The humanitarian toll of economic sanctions on Iraq extends beyond observed negative effects on public health, affecting reduction in net primary school enrollment rates. These negative effects are distinct and separate from changes in enrollment caused by war. Using time series…
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This study examines the military interventionary behavior of four democratic states—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada—during the post-Cold War era. Using a data set created for the purposes of this examination, the variations in these states' intervention…
A population-based, cohort study was conducted to determine the importance of Gulf War deployment to Southwest Asia, from 1 August 1990 to 31 December 1991, in explaining neurologic mortality and peripheral nerve disease among United States military working dogs. The study cohor…
The diversionary theory of war is one of the most speculated about and debated theories in foreign policy literature. The theory argues that government leaders who are confronted with public antagonism over domestic economic, social, and political problems sometimes start wars t…
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 set in motion a number of consequential events not only on Kuwait, but also on Iraq’s other neighbors. This study examines the impact of Saddam’s provocation on Saudi Arabia’s security strategy and military planning between 1990 and 2000. The hy…
This study examines two case studies involving the Federal Republic of Germany's foreign policymaking vis-a-vis the Middle East: the Rabta affair, in which the West German government was called to account for the illegal exports of German companies in helping Libya construct a c…
This project works through some rhetorical dimensions of the media coverage of the 1991 U.S.-led war against Iraq. On a theoretical level I introduce the question of rhetoric as a deceptive performance of subjectivity that covers over its interests and internal divisions. This t…
Immigrants have always played an important role in the United States economy. The purpose of this study was to examine the adaptation of Arab immigrants and refugees who left their countries due to the invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990 and resettled in the Tri-county of Great…
This dissertation explores the ways in which Americans constructed a public discourse about gender relations in Muslim countries from the Iranian Revolution through the post-9/11 period. It argues that discourse significantly influenced U.S. foreign policy in recent decades. In …
This dissertation investigates Turkish foreign policy during two Iraq wars by focusing on the role of the Turkish parliament. In the Gulf War (1991), Turkey opened its bases to American aircraft used to attack Iraq. In contrast, during the War on Iraq (2003), Turkey did not allo…
What drives the foreign policies of autocratic states? Structural realists argue that, like all states, autocracies pursue their national interest by balancing power or threats in an anarchic world, defined by the distribution of material capabilities. Liberals believe that dome…
Until the Gulf War, no Japanese politician could seriously hope to dispatch the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) overseas. It was off-limits. But contrary to what is commonly believed, Japanese decision-makers did not feel comfortable providing only money while the economy grew. Knowin…