Karachi the financial capital of Pakistan and its largest city is an active player in the financial system of the world. Despite the deteriorating law and order situation over the last three decades Karachi had not acquired the notoriety as a key conduit for terror financing unt…
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Since the inception of the Palestinian National Authority (PA) in 1994, leadership has struggled in its role to create a safe environment conducive to economic and social prosperity, and to negotiate an end to the Israeli occupation and recognition of an independent State of Pal…
What explains alignment behavior in Syrian foreign policy? Structural realists argue that, like all states, authoritarian states pursue their national interests in an anarchic world by balancing power or threats, informed by the distribution of material capabilities. Hence allia…
Why have states requested international authorization for their projections of military force more after 1989? One perspective suggests powerful states should not make such requests. Rather, they should look to their own power instead of international organizations. Another view…
This dissertation asks how practices of security and development intersect in the operation of political power in conflict and post-conflict zones. Recent investment in gendered development as a mechanism of conflict mitigation mark a historic shift in the security imperatives o…
Neoliberal preferences by the ruling families and elite in the UAE and Qatar have informed their decisionmaking along the lines of investors or CEOs of country corporations seeking to diversify their portfolios. While the literature speaks to economic diversification, this disse…
Machine learning and natural language processing can be used to characterize and quantify aspects of human behavior expressed in language. Linguistic features exhibited in any kind of text can be used to study individuals' behavior as well as to identify an author among thousand…
This thesis examines political conflict event data in Yemen from 2000–2010 to illustrate shifts in political contention and its effects on securitization in Yemen. It employs a geographic framework that interprets the influences of historical and geopolitical events on current p…
In attempting to understand post-invasion violence, particularly in the years 2005–2007, policymakers, government officials, military personnel, and scholars have identified numerous and legitimate factors that contributed to overall instability within Iraq. What has been lackin…
Sensor nodes collect data from the physical world, then exchange it, until it reaches the intended destination. This information can be sensitive, such as battlefield surveillance. Therefore, providing secure and continuous data transmissions among sensor nodes in wireless netwo…
The world changed, in a multitude of ways, the day of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon. The impact of this day reverberates beyond the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan, where the United States has engaged in a controversial a…
Cloud connectivity and increased support for applications have resulted in significant amount of data that needs to be handled by embedded devices. The growth of embedded cloud as a successful service model largely depends on effectively securing such data. Data security in the …
War, like all human endeavors, is at some point of consideration a cultural event; understanding it fully requires an appreciation of war's events, its cultural context, and the interaction between them. In all wars there is a simultaneous and reciprocal process by which culture…
On September 18, 2011, the Republic of Cyprus announced it had begun the process of extracting offshore hydrocarbons. The announcement sparked a crisis. Great Britain, Greece, Russia and Israel voiced their support for the right of the Republic of Cyprus to recover their offshor…
Current networking architectures and communication protocols used for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been designed to be energy efficient, low latency, and long network lifetime. One major issue that must be addressed is the security in data communication. Due to the limit…
Libya is a country in transition. By the official start date of the transition process on October 23, 2011, Libya was essentially devoid of the institutional capacities required to operate a functioning state in the traditional Weberian sense. The weak central state Qadhafi left…
Radio Frequency Identification, RFID, is a type of automatic identification system which has gained popularity in recent years for being fast and reliable in keeping track of individual objects. Due to limited available resources in RFID tags, providing privacy and security for …
As civil conflicts continue to be the most prevalent form of war, women and children are disproportionately affected by intrastate violence. In response to such findings, the United Nations, at the behest of a transitional activist network, passed United Nations Security Council…
This study proposes that Iraq's democracy and stability turmoil since 2003 can be well elucidated by concentrating on the link between internal and external challenges that military intervention has introduced in the country. The source of that link is the emerging external secu…