This project examines the role of honor as a moral economy in the factional competition that enables and constrains Iran's foreign policy preference formation. Honor is treated as a currency and resource by which faction leaders recruit new members, challenge other faction leade…
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Debates about whether or not to engage in interventions to stabilize and rebuild states that have suffered extreme events, such as wars and large-scale natural disasters include questions about whether or not the intervening force can complete the mission. Intervening is a compl…
This thesis examines the structural patterns of interfirm competitive relationships using network analysis -a set of methods originally developed for analyzing the structure of social ties. The author views each firm in a multimarket space as facing a "competitive network", whic…
This research project applies Social Network Analysis to Saddam Hussein's network and demonstrates how network analysis techniques uncovered a web of family and tribal linkages that resulted in the ousted dictator's capture. I use Simmel's approach to affiliations and interactio…
This research is concerned with the changing network topology of contemporary cyberspace generated by the World Wide Web. First, it focuses on the longitudinal developments in online global space using the hyperlinked relations among web-based contents located in different count…
This thesis introduces a new method for data collection on political elite networks using non-obtrusive web-based techniques. One possible indicator of elite connectivity is the frequency with which individuals appear at the same political events. Using a Google search scraping …
This dissertation investigates changes in the extent and nature of al-Qaida's involvement in Salafist-motivated terrorism over time. It makes use of an original, hand-coded dataset that examines relationships among individuals involved in terror events in order to build a formal…
A paucity of stratified, open-air Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) sites has long been an issue for Great Basin researchers. Most Paleoindian sites are near-surface lithic scatters that lack subsistence residues, perishable technology, and materials that can be radiocarbon dated.…
Livelihood challenges such as low income, food insecurity, and poverty are prevalent among farming and rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and are linked to low agricultural productivity. Boosting agricultural productivity is considered pivotal to improving the livelih…
In this paper, network analysis is used to examine the changing role that China hasplayed in the World Trade Network in the years 1995, 2005, and 2014. A network is constructed from a World Input-Output Matrix consisting of 43 countries and 56 industries.This matrix is transform…
While music from medieval and early-modern Europe has long been an object of digitally and computationally inflected musicological research, such efforts have tended to focus either on issues of musical style or on the publication of primary sources such as manuscript images, ma…