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Secrets, Soviets, And Sverdlovsk: Critiques Of The Biological Weapons Convention And Biosecurity In The 1970s And 1980s, Morgan Kelley

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

The Biological Weapons Convention, initially ratified in 1975, banned the production and stockpiling of biological weapons; however, it has faced considerable modern criticism for being unenforceable and not strong enough to ensure states' compliance. These modern critiques are based on the knowledge that the Soviet Union was in violation of the Convention, which was not confirmed until 1989. By analyzing the reactions to the Biological Weapons Convention by scholars and scientists, American intelligence officials, and American news media, it becomes clear that concerns about the Convention did exist prior to 1989, even when for many it was not certain that …

The Effects Of Social Media Marketing On Consumer Behavior, Katelin Schuiteman

Communication Senior Capstone Projects

Social media has drastically changed consumer behavior, revolutionizing the way businesses engage with their audiences. This paper explores the impact of social media marketing on consumer decision-making processes and the transformation brought about by digital marketing strategies on social media platforms. The literature review considers the significance of personalized advertising, the vulnerability of younger demographics to marketing tactics, and the emergence of influencer marketing as a powerful tool for brand promotion. Looking at insights in communication theory and marketing research, the paper underscores the vital role of engagement, community-building, and content personalization in successful social media marketing campaigns. Comparing the …

Connections, 2023, University Of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library

Connections

No abstract provided.

Dipl 6181 Statecraft: Designing Foreign Policy, Ann Marie Murphy Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course will introduce students to the study of statecraft: the design of strategies to achieve foreign policy goals; the choice of policy instruments within these strategies; and an assessment of their relative utility in achieving national objectives. This class begins by exploring key theoretical underpinnings of statecraft such as bargaining, power, threats, promises and cost/benefit analysis. It then examines different tools of statecraft, including strategic bombing, economic sanctions, foreign aid and trade, targeted killings, and propaganda. The course analyzes the objectives typically associated with each policy tool, the conditions under which they are most likely to be effective in …

Dipl 4277 Aa Global Health, Bioterrorism, And International Security, Yanzhong Huang Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

Global health issues have affected world history more extensively than most of us can imagine. As shown in the COVID-19 pandemic, international travel threatens transborder epidemics by transporting and spreading diseases globally at jet speed. The growing risk of exposure to infectious disease, coupled with the threat of intentional release of pathogens, creates a situation in which health and security are interacting with greater frequency and intensity. This development parallels efforts to redefine the concept of security to encompass new global challenges. This interdisciplinary course focuses on global health security by addressing the following questions: How did epidemics function as …

Dogma: How A Convenient Narrative Led To The Holocaust, Morgan R. Schroeder

Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies

No abstract provided.

Kukin Program Newsletter – Spring 2024, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution

Kukin Program Newsletters

The Kukin Program Newsletter – Spring 2024 highlights recent achievements, events, and developments in Cardozo Law School’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program. Key features include student accomplishments in national ADR competitions, faculty contributions to international conferences, and updates on new courses like Dispute Systems Design and International Investment Arbitration. The issue also covers the Cardozo Divorce Mediation Clinic’s 13th anniversary, faculty spotlights, and the Cardozo Dispute Resolution Society’s inaugural Arbitration Day. This newsletter reflects the Kukin Program's commitment to advancing ADR education and supporting students in impactful, real-world learning experiences.

Defeat Fascism, Transform Democracy: Mapping Academic Resources, Reframing The Fundamentals, And Organizing For Collective Actions, Francisco Valdes

Articles

No abstract provided.

Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2024, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

From the Dean (Robin Wagner)

Library News

• Behind-the-Scenes at the Library of Congress
• Honor Commission Survey
• One Million Views
• Blues Masterclass
• Long Night Against Procrastination

Library Exhibits: Rare and Quiet: The Past Lives of Books (Sunni DeNicola)

Crafternoon Break

Browsing Room Makeover

Plant Propagation Program

Then and Now: The Eclipse

Improving Climate

Catherine Quinn Perry 1975 – 2024

GettDigital: Art and Geography Intersect

Getting to Know...

Memorial Day Reflection

Flashback: A Mark Twain Connection

Donor Profile: Meet the Collector

Library Bookshelf: How Do You Travel? (Beth Carmichael)

New Volume of Stewart Herman's Letters Published

Focus on Philanthropy: Hidden History

Unexpected …

The Plant Disease Triangle Facing Climate Change: A Molecular Perspective, Charles Roussin-Léveillée, Christina A. M. Rossi, Christian Castroverde, Peter Moffett

Biology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Dipl 2120 International Conflict And Security, Brendan J. Balestrieri Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

The first part of this course serves as a general introduction to the study of international security, a field primarily concerned with the threat and use of force by state and non-state actors. Topics examined include the origins of major power wars, regional conflicts, terrorism, military intervention, and alliances. The second part of this course will use alliances as a lens through which to better understanding international conflict and security and will focus predominantly on the US system of Alliances in the Asia-Pacific.

Alliances are among the oldest forms of interaction between states that impact almost every aspect of international …

Dipl 2120 International Conflict And Security, R. Joseph Huddleston Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course serves as a general introduction to the study of international security, a field primarily concerned with the threat and uses of force by state and non-state actors for political ends. Topics examined include the origins of major power wars, regional conflicts, civil wars, and international intervention, as well as terrorism, cyber, and information warfare.

By the end of the semester, students should have acquired knowledge and understanding of key concepts, theories, and debates involved in the study of contemporary international security. Students should also have developed the skills to: analyze complex international systems; find and synthesize empirical information; …

Using Multi-Staged Puzzles To Improve Backtracking In Level Design, Yufei Tian

Level Design Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the potential best practices in using multi-staged puzzles, which involve backtracking, in video games. The researcher focused on enhancing the players’ experiences by applying elements of the flow theory to an artifact level in Dying Light 2. Playtesters’ feedback suggested that best practices in multi-staged backtracking puzzles improve flow state entry and increase enjoyment.

The Spirit Of Change: Pentecostals And Political Engagement In The Post-Dictatorial Southern Cone In South America, Thiago Camacho

Soc­iology Senior Capstone

The Pentecostal movement is the fastest growing religious movement in the world. It is an evolutive expression of Protestantism that places an emphasis on the Holy Spirit and spiritual solutions to life’s turmoils. This movement has been especially flourishing in the Global South with 86% of believers residing there. As the Western world becomes more secular the future of global Christianity is in the Pentecostal movement. The topic of this research will focus on a specific vein of the Pentecostal movement in Latin America. The Catholic Church has long dominated Latin America, and this move away from Catholicism in favor …

American Media And Memories: How Visual Media Tells The History Of The World Wars In The 21st Century, Julian A. Rispaud

History

This paper examines how fictional digital media–film, television, and digital games–have both mirrored and influenced the American popular memory of the World Wars, establishing how visual media in the last 25 years has disseminated distinct historical themes and narratives to American audiences. Examining both World Wars together allow us to witness historical narratives of WWI and WWII intersecting across many works of media, applying critical elements of one conflict's memory to the other. This is accomplished through the process of historical thematic dissemination, through with creators off all three types of visual media pay homage to or draw on historical …

Dipl 6132 American Grand Strategy, Brendan J. Balestrieri Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course examines the global challenges and opportunities confronting the United States and the efforts of US policymakers to craft a grand strategy that adequately addresses them. It covers key historical junctures in the development of American Grand Strategy, concentrating on post–World War I to the present. This class will also focus heavily on the system of alliances that help underwrite American Grand Strategy. The class will examine both the theory and the practice of grand strategy, and it will consider both defenses and critiques of the choices US leaders have made.

Dipl 6277 Global Health, Bioterrorism, And International Security, Yanzhong Huang Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course is an interdisciplinary survey that focuses on the issues of global health security. As shown in the COVID-19 pandemic, international trade and travel threaten epidemics by transporting and spreading infectious disease globally at jet speed. The growing risk of exposure to infectious diseases, coupled with the threat of intentional release of dangerous pathogens, creates a situation in which health and security are interacting with greater frequency and intensity. This development parallels efforts to redefine the concept of security to encompass new global challenges such as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). To what extent does health fit this new security agenda? …

Dipl 3470 Cyber Security And International Relations, Brandon Valeriano Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course explores the role that cyber security and cyber warfare play in intentional relations. It will examine the interactions, planning, history, and recent actions of states, the private sector, and the international community in cyberspace. We will explore how states and other actors leverage cyberspace to pursue goals and strategic objectives.

Hooked On A Feeling: The Importance Of Fostering Emotional Intelligence In Adolescents, Annika Wirkkala

Classical Conversations

In the summer of 2023, CNN reported on a 14-year old girl who claimed to have several mental health issues. These included ADHD, depression, autism, and various phobias. After a specialist examined her, however, she was officially diagnosed not with her extensive list of illnesses but with severe anxiety. How did this 14-year old girl become so convinced that she suffered from all of these problems? Social media. Sadly, this girl is not the only victim of social media self-diagnosis. According to the CNN report, “A growing number of teens are turning to social platforms such as Instagram and TikTok …

Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 113 (2nd Quarter, April 2024), National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

No abstract provided.

Harnessing Microbial Warfare To Identify Products Lethal To Pathogenic Free-Living Amoebae By Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Carrie Anne Flynn

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Acanthamoeba castellanii is a free-living amoeba (FLA) that causes untreatable, fatal infections of the central nervous system. FLA are ubiquitous in the environment, where they graze upon bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We interrogated P. aeruginosa—under evolutionary pressure to defend against amoebal grazing—as a producer of amoebicidal compounds that could serve as leads for new and urgently needed drugs to treat amoeba infections in humans. To accomplish this, we developed novel methods to quantify killing of A. castellanii trophozoites, pseudocysts, and cysts. Together, these high throughput, reproducible, and extensively validated assays provide a robust platform to measure viability of all …

Armed Political Parties And Their Violence, Drew Stommes

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Armed political parties have contested elections in myriad democracies. However, prior scholarship does not conceptually distinguish these parties from other categories of organized violence, nor does existing research account for micro-level variation in armed parties’ attacks against partisan rivals. The first chapter in my dissertation conceptually-differentiates armed political parties from other forms of organized violence, including autonomous rebel organizations and party- backed riot networks. In the second chapter, I develop a micro-level theory which explains armed party violence against partisan rivals. I contend that armed parties’ pre- and post-election attacks against rivals intend to consolidate local monopolies over electoral competition …

Quantitative Studies On International Security: Military Recruitment And Effectiveness, Chinese Public Nuclear Attitudes, And Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, Changwook Ju

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation examines conflict, violence, and security data to provide systematic knowledge about three cutting-edge topics in international security. The first chapter of this dissertation analyzes cross-national battle-level observational data and American battlefield performance in Vietnam to investigate the effects of different military recruitment strategies on battlefield effectiveness. The analysis finds that conscript armies outperform their volunteer counterparts in standard casualty-based battlefield effectiveness metrics; this effect is further bolstered by democratic regime type and longer enlistment terms. The second chapter employs an original survey experiment fielded in mainland China to challenge the purported normative constraints on nuclear use in China …

Investigations Of Bacteroides Thetaiotaomicron Population Dynamics, Anna P. Zagieboylo

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The human intestine contains a large, complex, and dynamic community of microbes termed the microbiota, which is made up of hundreds of individual species populations. Certain community compositions are linked to health or disease in the human host, and substantial effort has been directed towards identifying methods of modulating the microbiota composition for therapeutic purposes. While many studies assess which species are present or fluctuate within the community, little is known about fluctuations within individual isogenic populations over time. These types of high-resolution changes could reasonably be expected to have profound impacts on a commensal’s ability to colonize the gut …

Proactive International Law, Michal Saliternik, Sivan Shlomo Agon

UC Law Journal

This Article challenges the centuries-old reactive and past-oriented approach of international law. It suggests that while the reactive paradigm has facilitated practical solutions to the concrete problems faced by the international community, this paradigm has also led international law to become backward-looking and short-sighted, thereby hindering the discipline from acting in anticipation of long-term problems and developments.

Against this backdrop, this Article calls for a conceptual shift. It argues that the time has come to couple international law’s traditional reactive paradigm with a more proactive, forward-looking approach that is geared toward the future, with a view to preventing risks and …

Loose Purse Strings, Loose Cultures: How Resource Increase Affects Cultural Tightness-Looseness And Creativity In Large And Small Organizations, Caleb Chun Kwan Chu

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

For over a decade, cultural tightness-looseness (TL) has established itself as a culture construct that is useful in diverse contexts at multiple levels. While most TL research has focused on TL consequences, less attention has been paid to TL antecedents. This dissertation proposes resource increase as a TL predictor and uses a resource-based perspective to review and extend extant TL literature. I empirically examine the effect of resource increase on incremental and radical creativity as mediated by TL at the team level. I also explore the moderating effect of organizational size on these team-level relationships. The data were drawn from …

Choosing Between Two Meanings Of Competition In Antitrust Law, Randy M. Stutz

University of Baltimore Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mr. Antitrust: A Celebration Of Professor Robert Lande’S Career, John D. Bessler

University of Baltimore Law Review

No abstract provided.

Walking The Tightrope: Protecting Research From Foreign Exploitation While Fostering Relationships With Foreign Scientists, C. John Cox

SLU Law Journal Online

In response to extensive foreign efforts to take advantage of U.S. scientific research, especially by the People’s Republic of China, the United States has taken steps to protect its scientific and technology efforts. Although steps to prevent foreign government exploitation of U.S. research are reasonable and justified, the United States should be cognizant of these actions' impact on collaboration with foreign scientists. It is in the interest of the United States to effect policy that fosters relationships with foreign scientists rather than push them away.

How Does This End?: The Ukraine War And The Future Of Russia, Jonathan M. Acuff, Hannah N. Clegg

Intelligence and Security Studies

We analyze a range of future scenarios for Russia related to the Ukraine War. Although regime change is a publicly-stated objective for several leaders of NATO countries, we find very little prospect for it. The Russian economy has largely evaded the effects of the sanctions. Despite enormous casualties and incompetence in the management of the war, both Putin and the war remain popular with the Russian public. Contrary to most analysis to date, the Wagner Group mutiny of June 2023 is not an indication of Putin’s weakness, but his strength. The coercive mechanisms of the Russian state remain intact. Indeed, …