This dissertation explores the relationship between sanctions and regime policy changes, integrating the economic and political effects of sanctions. The type of investigation employed is the case study approach. The cases selected for investigation are those of South Africa, Rh…
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The dissertation's thesis is that intellectual property right policies were not economic decisions but rather political decisions based on domestic and international special interests. Using an original dataset that measured the strength of intellectual property right laws and t…
The thesis examines why business people from various economic sectors in the Middle East and North Africa have continued to support authoritarian regimes in spite of the fact that these regimes failed to satisfy several of business' fundamental interests. Studies of business reg…
This dissertation merges the international and comparative politics approaches to studying Southeast Asia by examining the linkage of internal to external politics in the ASEAN states. This is accomplished by focusing on the effects of regime fragmentation on foreign policy beha…
Through a study of the history and performance of successive military regimes, this thesis examines the role of military governments in economic development, particularly the creation of a market-enabling environment in Nigeria. The key question underlying this research is: did …
Two international treaty frameworks - Amended Protocol II (APII) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) - have been developed to prohibit or restrict the use of landmines. However, reflecting a gap in current academic…