" ... Traces the political relations between the United States and Venezuela from the early roots based in Pan Americanism to the domestic and foreign policies of the Chávez regime, including petro-diplomacy. This book provides a serious examination of the allegations about Vene…
The weapon target assignment problem (WTAP) is the problem of assigning a set of weapons and munitions to target with the goal of minimizing the enemy threat. In its simplest form, WTAP can be formulated as a non-linear integer program and has been shown to be NP-complete. The l…
This dissertation analyzes the Soviet counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan within the framework of Soviet military thought, focusing on the means employed by the Soviets and the Afghan Government to raise the costs of the Afghan rebellion. These methods, which generally fol…
Historically, in each of America’s past wars a significant proportion of each of them had to first be fought by an initial military strategy leading to defeat. The nation endured, and was perhaps lucky, until the winning military strategies were innovated by generals eventually …
With its powerful fighting force and rich history of experience, the U.S. should be poised for success in irregular war. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq prove, however, the U.S. struggles to win these asymmetric fights. This dissertation examines the disconnect between appar…
Despite a growing research agenda centered on issues of civilian immunity, it remains unclear what effect norms protecting civilians have on state behavior, especially democracies. This study asks when and how the civilian immunity norm (CIN) matters, specifically examining how …
The first chapter presented in this dissertation describes the synthesis of diverse 3-sulfanyl-1,2,4-triazole allosteric p97 AAA+ ATPase inhibitors for structure activity/property relationship (SAR/SPR) investigations. This work supported an iterative medicinal chemistry strateg…
With the second greatest natural gas resources in the region, Qatar's economic clout is considerable. At the same time the Qatar story is replete with paradoxes: the state hosts the Al-Jazeera media network, an influential expression of Arab nationalism and anti-Americanism, whi…
The end of the Cold War ushered in an era of profound change in the international arena and hence in the policymaking environment as well. Yet the changes that have characterized the post-Cold War era have often proceeded at different paces and have at times moved in opposing di…
A Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris.
For millennia battles were essentially affairs of linear encounter. From the 10th Century to the 20th Century, artillery generally fired directly in the two dimensional plane,limiting potential effects. The development of indirect fire changed this , two-dimensional model. Warfa…
Rapid economic growth in emerging economies since the end of the Cold War has driven debate on American 'relative decline'; the relative diminution of US material capabilities with respect to other states. Such relative decline poses potential constraints on US power and has thu…
