2018
Greedy Bastards, Nathaniel Vergoz Carlsen
Plus ça Change, Plus c’est la Même Chose: The Introduction of ‘Soft’ De-Radicalisation Policy in France, Isobel Monique Coen
Politics and the ‘Self’ vs. ‘Other’ Binary: The Failure of the Great Recession as a National Security Threat, Adelina Colaku
Newsroom Action During the Lebanon War: A Look at American and Israeli Media Coverage, Ciara Collins
Newsroom Action During the Lebanon War: A Look at American and Israeli Media Coverage, Ciara Collins
Human Judgment and Autonomous Weaponry: What Does it Mean?, Dalton Lee Davis
Could the Global Health Secuirty Agenda Actually Protect Americans From Emerging Diseases?, Shannon Taylor Dixon
On Citizenship: The Evolution of Civic Education from Mann to Meier, Benjamin R.E. Faller
Do Democracies Excel: An Empirical Analysis of the Democracy- Growth Relationship, Arobi Hanif
Donald Trump and the Spectacle of the Modern American Presidency, Medora McDougall Jones
Marketization in North Korea is Corrupting the Corrupted, Joseph Kim
Puerto Rico's Unique Relationship to the United States An Overview of the Historical Relationship, the Island's Evolving Political System and Immigration to the Mainland, Steven T. Marotta
Brown Pluralism and Beyond: A New Political Vision for South Asian Americans, Rishi P. Mutalik
Securing a Seat at the Table des Grands: French Identity and the Application of Identity Management Strategies in Post-War France, Isabelle Lily Scarborough
The Problem of Privacy, Elle M. Turley
2017
Forget Me Not: Exploring the Rise of the Anti Immigrant Right through the Lens of Historical Amnesia, Eliana Lucia Koenig Accomazzi
“REPORT ALL OBSCENE MAIL TO YOUR POSTMASTER” Reading, Institutions, and the American Public, Post-revolution and 1965, Connor Christopher Boehme
"You Wanna Piece of Me?" : Reframing American Supremacy as White Supremacy, Tayler G. Butler
Rethinking Palestinian Refugee Communities in Pre-War Syria and the Right of Return, Eliza Wincombe Cornwell
Public Discourse and the Securitization of Conflict, Gilda Raizel Edelman
Money Power in Politics, Jonathan Peterson Fisher
U.S. Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: More and Less Than Meets the Eye, Julia Lang Gordon
The Political Economy of State-level Emergency Unemployment Relief: The Case of the New York TERA, 1931-37, Hasani J. Gunn
The Longevity of Religious Terrorist Organizations, William John Hughes
Examining Russia’s Three-pronged Legitimation Strategy in Syria, Denesh Kandiah
Asian American Panethnicity in Politics: An Empirical Study of Financial Contributions and Donor Behavior by the AAPI Electorate in Congressional House Races, Kenichi Andrew Kaneda
Who Acts? Community through Chance, Jonas LH Kunz
Liberate or Assimilate? A Comparative Study of Post-Transition LGBT Activism in Spain and Russia, Austin Jay Lehn
The Executive Branch’s Power in the Drone Program: Why the United States Needs a Drone Court, Mark William Leonhard Jr.
Policymaking in the 2007 – 2008 Financial Crisis: How and Why Policymakers Subverted the Public’s Interest, Samuel Jesse Longenecker
Resistance in the Shadow of the Giant: Bandwagoning and the Importance of Identity in the Foreign Policy of Central Asian States, Nathaniel Edward Matala
Why Didn't the Arab Spring Spread to Eritrea? How Mass Suppression and Fear Can Successfully Prevent Dissent, Winta Amanuel Mehari
The Stability of a Unipolar World Revisited, Grady Michael Nixon
The War on Terror: And the Erosion of the Democratic Imaginary, Maximilian Randall Perkins
Japan's Reemergence As a Military SuperPower: Assessing The East Asian Security Dilemma, Fabrice M. Prepetit
A Mexican Fairytale: The Fall of a Villain and its Perfect Dictatorship, Ana Victoria Valdes Salazar
The Origins of the Chinese Communist Party’s Early Marriage Laws, Yuan Yuan
2016
Examining Monetary Policy in the Absence of a Central Bank and Sovereign Currency in Palestine, Salam Marwan Awartani
From 1890 to Today, Nothing’s Changed: Gentrification in Harlem and the Abuse of Eminent Domain, Bianka Alexandria Bell
Aloha ʻĀina: The United States Military and Its Controversial Use of Hawaiian Land, Kai Bernier-Chen
The Politics of Plan Frontera Sur: A Theoretical Approach to Mexico’s Prosecution of Illegal Migrants, Ana Juliana Borja Armas
A Study of National Unification: What Factors Led to the Divergent Post-Unification Histories of Yemen, Germany, and Vietnam and in What Ways Were They Successful?, Wilson Franklin Brehmer
The Implications of U.S. Development Aid on Public Health: Understanding the connection between India's 1975 Emergency State and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Alison A. Brundrett
We Own the Night: A Study of Securitization Exemplified by Night Raids in Afghanistan, Evelyn Buse
Presidential Power in Foreign Policy: Richard Nixon and the Era of Détente with the Soviet Union and China, Gregory Donald Drilling
Political Modernization in Atatürk’s Turkey and The Shah’s Iran and the Struggle For Meaning, Ethan Jacob Hornk Evans
The Cultivation of Myth and Politics, Steveanne Lee Knauss
In Search of Conservatism: Some Reflections on the Works of Edmund Burke and his Intellectual Descendants, Nicholas Sebastiano Lecchi
NGOs, Development, and Dependency: A Case Study of Save the Children in Malawi, Gina Oramae Lewis
The State and the Citizenry; Internalized Discipline in Asad’s Authoritarian Syria, Sana Ali Mustafa
Save the Children: Black Liberation in the Age of the Modern Oligarchy, Isaiah Louis Rice
The Illusion of Recovery in New Orleans: Displaced, Misplaced, and Replaced, Troy Lee Robertson
Deconstructing the Misconceptions in the Popular Imagination of Private Military Companies, Anne Elizabeth Rowley
Basque Political Violence in Post-Authoritarian Spain, Cy Juan Schnabel
America's Invisible War: Cost-Shifting, Deceit and the Expansion of the Drone Program, Ian Joseph Sicurella
The Limits of Education Reform in New Orleans and Chicago, Damonika Stokes
Assessing the Theory of Demographics as Destiny & Patterns of Bloc Voting in the United States, Nathan Benjamin Susman
From Sea to Shining Sea: The Navalists and the Rise of American Sea Power, Maeve Grogan Weber
Thoreau and Integrity, Daniel Alexander Zlatkin
2015
Legal Shadows: An Examination of Evidence in State v. Zimmerman, Beatrice Abbott
Aid, Yes, But For Whom? To Do What? Understanding Chinese Foreign Aid, Oliver Brooks
The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966: Politics & Perception in Cuban Migration to the United States, Hannah Mackenzie Brown
The 21st Century Activist's Dilemma: Social Media's Impact on the Occupy and Tea Party Movements, Alexander Elliott Carter-Parks
Slouching Towards Jerusalem: A View from a Psychological Negotiation Theory, Alexandra Barrett Cooper
Combatting Terrorism Finance After 9/11, Christopher Eisenhower
Power and Dominion: Strategy and Political Science in Hannibal's War, Jacob Alan Feinman
The Body as Bureaucratic Property: (Mis)recognition of Trans Subjects, Sabrina Gershbein
Choosing Nuclear Disarmament: Why States Give Up Nuclear Weapons, David James Giza
Don't Mention the War: Power Politics, the Anglo-American Relationship, and the Falklands War of 1982, Patrick Cowan Jones
Liberty Leaks: An Analysis of NSA Intelligence Gathering & US Surveillance Methods, Brandon Jacolby Lee
The Evolution of Cooperation: Conflict, Concerts, and Changing Norms, Anna Sabine Low-Beer
Spirit and Steel, Concessions and Capital: A Two-Case Study of the Japanese Imperial Projects in Korea and Manchuria 1880-1933, Gabriel Frederick Matsakis
Podiums, Power and Progressivism: Measuring the Wilsonian Rhetorical Legacy on the State of the Union Address, Thomas Alan McQueeny
Paths to Recognition: Regime Continuity and Type in the Development of Political Violence in the Berber/Amazigh Culture Movements of Morocco and Algeria, Christine Maria O'Donovan-Zavada
The Bolivarian Strategy: Harnessing institutions to Balance the U.S. and Enter the Globalized World, Emilio Esteban Pena
The Capitol of Gangland: El Salvador’s Struggle to Contain Gang Violence and The Importance of Judicial Reform for Democratic Development in Central America, Stephanie Rose Presch
Political Space, Detention, and Activism: On the Political Position of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States, Seth Baird Sobottka
Marching West, Hanze Song
Lets Get This Party Started: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Opposition Groups in Democratic Consolidation, Rachel Hannah Thompson
2014
Global War, Biopower and The Rise of Drone Warfare in the 21st Century, Durante Demetrus Barringer
“Violence Will Never Produce a United Ireland”: Why Britain Desecuritized the Threat of Irish Terrorism, Silas G. Bartels
Cyber Power Restrained: How Strategic Culture Inhibits the Integration of Cyber Weapons by the United States Military, David Matthew Bisson
Education For All in the Developing World: The Promise of Technology, Pauline Hope Chalamet
Amid the River Currents, Xuanbo Dong
Walter Lippmann: The Public Back to Sight, Adlee Efraim
The Empires Strike Back: Fear, Paranoia, and Realism in the Expansion of Empires in the Nineteenth Century, Joshua Samuel Forman
Global and Regional Determinants of Regime Type: Pakistan, Jakob Arthur Friedman
The Sino-Japanese Blood Feud, John Reginald Austin Graham
[Republic of] Hungary, 1989-2011 The Rise of Illiberalism in Post-Communist Hungary & its Historical, Institutional and Societal Roots, Luca Judit Haraszti
From Girl World to the Real World: Explorations of Soft Power, Lauren Gabrielle Harris
Occupied Bodies and Political Space: Argentina's Abortion Enigma, Molly E. Jacobs-Meyer
Basketballs and Bombs: Sports Diplomacy in North Korea and Its Role on the International Stage, Henry Andreas Kasiske
Omnilegitimacy: From Representative Democracy toward Emerging Alternatives, Hans Rosso Kern
The Imperative of Privacy, Brandon Franklin Lev
The US Confronts the Al-Qaeda Puzzle: Understanding the Forces that Seek to Destroy America and the Reactionary Policies that Fuel the Flame, Lucas Marsova Lobe
Bullying and Blundering Bureaucracy, Rory Pollack Mondshein
The Responsibility to Protect and the Libyan Intervention: Perfecting Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century, Jonathan Claude Regnier
The Decline of American Trade Unions and the Rise of Alternative Labor Centers: Reflections on Workplace Politics in the "Land of Opportunity", Chad J. Rosenbloom