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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The objective of this dissertation is to systematize the existing hypotheses in the electoral engineering literature and to test them in a set of selected case studies in order to answer a central question: does the electoral ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This project seeks to explain what happens to armed organizations after they sign peace accords. Why do they dissolve, return to war, or form non-violent socio-political entities (political parties or civic associations)? ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation aims at accounting for labor responses to globalization in France. It addresses this issue through a comparative study of two labor organizations-the French Democratic Labor Confederation (CFDT) and the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This dissertation presents a new type of theory about the impact of increased transnational capital flows on state building processes. Most of the political science literature about globalization has been focused on debating ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This dissertation analyzes the factors that lead to the transformation of labor regulations and institutions after the opening of previously closed economies, using the case of Argentina as a "crucial case". In the 1990s, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)China's personnel contributions to United Nations peace operations has significantly increased in the first decade of the twenty-first century, however little academic or policy attention has been given to examining patterns ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Nuclear weapons are the most powerful weapons in human history, but contrary to virtually every prediction by scholars, relatively few states have acquired them. Why are there so few nuclear weapons states? What factors ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Since the end of the Second World War, a norm of "border fixity" - a proscription of foreign conquest and annexation of homeland territory - has become prevalent in world politics. Such practices are no longer acceptable ...
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Bringing it all to the table : examining variance in strategic approaches within the six-party talk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)In the approaches seen at the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, why did states faced with the same security problem adopt different strategies? Answering this question will bring understanding to why the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)The spread of civil war due to refugee crises has occurred repeatedly throughout history. In some refugee crises, the sending state pursues the refugees, subjecting them to military attack. In other cases, militant exiles ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)In the wake of September 11th, policy analysts, journalists, and academics have tried to make sense of the rise of militant Islam, particularly its role as a motivating and legitimating force for violence against the US. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This dissertation examines the factors affecting national security mission assignment decisions. It focuses on cases in which military or civilian agents are selected in lieu of the other. Six factors are identified for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
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