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Flashpoints In Small State Diplomacy: The Effects Of Strategic Alignment, Democratic Norms, And Domestic Support In Ukraine And Taiwan On Us Commitments, Cooper T. Wilson

Senior Theses

In the field of international relations, the fate of small and mid-sized nations is often analyzed through the lens of great power politics, but this perspective misses half of the story. In this paper, I ask the question: what factors internal to smaller states affect their ability to court Western support? I compare the cases of Ukraine and Taiwan, as both are geopolitical flashpoints with a much larger aggressor, are widely researched for their implications on the global balance of power, yet lack sufficient research regarding their own actions on the world stage. Looking at the history of both states …

The Fall And Rise Of Bengali Muslim Conciousness: Conceptualising The Identity Of The Bangla Universal, Habib Khan

Theses and Dissertations

The emergence of modern-nation states saw the end of the empirical era of exploitation and exercise of inherent racist tendencies towards the 'other'. However, the effect of that colonial system is still ever-present in the creation and governance of these newly independent states. While every new state aims to be 'modern', they adopt the international legal framework of the West as their own - a system they had initially wanted to escape. The concept of Muslim universality in the form of the ummah should have freed Pakistan from the shackles of its former colonial masters. Instead, this phenomenon was replaced …

Immigration Policy After Covid-19 And Cultural Resistance At The U.S.-Mexico Border, Grace Ayres-Doyle

Senior Theses

What I examine here is how the global COVID-19 pandemic altered asylum and refugee responsibility among Global North countries. In particular, I look at cultural responses to restrictive pandemic policies which speak to the level of intensity of the current humanitarian crisis at the United States southern border with Mexico. The US-Mexico border functions well as a case study because of its highly publicized and discussed nature, along with the strong influence held by the US over the rest of the world. The cultural moment surrounding Title 42 and other pandemic policies represents a shift in public recognition of the …

Advancing United Nation’S Gender Mainstreaming: Female Peacekeepers In Haiti And Liberia, Evening S. Huddleston

Senior Theses

The United Nations (UN) is making efforts to implement a gender mainstreaming perspective throughout its organization, specifically including women in the peace processes. One aspect of this is increasing the number of female peacekeepers. To determine the success of these efforts, this paper explores whether the lives of women and girls were improved during UN peacekeeping missions in Haiti and Liberia. Using women’s and girls’ participation in education, law enforcement, and politics, as well as the Gender Development Index and the Gender Inequality Index, this paper finds that including women in peacekeeping roles adds a new dimension of skills and …

Trapped In The Margins: Russia, The United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, And The Story Of Afghan Refugees In Tajikistan, Meredith Schutt

Senior Theses

Since the Taliban’s return to Afghanistan, thousands of Afghans have fled the country in search of refugee status abroad. In the wake of this crisis, one country in the region, Tajikistan, opened its borders to Afghans, vowing to grant refugee status to 100,000. Today, Tajikistan has closed its borders and is forcibly returning Afghan refugees and asylum seekers. This research aims to reveal the extent of influence that external parties have on Afghan refugee flows in Tajikistan. For this paper, the two external parties examined are the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Russia. In examining the role …

Striving For Peace Through Speech: Analyzing The Effect Personal Diplomacy And Summitry Had On Presidential Communist Rhetoric, 1984-1986, Jack Cravwn

Senior Theses

Globalization has ushered in an unprecedented era of connected national politics, economies, and populations. Strong ties have intertwined the fates of nations and brought about a new era of international cooperation. However, the rise of populist and isolationist movements in the past two decades threatens to change the geopolitical landscape and diplomacy around the globe. As the United States loses its hegemonic role to the quickly growing economy of China, it is imperative that American foreign policy reflects the need for continued cooperation and support. This raises the question of the effectiveness state diplomacy and summitry has in easing tensions …

How Foreign Policy Is Manifested Through Diplomatic Discourse: An Analysis Of Us Ambassador Rhetoric At The Un Regarding Israeli Settlement Expansion, Alexandra M. Sayegh

Senior Theses

This thesis examines American ambassador discourse at the United Nations Security Council from 2012 to 2019 regarding the ongoing issue of Israeli settlement expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. While Israel’s settlement activity technically breaches international law as well as several UN resolutions, there is no binding aspect of the framework of international law that could compel Israel to cease its violations. This issue is further exacerbated by the fact that the United States often protects Israel from criticisms of its occupation regime in front of the international community. Previous research spanning several decades has revealed an evident bias in …

Authoritarian Propaganda Campaigns On Foreign Affairs: Four Birds With One Stone, Andrew Chubb, Frances Yaping Wang

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Why do authoritarian states sometimes play up dangerous internationalcrises and embarrassing diplomatic incidents in domestic propaganda? Isit to mobilize, threaten, divert or pacify? Recent studies in comparativepolitics have focused on regime legitimacy and stability as key drivers ofauthoritarian propaganda practices, overlooking other possiblemotivations such as mobilization of the regime’s domestic allies orstrategic signaling aimed at foreign audiences. Foreign policy analysts,meanwhile, have emphasized international dimensions of thepropaganda behavior of China — the contemporary world’s mostpowerful and technologically sophisticated authoritarian state — but haveoften mistakenly framed complementary theories as competingalternative explanations. Paying attention to the multiple domestic andinternational audiences for authoritarian propaganda, …

The Level Of Brain Mastery Among Graduate Students, Rokaya Akram Jawamir, Nabil Abdel Aziz Al-Badri

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The research aims to identify:

1- The level of professional brain mastery among graduate students.

2- There are statistically significant differences in brain dominance according to the variable (gender – specialization).

The current research sample consisted of (300) male and female students from the universities of Tikrit and Kirkuk, and the researcher adopted the cerebral dominance scale prepared by (Al-Alali, 2018) for cerebral dominance, which was translated and localized from the (Paul Torrance, 1982) scale, which measures the right and left patterns. And the integrated pattern is that the scale is global and has been translated into Arabic, so the …

The Novel Of Manners In Anne Tyler’S Breathing Lessons, Khitam Kamil Mubdir, Sahar Abdul Ameer Haraj

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper deals with Anne Tyler (1941) one of the most prolific American writer. Tyler’s Breathing Lessons is the eleventh novel, and the novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The novel is published in 1988. In this paper a study is undertaken to investigate the use of novel of manners in Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons. The novel contains a high dramatic plot than any exciting plot found in any thriller movie. The significance of Breathing Lessons is that it depicts the life of Maggie and her husband, Ira, an American couple and who are middle aged. This family maintains …

The Social Motives Of Oppression In Andalusian Poetry (The Era Of Beni Al-Ahmar), Jumaa Hussein Youssef, Muhammad Hamid Abdullah

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

In Andalusian poetry, oppression was an artistic phenomenon, its motives were numerous, and its causes were colored by the colors of its causes and the feelings of its owners. This research represents the endeavor to trace the social motives of this phenomenon, by revealing its dimensions and connotations in the souls of its creators from the Andalusian poets, those whose sense of oppression stifled their lives. So that strength becomes with him the first condition for a life worthy of humanity of man. The research is extracted from the doctoral thesis tagged (Conqueror in Andalusian entitled era of Bani al-Ahmar …

Criminalizing Cyberbullying With A Special Law, Nawfal Ali Abdullah Al-Safo, Marivan Mustafa Rashid

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The crime of cyberbullying has recently spread markedly, with the bully using websites such as social media sites, talk forums, blogs, etc., to pass intentional and strongly worded negative messages to gain, insult, wound, and even fling... etc., to distort the image of the receiving individual and harm him and his psyche amounting to depression and suicide to get rid of the bully. So many countries seek to control and reduce this grave crime against members of society by enacting laws and creating bullies. Cyberbullying, trying to raise sis to raise society's awareness of this crime and its dangers and …

The Impact Of The Wilen & Phillips Strategy On The Achievement Of 5th-Grade Literary Students In History And The Development Of Their Future Thinking., Majid Abed Nassif

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The aims of the current research is to identify (the impact of Willen and Phillips’ strategy on the achievement of 5th-grade literary students in history and the development of their future thinking). The researcher adopted the experimental design with two equal groups, to suit the nature of the research, and the research sample consisted of (63) students who were deliberately selected from Ibn Khaldoun High School for Boys, and this sample was randomly divided into two groups, one of them was experimental, which included (31) students, and the other control group, which included (32) students. The curriculum for parents and …

The Effect Of Using Inductive, Deductive, And Interactive Approach On Students’ Achievement In Teaching Grammar To Develop Writing Skills, Khlood Safaa Mahdi, Najwa Yassin Ismail

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

This study aims to implement grammatical competence strategies (inductive, inductive, and interactive) in developing students' writing in grammar and their attitudes towards English as a foreign language. To achieve the purpose of the study, the researchers applied the tools to target a sample of the second intermediate grade female students at Maysaloon Girls School in two groups, Experimental and control were used in this study. The experimental group was taught the inductive, deductive, and interactive strategies, and then the control freeware was studied in the traditional way method.While at a time when new trends in language teaching encourage the use …

The Effect Of Modeled Talk Strategy On Improving Efl Preparatory Pupils’ Speaking Skill, Kanaan Al.Hasan, Hanan Emad Maher

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The purpose of this research is to determine whether or not the Modelled Talk strategy improved the speaking skills of EFL Preparatory Pupils as measured by post-test recognition and production scores, as well as whether or not there was a significant difference in the performance of the experimental group between pre- and post-tests. Hypotheses for this research include,there is no significant difference in post-test scores between the Modelled Talk and control groups and there is no significant difference in post-test scores between the Modelled Talk and Post-Test 1 and Post-Test 2 experimental groups.The present study sampled (60)sixth grade class of …

The Impact Of International Non-Governmental Organizations On International Environmental Policy: Greenpeace As A Model, Siham Hathouti, Nayif Ahmed Dhahi

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

Greenpeace is one of the largest and most active international non-governmental organizations in the environmental field. It is making great efforts to defend environmental issues at the international level, also To raise awareness of them, and to limit the effects of threats that our planet facing.

Due to the successes it has accumulated, and the developments it has witnessed throughout its struggle, Green Peace was able to prove its presence on the international scene, and its directions and positions have become more accurate at the present time than they were in the past and more effective, after it had a …

The Impact Of Particular Exercises According To The Fluidity Of Kinetic Transfer For Some Variables Biomechanics For The Moment Of Upgrading And The Achievement Of A Long Jump Of The Talented, Ali Hussein Sagheer, Abbas Ali Lafta, Amjad Nsaif Jasem

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The research contained introduction, problem, hypotheses and objectives, as it touched upon the impact of particular exercises according to the fluidity of kinetic transfer on some biomechanical variables at the moment of upgrading for the research sample from the talented long-jumpers . As the research touched on the stages of the smooth transport motion the penultimate step and the last step of the speed. And the starting speed of the body, the angle of departure, the fluidity of motion, the kinetic transfer and the achievement of the sample members. Where the results for the control and experimental groups and the …

The Effect Of 6t'S Strategy On Efl Pupils' Achievement, Isra’A Burhanuddin Abdurrahman, Layla Madlool Kurdii

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The current study aims at Assessing the average level of the 5th year preparatory school pupils' achievement in English, finding out whether there is any significant difference between the EFL pupils' achievement of the experimental group and that of the control group in the posttest and finding out whether there is any significant difference between the pupils' achievement of the experimental group on pretest and posttest. In order to achieve the aims of the study three hypothesis are set. First, there is a significant difference between pupils' general achievement and the theoretical mean at the (0.05) level of significance. Second, …

Developing Efl Pupils´ Achievement: Investigating The Effect Of Dynamic Assessment Strategy On Secondary Pupils, Sahira Ali Hussein, Kanaan Al.Hasan

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The current research aims at finding out the effect of dynamic assessment strategy on EFL pupils’ Achievement at the same time it aims to find out the effect of dynamic assessment strategy on developing EFL pupils’ Achievement. It hypotheses that there is no statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group which is taught by dynamic assessment strategy and the mean scores of the control group which is taught by the conventional methods in the achievement post-tests. It also hypotheses that there is no statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group in the …

Roundtable Technique And Its Correlation With Efl Preparatory School Students' Achievement In Writing Hortatory Exposition Text, Wassan Amer Taha, Nahida Taha Majeed

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

Foreign language instruction methodology has been varying over the years; however, there is no one single best technique to use in teaching English as a foreign language. The best language teaching method depends on several issues such as: learners’ levels, learning processes, teacher competencies, and the aims of learning. The present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of using Roundtable Technique for teaching Hortatory Exposition Text (HET) to preparatory school students through:

1.Finding the average level of the fifth year-scientific preparatory school students' achievement in writing HET.

2.Finding whether there is any significant difference between the achievement of the experimental …