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- A Brief History of Nuclear Proliferation. August 2009
An overview of the 64 years of proliferation history intended to help understand the motives behind the decision to acquire the atomic bomb and grasp the subtle causal relationships between all actors involved in the proliferation chain.
- Russia and Ukrainian Denuclearization: Foreign Policy Under Boris Yeltsin. Honors Thesis. May 2009
This is a case study of the evolution of Russia’s policy toward the denuclearization of
Ukraine. It is intended to add to our understanding of a broader evolution of Russia’s foreign policy in the 1990s as well as to our appreciation of Boris Yeltsin’s role as a leader and policymaker. I address how this shift in Russia’s attitude toward Ukraine’s denuclearization fits into the overall pattern of Russia’s foreign policy and seek to explain the highlights in this transformation by analyzing the policies of Russian president Boris Yeltsin, accounting for the influence of his personal views and preferences, as well as for the various forces affecting his policy choices.
- A key to EU integration: in the head, in the heart, or in the wallet? May 2008
In “A small city in France” François Gaspard discusses the situation of immigrants who are “economically integrated and culturally excluded.” Can the prospect of making a decent living in a prosperous European economy, and of participating as a citizen in a stable European democracy, facilitate cultural inclusion and turn people away from the more alienated, divisive, and violent aspects of “identity politics” – that is, politics based on such things as ethnicity, race, and religion?
- Influence of Decisionmakers’ National Identity Conceptions on the Dynamics of Denuclearization of Ukraine and Belarus. May 2008
In November 1996, the last Soviet nuclear warheads were withdrawn from Belarus, ensuring non-nuclear status of the three former Soviet republics - Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, the only states, besides South Africa, to have given up fully developed nuclear arsenals. Belarus and Ukraine have much in common, but their denuclearization patterns were quite different. What could account for these significant disparities in the countries’ behavior during the negotiation and implementation of their nuclear dismantlement?
- „Wie soll ich mich nennen?“: Die vielseitige Natur des „schreibenden Ichs“ und die Rolle der Geschlechter in den Werken von Ingeborg Bachmann. Mai 2009
„What do I name myself?: A multifaceted nature of the „writing I“ and the role of gender in the works of Ingeborg Bachmann. May 2009 (In German)
- What role did Vietnam play in the 2004 election? November 2008
Vietnam started haunting presidential campaigns in 1964, before the United States had even become engaged in combat. The war affected the vote no less dramatically forty years later, when John Kerry’s Vietnam record was scrutinized in the elections of 2004.
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