Good Military Wives Stay in the Closet

Obstacles to Openly Opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)

by Monica K. Henry

Women and men are socialized to accept and perform certain gendered roles – generally man as warrior/protector and woman as caretaker/protected. The United States Military depends on the wives of ...

The Intermarium

Wilson, Madison, & East Central European Federalism

by Jonathan Levy

This thesis proposes an alternative governance structure for east central Europe – the Intermarium. The Intermarium is based on the development of a supplementary federal structure capable of ...

The Transition from Technocracy to Aristocracy in Japan, 1955-2003

by Christopher Titus North

The core issue underlying the bulk of scholarly research into the Japanese political economy is the relationship between the bureaucracy and the politicians. My study investigates whether there has ...

The Information Age and Diplomacy

An Emerging Strategic Vision in World Affairs

by Amir Dhia

Advances in the field of information and communication technologies have substantially affected most segments of our life, leading to the Information Age or Information Revolution. On both individual ...

Japan's Yasukuni Shrine: Place of Peace or Place of Conflict?

Regional Politics of History and Memory in East Asia

by William Daniel Sturgeon

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo five times over five years while Prime Minister. As a result, Japan's relations with China and Korea ...

Economic Sanctions as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy

The Case of the U.S. Embargo against Cuba

by Helen Osieja

Economic sanctions have been used as an instrument of American foreign policy ever since the Taft administration adopted the Dollar Diplomacy. This dissertation analyzes the trade Embargo the ...

Writing on the Wall

Scenario Development in Times of Discontinuity

by Philip van Notten

Although the significance of ‘9/11’ is subject to debate, it is symbolic of a general sentiment of discontinuity whereby society is vulnerable to undefined and highly disruptive events. Recent ...

Democratic Peace

In the Spectrum of Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Cage Banseka

This text marks a little milestone in the understanding of the democratic peace theory in transitional states. It brings in a much needed perspective on the achievements and limitations of democracy ...