Browsing Politics URC Student Scholarship by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Inequality in Public Education Finance Systems: Parental Wealth and the Maintenance of the Social-Class Structure
(1998-01-01)Beginning in the late sixties state finance systems of public education began to receive heavy criticism for their reliance on local property taxes. Commentators argue that local funding makes the quality of a student's ... -
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 ... -
Census 2000: The Impact of "Self-identification" on the Representation of Racial and Ethnic Collectives.
(1999-01-01)In the mid 1990s, the revision of Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting, was a highly debated issue because the racial categories did not reflect ... -
Media vs. Reality: Poverty in America.
(1999-01-01)One of the most pressing issues facing Americans today is the persistence of poverty. Despite the fact that the United States is one of the most affluent nation's in the world, poverty continues unabated. The victims of ... -
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. ... -
Demographic Transformations: A Political Struggle in Compton, Inglewood, and Lynwood.
(1999-01-01)Since the 1960s the cities of Compton, Inglewood, and Lynwood have experienced a process of racial transition - where the predominant racial composition of a neighborhood changes from one race to another. In examining ... -
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 ... -
Women in Armed Conflict: The Story of Kosovo
(2000-01-01)In the post-Cold War era, the politicization and political mobilization of ethnic identities has been used by ethnic entrepreneurs, like Slobodan Milosevic, to emphasize the ethnic "difference" between the majority and ... -
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, ... -
Political and Social Mobility of Womenin Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
(2000-01-01)I studied the work of non-governmental organizations in the twin island country of Trinidad and Tobago to observe the work done to improve the political and social advancement of women. Research was conducted by data ... -
An Examination of the Mexico City Policy, Past and Present, and its Effects on Health Abroad.
(2001-01-01)On January 22, 2001 President George W. Bush reinstated the Mexico City Policy. Originally announced by Reagan in 1984, the policy requires foreign nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of their receipt of ... -
A Study of the Political Dynamics of the Iran-Iraq War/ A Study of the the Media Coverage of the Iran-Iraq War.
(2001-01-01)My research for the five-week period that I was on campus had two parts. The first was a study of the politics of the Iran-Iraq War. Topics covered included: demographics of Iran/Iraq, the Kurdish dimension of the war, the ... -
Contemporary Anglo-American Foreign Policy & Iraq
(2002-01-01)The Gerken Fellowship allowed me to have funds to travel to London to research contemporary Anglo-American Foreign Policy & Iraq. I did library work in the archives at the International Institute for Strategic Studies ... -
Defining the Enemy in Post-9/11 Discourse: The Rhetorical Strategies of George W. Bush.
(2002-01-01)My research this summer has been concerned with the immediate after-affects of September eleventh, and how we got from the initial point of crisis and confusion to become engaged in war. Now that more than ten months have ... -
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, ... -
Different Paths to European Union Membership: Case Studies of the Accession Efforts of Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary
(2003-01-01)In May 2004 the largest European Union expansion to date will take place. EU membership is expected to enhance a higher level of political stability and faster economic growth within the admitted countries. Not all applicants ... -
Martin, Malcolm, Mandela, and Biko:Resistance to Modern Day Slaveryand Philosophies for Black Liberation
(2003-01-01)Stephen Biko, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X were four revolutionary leaders who emerged to transform the world midway through the 20th century. While their methods of fighting for liberation differed ... -
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 ...