Browsing by Author "Fuhrmann, Matthew"
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Alley, Joshua Keegan (2020-05-13)In this dissertation, I examine how military alliance participation impacts military spending. Despite long-standing expectations that alliances affect military spending, we still do not know how. One group of scholars ...
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Subbaiah, Meyappan (2016-07-14)The study of various indicators of nuclear proliferation actions by states can identify the associated level of risk. This study expands upon previous proliferation risk work by investigating the number of Enrichment and ...
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Armstrong, Anna G. (2021-04-26)The original molten salt reactor (MSR) concepts were developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the 1960s. Increasing energy demands and concerns about global CO2 emissions have emphasized the need for advanced ...
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Jin, Hwalmin (2022-05-26)How do we conceptualize and precisely measure the effort of political leaders to control the military? Which external factors impact the degree to which political leaders seek to exert control over the military? And what ...
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Janpuangtong, Sasin (2019-11-25)This dissertation attempts to address the changing needs of data science and analytics: making it easier to produce accurate models opening up opportunities and perspectives for novices to make sense of existing data. This ...
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Gariazzo, Claudio (2017-12-04)States collaborate to achieve common goals. In the interest of advancing nuclear security globally, states have previously formed bilateral partnerships that allow two states to cooperate in germane areas of the nuclear ...
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Boo, Heukjin (2019-05-23)The objective of this project study is to analyze the non-uniformity of used fuel assembly nuclide compositions and to estimate the effect of this non-uniformity in Pu accountancy using the Pu-to^244Cm ratio method for ...
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Nurym, Kazybek (2021-07-07)The breakout time and the nuclear weapons latency were calculated for India’s first peaceful nuclear explosion (PNE). Breakout time is defined as the time required to acquire the minimum amount of weapons-grade plutonium ...
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Lee, Kyung Suk (2022-12-13)My dissertation examines the underlying factors that shape public attitudes toward nuclear weaponization and investigates the causal public opinion-nuclear policy linkage. The domestic causes of nuclear proliferation have ...
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Preferences, Knowledge, and Citizen Probability Assessments of the Terrorism Risk of Nuclear Power Li, Quan; Fuhrmann, Matthew; Early, Bryan R.; Vedlitz, Arnold (10/21/2011)How does the American public assess risk when it comes to national security issues? This paper addresses this question by analyzing variation in citizen probability assessments of the terrorism risk of nuclear power plants. ...
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Berkemeier, Molly Louisa (2019-05-15)How do relationships between leaders influence world politics? I argue that shared identity between leaders makes cooperation more likely by increasing interpersonal trust. Leaders who share more similar social identities ...
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Dvir, Rotem (2021-04-16)This project explores how time horizons influence decision-making in international conflict. Despite their prevalence as an explanation for conflict behavior, it is less clear how temporal orientations lead to selecting ...
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Yi, Joo Won (2023-04-27)During the age of colonialism, colonial powers frequently utilized native populations for military service. For example, over 11 million colonial soldiers served in World War II alone. Yet, the long-run consequences of ...
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Kim, James Dongjin (2023-07-09)This dissertation examines the effect of wartime violence on individual preferences and behavior in the context of national security and foreign policy. The central theory proposes that exposure to wartime violence instills ...
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Kwon, Yewon (2023-05-30)The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the effective design of coercion strategies from the perspective of the coercing country in international conflict negotiations. The dissertation seeks to validate the argument ...
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Kwon, Yewon (2023-05-30)The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the effective design of coercion strategies from the perspective of the coercing country in international conflict negotiations. The dissertation seeks to validate the argument ...
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Fuhrmann, Matthew; Horowitz, Michael C. (The Journal of Politics, 2015)