Browsing Graduate School - MU Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Drury, A. Cooper, 1967-"
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Bullying the resource-rich : the effect of natural resource wealth on coercive diplomacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Natural resource wealth has been shown to have a significant impact the on the domestic politics of states. However, the current literature has failed to provide a complete picture of the influence it has on the interactions ... -
Chinese decision-making in reponse to foreign policy crises, 1949-1996 : a poliheuristic analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)China is seen widely as a distinctive power when dealing with international relations in general and foreign policy crises in particular. Given the concerns about whether the rise of China will be peaceful or belligerent, ... -
The counterterrorism escalation game : how leadership targeting affects the behavior of terrorist groups
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] How does the tactic of leadership decapitation - the removal of an organization's leader or leadership by state efforts to arrest or kill - affect the ... -
Determinants of civil wars : a quantitative analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)In this dissertation, I investigate the conditions that facilitate the civil wars incidences and try to provide a deeper understanding of large scale domestic violence by formulating a new and more comprehensive model, ... -
Diversionary diplomacy: domestic political effects on US-directed foreign policy in Russia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This paper applies the concepts found within diversionary theory to a lower level of international conflict outside the United States. Specifically, it tests whether changes in Russian domestic political contention cause ... -
Economic sanctions and human security : overstated backfire
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] A large body of scholarship have shown that economic sanctions cause human suffering in target states. This unintended negative effect of sanctions ... -
Economic sanctions, resource wealth, and increased state utility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Economic sanctions have become an important tool in the hands of world leaders. As globalization has made the world a smaller place and increased the economic ties between nations; economic sanctions have become a preferred ... -
An empirical assessment of the political and gendered consequences of economic sanctions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project investigates the unintended political and gender-specific effects of economic sanctions in target countries. Drawing insight from the ... -
Free trade agreements in Japan and East Asia regionalism : Sino-Japanese rivalry and beyond /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] At the beginning of the 21st century, a number of multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), known as regional FTAs, have emerged throughout the world. ... -
Games leaders play : renegade regimes and international crises
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation is a game-theoretic analysis of international crises between the US and renegade regimes after the Cold War. The main puzzle that leads ... -
Great games redux: energy security and the emergence of tripolarity in Eurasia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Securing energy resources has become a key aspect of foreign policy-making since the 1970s. States have used military and economic foreign policy tools to secure the supply of energy to their domestic markets. With the ... -
Hawks and doves reconsidered: the case of US foreign policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)What are the domestic determinants of international conflict? A number of political scientists have proposed that leaders in democracies initiate interstate disputes or use force abroad to divert the electorate's attention ... -
The human rights trade: understanding the inclusion of human rights provisions in bilateral trade agreements
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In recent decades, the scope of bilateral trade agreements has expanded greatly, and some nations have used these agreements to address human rights ... -
International trade : costs, coercion, and conflict
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)There is a large literature examining the relationship between trade and international politics. However, the majority of extant studies examine the extent of trade interaction, despite acknowledging the potential for ... -
Less risky investment? : The impact of federalism on the inflow of foreign direct investment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)The purpose of this paper is to theoretically outline and empirically investigate a theory linking federalism with the inflow of foreign direct investment into a country. Throughout the literature, the importance of the ... -
The political and economic consequences of the summit diplomatic activity of the U.S. president
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)American presidents have attended more than 2,000 summit meetings since the end of the Second World War. Yet, what we know about these meetings is limited to historical case studies. In this dissertation, I move beyond ... -
Political survival and diversionary use of force
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This research attempts to improve our knowledge on the study of the use of force for diversionary purposes by addressing three issues that have been left unaddressed. First, I seek to develop a more complete perspective ... -
Rhetoric as repression : the roles and effects of government framing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)During modern protest movements, the regimes targeted by dissidents have issued largely similar kinds of statements about the events. Participants tend to be depicted as national traitors, criminals, or otherwise illegitimate. ... -
Sanctioning smarter? : the impact of smart sanctions on democracy and human rights
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Do so-called smart economic sanctions, aimed at a target country's political regime, cause less political repression than traditional comprehensive sanctions? That is the main research question of this. By utilizing time-time ... -
Shared affinities : the effect of shared neoliberal orientation on foreign policy behaviors /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)In the literature, scholars have linked various aspects of the economic philosophy of neoliberalism to a variety of foreign policy behaviors. However, these studies typically only utilize one aspect of neoliberalism in ...