Pelo potencial estratégico que encerra, decorrente da geografia e dos recursos naturais existentes no seu subsolo, Angola levanta posicionamentos e disputas estratégicas, cujas dificuldades só podem ser superadas e as eventualidades exploradas com a instituição de um poder organ…
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Terrorist blacklists constitute an invaluable piece of an effective counterterrorism policy, but like so many legal frameworks that rely on classified information and the word of government officials, they are ripe for abuse. Through a case study this paper examines how one such…
Structural realists argue the nation-state is a unitary actor that conducts foreign policy without regard to domestic politics. Anarchy, the lack of any controlling authority, is the dominant fact of life for states within the international system. Operating within this self-hel…
The way in which the U.S. government communicates threats to the public has been profoundly impacted by the events on and after 9/11. Writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have noted the use of certain terminology by government officials and politicians has contributed to …
Once described as a "diligent apprentice," China has emerged in the early 21st century as an active and sometimes contentious participant in the UN Security Council. For the U.S., China has complicated decision-making on a range of issues, including North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Suda…
Western nations continue to face potential attacks from violent extremist organizations waging a campaign of violence in the name of political Islam. Though these attacks are traditionally labeled as originating from abroad, leaders of these extremist organizations are utilizing…
This study explores how United States government officials, including Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, attempted to prohibit the sex acts of men and women during the "morals crusades" of 1917-1921. In this period Roosevelt and others authorized enlisted men…
This study explores U.S. National Security decisions involving the use of military force that were made during the post-Cold War era in cases where there was general agreement among the decision makers that traditional U.S. security interests were not involved. Eight separate de…
Retaining the nuclear option has become an article of strategic faith and a symbol of national sovereignty in Pakistan and India. There is widespread belief among security analysts of South Asia that the popularity of the nuclear issue among the Pakistani and Indian masses makes…
U.S. special operations forces (SOF) have played a significant role in a number of conflicts and crises in the post-World War II era. These have included the Indochina War, the Iran rescue attempt, the invasions of Grenada and Panama, and the war in the Persian Gulf. Despite the…
The question of whether states are best seen as rational actors, world-cultural vessels, or components of a world capitalist system is a prominent theme in the sociology and political science of international relations today. At the same time, the field of security studies is un…
This dissertation analyzes contingency or operational planning which most states conduct in anticipation of national security crises, especially for secondary contingencies not involving full-scale warfare. A functional methodology is used to describe the organization and proces…
This dissertation explores the link between civil-military relations and international conflict. In particular, I ask whether strategies that leaders invoke to protect themselves from their own militaries might under some conditions increase the risk of war. Even though civil-mi…
This work has a single aim, focusing on developing a political risk model relevant for tourism organisations, which are operating in an increasingly complex and turbulent international environment. It pays particular attention to the language of risk (how risks are articulated a…
The purpose of this study is to design a co-operative maritime security structure for Northeast Asia through the application of naval arms control and disarmament measures (both structural and operational), maritime confidence-building measures (MCBMs) and maritime cooperation m…
This thesis responds to the longstanding call from constructivist and poststructuralist scholars for a turn to discourse. It focuses on the paradox of the ability of language to act as a constituting and constraining device within an agent-structure discussion. The Copenhagen Sc…
This dissertation argues that a certain set of concerns, organized around the "internal focus" or fear that the "republic" was fragile, influenced the national security thinking of both the pre-war conservative isolationists in America First and the early Eisenhower administrati…
Evidence suggests that climate change is significantly detrimental to U.S. national security when measured against current intelligence assessment criteria. Two subsidiary questions follow from this hypothesis. (1) Is global warming a suitable issue to be considered a threat to …
Current instability in Afghanistan disproportionately impacts Afghan women such that their physical security and the advancement of women's rights are at risk. Guaranteeing the security of women in post-conflict settings is not clearly established in international humanitarian l…