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Conflicting Goals: How Club Soccer Kept Nationalism Alive In Tito’S Yugoslavia, Linus A. Schneider

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Globalization And Poverty: Exploring Development Discourse Within Urban Dynamics - The Case Of Colombo And Mumbai, Zohra Helali

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Paella For Pennies: American Appeasement Of Francoist Spain In The Infancy Of The Cold War, Samuel G. Marcus

Senior Projects Spring 2024

How and why did the United States support the authoritarian Franco Regime in Spain throughout World War II and the start of the Cold War? This paper considers Spanish-American relations from the Spanish Civil War until 1955, examining the tactic of appeasement in achieving US foreign policy goals.

Never Left The Dreaming: A Study Of Decolonization And Enchantment, Javin R. Lee-Lobel

Senior Projects Spring 2024

There is a belief in contemporary left politics that we must re-enchant the world because it has been disenchanted by coloniality: the meanings and sacredness which uphold community and sustain harmony with the earth have been drained through the ‘Western’ project of colonization, modernization, and capitalism. The problem with this belief is that we cannot re-enchant what we understand to be inherently disenchanted.

Via the ontological turn in anthropology, an understanding of the world emerges that is not disenchanted, but inherently imbued with meanings. Enchantment is not applied upon or removed from nonhuman bodies by human minds but is woven …

A Revised Socialism: Concerning Race, Colonial Violence, And Class, Gray E. Bougher

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Beyond The Bottom Line: Unionization In The Nonprofit Sector, Grace M. Brody

Senior Projects Spring 2024

My argument entails broadening the scope of the labor union model in order to apply it to nonprofits. Currently, many unions have been approaching unionization in nonprofits as if it were any other workplace. Specifically, unions are upholding the model of prioritizing monetary, short-term gains. I believe that this is not a sustainable model and will not bring about the significant, long-lasting change that nonprofit workers need to experience. Nonprofit workers experience issues that are more structural in nature, thus monetary union strategy is less effective.

The Conservative Interest In American Higher Education: From Vietnam To Palestine, Alexandra Pearl Mulvey

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Baseball Diplomacy: America’S Favorite Pastime As A Tool Of Soft Power In Cuba And The Dominican Republic, Michael Alexander Kurlan

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Don't Ban This Project, Tristan H. Timpone

Senior Projects Spring 2024

On June 7th, 2023, the Joe Biden Administration announced that they would appoint an anti-banned book coordinator for the Department of Education to inform school districts that removing certain books would violate federal civil laws concerning free speech. Biden and his Department of Education have worked tirelessly to find someone to fill this position, yet it still remains vacant as of the time of this draft. Biden may be too busy to fill the position. Or maybe he realized that the term “banned books” is misleading. There are no banned books in the United States. The phenomenon that the Biden …

Bread And Circuses: Mussolini, Football, And The 1934 World Cup, Claire Richele Peet

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Nation Building In Afghanistan: A Failed Nation And A Collapsed Country Why Did Afghans Failed To Build A Nation?, Abdullah Mohib

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Why The Neoconservative Theory Of American Foreign Policy Failed To Anticipate And Prepare For A Counter-Insurgency In Iraq?, Aidan Porter Risse

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Why The Neoconservative Theory Of American Foreign Policy Failed To Anticipate And Prepare For A Counter-Insurgency In Iraq?, Aidan Porter Risse

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Colonial Legacies Challenging The State Building In Afghanistan, Zarina Dawlat

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Ancient China’S Political Legacies: How National Identity And Historical Narratives Construct Images Of Global Power, Kelany Michel De La Cruz Reyes

Senior Projects Spring 2024

To understand the role of a nation-state within the international system, it is important to understand how that nation-state identifies itself and the role they wish to perform as an active actor in the global community. The People’s Republic of China, as a growing global power, is often criticized for how it approaches international relations and how it deals with foreign policies. Oftentimes, it is feared or seen as a threat because its domestic policies do not align with the values and ideals of powerful nations– these states are often identified as Western powers. Nevertheless, modern China continues to strive …

Born-Again Governance: Evangelists And The Republican Party, Jacob Andrew K. Epter

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Baba, Sanovia Ngozi Muhammad

Senior Projects Spring 2024

BABA is a documentary that explores the life and legacy of my grandfather, Baba Ahmed T’Chaka Zulu Obafemi, through the perspectives of my grandmother, my aunt, and my father. With the aid of archived materials such as audio recorded speeches, videos, and images, BABA inspects the political journey of Ahmed particularly throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. As a founding member of the New Afrikan People's Organization and The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Ahmed became a notable organizer and speaker in the Black revolutionary communities of New York, Alabama, Georgia, and beyond. Although his primary focus was in the liberation …

The Origins Of Ideology, Eve Lilith Campbell

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

Media Sanctions Narratives Two Years Into The Full-Scale Invasion Of Ukraine, Benjamin Raham Fatakhov

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Economic sanctions are tools of pressure that utilize the financial leverage that the sanctioning entity has over the sanctioned entity, which has been used for centuries. In an increasingly globalized environment, countries share international platforms controlled by national and global financial institutions to conduct financial transactions, trade, and maintain complex supply chains. A country can use its financial, legal, and physical infrastructures to inflict economic damage on the target entity in reaction to a target committing some offense in the eyes of the sanctioning country. After the annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the Donbas conflict, much of the …

Rational Economic Man As Bourgeois Ideology: A Critique Of The Ways Subjugation Is Reproduced, Sarah Seager

Senior Projects Spring 2024

This project investigates the ways the Rational Economic Man reproduces bourgeois class and ideology. Each of the systems that participate in this reproduction are interconnected and deeply rely on each other to maintain a hierarchy of power and access. Economics as discipline, the state, family as an economic unit, and the healthcare system are all self-serving mechanisms that reproduce subjugation and benefit those already in power.

Capitalism & Confinement: Racialization, Dispossession, And Exploitation In The Carceral Sphere, Elisa Littin Egana

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

"Nous Sommes Enfants Avant Migrants" | "We Are Children Before Immigrants" The Making And Unmaking Of The Child Migrant Through Age Assessments In France, Hannah Wynters-Wright

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Amidst an increasingly restrictive immigration landscape, this research is focused on the practice of age assessments conducted on unaccompanied migrant minors in France. Despite the rise in international legislation safeguarding the rights of children, irrespective of citizenship status, France lacks a unified strategy for their protection. Instead, dozens of local government offices (called départements) carry out highly subjective age assessments to determine whether an unaccompanied migrant minor qualifies for protection. These offices enact a conflicting mandate in which the duty to protect all children is entangled with immigration enforcement practices. Against this backdrop, this research seeks to explore how the …

Behind Closed Doors: How Remittance Flows Changed Repression Dynamics In Beneficiary States During Covid-19, Ketevan Tsurtsumia

Senior Projects Spring 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic affected the global world in a lot of ways. Extensive research has been done on its effect on the economic growth of states, the effectiveness of government responses, the efficacy of different vaccines, and vaccine diplomacy. However, changes in state repression have been a neglected topic in research focused on understanding and analyzing the processes that took place during the pandemic. This paper will take on the topic of state repression dynamics during COVID-19 and further develop this relationship using remittances as an additional variable that affects state repression, taking state repression as a dependent variable. Finally, …

The Liberal International Order, The Liberal Peace-Building Mission And The Role Of American Exceptionalism In It, Jamshid Mohammadi

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

On Living Fully, Or, How To Not Be Made An Object, Fiona Pearl Miller

Senior Projects Spring 2023

An analysis of autonomy in the modern era through the lens of the Transcendentalists and the Frankfurt School.

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

A Comparative Analysis Of Regional Institution Engagement And Development Trajectories In South America And Eastern Asia, Joel S. Guahnich

Senior Projects Fall 2023

This project analyzes the reasons behind South American struggles connected to regional organizations compared to Southeastern Asian economic and political development in the second half of the 20th century. When exploring the unique characteristics and historical context of South American and Eastern Asian regional blocs such as the Union of South American NationsUSAN/ Union de Naciones Suramericanas, UNASUR, Mercado Común del Sur MERCOSUR; Eastern Asian regional blocs such as The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, and The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). This project seeks to understand the factors contributing to their distinct trajectories, highlighting how they have achieved …

Ontological Security And Environmental Hegemony In American Suburbs, Finlay Dunn Mackenzie

Senior Projects Fall 2023

This project briefly examines the history of suburbanization in the United States and proposes a theory for its durability as a form of housing its roles as an idealized source of ontological security and its nature as an expression of the hegemony of capital.

The Ngo Industrial Complex And Palestinian Feminism: A Case Study, Dana A. Ghoul

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Ambivalence, Legality, And Social Activism: How Daca Survived Donald J. Trump, Pamela V. Jaramillo

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Corporate Lobbying: A Corporate Perspective To Lobbying And The Ecosystem Behind It, Noah R. Gulla

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.