cooperative Strategies on Parallel Tracks: The NEPAD and AGOA Initiatives, Guelmbaye Ngarsandje
Dissertation: The Tale of Two Narratives: NATO as a Collective Defense and a Collective Security Institution, Anna M. Rulska
Dissertation: Integrated Water Resources Management: A Theoretical Exploration of the Implementation Gap Between the Developed and Developing Worlds, Jennifer S. Schiff
Dissertation: Austerity, Abundance, and the Investor States: The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Manda Shemirani
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Dissertation: The Rise of 'People Power': Role of Civil Society in the "Color Revolutions", Vladyslav Galushko
Dissertation: The Corruption Enigma: Understanding Success and Failure of Corruption Reform Programs in Highly Corrupt Countries, Matthew T. Hall