Browsing Diplomacy and World Affairs URC Student Scholarship by Issue Date
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Civil and Political Freedoms in Israel.
(2004-01-01)How free of a society is Israel? An examination of the writings of Israeli legal scholars, sociologists, history, and political theory in the context of current events revealed a society in transition from a purely ... -
Civil and Political Freedoms in Israel.
(2004-01-01)How free of a society is Israel? An examination of the writings of Israeli legal scholars, sociologists, history, and political theory in the context of current events revealed a society in transition from a purely ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Healing a Nation, Is Truth Effective? A Comparative Look at South Africa and Argentina's Truth Commissions
(2004-01-01)Withthe recent transfer of power back to the Iraqis, the global community must once again bear witness to the difficulties faced by a country in transition. Watching the effort towards stability in Iraq demonstrates that ... -
10,000 Specks of Light: Can Microgrants Promote Volunteerism and NGO Development in Urban China?
(2005-01-01)Despite rapid and drastic economic transformation in contemporary China, civil society remains largely weak. The echoes of totalitarian Communism and present-day authoritarianism have undermined the development of strong ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Defense Capabilities for the European Union
(2005-01-01)The European Security and Defence Policy or ESDP is considered a major element of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the second of the three so-called ?pillars? of the European Union (EU). The ESDP was initiated by ... -
The Constitution for the European Union
(2005-01-01)The European Union Constitution represented the next great reform the European Union when it was drafted in October of 2004. With the support of the respected leaders of Europe attained, the Constitution began the ratification ... -
From Rhetoric to Action: How Tony Blair is Leading the Way to Make Poverty History in Africa
(2005-01-01)At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders agreed to eight Millennium Development Goals, which aim to significantly reduce poverty, hunger, disease and environmental degradation by 2015. The eighth of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Peaceful Fight for the Right: The Transnational NGO Effort for Education in Nicaragua
(2006-01-01)Characterized in the past by states acting via power politics and domestic self-interest, states now take an increasingly passive role while non-state actors are becoming visible in international politics. This transnationalism ... -
Russian Immigrant Artists? Success as a Function of the Relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union
(2006-01-01)During three periods in the 20th Century, there have been notable surges in emigration from Russia to the United States. These periods coincide with distinct changes in the relationship between the two countries. This ... -
The Downing Street Memo: The importance of British leaks and intelligence during the war on Iraq
(2006-01-01)On July 23, 2002, Tony Blair held a meeting with the highest members of his cabinet and the British intelligence community, concerning Saddam Hussein?s regime and the United State?s position. Richard Dearlove, head of MI-6, ... -
Perceptions of Healing & Justice in Sierra Leone
(2006-01-01)This study investigates the effectiveness of a new type of ad hoc war crimes tribunal as a transitional justice mechanism, using the Special Court for Sierra Leone as a case study. The assumption is that the Court, which ... -
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 ... -
Prioritizing the Middle East
(2007-01-01)In the last decade, the Middle East has emerged as the predominant region of conflict within the modern world. The Middle East is often depicted as a breeding ground of violence and instability; where ruthless dictators ...