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Submissions from 2017
Identity Groups and the Obama Presidency: A Retrospective, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Iranians in the Land of the Incas, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Iranians in the Land of the Incas, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Iran involvement in South America, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Bringing Cuba Back!, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz and Joshua Kohler da Cruz
Keynote Address, Duke Talent Identification Program, Steven Engel
Keynote Address, Region 8 STAR Student/STAR Teacher Banquet, Steven Engel
Developing On-line Materials for Thesis Preparation, Steven Engel, Lisa A. Costello, Jacqueline K. Eastman, Joe Pellegrino, and Jamie E. Scalera
Celebration of Wexford-Savannah Links, Steven Engel and Howard Keeley
Historic Grounding for Contemporary Trade: Wexford-Savannah Axis, Steven Engel and Howard Keeley
Wexford-Savannah Tourism Experience, Steven Engel and Howard Keeley
Developing Online Materials for Thesis Preparation, Steven Engel, Jamie Scalera, Lisa Costello, and Joe Pellegrino
Global Capitalism and the Social Determinants of Health, Matthew Flynn
An Outline on the Theoretical Links between Global Capitalism and Global Health, Matthew B. Flynn
The Neo-Development State and Local Production of Drugs: Brazil’s Pharmaceutical Successes and Challenges, Matthew B. Flynn
The Political Economy of Immigration Detention: Globalization, National Diversity, and Economic Actors, Matthew B. Flynn
The Lethality of Home-grown terrorism in the United States, Tony Hudson and Srobana Bhattacharya
Power, Politics and Bloodshed: State-Society Relations in the Making of Genocide, Zachary Karazsia
All Fear Is Not the Same: Precarity, Insecuritization, and Sovereign Performance, Tahseen Kazi
Action and Reaction: The Politics of Rulemaking, Joshua B. Kennedy
Russian Revolution and Poland, Jacek Lubecki
Effective Monitoring of Agents? An Empirical Investigation of the U.S. Attorney Firings of 2006, Banks Miller and Brett W. Curry
Principals and Prosecutors: US Attorneys and the Enforcement of Criminal Policy, Banks Miller and Brett W. Curry
Helping Ourselves First: Conflict Management Strategies of Regional IOs, Carolynn Nixon and Jamie E. Scalera
Notions of Tragedy and Aspirations for Continuity in German Thought, Robert Pirro
Analyzing Beijing’s Policy in Asian Geopolitics, Nalanda Roy
Immigration and Security Post 9/11 in the U.S., Nalanda Roy
The South China Sea and Its Strategic Implications, Nalanda Roy
Political Polarization in French Presidential Elections, Jamie Scalera
Quantitative Data Analysis, Jamie Scalera
Quantitative Data Analysis, Jamie Scalera
Regional Human Rights Treaties: the Council of Europe and the European Union, Jamie Scalera
Brexit and the Future of EU Enlargement, Jamie E. Scalera
European Union Mediation Initiation in Civil Conflicts, Jamie E. Scalera and Krista E. Wiegand
The Supplemented Proletariat: Marx, Marxism, and the Dilemmas of Revolutionary Agency, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
100 Days of Trump, Maureen Stobb
Graduate School Workshop Series, Maureen Stobb
Protecting the Rights of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Maureen Stobb
The Changing Landscape of Immigration Law: A Panel Discussion on Recent Changes in Immigration Policy, Maureen Stobb
Policing the Traffic: The Capacity of Legal Change to Arrest Human Trafficking in the European Union, Maureen T. Stobb and Charlotte McDonald
Recruitment of American Citizens to International Religious Extremist Groups, Elizabeth Stovall and Srobana Bhattacharya
Appropriately Testing Public Knowledge Involving National and State Supreme Courts, Henry Christian Tecklenburg IV
Georgia on my Mind? Testing and Comparing Public Knowledge Involving the Georgia and U.S. Supreme Court, Henry Christian Tecklenburg IV
Supreme Court Backlash: The Impact of Obergefell on Religious Freedom Laws, Henry Christian Tecklenburg IV and Kimberly Martin
Analysis of Trump Administration, Lara Wessel
Musical Highway: A Political History of Social Movements and the Role of Popular Music, Lara Wessel
Submissions from 2016
The Patriot Myth: How Armed Groups Justify Violence in the Name of Nationalism, Barry J. Balleck
Crime-terror nexus: The Maoist conflict in India, Srobana Bhattacharya
International Terrorism, Srobana Bhattacharya
Terrorist Attacks: Why France?, Srobana Bhattacharya
Terrorists and Civilian Support: The Importance of Territory, Srobana Bhattacharya
Women in the Academy, Srobana Bhattacharya
Field research in Social Sciences, Srobana Bhattacharya and Courtney Burns
Islamic State and its organization, Srobana Bhattacharya and Christopher Caplinger
Field research in Social Sciences, Srobana Bhattacharya and Jamie Scalera
Food and Biopower: Spaces of Violence in Settler-Colonial Canada, William Biebuyck and M McCrossan
Canadian Settler-Colonialism, Biopolitics, and Food: Contesting Narratives and Practices of Sovereign Power, William Biebuyck and M. McCrossan
Food and Social Power in the Welfare State, William Biebuyck and M. McCrossan
Chinese Foreign Policy in the Caribbean: ‘Wu Wei Economics’ and the Politics of Empire in America’s Backyard, Christopher M. Brown
Island in the Stream: Post-Socialist Liberalization in Divided Societies and the Search for Social Capital 'Banks' in the Cuban Transition, Christopher M. Brown
More Human than Human: Post-Authoritarian Transitions and the Commitment to Human Dignity in Cuba, Christopher M. Brown
The Disambiguation of Hyphenated “Democracies”: Corporatism, Structures of Representation, and Democratic Purgatory in Poor-Quality Democracies, Christopher M. Brown
Post conflict Effects on Gender Rights, Courtney Burns and Srobana Bhattacharya
Guyana-Venezuela: A Conflict Like No Other, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
History Then and Today, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
IS in the Western Hemisphere: The Case of Trinidad & Tobago, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) and Trinidad and Tobago: Establishing a Dangerous Presence in the Western Hemisphere, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
War College, ISIS and the Fight Against Terrorism, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
What is Globalization? And, Why Should We Care?, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
“What, Then, Is the America?” “The Oldest Democracy in a Brand New World”, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
What You Need to Know About Zika, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Transnatioanl Organized Crime in Latin America: An Insidious National Security Threat, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, Taylor Alvarez, and James Madison Marye
Knowledge: Race, Power, and Colonaity, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz and Jennifer Padilla Wyse
Keynote Address, Duke Talent Identification Program, Steven Engel
Planning, Managing, and (Hopefully) Expanding Your Honors Budget, Steven Engel
Unity and Diversity in the Creative Community, Steven Engel
Wexford-Savannah Axis Research Findings, Steven Engel and Howard Keeley
As Eleições Presidenciais dos EUA e a Reforma da Sistema da Saúde, Matthew Flynn
Capitalism and Immigration Control: What Political Economy Reveals about the Growth of Detention Systems, Matthew B. Flynn
The Lethality of Home-grown terrorism in the United States, Tony Hudson and Srobana Bhattacharya
Why the Welfare State Persists: A Comparative Analysis of the Welfare States in the US and the EU, Xavieria Jeffers and Jamie E. Scalera
The Colonial and The International, Tahseen Kazi
Executive Orders and the Imperial Presidency, Joshua B. Kennedy
The Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and Variation in Governmental Growth, Joshua B. Kennedy
ISIS and Al-Qaeda as Global Rebels: A Broader Historical Perspective, Jacek Lubecki
Ukrainian Military and Conflict with Russia 2014-2016, Jacek Lubecki
Rethinking Patent Law: Assessing the Practical Implications of Statutory Reform on Judging and Policy, Banks Miller and Brett W. Curry
The Patent Pilot Program: Congress-Induced Specialization on the Federal District Courts, Banks Miller and Brett W. Curry
Mainstreaming Scientology as an Official Religion in Germany’s Pluralist Order: Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie (2008), Robert Pirro
The Road as State of Nature: Cormac McCarthy’s Post-Apocalypse and Social Contract Theory, Robert Pirro
Analyzing Beijing’s Movements in Asia, Nalanda Roy
Reviewing the Lifestyle of the Bengali Diaspora in the United States, Nalanda Roy
The Implication of Beijing’s Movements in Asia, Nalanda Roy
Trick or Treat: The Implication of Beijing’s Motives in Asia, Nalanda Roy
Trading on Good Governance: Political Transformation and WTO Membership, Jamie E. Scalera
When Relations Sour: The Negative Consequences of Partnership with an International Organization, Jamie E. Scalera
When Relations Sour: Does WTO Membership Predict Peace?, Jamie E. Scalera and Srobana Bhattacharya
When Relations Sour: Does WTO Membership Predict Peace, Jamie E. Scalera, Srobana Bhattacharya, and Courtney Burns
Marx's Eurocentric Theories of History and Revolution and their Hegelian Sources, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Cognitive Processing of Norms and Interests on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, Maureen Stobb
