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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This dissertation examines the adoption of new work organization practices in the small firm, manufacturing sector through an in-depth examination of the metalworking industry in western Massachusetts. An original survey ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The internal unity and discipline of insurgent groups helps us understand the military effectiveness of armed groups, patterns of violence against civilians, and the ability of insurgent organizations to negotiate and ...
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Explaining ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus : Mountainous Karabagh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)(cont.) the USSR and finds that a focus on opportunity provides the best explanation for the presence or absence of mass mobilization. Finally, the dissertation argues that conventional state security concerns best explain ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)In this dissertation, I ask four inter-related questions about state-sponsored terrorism. First, under what conditions do states choose to support foreign terrorist groups? Second, when do sponsor states stop supporting ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Counterinsurgency was a persistent and important challenge to military organizations in the second half of the 20th century and seems likely to continue to pose a challenge in the 21st century. This makes understanding how ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Economic crises are such powerful socioeconomic disasters that, not surprisingly, they are usually explained by powerful socioeconomic pressures, such as global financial speculation, structural economic failure, or populist ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation is driven by the following question: "What explains the variation in governments' civil liberty-abridging responses to terrorist attacks?" In the United States, it was not until a year after the 1995 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Globalization has transformed the markets in which agricultural goods are traded, placing new demands on farmers around the world. In developing countries, smallholder and peasant farmers lack many of the resources needed ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This dissertation asks: what explains variation in how other great powers respond to rising powers? It tries to explain why the emergence of a rising power sometimes leads to tension, rivalry, and war, and other times leads ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
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