I bring a personal history to this study of Baghdad. I lived and worked in Baghdad, and I have the personal connection to the place, history and people. The study investigates the international planning history in the historical capital of Iraq from middle of the twentieth centu…
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This thesis focuses on United States civil-military relations during the first decade of the twenty-first century. It examines interactions between principal-level civilian and top-tier military leadership during three strategic decision-making moments. Each case involves exampl…
The purpose of this paper is to walk a narrow line between two historiographical conceptualizations of modern Iraq, a deterministic model that imagines Saddam Husayn as historically inevitable and an individualist model that blames everything wrong with modern Iraq on Husayn. In…
The importance of caring relationships between youth and their teachers, mentors, and tutors, for fostering positive academic and socioemotional outcomes is widely recognized in the literature (e.g. Hamre & Pianta, 2005; Hao & Pong, 2008; Wentzel, 2003). However, limited researc…
Ancient water management, especially for irrigation purposes, has featured prominently in anthropological theories on the development of socio-political and economic complexity. Traditional approaches have assumed that centralized control was needed to meet the managerial requir…
The nature of the military-media relationship in the United States has evolved through the nature of the wars the United States has fought and the media portrayal of these conflicts. The outcome that the media coverage of American foreign military involvement is evidenced in the…
This research explores the lived experience of Navy Hospital Corpsmen (medics) who have served in combat with U.S. Marine Corps units in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. It uses interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) to examine both the lived experiences and the derived meaning of…
My analysis is focused on the visual and sexual politics of the media coverage and public response to the military sex scandal commonly referred to as Abu Ghraib within a neoliberal context. The purpose of this project is to address a gap in current academic scholarship regardin…
I examined all cases of United States foreign policies of overt violence, bounded by and including, Vietnam (1964-1969) and Iraq (2003-2007). The objective was to use Orientalism in order to increase our understanding of such policies. What this research showed was quite contrar…
As the US completes its military withdrawal from Iraq, the Obama Administration's stated policy goals are to promote security, stability and prosperity in Iraq, help it emerge as a force for stability and moderation in the region, transition responsibility for security to the Ir…
Nation-building has historically and contemporaneously been a significant part of the foreign policy of the United States, and has been embraced by Republicans and Democrats alike at one point or another. It is therefore worth delving into this matter with a new frame of referen…
The threat of chemical weapons use in the Middle East has been a serious global concern at least since the 1960s. In spite of the 1996 ban on chemical weapons through the Chemical Weapons Convention, chemical weapons continue to exist in some states, and other states have indica…
This study seeks to determine whether there was a difference in the news reports by liberal and conservative newspapers up to the 2003 war with Iraq. When no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, the news media was criticized for its failure to challenge the president'…
War has been happening for centuries. Women have been in the United States Armed Forces since the War of Independence in 1775, with very little research done on how war affects these women once on the home front. The purpose of my research is to evaluate the role of communicatio…
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that examine how political economy and institutional factors influence development outcomes. In Chapter 1, I introduce each essay and argue that it is important to incorporate political economy and institutional considerations in…
With its powerful fighting force and rich history of experience, the U.S. should be poised for success in irregular war. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq prove, however, the U.S. struggles to win these asymmetric fights. This dissertation examines the disconnect between appar…
The challenge of the just war theory in the post-modern era is compounded by technologic advances in warfare and the friction among state actors in a decentralized state system. The inquiry of this investigation on just war is the extent of its validity in an era that extols the…
Current research available in the literature explored three main lines of inquiry (political or policy, military, and doctrinal) into the problem of both the lack of implementation and unsuccessful implementation of the U.S.-led Iraqi counterinsurgency campaign. This research wa…
Managing coastal resources is challenging in the best of circumstances. Bringing science and policy together to manage coastal resources effectively for the purpose of orchestrating population-centric counterinsurgency operations in the midst of war is Herculean. From a military…