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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Three times in this century the US public has panicked with fear because of exaggerations of external threats to the nation. These panics peaked in 1950,1960, and 1980. Why did the U.S. markedly exaggerate the Soviet threat ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This dissertation finds that the full implementation of the traditional security approaches of prevention, deterrence and defense would not be effective at protecting the United States from a catastrophic biological attack. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This dissertation explores the evolution of welfare systems in post-socialist countries. Utilizing a range of data on social policy legislation and outcomes across countries, the author shows the extent to which post-socialist ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis examines technological innovation capabilities in the Chinese machine tool, automobile, telecommunications equipment, and information technology sectors in the era of reform ( 1979-2002). Contrary to other ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This dissertation explores how states can use positive inducements and negative sanctions to successfully bargain with nuclear proliferators and prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. It seeks to answer the following ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation considers three implications of collective self-government for just foreign policies in an imperfect world. Individuals are the appropriate moral unit of analysis, constrained to govern themselves justly, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Great Powers often adopt coercive strategies, threatening or using limited force to convince weak states to comply with their demands. While coercive strategies have succeeded in just over half of asymmetric crises since ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Coercion is at the center of politics, yet how it is organized has remained poorly understood. This dissertation analyzes how the Chilean military regime (1973-90) organized coercion, focusing especially on two major shifts ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation explores the origins of interstate reconciliation after traumatic conflicts, mainly through the comparative study of postwar Sino-Japanese and (West) German-Polish relations. While Germany and Poland have ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Community participation in development projects, in which billions of dollars are invested every year, has become quite controversial. While these initiatives can be beneficial, many participatory projects fall short of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Chapter 2 is based on two axioms: party members must run under common platforms, but are made up of incumbents who seek their own individual re-election. Politicians seek to win their own seats in the legislature, but they ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation assesses the international security implications of biological weapons and the strategic consequences of their proliferation. It examines the impact of biological weapons on four key areas of concern for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Practitioners, journalists, and historians believe that leaders play a crucial role in determining events. Social science theories, however, generally argue that leaders are unimportant. This dissertation proposes a two-stage ...
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Paths toward the modern fiscal state : England (1642-1752), Japan (1868-1895), and China (1850-1911) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation examines the rise of the modem fiscal state, which enabled the state to use centrally collected revenues from indirect taxes to mobilize financial resources either through long-term borrowing or issuing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Using a combination of historical case studies and insights from formal modeling, this study proposes and tests a new theory to explain one piece of a poorly understood phenomenon, namely the strategic use of population ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Governments often try to use their foreign policies to influence the choice of who will rule in other countries. However, scholars know strikingly little about this commonplace and consequential phenomenon, especially when ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)(cont.) models of local governance, questioning blanket statements about the virtues of political decentralization. The managerial elitist" model favors individual participation and technical/centralized decision-making ...
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