In the face of a wide range of attacks, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and other Internet security tools represent potentially valuable safeguards to identify and combat the problems facing online systems. However, despite the fact that a variety of commercial and open source…
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The study explores Egypt’s foreign policy under President Hosni Mubarak. It focuses on the way Mubarak's regime dealt with internal and external threats to maintain security and bolster his internal hold on power. Two case studies are chosen to test the hypotheses: Egypt’s reluc…
Although there has been a wealth of academic literature which has examined counter-terrorism, both in the general sense and in case study focused approaches, there has seldom been an engagement in terrorism studies literature on the nature of the state itself and how this impact…
Islands are often represented as remote and exotic paradise destinations in popular imaginaries. Simultaneously, states frequently render island spaces as geo-strategic sites of security and state-building. However, these state-centric narratives of security obscure island lives…
This dissertation, using a method of “structured, focused comparison,” investigates the phenomenon of conflict and cooperation over international water resources. The three cases of water conflicts chosen for this study—from three different river basins: the Euphrates, the Nile,…
By adopting the qualitative mode of analyses as research methodology, this study examines the problems associated with the United Nations - Nigeria relations in the maintenance of domestic and international peace and security. It is a study in post-coloniality whose primary obje…
Legacy binaries need to continue functioning even when no source code has been preserved, to support the workflows of government and industry. The binaries often lack recent improvements in compiler design and software engineering practices, causing them to be slower and less se…
The military fait accompli is so understudied a phenomenon in the international relations literature that even its definition is not widely known. A fait accompli is a unilateral revision to the status quo in an ongoing dispute over some distribution of benefits. Though recent w…
The U.S. military is asked to perform statebuilding operations far more often than it engages in conventional warfare against opposing uniformed state militaries. The U.S. military has engaged in 13 major armed statebuilding operations during and since WWII, along with numerous …
This research evaluated the security aspects of voting systems, how they adapted to security threats, and whether or not the changes made were appropriately considered and implemented in a way that increased voting security, focusing on events in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Th…
This dissertation analyzes the political geographies of humanitarianism in Europe’s Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programs for migrants. Promoted as a humanitarian policy of migration management, and often implemented by humanitarian institutions, AVR programs provide counseli…
Society generates 2.8 quintillion bytes of new data every day. Much of this data is sensitive information that should be protected from unauthorized access. Sensitive information is defined as information that, if compromised or misused, could adversely affect the privacy of the…
In contemporary international relations, many regional organizations engage in ‘community-building,’ practices that construct, promote, and sustain a sense of collective identity among their member states. The international relations literature (e.g. Adler and Barnett, 1998; Wen…
The ANZUS Alliance was a defence arrangement between Australia, New Zealand and the United States that shaped international policy in the aftermath of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War. Forged by influential individuals and impacting on global events incl…
