Politics
Recent Submissions
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Russian foreign policy strategy towards Central Asia
(2007-01-01)The problem of the integrity of the Russian Federation?s territory subsequent to the collapse of the Soviet Union has been especially relevant to the conduct of the country?s foreign and economic policy. Russian academics ... -
Intersectionality and the Tensions Between Service Provision and Political Organizing within Los Angeles’ Black LGBT Movement
(2012-07-01)Intersectionality provides a framework that analyzes how various salient identities simultaneously interact to produce social phenomena rather than more predominant monolithic approaches that treat an identity as though ... -
Sustainable Energy Technology Exchange Between China and the United Sates: Competition or Collaboration
(2009-01-01)The current global energy crises and the intermestic issue of pollution have intertwined the political and environmental fates of the United States and China. This research project will introduce international measures ... -
Analysis of Trends in Occidental Stduent Data
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IRAP Student Survey Analysis
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?Into the Sunlight:? Assessing the Legacy of IRCA with Respect to Comprehensive Amnesty under Obama
(2009-01-01)The end of the Bracero Program in 1964 began the cycle of illegal migration across the U.S.-Mexico border, resulting in an unauthorized population ?in the shadows? of everyday American life. In 1986, Ronald Reagan, along ... -
Shouldering the Burden: Shedding America's Failed Welfare State through National Service
(2009-01-01)Forty-eight years after President Kennedy challenged the nation to act for the greater good, looking beyond individual needs, an unprecedented opportunity to institute a universal service program might finally fulfill this ... -
Today?s Boundaries of Blackness: Is Secondary Marginalization Still Applicable to the AIDS Crisis in 2008?
(2008-01-01)Ten years ago, Cathy Cohen published the book "Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics", examining the black community's response to the AIDS crisis. Cohen posited that secondary marginalization ... -
Power in Contemporary Los Angeles: An Elite--Latino Coalition
(2007-01-01)The question of who controls political power in Los Angeles has long been debated. For most of the twentieth century intellectuals argued whether power in Los Angeles was controlled by a wealthy downtown elite or was ... -
Variations in Rhetoric and Coverage: How American and English-Language Arab Newspapers Differ in Their Presentation of International Conflict
(2005-01-01)In regards to print media, how does the information Arabs receive in the Middle East differ from the information we Americans receive? Intrigued by this question and motivated by a desire to better understand the Arab ... -
The Iconography of Barack Obama: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Pictorial Articulations and Implications of Images
(2009-01-01)If the phrase ?a picture has a thousand words,? holds truths, what then can be said about an icon, let alone one that crosscuts politics, culture, race, and domestic divides? The power of icons has both implicit and explicit ... -
Reflections on the Historical Unrest in South LA and Contemporary Turmoil at Jefferson High School
(2005-01-01)In our research, we will analyze the recent Black and Latino violence at Jefferson High School in South Los Angeles as our case study. In particular we seek to understand how various groups and individuals respond to such ... -
Political Aspects of Existentialist Thought:Problems of Individuality.
(2002-01-01)The ethics of the Existentialists, a twentieth century philosophical school of thought, focused intently upon the relationship between the individual and society at large. This project, consisting of two independent papers, ... -
U.S. Democracy Promotion in Egypt: a Critique of USAID
(2011-01-01)The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 was an internal movement fueled by the conviction that change was necessary and could not happen within the existing government system. Although it is not yet clear how much democratic and ... -
The Fission of One-Dimensionality: An Existential Investigation into the Work of Herbert Marcuse and the Potential for a Restorative Future
(2006-01-01)In this project, I assess the social and individual implications of the work of Herbert Marcuse, from his youth as a philosophy student and critical theorist of the Frankfurt School, to his later assault on advanced ... -
Dual Federalism and the State of Gay Rights
(2009-01-01)?Dual Federalism and the State of Gay rights? aims to assess the efficacy of federal vs. state policy in integrating the gay community into mainstream society. Relying upon analysis of news articles, public opinion polls, ... -
Strauss and the Crisis of the West
(2006-01-01)During this summer I attempted to better understand the political philosophy of the historian Leo Strauss. To do this, I broke my research into three distinct sections. First, I focused on Strauss?s political philosophy ... -
How Taiwanese Americans Influence American ForeignPolicy on U.S., China, and Taiwan Relations (Using the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act as a Model)
(1999-01-01)In February of 1999,the Pentagon delivered to Congress a report entitled "The Security Situation in the Taiwan Strait." This report stated that Red China has been and will continue to deploy a large number of missiles ... -
Extraterritorial Application of the US Constitution: Endorsing the ?Impracticable and Anomalous Standard? as refined by the Boumediene Court
(2010-01-01)Prompted by cases questioning the legality of detentions at Guantanamo Bay, the Supreme Court recently considered fundamentally important questions regarding extraterritorial application of the US Constitution. There is ...
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