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Pathways to Military Effectiveness: Armies and Contemporary African States

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How do weak states build and maintain strong militaries that do not pose a threat? A government that presides over an institutionally weak state might reasonably fear that an effective army would be tempted to engage in coup dâ€™Ã©tat. Yet several countries in Africa with low overall institutional capacity sustain...

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State-Building, Weak States, Civil Military Relations, Civil Wars, Military Effectiveness, and Coups

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Political Science

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Jahara Matisek

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

11/24/2019

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11/26/2019

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2018-01-01

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Dissertation
Politics after Totalitarianism: Rethinking Evil, Action, and Judgment in Kant, Arendt, and Lyotard

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Hannah Arendt claimed that aœtotalitarianisma emerged as a new word to designate a new form of evil in politics. However, she added, the use of a new word does not imply that we understand what this novelty consists in. This dissertation is an attempt to understand the novelty of totalitarian...

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Lyotard, Arendt, Kant, Evil, Judgment, and Action

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Political Science

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Javier Burdman

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

11/18/2019

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11/20/2019

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2018-01-01

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Dissertation
Its All about Who You Meet: The Political Consequences of Intergroup Experiences with Strangers

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Many democratic theorists suggest that harmonious relationship between groups are critical for democracy; however, far less is known about how everyday experiences promote or impede such intergroup harmony. In this dissertation, I explore a common, but overlooked, form of intergroup contact casual, brief experiences with outgroup strangers. I propose a...

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political psychology, race and ethnic politics, experiments, and intergroup contact

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Political Science

Creator:

Ethan C Busby

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/21/2019

Date Modified:

11/20/2019

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2018-01-01

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Dissertation
The Politics of Nuclearity: Identity Relations in the Global Nuclear Regime

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Many key crises of international security are tied to the spread of nuclear weapons and technology, but what makes a state nuclear remains subject to controversy. The possession of nuclear technology does not always grant legal and political nuclear status”a phenomenon evident not only in the recent debate over Irans...

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Nuclear Weapons and Diplomacy

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Political Science

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Sidra Hamidi

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/14/2019

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11/20/2019

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2018-01-01

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Dissertation
Combatants, Inside and Out: Battle-Spaces in 21st Century Civil Wars

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This dissertation provides an explanatory framework to explain the variations in battle-spaces, alternatively seen as wartime authority configurations across time and space. I place these variations along types of states along their functional dimension, and their respective forms of state power on the ground. I argue that these variations are...

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Battle-Space, Nepal, Kurdistan, Turkey, Iraq, and Rebels

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Political Science

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Buddhika Jayamaha

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

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05/06/2019

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05/06/2019

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2018-01-01

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Dissertation
Sheldon Wolin and Democracy: Seeing Through Loss

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This dissertation examines the political thought of Sheldon Wolin. Perceiving a crisis of technocratic liberalism in the postwar period, Wolin develops a critique of modernity that emphasizes the loss both of political vision and of local cultures and traditions. His subsequent radical democratic theory identifies a contrapuntal American tradition of...

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Democracy, Totalitarianism, Liberalism, Loss, Radical, and Wolin

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Political Science

Creator:

Lucy Cane

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

03/07/2019

Date Modified:

03/07/2019

Date Created:

2018-01-01

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Dissertation
Strategic failure? The impact of failed legislation on enacted legislation

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In an environment with limited time and resources, why do some legislators repeatedly sponsoring the same bills that never pass? Are they only appealing to constituents or lobbyists, or do they reintroduce legislation for strategic purposes? Bachrach and Baratz (1962) characterize the second-face of power as having control over agenda-setting....

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Political Science

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Amanda Durso

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

04/03/2018

Date Modified:

04/03/2018

Date Created:

2018-03-30

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Domestic Interest Configuration and Island Disputes: Cyclical Surges of Nationalist and Internationalist Influence in Northeast Asia

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My dissertation explores the dynamics of Northeast Asia’s island disputes, specifically the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute between Korea and Japan and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute between Japan and China. I focus on three questions that are important for academic and policy purposes and are not well addressed by existing theories: 1) what explains...

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China, Island disputes, Korea, Northeast Asia, Territorial conflict, and Japan

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Political Science

Creator:

Katrin Fraser Katz

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

02/11/2019

Date Modified:

02/11/2019

Date Created:

2017-01-01

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Dissertation
Private Targets, Public Outcomes: An Examination of Individual-Level Participation in Private Politics and Its Interaction with Public Politics

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Existing political science literature tells us that the common factors of political participation include factors such as civic skills, available free time, and income. However, few have expanded their studies to include to private politics, and to see what factors influence private political participation. Private political participation refers to “the...

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Political Science

Subject:

Political Science

Creator:

Julia Valdes

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

11/01/2018

Date Modified:

11/01/2018

Date Created:

2017-01-01

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Dissertation
The Construction of Financial Authority

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This dissertation examines the construction and regulation of over-the-counter derivatives markets before and after the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. It addresses two questions: How did the market for derivatives traded outside traditional exchanges grow so large and crisis-prone with so little public regulation? And, why, given derivatives’ contribution to the...

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regulation, governance, derivatives, markets, finance, and authority

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Political Science

Creator:

Erin Lockwood

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/22/2018

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10/22/2018

Date Created:

2017-01-01

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