United Nations

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…

Why do developing countries participate in peacekeeping operations sponsored by the United Nations? In the literature of peacekeeping, scholars mainly argue that states participate in peacekeeping for their own national interests. According to these arguments, states agree to co…

This study offers the following findings and observations about international relations in general and the events that have unfolded in the Persian Gulf in the last two decades in particular: (a) in international relations the political discourse among nation states is marked by…

The end of the Cold War and collapse of bipolarity have stimulated an expanded debate about the function and value of international institutions in world politics. Realism and Liberalism, the dominant paradigms in contemporary international relations theory, have contrasting ass…

The Persian Gulf Crisis was the result of a combination of many complex factors, including Kuwait's noncompliance with Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) regulations, Saddam Hussein's ambitions to become the undisputed Arab leader, mixed messages and signals re…

Much of the literature that has examined transnational actors' attempts to shape states' interests within international institutions portrays the international arena as a level-playing ground. Network theory posits that transnational actors participating in a network are horizon…