This paper seeks to analyze how the Soviet-Afghan War and the Mujahedin were treated by the major American print media outlets. This text seeks to demonstrate that the American print media devoted a substantial amount of coverage to the Soviet-Afghan War and especially to the CI…
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This dissertation makes three related theoretical points. First, transitology—the theory that all former Soviet states are now constructing new institutions based upon Western models of market economies and democracies—is theoretically and empirically flawed. Instead, a post-col…
There exists much controversy as to whether international migration in general, and migrant's remittances in particular, increase or decrease economic welfare at origin. Our research contributes to the international discussion on remittances by presenting novel insights on the b…
Since its inception, international aid has been premised on the existence ofstable and sovereign recipient states. Official aid relies upon such states for itslegitimacy and implementation, and aims to consolidate statehood. In the1990s, this organising pillar of the internation…
Exclusion and violence persist in post-conflict states, despite external assistance to the demilitarization of politics, which the literature emphasizes as the primary goal of aid. Through a field-based study of Tajikistan and a survey of an additional three cases (Cambodia, Gua…
This work is a multi-country, multi-method investigation into the effectiveness of trade capacity building assistance, or aid for trade (AfT), at increasing the exports of recipient countries. Building off of previous statistical studies of AfT, including Bearce et al (2010), Br…
On December 26, 2004, a catastrophic tsunami struck the Indian Ocean just off the coast of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. This thesis will explore land tenure reform as an international intervention in Aceh, Indonesia, located on the island of Sumatra. Using a comparative ana…
By 1864, refugees from the South and the Western Border flooded into St. Louis and adjacent towns in unprecedented numbers. This influx of destitute people required aid and relief organizations in Missouri to broaden their level of operations. As the largest charity society in t…
The politicization of humanitarian aid is one of the most polarizing issues facing the humanitarian sector today. There is a lack of consensus on the suitability and impact that aid politician has on humanitarian response efforts. Traditional humanitarians, known as Dunantists, …
This thesis explores three important factors that have been central to the pursuit of economic development in developing countries, particularly those in Africa. These are capital flows, economic integration and financial crises. Chapter 1 examines the causes and consequences of…