Browsing by Subject "International Relations"
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Automated Learning of Event Coding Dictionaries for Novel Domains with an Application to Cyberspace
(2016)Event data provide high-resolution and high-volume information about political events. From COPDAB to KEDS, GDELT, ICEWS, and PHOENIX, event datasets and the frameworks that produce them have supported a variety of research ... -
Bumbling, Bluffing, and Bald-Faced Lies: Mis-Leading and Domestic Audience Costs in International Relations
(2011)In a democratic society, does the electorate approve of truth and disapprove of deception, do opinion patterns exclusively mimic partisan elite views, or do opinion patterns react exclusively to successful or failed outcomes? ... -
Caught in the Middle: Multilateral Development Bank Responses to Environmental Performance
(2011)Since their creation, the multilateral development banks have accumulated performance records that include both substantial successes and stunning failures. Nowhere have their performance records been more mixed and controversial ... -
Censorship Diffusion: How the International Neighborhood Influences Domestic Digital Policing
(2022)Recent decades have witnessed increasing levels of internet censorship as part of the global diffusion of digital authoritarianism, yet the causes and patterns of the diffusion remain uncertain. This article argues that ... -
Climate science strategy of the US National Marine Fisheries Service
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Comparing Stakeholder Perceptions With Empirical Outcomes From Negotiated Rulemaking Policies: Is Participant Satisfaction a Proxy for Policy Success?
(Marine Policy, 2016)Evaluation of natural resource management policies often is made difficult by lack of robust or long-term data on the resource. In the absence of empirical data, natural resource policy evaluation may rely on expert ... -
Describing the diversity of community supported fishery programs in North America
(Marine Policy, 2016-04-01)© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. This research investigates organizational diversity within Community Supported Fisheries (CSFs) in North America. Generally understood as the direct marketing of seafood through pre-arranged deliveries, ... -
Domestic Courts and Global Governance: the Politics of Private International Law
(2007-12-04)Since the mid-1980s, U.S. and foreign parties have filed more than 100,000 lawsuits in U.S. federal courts asking for adjudication of disputes arising from transnational activity. These lawsuits raise a fundamental question ... -
Essays on the Application of Game Theory in International Relations and Law
(2023)This dissertation employs game theoretic techniques to examine various topics in international relations and law. Chapter 2 uses a crisis bargaining model that accounts for prior bargaining agreements to study the conditions ... -
International Crises and Violent Non-State Actors: Ethnic Mobilization and Crisis Management
(2011)This dissertation explains the influence of ethnic non-state actors on the management of International Crises. I begin by arguing that when actively engaged in a crisis, ethnic actors contribute to; crisis violence, indecisive ... -
Nonstate Actors and Compliance with International Agreements: An Empirical Analysis of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
(International Organization, 2018)© 2017 The IO Foundation. International relations scholarship has made great progress on the study of compliance with international agreements. While persuasive, most of this work has focused on states' de jure compliance ... -
Preparing for the Next Frontier: Considering a Modern Version of the Outer Space Treaty
(2019-12-06)The international treaty system that governs activities in space was designed decades ago to prevent inappropriate actions by government actors. In recent years, this system has started to fall behind the growth in privately ... -
Technology and Development: The Political Economy of Open Source Software
(2010)This dissertation examines the role of governments in adopting Open Source Software (OSS) for their needs and tries to explain the variation in adoption and implmentation, among both developing and developed countries. The ... -
The Cybersecurity Dilemma
(2011)Scholars have long recognized and debated the effects of the "security dilemma," where efforts by states to enhance their security can decrease the security of others. The severity of a security dilemma, and the prospects ... -
The Political Impact of Islamic Fundamentalist Bloc on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(2010)This study investigates the interaction between political influences of Islamic fundamentalist parties and the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. The author selects four salient actors, based on five characteristics of contemporary ...
