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Spectacle And Survival: Tourism, Colonialism, And Indigenous Agency In Taiwan, A Case Study Of Alishan And The Tsou Indigenous Group, Ganga Corsaro
Spectacle And Survival: Tourism, Colonialism, And Indigenous Agency In Taiwan, A Case Study Of Alishan And The Tsou Indigenous Group, Ganga Corsaro
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This thesis examines tourism in Taiwan as a contemporary continuation of colonial processes through a case study of the Tsou people and the Alishan region. It traces how Tsou ancestral land was transformed into a national tourist landscape and analyzes how state tourism narratives frame Indigenous land and culture while obscuring histories of dispossession and political exclusion. At the same time, the thesis considers Indigenous tourism as a potential space for cultural continuity and self-representation when shaped by Indigenous authority and community priorities. By bringing together historical context, analysis of tourism materials, and scholarship on Indigenous tourism, this project argues …
Exploring Health Policy As A Critical Mechanism Of Expression Of Right-Wing Government Policy, Aleisha Martinez Sandoval
Exploring Health Policy As A Critical Mechanism Of Expression Of Right-Wing Government Policy, Aleisha Martinez Sandoval
Bates College Journal of Political Studies
Global health policy has long been viewed as a “softer” arena of politics, driven by cooperation rather than competition. Unlike economics or defense, nations in this sphere have often set aside ideological differences to improve human well-being. Yet right-wing governments (RWGs) are increasingly redefining this space, transforming it from an international project of solidarity into a strategic platform for advancing core ideological commitments. In this thesis, I examine how healthcare has become a critical site where the foundational tenets of RWGs—hierarchy, tradition, market liberalism, sovereignty, law and order, and populist nativism—are vividly enacted and reinforced. What was once a domain …
The Costs Of Selective Intervention: Why The Obama Administration Chose To Intervene In Libya Over Syria, Rayanne Attar
The Costs Of Selective Intervention: Why The Obama Administration Chose To Intervene In Libya Over Syria, Rayanne Attar
Bates College Journal of Political Studies
This paper examines the Obama administration’s selective military intervention during the Arab Spring, comparing case studies of Libya and Syria. I argue that the decision for the Obama administration to militarily intervene in Libya but not Syria was justified because intervention in Syria was far more costly in terms of risks. In Libya, Qaddafi’s regime lacked strong external support, relied on dated military systems, and faced a fragmented opposition, making intervention politically feasible. In contrast, in Syria, Assad’s alliance with Russia and Iran, threatening air defense capabilities, and internal sociopolitical divisions made military action highly risky and unlikely to produce …
Guerillas, Manpads, And How To Shift A Conflict In Favor Of The Weaker Side, Augustus Mfxu Giller
Guerillas, Manpads, And How To Shift A Conflict In Favor Of The Weaker Side, Augustus Mfxu Giller
Bates College Journal of Political Studies
The Soviet Afghan War has emerged in popular culture and scholarship as a quintessential case of an innovative and superior technology being able to foil an enemy that would have otherwise emerged as the victor of a conflict. This is almost always in reference to the Afghan Mujahedin being able to counter technologically superior Soviet MI-24 Gunship Helicopters with American heat-seeking missiles. However, this assumption is largely shortsighted to the actual dynamics present in the Soviet Afghan conflict. Specifically, the failure to understand how an unconventional conflict like the Soviet Afghan war is fought, and an ineffective assessment of the …
Bates College Journal Of Political Studies: Volume Iii, Issue 1, Spring 2026, Bates Initiative For Government Studies
Bates College Journal Of Political Studies: Volume Iii, Issue 1, Spring 2026, Bates Initiative For Government Studies
Bates College Journal of Political Studies
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Slbms Vs Asw: The Race For Deterrence, Theodore M. Rosen
Slbms Vs Asw: The Race For Deterrence, Theodore M. Rosen
Bates College Journal of Political Studies
This paper aims to determine the balance between submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) in the modern day and evaluates how this balance informs the current offense and defense balance in international relations. This paper aims to determine whether SLBMs are still the great stabilizer that they have been historically described as, and if it is their efficacy that matters or merely their perception. This paper will evaluate the progression of SLBM and ASW technology over the past couple decades and where these technologies stand in relation to one another today. This exploration is grounded in two …
Reflections Of The Era: Representations Of Turbulent Peace And Looming Conflict In Choucas And The Accident, Shenandoah Waugh
Reflections Of The Era: Representations Of Turbulent Peace And Looming Conflict In Choucas And The Accident, Shenandoah Waugh
Mountains and Modernity
This paper examines the relationship between society and the environment through the lens of two novels: Choucas by Zofia Nałkowska and The Accident by Mihail Sebastian. Choucas was written in the interwar period and focuses on international cooperation in the setting of a sanatorium and resort in the Swiss Alps. The Accident was written in the early years of World War II and takes place in Bucharest and the Carpathian mountains near Brașov, Romania. Both novels utilize the mountainous settings to reflect on the tensions of their respective eras. Choucas relates the mountains and valleys to the turbulent peace of …
Transforming Ivan The Terrible: History, Memory Politics, And Monuments In Putin’S Russia, Lena Lapierre
Transforming Ivan The Terrible: History, Memory Politics, And Monuments In Putin’S Russia, Lena Lapierre
Bates College Journal of Political Studies
Like Joseph Stalin before him, Vladimir Putin has brought Ivan the Terrible back from oblivion and has made the memorialization of one of the country’s most infamous and brutal rulers a centerpiece of the Kremlin's contemporary propaganda toolkit. Analyzing a wide spectrum of Russian language sources such as the political speeches, historical lectures, protest posters, and Russian social media posts, this paper explores the various factors motivating the Putin regime’s revitalization of Ivan the Terrible and outlines how ordinary Russians have responded to the politicized whitewashing of their history. In 2016, with much fanfare, the provincial city of Orel erected …
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: How Ballistic Missile Defenses Put Us On The Path To War, Karan Kuppa-Apte
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: How Ballistic Missile Defenses Put Us On The Path To War, Karan Kuppa-Apte
Bates College Journal of Political Studies
This article argues that the use of credible homeland ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems counterintuitively encourages offense dominance by undermining the deterrence by punishment behind mutually assured destruction (MAD). It contends that while BMD is a defensive technology, under conditions of MAD that defensive capability, if credible, is perceived by adversaries to signal an intention to circumvent deterrence. Fearing an attack with impunity, adversaries increase their supply of offensive weapons, pressuring defenders to improve their BMD capabilities, and an arms race thus emerges. Using detailed case studies of Israel’s missile defense against the Axis of Resistance and Chinese reactions to …
8,000 Years Of Forests In Maine: A Story Told By The Eastern Hemlock, Sugar Maple, And American Chestnut, Catherine (Cici) Conroy
8,000 Years Of Forests In Maine: A Story Told By The Eastern Hemlock, Sugar Maple, And American Chestnut, Catherine (Cici) Conroy
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Forests have dominated Maine’s landscapes since the recession of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The outmigrations of glaciers gave way to a tundra environment, later transforming into the northern hardwood forests. Trees such as the Eastern hemlock, sugar maple, American chestnut, Eastern white pine, and brown ash form unique relationships with plants, fungi, animals, and humans. This paper examines the unique history of Maine’s forests from 8,000 years ago to today, emphasizing the changes brought by European colonization. Big history argues that history should be studied at large time scales, ranging from thousands to even millions or billions of years. It …
The Environmental Implications Of War: Analysis Of The Spectacular And Slow Environmental Violence Inflicted Through Russia’S Deliberate Targeting And Weaponization Of Ukrainian Environments, Alexander Campanile Sheikh
The Environmental Implications Of War: Analysis Of The Spectacular And Slow Environmental Violence Inflicted Through Russia’S Deliberate Targeting And Weaponization Of Ukrainian Environments, Alexander Campanile Sheikh
Standard Theses
The presence of war and armed conflict can cause extreme effects in the long and short term, but war as a concept holds an inherently anthropocentric bias. Among human activities causing severe changes to the environment, war’s consequences are both intensive and far reaching, and while war is incited, perpetrated, and fought specifically by humans, these conflicts come at the expense of all, including a silent victim: the greater environment in which wars take place. Today, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is the most significant confrontation in Europe in decades. Public attention and outrage, however, tends to focus on …
Understanding The European Union: On The Spotlights And Blind Spots Of Political Scientific Research, Francesco Duina
Understanding The European Union: On The Spotlights And Blind Spots Of Political Scientific Research, Francesco Duina
All Faculty Scholarship
As the EU has evolved and transformed Europe, political scientific scholarship on the EU (PSSEU) has flourished. Despite this, however, several scholars have pointed to a certain orthodoxy in PSSEU – one centered on mainstream concerns, limited interest in viewing the EU in comparative contexts, narrow scientific methods, and neutrality over normativity. These scholars have called for new directions in PSSEU, so that more can be understood about the process of European integration. This chapter notes that these calls, though welcome, actually do not rest on systematic assessments of PSSEU. Is PSSEU in fact orthodox? This chapter examines 527 articles …
Laying The Groundwork For A Trail At Breton Preserve With Androscoggin Land Trust, Kelley Attenborough, Sarah Maccormick, Isabel Mohammadi-Hall
Laying The Groundwork For A Trail At Breton Preserve With Androscoggin Land Trust, Kelley Attenborough, Sarah Maccormick, Isabel Mohammadi-Hall
Community Engaged Research Reports
Public access to the coastal, mountainous and historic hotspots is one of the reasons Maine’s population is increasing. These natural areas are threatened by land turnover and human development, forcing government funded conservation programs, local land trusts, and nationwide privately held conservation groups to take action. Throughout cities in Maine, there is a push for more public outdoor areas providing further recreational opportunities to facilitate holistic and educated relationships with the land. For these reasons, the Androscoggin Land Trust (ALT) has identified a need for a multi-use trail along the Androscoggin River at the Breton Preserve in Lisbon, Maine. To …
The Bates Student - Volume 148 Number 1 - September 20, 2017, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 148 Number 1 - September 20, 2017, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 147 Number 1 - September 14, 2016, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 147 Number 1 - September 14, 2016, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 144 Number 02 - September 17, 2014, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 144 Number 02 - September 17, 2014, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Power To Envision Change: Art As Environmental Activism, Sonja Raven Favaloro
The Power To Envision Change: Art As Environmental Activism, Sonja Raven Favaloro
Standard Theses
How do visual and narrative-based approaches to communicating environmental messages inspire action and further awareness? This thesis investigates three artists whose work tells environmental stories in various ways: activists from the Beehive Design Collective, photographer Chris Jordan, and activist/performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph. These artists produce challenging, engaging, emotionally vital art that allows urgent environmental messages to sink in to peoples’ minds and hearts in a different way than scientific information. At this time when our planet is in ever-increasing environmental danger and the need for action becomes ever greater, how we perceive our relation to the issues facing us will …
Sustainable Energy, The Androscoggin, Grow L+A, Madeline David, Jedd Countey, Sarah Jacobson, Bridgette Chandhoke
Sustainable Energy, The Androscoggin, Grow L+A, Madeline David, Jedd Countey, Sarah Jacobson, Bridgette Chandhoke
Community Engaged Research Reports
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 140 Number 04 - October 12, 2010, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 140 Number 04 - October 12, 2010, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 16 - March 23, 2010, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 16 - March 23, 2010, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 15 - March 16, 2010, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 15 - March 16, 2010, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 138 Number 19 - April 7, 2009, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 138 Number 19 - April 7, 2009, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 138 Number 14 - March 3, 2009, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 138 Number 14 - March 3, 2009, Bates College
The Bates Student
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Barrett, Robert J. Iii Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Barrett, Robert J. Iii Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Bob Barrett was born in Bangor, Maine July 23, 1944 and was Governor of the Dirigo Boy’s State in 1961. In 1962 he graduated valedictorian of John Bapst High School, and then attended Ecole Acadie Francaise. He graduated from Georgetown University, Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude, and Phi Alpha Theta (History honors) in 1966. He attended Columbia Law School and Harvard Business School, receiving honors in finance and accounting in 1971. He received certification at Merrill Lynch’s Program for Institutional Money Managers/Financial Analysts in 1992.
Barrett worked in the investment banking business for 35 years. After retiring from Wall …
Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Mariah Pfeiffer
Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Mariah Pfeiffer
Androscoggin River Oral History Collection
Donald Eugene "Don" Nicoll was born in Boston,Massachusetts, in 1927, and grew up in the West Roxbury section of the city. He is the son of George and Mary Nicoll. He attended Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School and Boston English High School and graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1949, majoring in History with a minor in Government. Don met his future wife, Hilda Farnum, also a Colby student, when they worked in the resort town of Ocean Park,Maine, in the summer of 1944. Nicoll began his graduate work at Pennsylvania State College in 1949, where he …
The Bates Student - Volume 135 Number 15 - February 7, 2006, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 135 Number 15 - February 7, 2006, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 135 Number 09 - November 15, 2005, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 135 Number 09 - November 15, 2005, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 134 Number 09 - November 16, 2004, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 134 Number 09 - November 16, 2004, Bates College
The Bates Student
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Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Donald Eugene "Don" Nicoll was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1927, and grew up in the West Roxbury section of the city. He is the son of George and Mary Nicoll. He attended Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School and Boston English High School and graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1949, majoring in History with a minor in Government. Don met his future wife, Hilda Farnum, also a Colby student, when they worked in the resort town of Ocean Park, Maine, in the summer of 1944. Nicoll began his graduate work at Pennsylvania State College …
The Bates Student - Volume 133 Number 15 - March 2, 2004, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 133 Number 15 - March 2, 2004, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.