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Dissertations from 2023
What Explains the Behavior of Chinese Companies in Africa? Exploring the Nature of African Agency in FOCAC Platforms and On the Ground, Woldemedhin N. Aklilu
Security, Gender, and Power: NATO’s Advising Program in Afghanistan, Polly A. Cegielski
Governing Global and National Migration Nexuses: The Case of the Niger 'Transit' Region, Balkissa Daouda Diallo
The Practice of Climate Change Adaptation Governance in Arctic Cities: Understanding Local Policymaking Interactions in Norway and Russia, Nadezhda N. Filimonova
Complexity at the Science-Policy Interface in Ethiopia’s Policy Spaces, Wondemagegnehu W. Sintayehu
Dissertations from 2022
Reframing the Silent Burden of Perinatal Mental Health in South Africa: Applying a Governance and Human Rights Perspective, Shelley M. Brown
Evaluating Perceptions of Participatory Mapping for Public Decision-Making Using Seasketch, Charla M. Burnett
Damming Sustainability: How Social and Environmental Networks Influence the Construction and Management of Large Dams in the Amazon Basin, V. Miranda Chase
Indian Women Construction Workers' Social Construction of Human Security, Chantal Ann Krcmar
Distress, Dilemma, and Decisions- Household Aspirations and Migration Decisionmaking in Rural India, Kundan Mishra
The Migration-Security Nexus in South-South Population Flows: Securitization of Haitian Migration in the Dominican Republic, Jean-Pierre D. Murray
Race, Gender, and Conflict: How Women’s NGOs Build Peace and Enhance Gender Justice in Colombia, Safiya Kemba St. Clair
Dissertations from 2021
Gendering Bare Life Through Sex Work Governance in India: Rethinking Sexual Labor Precarity and Resistance from the Postcolony, Sudeshna Chatterjee
A Top-Down Approach to Bottom Up Development: NGO Implementation of Early Childhood Development Programs in Rwanda, Lyndsey D. McMahan
The Gender of Peace: State Power and Discourse in Colombia (1946-1991), Adriana Rincon Villegas
World Heritage Governance: Assessing the Influence of Governance Factors on the Protection of Cultural and Natural World Heritage Sites, Eike Tobias Schmedt
Dissertations from 2020
From Minamata to Mines in Ghana: A Cross-Scale Study on Global Governance of Mercury Use in Artisanal And Small-Scale Gold Mining, Timothy Adivilah Balag'kutu
The Rise and Rise of the Criminal Record: Power, Order and Safety in the United States, 1848-1960, Charles W. Brackett
Balancing the Environment and Development: Environmental Reform and Mainstreaming at the World Bank Ethiopia Country Office, John Michael Denney
The Political Economy of Migration Governance: How Political Actors, Networks, Institutions and Policies Impact the Migration-Development Nexus in the Global South, Christopher C. Graham
Dissertations from 2019
The Governance of Transnational Security Threats in Fragile States: The Case of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) 2007 – 2017, Abigail Kabandula
Global Governance and the Post-Colonial State: Women, Gender, and Public Opinion in Public Policymaking in Trinidad & Tobago 1956-2005, Deborah N. McFee
Understanding Gender and Access to Healthcare for Resettled Women in Post-War Northern Sri Lanka through Intersectionality, Bharathi Radhakrishnan
Dissertations from 2018
Transformations in Conservation Governance and Implications for Human Security: The Case of Kenya’s Northern Rangelands, Jeremiah O. Asaka
The Institutional Landscape of International Forest Protection: Understanding Institutional Complexity in International Forest Governance, Gabriela Bueno Gibbs
Queering Women, Peace and Security, Jamie J. Hagen
The Emergence of Private Governance in a Nonwestern Context: The Case of South Korea, Jinyoung Kang
Exploring the Impact of Insurgencies on Gender-Based Violence and the Nigerian Armed Forces: The Boko Haram Case, Modupe Oshikoya
Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development: The Evolution of Discourse, Yuliya Rashchupkina
Dissertations from 2017
Environment, States, and International Organizations: The Role of Global Environmental Conventions in Protecting the Environment, Natalia Escobar Pemberthy
Human-Centric National Security in Strong States: South Korea’s Security Relations with North Korea, Jay Jinseop Jang
Dissertations from 2016
Kashmir as a Protracted Social Conflict: Examining the Role of Non-State Actors in the Policymaking Process, Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra