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"Freedom Is not Won with Flowers:" An Operational Analysis of the U.S. Occupations of Cuba (1906), Haiti (1915), and Nicaragua (1927)

Description:
Why have great powers sometimes been able to occupy weaker countries and at other times, using similar tactics, lost to a few poorly armed insurgents? …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
McMahon, Leo D (creator)
Kinzer, Stephen (thesis advisor)
Jost, Tyler (reader)
Brown University. International Relations (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Insurgency
Nicaragua
Cuba
Haiti
Counterinsurgency
Decapitation
Military leadership
Language:
English
Collection:
International and Public Affairs
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Ad Astra! Cooperation Between Superpowers: A Cooperation-Competition Framework for Understanding Collaboration and Competition between the United States and Russia on the International Space Station

Description:
What factors led to the collaborative creation of the International Space Station (ISS) by the United States (U.S.) and Russia in 1998, how did that …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Haji, Ariana Nalisha (creator)
Kinzer, Stephen (thesis advisor)
Augusto, Geri (reader)
Brown University. International Relations (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Russia
United States
Space
Competition
Cooperation
International Space Station
Language:
English
Collection:
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Theses and Dissertations
International and Public Affairs
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An Analysis of How K-12 Educational Experiences Affect Black Women in Higher Education

Description:
The present thesis examines the K-12 educational experiences of Black undergraduate women to better inform education policy. Much of education literature on Black girls highlights …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Tukpah, Nailah (creator)
Levitas, Anthony (thesis advisor)
Chaney, Mahasan (reader)
Murphy, Kiana (reader)
Brown University. Public Policy (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Education
Women, Black
race
Teenage girls, Black--Social conditions
K-12
Language:
English
Collection:
International and Public Affairs
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Different Paths: The Politics of Medicaid Expansion in Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming

Description:
Since NFIB v Sebelius made Medicaid expansion optional for states in 2013, 40 states have expanded their Medicaid programs. Republican-controlled states have lagged in expansion …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Hahn, Adeline (creator)
Hackey, Robert (thesis advisor)
Levitas, Anthony (reader)
Brown University. International and Public Affairs (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Medicaid
Language:
English
Collection:
International and Public Affairs
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In Support of Taking a Neorealist Approach to The Study of Cybersecurity Decision Making: Sophistication of Cyber Attacks on the US attributed to Russia and China.

Description:
What international relations framework, if any, allows for the best analysis of cyber attack decision making? This thesis compares the relationship between the sophistication of …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Shapiro, Amelia Hope (creator)
Edgar, Timothy (thesis advisor)
Steinfeld, Edward (reader)
Brown University. International Relations (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Computer security
Decision making
Realism in literature
Language:
English
Collection:
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Theses and Dissertations
International and Public Affairs
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Negotiating Symbolic Citizenship to Safeguard Democracy: Immigration and Democratic Consolidation in the Case of South Korea

Description:
Demographic change, driven by immigration, is renewing debates over who belongs in society. However, scholars have overlooked how these debates influence democratic consolidation, or democratic …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Lee, Annette Y. (creator)
Elliott, Claudia (thesis advisor)
Wang, Hye-Sook (reader)
Brown University. Public Policy (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
immigration
democratic consolidation
political culture
Democracy
Social integration
Language:
English
Collection:
International and Public Affairs
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The Failure of the Responsibility to Protect to Address Forced Displacement: Humanitarian in Principle or in Practice?

Description:
In 2005, UN member states passed the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which reoriented humanitarian intervention from states' right to intervene to a population's right …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Goldenberg, Katie (creator)
Levitas, Anthony (thesis advisor)
Tannenwald, Nina (reader)
Polatty, David (reader)
Brown University. International and Public Affairs (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Refugees
Forced migration
Responsibility to protect (International law)
Humanitarian intervention
Libya
kosovo
Language:
English
Collection:
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
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International and Public Affairs
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The Impact of Armed Conflict and Its Consequences on Women's Migration Decisions: The Guatemalan Civil War and Peru's Internal Armed Conflict

Description:
How does armed conflict and its consequences impact the migration decisions of women? Existing migration theories have various focuses and flaws that make them inadequate …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Carbajal, Abigail Shaska (creator)
Elliot, Claudia (thesis advisor)
Kinzer, Stephen (reader)
Valdiviezo Arista, Luis Martin (reader)
Brown University. International Relations (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Refugees
Women
Terrorism
Immigration Studies
War
Peru
Migration
Forced migration
asylum seekers
Guatemala
Guatemalan Civil War (Guatemala : 1960-1996)
Internally displaced persons
Guerrillas
Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)
Peruvian
Language:
English
Collection:
International and Public Affairs
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True to Their Roots or a New Shade of Green? The Evolution of the German Green Party's Position Toward NATO (1980-1999)

Description:
This thesis asks what caused the German Green Party to alter its founding opposition to NATO in the late 1990s. Existing theories of party behavior—which …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Brown, Erik J (creator)
Ziegler, J. Nicholas (thesis advisor)
Blyth, Mark (reader)
Brown University. International Relations (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Germany
Grünen (Political party)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Political parties
Language:
English
Collection:
International and Public Affairs
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