Browsing Politics URC Student Scholarship by Title
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Queers in Pink Keffiyehs: The Motivations of Modern Radical Queer Activists
(2010-01-01)In recent years, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues have risen in visibility to become relatively accepted as legitimate political concerns. The current policy landscape includes popular LGBT campaigns ... -
Radical Islamists Turn Toward Terrorism in Modern Egypt: Causes and Solutions.
(1998-01-01)Over the past five years, Egypt has witnessed a resurgence of radical Islamists. Although few in number, these extremists have significantly contributed to the growth in terrorist activities which climaxed with the latest ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Russian Energy Politics in the Putin/Medvedev Era
(2009-01-01)Energy plays a central role in the Russian economy and in Russian politics. Russia holds the world's largest natural gas reserves, the second largest coal reserves, and the eighth largest oil reserves. Russia also has a ... -
Russian Foreign Policy and the Expansion of the European Union and NATO into Central and Eastern Europe in the 21st Century
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Taiwanese Democratization and its Effect on the Sino-Taiwan Sovereignty Dispute.
(1998-01-01)In 1986 the government of Taiwan began a process of democratization that fundamentally altered the nation's political system. An authoritarian government was no longer exercising supreme control over the development of the ... -
The British Media: Ideal in Theory, Flawed in Practice Emelia Haiken and Casey Weiss
(2006-01-01)This project examined the role of objectivity in coverage of politics in the British print media. We were interested in exploring another democratic media system in light of criticism in America that by striving for a ... -
The City of Compton: The Causes and Effects that Brought on Racial Demographic Change.
(1998-01-01)Since the 1940's, the city of Compton has experienced rapid demographic change and related shifts in power. Between the early 1940's and the late 1960's, the racial composition of Compton changed from being predominately ... -
The Conflation of Legal and Illegal Immigration and its Effects on Welfare and Immigration Reform.
(2003-01-01)This study examines the origins of conflating views of legal and illegal immigration and the effects of such onwelfare reform and immigration reform. My research question is then: How hasthe conflation of legal and illegal ... -
The Economy?s Influence onVoters? Gubernatorial Choice
(2004-01-01)This study looks specifically at the 1994 and 1998 gubernatorial elections and tries to break down the components that voters consider when choosing a governor. First, the governor?s role in state and national politics is ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Nature and Future of European Security Integration
(2000-01-01)The European Union (EU) has a complex and somewhat overlapping structure, largely as a result of the evolutionary process of the last fifty years. While each of its bodies shares responsibility for a number of policy areas, ... -
The Revolution before the Revolution.
(1999-01-01)In 1776, America became the first nation in the modern world to declare its independence from the mother country. In doing so, it also created a new political ideology that was later interwoven into the American identity. ... -
The Tension of Kierkegaard: A Delicate Recipe for Meaningful Action
(2011-01-01)It is hard to read Kierkegaard's work academically and not feel in some part as if you are letting him down, as if you are forsaking the very purpose of his writing and camouflaging yourself among the myriad academics who ...