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Soaring Eagle: Prestige and American Empire, 1998-2003
(2014-11-27)
What are the causes of the US foreign policy of imperial expansion between 1998 and 2003?
US foreign policy in this timeframe is distinctive by its unilateralism and use of force compared to previous instances of American ...
Reconsidering Gender in the Multi-level Governance of Land in East Africa: Governing the “Global Land Grab”?
(2014-10-27)
In the twenty-first century, there is a global rush for agricultural land. This rush is extremely profitable and extremely destabilizing, nowhere more so than in low-income countries with large reserves of arable agricultural ...
Machineries of War and Mechanisms of Change in World Politics
(2007-10-01)
The purpose of this dissertation is to anticipate changes in the international system by examining changes in Western defence industries. The defence industries are a mechanism for producing power. In an anarchic ...
Rethinking the Migration-Conflict Nexus: Insights from the Cocoa Regions in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
(2013-07-29)
In recent years, International Relations scholars have begun to consider migration as an explanatory variable, recognizing its potential role in contributing to the outbreak of violent conflict. Despite the theoretical and ...
Strategic Diplomacies: Indigenous Governance, International Politics, and Natural Resources in Canada
International Relations theory would predict that central governments, with their considerable material resources, would be unlikely to face a challenge from a substate government. However, substate governments, and ...