international conflicts

This dissertation examines the conflict over water rights in international watercourses, with a specific focus on the Euphrates/Tigris conflict. Through a systematic analysis of water conflicts and relevant theoretical approaches, I offer a bargaining framework that crystallizes…

This project focuses on domestic political pressures in response to different kinds of international threat. In explaining the domestic politics of external threat, I seek to answer why states choose escalate conflicts over some issues and not others, against rivals at certain t…

Grounded in the exploration of the conflict between the United States and Iraq which led to war in 2003, this dissertation considers the role that television journalism plays in international conflicts in which the United States is involved. Using quantitative and qualitative re…