Browsing by Department "International Affairs"
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(2017-03-06)On August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The subsequent liberation by a US-led coalition served as a watershed moment in US-Kuwaiti relations. The Gulf War is often viewed as the onset of the close relationship ...
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(Brookings Institution, 2014-07)
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(Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, 2019-05)One hundred years ago the 1918 influenza pandemic swept the globe, killing between 50-90 million people. The loss of life was so great that cities throughout the United States struggled to keep up with burials; it is ...
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(2017-03-06)The increased frequency of natural disasters globally has prioritized the need for a broader understanding of disaster resilience. More recently, on April 25 and May 12 of 2015, two major earthquakes devastated many ...
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(2016-08-19)Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker present their book "Counterstrike," detailing the US's war on terror and the group of military analysts at intelligence agencies and in law enforcement developed a new strategy to fight terrorism ...
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(2015-07-08)Bush School Alum, Ambassador Nasir A. Andisha, presents his doctoral thesis on the "Desirability and Feasibility of a Policy of Neutrality in Afghanistan: The Dilemma of Collective Security and Neutrality in Afghanistan."
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(2017-03-06)Eleven million Syrians have fled their homes or have been killed as a result of the Syrian Civil War that began in 2011 (Mercy Corps, 2016). The violence, destruction of homes, human rights violations, and lack of access ...
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(2016-09-02)
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The complicity of the United States in the military coup which led to Augusto Pinochet’s rise of power highlights their subsequent interference in Chile’s economic development. Chile served as a laboratory for the United ...
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(2017-03-06)We argue that military exercises can create four types of risk—accidents, hostility, reciprocity, and crises. The level of risk an exercise creates is determined by two factors. The first factor is the political environment ...
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(2016-03-22)Dr. Peter Hotez discusses the future of medicine and technology in the face of new and developing diseases. He looks at recent pandemics and outbreaks and discusses how vaccine diplomacy can change the world.
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(2017-03-06)In functioning states, despite a lack of authoritative power, judiciaries are respected and their rulings are adhered to by their respective citizens. This is known as judicial legitimacy. Popular support of the court ...
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(2017-03-06)The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), released by the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2010, announced an unprecedented shift in the U.S. nuclear policy away from state-based threats to nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism ...
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(2017-02-28): In the mid-1990s two infectious disease outbreaks – Pneumonic Plague in Surat, India and Ebola in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) - caused great concern globally. At that time the standard communication ...
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(2016-11-03)
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(2017-08-04)Nicolas Werth is a prominent French historian, and an internationally known expert on communist studies, particularly the history of the Soviet Union. He is the son of Alexander Werth, a Russian-born British journalist ...
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Historically, France has experienced and integrated many periods of immigration, although France observed a shift in the origin of immigrants following World War II, with the majority of new immigrants hailing from former ...
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(2017-09-27)The international higher education community is now confronting unprecedented challenges as it pursues ongoing federal support for its long-established programs. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the need for a ...
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(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2024-01)