Post-World War 11 history has proven with disturbing clarity that the Holocaust was not the century's last genocide. Horrible events in Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia, and Rwanda have tragically demonstrated that we have in fact experienced what some have called an “age of genocide.” Ho…
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The purpose of this study is to examine the sources of interagency conflicts within the United States government's decision-making processes in cases of coercive intervention (such as the second Persian Gulf War and Bosnia), and the manner in which such conflicts affect policies…
The UN Charter acknowledges the right of the UN Security Council to use force to address threats to international peace and security in case of acts of aggression. The Charter, however, does not expressly recognize the right to use force to protect the people of a State against …
The United States national strategy for Countering Violent Extremism is broadly written and currently does not provide the framework necessary to combat homegrown violent extremism and the foreign fighter phenomenon. The threat of foreign terrorist organizations targeting the Un…
Why do states intervene militarily in some CHEs but not others sharing similar characteristics - and why do states justify still other military interventions on humanitarian grounds? What accounts for changes in the rules, meanings, and social purposes to which states can and sh…
This dissertation asks why and under what conditions the US seeks allies for foreign military interventions and when multilateralism pays for a state with a unilateral option. It is not a study of whether to intervene or not, but rather the motivations and payoffs for hegemonic …
This dissertation attempts to explain the persistent robustness of the Atlantic Community despite ongoing tensions and crises in the community. Conventional realist theories for explaining change are inadequate for studying the Atlantic Community because they posit that change o…
When do ethnic civil wars last especially long? This dissertation examines when, why, and how ethnicity affects the length of civil wars. Two-thirds of civil wars pit ethnic combatants against each other; the duration of these conflicts varies considerably. Existing work on ethn…
Many recent analyses of exchange rate regimes are based on the concept of how much exchange market pressure is taken on the exchange rate versus changes in reserves as a proxy for official intervention. However, the popular method of taking ratios of variations of exchange rate …
This dissertation describes the problem of violent ethnic conflict and genocide. The 20th century was marked by the deaths of over 100 million people in armed conflicts and another 170 million more in intrastate political violence. Terrorist attacks and responses to them and sta…
This dissertation is an attempt to understand the impact of primary school management on learning outcomes of females in Bangladesh. A major research question that guided this study was: Why the children of government primary schools have lower levels of competency compared to c…
This project seeks to answer the question to what extent do specific individual, domestic, and system level variables affect the U.S. decision to intervene in intrastate conflicts from 1948 to 1997? Using the Correlates of War intrastate war dataset and a newly constructed datas…
Educational development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has long been delayed due to weak capacities in the production and management of relevant knowledge. The lack of adequate and reliable education management information systems continues to impede the formulation and …
This dissertation addresses the relationship between majority nationalism and state legitimization in the context of an externally-imposed peace settlement which ended a violent ethnic conflict. Using the case of post-Dayton Bosnia, the project demonstrates how state practices o…
This dissertation examines the role of the United Nations in the resolution of civil wars. I examine the UN's intervention decisions, the ultimate success of the peacekeeping missions, and the connections between these decisions and the success of these missions. In UN Peacekeep…
Over the last fifteen years, the number of civil conflicts worldwide has declined and negotiated settlements have increased. The spread of democracy and greater international concern about domestic conflicts have encouraged states to adopt a negotiations-based approach to addres…
This dissertation is an analysis of the role of the intelligence community in presidential decisions to use the CIA to intervene covertly. Specifically to what extent did CIA officials use their positions as heads of the intelligence community to push covert action. When this pr…
This dissertation seeks to explain one of the most ruinous foreign policy decisions of the postwar era: America's commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called "Diem experiment" is usually ascribed to U.S. anti-communis…
My study examines a discourse that I call "sentimental orientalism" which promotes popular support for American intervention in Asia in the 1950s. This discourse is rooted in nineteenth-century sentimental culture. For instance, fictions like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's …