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For more than fifty years the international community of states has struggled to create a system to safeguard nuclear weapons and prevent their proliferation. Following the first successful detonation of a nuclear device in New Mexico and subsequent use against the Japanese citi…

In this dissertation I examine the failure to find a negotiated solution for managing transboundary water resources among Turkey, Syria and Iraq, and propose an integrated approach with a focus on human security and redefined national interest. This approach incorporates knowled…

The aspirations of this assessment are to convince the reader that by identifying critical features of the Ben Ali regime and its observable transformations over 23 years, I will support the conclusion that the system that Ben Ali created was ultimately destined to fail. I hope …

After predicting a wave of Middle East democratization that never happened, comparative scholars now face hard questions about the resilience of authoritarianism in this region. Among the most demanding puzzles is why, during the post-colonial era, autocratic states in the Middl…