In counterinsurgency wars with large-scale foreign military interventions, under what conditions do in-country allies comply with the demands of foreign intervening forces and under what conditions do allies dismiss foreign demands? By examining thousands of primary source docum…
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Scholars have long explored questions concerning presidential foreign policy decision making as well as military performance in conducting operations. Studies have covered a wide variety of topics, including the organizational dynamics of the military bureaucracy, the effectiven…
La présente thèse porte sur les groupes d'activités scolaires en tant qu'intervention de groupe en service social et leur contribution dans le renforcement des droits de l'enfant en Égypte. L'objectif général de la recherche est d'explorer la situation de la pratique du service …
Military intervention has been undertaken numerous times since the end of World War II. Such involvement has most commonly taken the form of arms provisions to groups, but has, as in the case of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Somalia, taken the form of large-scale, combat-force deplo…
In a system of multi-ethnic states, one of the gravest threats to international order is secession. If groups within already established states have the right to self-determination, then virtually every state in the system faces the risk of dismemberment. Since 1945, scores of s…
The purpose of this exploratory sequential mixed methods study was to explore the relationship between participation in high school interscholastic athletics and student academic success as it relates to our economically disadvantaged students. There is an apparent difference be…
Embodiment is a faith-based intervention program created to increase positive body image and decrease self-objectification among Christian women through the use of biblical messages about the body. This study was approved by the Protection of Human Rights in Research Committee. …
Child Welfare agencies are charged with the task of investigating child maltreatment allegations, moving children from harmful environments and transitioning them to safe, stable and nurturing environments, in addition to providing services to families and children across the na…
The US set forth a national security strategy to combat weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the 2002 “National Security Strategy of the United States,” and the 2002 “National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction.” In March 2003 the US Administration reorganized prolif…
This dissertation asks why multilateral military intervention occurs in the case of civil conflict. This is a particularly important question because the pattern of intervention has changed dramatically. Civil conflict is a problem which leads to international response, and the …
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…
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 …