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Can a state's nuclear status influence its behavior in dyadic relationships? The present study examines the role played by nuclear status on the proliferating state's level of hostility and cooperation towards other states in dyadic relationships. The study builds on the existin…

How does Turkish state behave? Why does it behave the way it does? This dissertation is a treatise on the sources of Turkish state behavior or which I called as Turkish Conduct. Turkish conduct is made of a dichotomy. It is a dichotomy which each and every modern nation-state ex…

Nigeria's decision to spearhead the creation of the Economic Community of West African States offers a challenge to conventional assumptions in Political Science literature. These challenges result from Nigeria's position within the international system during the 1960's and 197…

This dissertation takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding what makes states antifragile and why this matters by constructing a parsimonious, first of its kind agent-based model. The model focuses on the key elements of state antifragility that reside along a spectru…