Browsing School of International Affairs Theses and Dissertations by Title
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An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Sino-US Law Enforcement Cooperation to Combat Human Smuggling
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-07-10)This paper analyzes the effectiveness of Sino-U.S. governmental law enforcement cooperation to combat human smuggling. A history of bilateral law enforcement cooperation against human smuggling is presented, with emphasis ... -
Building markets: The political economy of technology standards
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04-04)This dissertation explains the causes of national differences in markets for technology. Different national approaches to intellectual property protection and use, market openness and market scope are the result of the ... -
The Chinese View of World Order: The Evolving Conceptualization of Tianxia (All-Under-Heaven)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-04-09)The topic of this thesis is the Chinese view of world order centered on the concept of Tianxia ( and #22825; and #19979; all-under-heaven). After an historical excursus on the origin of the Chinese imperial sociopolitical ... -
A Comprehensive Assessment of Atlanta's Status as a High-Technology Cluster
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-04-01)This thesis addresses two questions to understand the current situation of technology in Atlanta: Is Atlanta an ideal location for a technology cluster to form? Does a true technology cluster exist in Atlanta? According ... -
Computational modeling of spontaneous behavior changes and infectious disease spread
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-09)In the Spring of 2009, a new strain of pandemic influenza virus emerged in the human population and spread to major countries worldwide. This caused panic that the world was witnessing another influenza outbreak potentially ... -
Constructing knowledge-based industries in the globalization era: Social learning, the political process and commitment strategies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-25)This research addresses two puzzles: Why do similar regions within countries pursue different commitment strategies towards growing their bioscience industries? Why do some change in response to a global financial shock ... -
Coordinating across chaos: The practice of transnational internet security collaboration
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-03-18)This dissertation explores transnational security provisioning on/for the internet. A unique framework of analysis is established that melds traditional understandings of security drawn from computing disciplines with ... -
The decline of oil rents and liberalization in the Middle East
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Economic development in Arab Gulf States
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-07-10)After the discovery of oil, many Arab Gulf States failed to diversify and expand their economies beyond the oil sector. Resource curse theory contends these states, also known as rentier states, exhibited slower economic ... -
Embodied Cognition as a Methodological Framework for Normative IR
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-07-12)Intersubjectivity is underspecified in normative international relations theory. This underspecification inhibits normative IR methodology and discourse with interest-based theoreticians. Here new advances in embodied ... -
The European Union as a normative power: Europe's new neighborhood and energy policies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-03-26)The European Union (EU) is a formidable actor in contemporary international politics. Many prominent scholars devote their lives to studying both how European power came to be and analyzing the character of that power. The ... -
Integration and Muslim identity in Europe
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-05-03)The portrayal of collective identity of Muslim populations in Europe presents an increasingly important issue within identity politics. While European Muslims represent a diverse population that has experienced longstanding ... -
An Islamic feminism? competing understandings of womens rights in Morocco
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Market-based approaches for postharvest loss reduction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03-16)Do farmers in contract farming (CF) arrangements have lower levels of postharvest losses than do farmers who do not participate in contract farming? Does our current understanding of postharvest losses overlook other ... -
Measurement criteria for the US war on terror: a pragmatic interpretation of just war theory and a critique of neo-conservative policies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-07-20)Did the terrorist attacks of September 11th change the way the United States ought to contain, confront, or neutralize threats abroad? Or, can the US use the same set of tools and responses in crafting a response to terrorist ... -
Measuring the relative unit effectiveness parameter in combat: a case study approach
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Playing a poor hand well : weak actors face the Russian war machine
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Prevention Better Than Cure: The United Nations, Terrorism and the Concept of Humanitarian Preemption
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-04-14)The end of the Cold-War has seen a change in the global security situation with the emergence of transnational non-state security threats. Developing the idea that states disconnected from the process of globalization pose ... -
Re-control the market for strategic power: China's reregulation of its rare earth industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-17)This thesis studies the role and the capacity of the Chinese state in the development of China’s rare earth industry. The Chinese rare earth industry has rapidly developed since the late 1970s and has provided the global ... -
Seeing the refugee: a vantage point from the middle ground
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-04-08)The vast number of refugees in the world represents a very real, quantifiable, and troublesome "problem" for mainstream scholars of International Relations (IR). Mainstream IR is not able to address the problem of the ...
