นโยบายต่างประเทศของรัสเซียต่อกรณีพิพาทหมู่เกาะคูริลระหว่าง ค.ศ. 2000 ถึง 2008,
2018
คณะรัฐศาสตร์
นโยบายต่างประเทศของรัสเซียต่อกรณีพิพาทหมู่เกาะคูริลระหว่าง ค.ศ. 2000 ถึง 2008, นราวดี สุวรรณกูฏ
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
วิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้ต้องการศึกษาปัจจัยที่ทำให้รัสเซียในสมัยประธานาธิบดีวลาดิเมียร์ ปูตินดำเนินนโยบายต่างประเทศที่แข็งกร้าวมากขึ้นต่อกรณีพิพาทหมู่เกาะคูริลระหว่างค.ศ. 2000 ถึง 2008 ทั้งนี้ผู้วิจัยศึกษาปัจจัยในสามระดับ ได้แก่ 1. ตัวแสดงระดับปัจเจกบุคคล 2. ตัวแสดงระดับภายในประเทศ 3. ตัวแสดงระดับระหว่างประเทศ เพื่อศึกษาว่าปัจจัยใดที่ส่งผลให้ท่าทีของรัสเซียแข็งกร้าว ซึ่งแตกต่างจากสมัยแรกของประธานาธิบดีปูตินรัสเซียที่ยังพยายามเจรจาแก้ไขกรณีพิพาทหมู่เกาะคูริล จุดเปลี่ยนเกิดขึ้นในสมัยที่สองเมื่อรัสเซียเริ่มพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจบนหมู่เกาะและมีการประจำกองทัพโดยมีเป้าหมายหลักด้านความมั่นคง การศึกษาพบว่าปัจจัยที่ส่งผลให้รัสเซียดำเนินนโยบายที่แข็งกร้าวมากขึ้นเพราะตัวแสดงระดับภายในประเทศและตัวแสดงระดับระหว่างประเทศ เพราะในสมัยแรกรัสเซียยังยินดีที่จะเจรจาตามปฏิญญาร่วมระหว่างอดีตสหภาพโซเวียตและญี่ปุ่น ค.ศ. 1956 ซึ่งรัสเซียตกลงที่จะคืนเกาะชิโกตันและเกาะฮาโบไมซึ่งเป็นสองเกาะเล็กให้ญี่ปุ่น แต่ท่าทีของรัสเซียในสมัยที่สองได้เปลี่ยนแปลงไป รัสเซียยังคงยืนกรานอำนาจอธิปไตยเหนือหมู่เกาะคูริลและแสดงท่าทีแข็งกร้าวที่จะไม่คืนแม้แต่เกาะชิโกตันและเกาะฮาโบไมให้ญี่ปุ่น บทบาทของตัวแสดงระดับภายในประเทศที่มีผลอย่างมากต่อท่าทีของรัสเซีย คือ สภาดูม่าซาคาลินส์ซึ่งต่อต้านการยกหมู่เกาะคูริลให้ญี่ปุ่นส่งผลให้เกิดความขัดแย้งภายในรัสเซีย เพราะในตอนแรกรัฐบาลซึ่งนำโดยประธานาธิบดีปูตินมีท่าทีประนีประนอมต่อการแก้ไขกรณีพิพาทหมู่เกาะคูริล ส่วนบทบาทตัวแสดงระดับระหว่างประเทศที่สำคัญคือสหรัฐอเมริกาที่เป็นพันธมิตรหลักของญี่ปุ่น ยิ่งทำให้รัสเซียหวั่นเกรงเรื่องความมั่นคงเพราะหากรัสเซียยกหมู่เกาะคูริลให้ญี่ปุ่น สหรัฐอเมริกาอาจจะเข้ามาตั้งฐานทัพในหมู่เกาะคูริลได้ในอนาคต บทบาทของตัวแสดงระดับภายในประเทศและตัวแสดงระดับระหว่างประเทศส่งผลให้รัสเซียไม่สามารถยกหมู่เกาะคูริลให้ญี่ปุ่นได้
Liberty And The Challenge Of Diversity,
2018
Singapore Management University
Liberty And The Challenge Of Diversity, Chandran Kukathas
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Those who favor liberty face a dilemma arising out of human diversity.While some groups of people will place a high value on liberty, others mayconsider it a lesser good or may value it scarcely at all. Preserving a free society by forcing everyone to value liberty runs against the spirit of freedom;but leaving those groups who do not care for liberty to live in that way alsodiminishes liberty, if in a different way. In the end the dilemma has to beresolved in favor of tolerating even those who do not care for liberty andthreaten to undermine it.
Testing The Impact Of State-Society Relations On Human Security,
2018
Northern Illinois University
Testing The Impact Of State-Society Relations On Human Security, Ilhan Aydemir
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
The aim of this dissertation is to provide explanations for why prosperity, peace and development are achieved in some countries but not in others. To do so, this research analyzes how civil society and state capacity effect human security; using an explanatory mixed-method approach. The statistical analysis used in this research is a time series cross-sectional data analysis covering over 160 countries from 1984 to 2014. The statistical findings are further tested by comparative case studies of Slovenia, Lithuania, Russia and Singapore. The results suggest that civil society and state capacity are significant factors for explaining how different levels of …
From Dissent To Democracy? The Promise And Perils Of Civil Resistance Transitions,
2018
University of Denver
From Dissent To Democracy? The Promise And Perils Of Civil Resistance Transitions, Jonathan C. Pinckney
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Under what conditions will successful nonviolent revolutions be followed by democratization? While the scholarly literature has shown that nonviolent resistance has a positive effect on a country's level of democracy, little research to date has disaggregated this population to explain which cases of successful nonviolent resistance lead to democracy and which do not. In this study I present a theory of democratization in civil resistance transitions in which I argue that political actors' behavior in three strategic challenges: mobilization, maximalism, and holdovers policy, systematically affect the likelihood of democratization. I test this theory using a nested research design that begins …
The Meaning Of A Woman's Work: Refugees, Statelessness, Nationality, And The Women's International League For Peace And Freedom, 1918-1931,
2018
Eastern Illinois University
The Meaning Of A Woman's Work: Refugees, Statelessness, Nationality, And The Women's International League For Peace And Freedom, 1918-1931, Monica Burney
Masters Theses
This work analyzes how the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) sought to influence how the League of Nations approached questions of nationality and statelessness between 1918 and 1931. Especially important were the WILPF's efforts to aid women and children who remained in Turkey following the Armenian genocide, as well as the organization's efforts to address the statelessness crisis that arose following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary. Their activism helped to pressure the League of Nations into creating the Commission of Enquiry on Deported Women and Children in Turkey and Asia Minor. Their efforts to end statelessness culminated in …
War Spin: How U.S. Politicians, The President And The Media Frame Foreign Intervention,
2018
Eastern Illinois University
War Spin: How U.S. Politicians, The President And The Media Frame Foreign Intervention, Samantha White
Masters Theses
In this research, I seek to explain how three different foreign policy actors, the President, key Senators, and the media frame intervention policy when determining if intervention is used for human rights versus U.S. interests. I will be looking at four different areas of turmoil (Bosnia (1992-1995), Rwanda (1994), Syria (2011-present) and Iraq (2003-2011)) to see if the Presidents, Senators, and the media framed their intervention around human rights atrocities being committed, or if they framed it around a national security dilemma.
Stuck In The Anthropocene: The Problem Of History, Theory And Practice In Jason W. Moore And John Bellamy Foster's Eco-Marxism,
2018
Northern Michigan University
Stuck In The Anthropocene: The Problem Of History, Theory And Practice In Jason W. Moore And John Bellamy Foster's Eco-Marxism, Alexander M. Stoner, Andony P. Melathopoulos
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Under Pressure: Explaining Backlash Against Civil Society In The Andean Community,
2018
Pomona College
Under Pressure: Explaining Backlash Against Civil Society In The Andean Community, Noah Anders Levine
Pomona Senior Theses
In this thesis, I consider the trend of increasing backlash against civil society around the world. I focus on Ecuador and Peru, both democratic countries that have placed restrictions on NGOs receiving foreign funding. I examine both countries in terms of changes over time in the regulatory environment for NGOs. I ask: What factors motivated these changes? I analyze the countries with respect to three possible explanations: defending sovereignty against foreign powers, stifling internal dissent, and seeking rents. In answering this question, I draw upon the laws in question, press releases, and news reports as well as interviews with NGO …
A Comparative Study Of Extreme Religious Nationalist Terrorist Groups In The United States,
2018
Virginia Commonwealth University
A Comparative Study Of Extreme Religious Nationalist Terrorist Groups In The United States, Colleen Arthur
UROP Posters
The aim of this paper is to conduct a comparative study of Radical Right Wing terrorism and Radical Islamic terrorism both of which are categorized under the Religious Nationalism/Extremism typology of terrorism. In order to compare and contrast the two fairly, I broke down the ideology, motives, methods, and the demographic profile of members of both Radical Right Wing and Radical Islamic terrorism then provided examples of different groups that fall within those categories in order to effectively illustrate the striking similarities of the two categories that have been addressed and condemned differently by the United States. Then I had …
Dangerous Delegation: Explaining The Rationales And Outcomes Of State Sponsorship Of Terrorism Through The Principal-Agent Framework,
2018
Binghamton University--SUNY
Dangerous Delegation: Explaining The Rationales And Outcomes Of State Sponsorship Of Terrorism Through The Principal-Agent Framework, Jeremy M. Berkowitz
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
State sponsorship of terrorism, where a government deliberately provides resources and material support to a terrorist organization, is common in the international system. By conceptualizing state sponsorship as a relationship between a principal and agent, I develop a consistent theoretical model that explains why states pursue this foreign policy strategy, as well as how they rationally attempt to minimize the inherent risks of delegating to violent non-state actors. I test my model by using a novel dataset on sponsorship behaviors that improves on the range, detail, and temporality of previously used measurements. My dissertation is organized into three distinct papers, …
Compliance With Imf Austerity: Labor Rights, Protest, And Repression,
2018
Binghamton University--SUNY
Compliance With Imf Austerity: Labor Rights, Protest, And Repression, Brendan Skip Mark
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation explores the domestic consequences of International Monetary Fund (IMF) program lending. It argues that when governments implement austerity reforms attached to IMF loans it increases human rights violations and violence in borrower governments. A new measure of IMF compliance is developed and used to explore the consequences of IMF lending in the 21st century. Past research exploring IMF lending consequences has assumed compliance away. While IMF program lending is largely seen as a failure there is significant debate about the causes of failure. Human rights scholars have argued that austerity policies impose significant hardships on citizens in borrower …
A Prediction Of Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. V. Colorado Civil Rights Commission,
2018
University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
A Prediction Of Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. V. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Hilary Price
Honors Theses
This is a study of the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The paper attempts to make a prediction of the ruling based on factors relevant to the Court's decision. I studied the facts of the case, the briefs submitted by petitioners and respondents, Supreme Court precedents, interpretive tests, amicus curiae briefs, and voting patterns of the Supreme Court Justices. Based on this information, I came to the conclusion that I believe the Court will issue a conservative ruling in favor of petitioners, Masterpiece Cakeshop.
Exploring Announcement Dynamics In Select Republican Primary Elections,
2018
University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
Exploring Announcement Dynamics In Select Republican Primary Elections, Mitchell Redd
Honors Theses
This thesis is a reflection of my general interests in intra-partisan electoral conflict. Empirically, my study is motivated by Aaron King's (2017) theory about the relationship between announcement timing in U.S. Senate primary contests and experience in the arena of federal elections. I develop a measure that credits candidates with the highest score if they are an incumbent Senator, then three lower scores ranging from higher office to no experience. I then examine how this measure relates to the timing of candidacy announcements inside nine upcoming Republican primary contests for U.S. Senate nominations. I test two, tentative hypotheses about how …
Back On The Block: Spousal Transitional Difficulties In Military Retirement,
2018
Antioch University, New England
Back On The Block: Spousal Transitional Difficulties In Military Retirement, Rhianna Kelsey Flohr
PsyD Program in Clinical Psychology Doctoral Dissertations (New England)
Service members who serve active duty for 20 years qualify for military retirement with retired pay. This study examined whether sociodemographic and clinical factors are associated with higher levels of transitional difficulty in spouses of retired military service members following at least 20 years of active duty service. Veteran research has shown that a variety of sociodemographic and clinical factors influence the ease with which the service member transitions back into a civilian lifestyle. Factors contributing to greater transitional difficulties for veterans include: (a) experience of a traumatic event, (b) probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), (c) race and ethnicity, (d) …
Just War: New Customary International Law To Combat Violent Non-State Actor Groups?,
2018
University of Texas at El Paso
Just War: New Customary International Law To Combat Violent Non-State Actor Groups?, Lisa Marie Holz
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
The issue that this study focused upon was the legitimacy of military interventions by a state against a violent non-state actor group located within another state's territory. The research sought to answer how interventions by the United States and its allies have evolved during the post 9/11 era. It additionally explored if the justification for military interventions had changed. This study used data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and the United Nations Security Council to create a hybrid data-set and analyzed the data for the location and number of states participating in operations against violent non-state actors ("VNSAs"). This …
Copy And Paste Lawmaking: Legislative Professionalism And Policy Reinvention In The States,
2018
Loyola University Chicago
Copy And Paste Lawmaking: Legislative Professionalism And Policy Reinvention In The States, Eric Hansen, Joshua M. Jansa, Virginia Gray
Political Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Research on policy reinvention tends to focus on whether policies become more or less comprehensive over time while neglecting to explain copying policy language verbatim. We argue that the extent to which lawmakers reinvent policy depends on the resources available to them. Lawmakers serving in more professional state legislatures have greater capacity to reinvent policies. In contrast, lawmakers serving in less professional settings are more likely to copy policy language. As evidence, we gather bill texts of 12 policies that diffused across the 50 states between 1982 and 2014. Using cosine similarity scores to measure language copying, we find that …
Partisan Conflict, Policy Uncertainty And Aggregate Corporate Cash Holdings,
2018
University of South Carolina
Partisan Conflict, Policy Uncertainty And Aggregate Corporate Cash Holdings, Chak Hung Jack Cheng, Ching Wai (Jeremy) Chiu, William B. Hankins, Anna Leigh Stone
Research, Publications & Creative Work
This paper distinguishes political uncertainty from policy uncertainty shocks and uncovers new empirical facts about how each impacts the aggregate cash holdings of US firms. Our baseline structural vector autoregression model shows that an exogenous one standard deviation shock to political and economic policy uncertainty is followed by 1 and 1.8% increase in aggregate corporate cash-to-total assets after five and eight quarters, respectively. The baseline result also shows that policy uncertainty shocks tend to raise financial market volatility while political uncertainty shocks tend to lower financial market volatility. Moreover, we find evidence that political uncertainty exerts asymmetric effects on aggregate …
You've Got A Friend In Me: The Effects Of Lgbtqia+ Legislators On Same-Sex Partnership Rights In Latin America,
2018
The College of Wooster
You've Got A Friend In Me: The Effects Of Lgbtqia+ Legislators On Same-Sex Partnership Rights In Latin America, Danica Genners
Senior Independent Study Theses
Scholars have debated how descriptive representation might operate as a vehicle for furthering minority rights. Rarely discussed in this literature is the role that the election of LGBTQIA+ politicians can have on overall approval of LGBTQIA+ rights within a country. This study aims to identify the various effects that LGBTQIA+ sexual minority federal representatives in Latin America have on public opinion on pro-LGBTQIA+ policies. Using a multi-year, cross-national survey of eleven Latin American countries my study tests whether the election of a LGBTQIA+ representative is related to more progressive views on same-sex marriage. This study finds that the election of …
Masculinity (De)Construction And Policing: A Comparative Study Of Representation, Policies, And Legitimacy,
2018
The College of Wooster
Masculinity (De)Construction And Policing: A Comparative Study Of Representation, Policies, And Legitimacy, Sarah Huffman
Senior Independent Study Theses
The culture of policing oftentimes equates police competency with masculinity, valorizing physicality and bravery, but at the expense of other characteristics included in policework such as service and protection. The introduction of more female officers into police services leads the question as to how their increased representation (de)constructs traditional masculinist attitudes and affects gender inclusive policy and actions of a police service, encompassing police response to cases of domestic and sexual violence. This study investigates whether higher gender equity in a police service increases gender inclusive policy and actions by the police and whether this factor, in turn, increases public …
Real Fake News: The Colbert Report And Affective Polarization,
2018
The College of Wooster
Real Fake News: The Colbert Report And Affective Polarization, Jeffrey J. Skoroda
Senior Independent Study Theses
This Independent Study examines the relationship between political satire and affective polarization. Affective polarization is a newly growing form of political polarization wherein partisans are polarized based on mutual dislike for opposing partisans rather than ideological disagreements. Political news has been linked to this recent trend in polarization. Over the past two decades, political scientists have taken an interest in investigating the impact of political satire programs like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report through the same lens as traditional political news. These satirical news programs implement satire, a more complex form of comedy that can require more cognitive …
