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Globalizing processes are gathering increased attention for complicating the nature of political boundaries, authority and sovereignty. Recent examples of global financial and political turmoil have also created a sense of unease about the durability of the modern international …
The main aim of this project was to examine the effects of introducing hierarchy into honeycombs and determining the variables that preside over the global response of the structure. Specifically to understand how the in and out-of-plane elastic and non-linear plastic properties…
The Hoysaḷa family ruled in southern India, in the present-day state of Karnataka from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries. Previous studies of this family and other contemporary royal households have primarily focused on establishing a chronology for the lineage and demons…
Economic inequality is associated with a host of social ills, and it harms the majority of those within an unequal society. In the U.S., however, the existence and persistence of racial inequality privileges White Americans as a group. I argue that White Americans are thus motiv…
The “Days of Empire,” when political entities extolled their control over other territories, have long since expired. Yet hierarchies between states remain. While international relations theorists often assume that states are fully sovereign, weak states sometimes delegate decis…
Current anti and counter-piracy strategies and operations by both the United States and the international community at large in the Gulf of Aden are fundamentally flawed. These strategies and resulting operations address the maritime symptoms of Somali piracy rather than the on …
This dissertation explains why some political actors willingly surrender sovereignty to great powers and others choose to resist, often violently. It argues that political competition and conflict at a domestic level drive actors to surrender sovereignty. Where domestic politica…
This dissertation explains the dynamics if state alignment with external armed groups. Academics and policymakers alike often label the armed groups as the state’s agents, allies, and proxies interchangeably. This seemingly minor semantic confusion hints at larger questions abou…