Diplomacy and World Affairs URC Student Scholarship
Recent Submissions
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Contested spaces: Narrating Claims to the Mosque-Cathedral of C?rdoba against the Specter of the Moor
(2011-01-01)Throughout its complexly interwoven history with North Africa, Spain has spent centuries trying to negotiate the extent of its essential connection with North Africa. This process of negotiation plays out as a constant ... -
China in the Global Economy: Market Socialism and its Pitfalls
(2005-01-01)Since the reforms instituted by Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s and 1980s, mainland China has progressively grown closer to the free-market system touted by Western powers, though its transformation has been carefully monitored ... -
Land for the Common Good: Nationalism, Democracy, and Land in Edinburgh Scotland
(2008-01-01)Throughout Scotland's past, common land has served as the vertebrae of community life. Today, these common assets are at stake. In Edinburgh the City Council is attempting to sell off its Common Good land. Citizens have ... -
Macro-economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
(2002-01-01)My senior comprehensive writing requirement for my major in Diplomacy and World Affairs focuses on the relationship between trade related aspects of intellectual property systems under the World Trade Organization and the ... -
National Environmental Career Conference
(2002-01-01)The 2001 National Environmental Career Conference in Oakland on October 19-20 enables students interested in beginning environmental careers to gather caluable knowledge and information on potential opportunities. The NECC ... -
Reflections on Historical Racial Unrest in South Los Angeles and Contemporary Turmoil at Jefferson High School Nidia Garcia, Sergio Hernandez, and Natalie Simon
(2005-01-01)This study examines black and Latino race relations within South Los Angeles, specifically Jefferson High School during and after the occurrence of a series of racial conflict during the 2004-2005 academic calendar. We ... -
Legalizing the War on Terror: Obama's Struggle to Strike the Balance Between Imperial and Imperiled
(2009-01-01)Upon taking office this past January, Barack Obama?s symbolically charged first gesture as president was to issue an executive order for the closure of the notorious off-shore detention facility at Guant?namo Bay. Shortly ... -
Comrades, Almost a Love Story: The economics of finding a queer space for tongzhi.
(2006-01-01)Our research question was how do men who have sex with men (MSM) in mainland China create identity and culture? The assumption of our proposal was that the development of queer spaces would lead to an improvement in the ... -
Is Eurasianism the Ideological Engine of Russian Foreign Policy? The Case of Central Asia
(2008-01-01)Russia?s post-9/11 rapprochement with the US has often been misinterpreted as a call for strategic cooperation with the West. In fact Putin?s belligerent disregard of Western economic and political standards and hard-line ... -
Outsourcing the War on Drugs: The Emerging Role of Private Security Firms in Colombia
(2007-01-01)U.S. led counter-drug initiatives in Colombia have resulted in a war without an endgame. The practice of combating drugs through policies that aim to decrease the supply of illicit drugs is an historical failure. In part ... -
The Israeli Female Soldier: An Analysis of the Role of Women in the Israeli Defense Force and the Implications for Israeli Society
(2001-01-01)The Israeli Defense Force is celebrated in Israel and throughout the world as the primary example of an army that has successfully combined military might with gender equality. Because women, like men, are drafted into ... -
The Moral Economy of the Care Labor
(2005-01-01)Many thinkers have tried to justify or to oppose what appears to be the "universal" status of women. Some tried to understand it by distinguishing the public and the private spheres, some did it by studying the psychology, ... -
Russia's Impact on Eastern European Transition
(2004-01-01)In recent years the region of Eastern and Central Europe has gained a new significance on the international arena. Not only are a majority of its states already NATO and European Union members, but they are also some of ... -
Increased Restitution Claimsand the Asian Art Market in London
(2003-01-01)The increased demand for Asian art in the West has led to rising nationalism and desire of source countries to protect their national treasures from being exported for sale at auction. An increased global awareness of ... -
European Defense Integration:The Search for Common Ground.
(1999-01-01)While Europe has sought true political unity in some form for at least fifty years, developments in late 1998 and the first half of 1999 have placed integrationists closer than ever to the realization of this dream. The ... -
The Economic and Social Implicationsof Women?s Education in India
(2004-01-01)According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), there were a total of 862 million illiterate adults in the world in 2000, with 34% of that population (293,080,000 persons) living ... -
BULGARIA?S EUROPEAN INTEGRATION A Crucial Factor for Stabilization and Sustained Growth
(2005-01-01)Thanks to the Undergraduate Research Center and the Diplomacy and World Affairs department, I was able to research this summer how the process of integration into the European Union has affected Bulgaria?s development in ... -
The Expansion of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and Russian Foreign Policy
(2005-01-01)NATO?s expansion into ex-Soviet Europe has been a topic of enduring debate. Since the first expansion into the region in 1999, critics have argued that NATO enlargement has only heightened the long-standing friction between ... -
The Fight for Khalistan: Sikh Separatism in Punjab, India from 1984-1999.
(1999-01-01)Since 1973, Sikh separatists in Punjab and their diasporan counterparts in the British Commonwealth and North America, have campaigned to secede from the Indian Federation to form an independent Khalistan - a "pure place" ... -
Russian political influence in the development of the peace process in Kosovo.
(2001-01-01)The political interests as well as historic country affiliations between Serbia and Russia go back hundreds of years in history. Two of the major reasons are the commonalities in religion -- both countries are Eastern ...
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