Department of Government

Jason Davidson (IR), April 25, 2001 "The Roots of Revisionism and Status-Quo Seeking: Opportunities and Pressures at the International and Domestic Levels". Advisor: Charles Kupchan

Luis Payan (IR), April 26, 2001, "Cops, Soldiers, and Diplomats: Bureaucratic Politics and organizational Culture in the War on Drugs" Advisor: Andrew Bennett

Mark Mitchell (PT), April 30, 2001, "Natural Law: The Tacit Dimension". Advisor: George Carey

Mira Sucharov (IR), June 1, 2001, "The International Self: Israel and the Palestinians, 1948-1993" Advisor: Charles Kupchan

Yasuhiro Izumikawa (IR), June 20, 2001, "United We Stand, Divided They Fall: Use of Coercion and Rewards as Alliance Balancing Strategy". Advisor: George Shambaugh

Stephanie Wickersham (PT), July 12, 2001, "Voice Matters: Conceptualizing an International Public Sphere" Advisor: Mark Warren

Stephen Day (CG), August 27, 2001, "Power-Sharing and Political Hegemony: A Case Study of the United Republic of Yemen" Advisor: Michael Hudson

Sara Kropf (AG), December 7, 2001, "The Impact of Race on Juvenile Justice: A National Level Study" Advisor: Doug Reed

Julia Riches (AG), December 7, 2001, "Fetal Attraction: The Politics of Fetal Protection in the Law" Advisor: Doug Reed

Stephen Guerra (IR), March 10, 2002, "Going Coastal: The U.S. Freedom of Navigation Program As A Test of International Law's Relevance to Security Affairs" Advisor: Anthony Arend

Jennifer Long (CG), March 20, 2002, "A Constructivist View of Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy: Case Studies of the Russia-NATO Relationship and IFOR" Advisor: Angela Stent

Sharon Rich (CG), April 1, 2002, "The Effects of Mexico's and Brazil's Liberal Economic Policies on the Attraction of Foreign Investment" Advisor: John Bailey

Lynn Kirby (AG), April 23, 2002, "Public Opinion and Policy-Making: The Pollster as Presidential Advisor" Advisor: Stephan Wayne

Lisa Wesche (IR), April 26, 2002, "Why Developing Countries Participate in Multilateral Negotiations in the Face of Power Disparities: An Examination of the Uruguay Round" Advisor: Anthony Arend

Franscesca Vassallo (CG), April 29, 2002, "Independent Participants: A Path to French Political Activism" Advisor: Samuel Barnes

Bassam Haddad (CG), May 2, 2002, "The Economic Price of Regime Security: Mistrust, State-Business, and Economic Stagnation in Syria" Advisor: Daniel Brumberg

Matthew DeBell (AG), May 23, 2002, "The Consent of the Governed: Public Evaluations of Political Legitimacy in the United States" Advisor: Clyde Wilcox

Catherine Warrick (CG), June 6, 2002, "Law in the Service of Legitimacy: Gender and the Political System in Jordan" Advisor: Michael Hudson

Helen Boutrous (AG), July 16, 2002, "Presidential Influence and Regulatory Review" Advisor: William Gormley

Vasco Rato (CG), July 29, 2002, "Reluctant Departure: The Politics of Military Extrication in Portugal, 1974 - 1982" Advisor: Eusebio Mujal-Leon

Mariko Urano (CG), August 6, 2002, "Cultural Symbols and Collective Action of Peasants: A Case Study from East Kalimantan, Indonesia" Advisor: Daniel Brumberg

Michael Goff (AG), September 3, 2002, "'The Money Primary' in the Early Presidential Nomination Process: Fund-Raising and Media Coverage as Factors in Candidate Viability" Advisor: James Lengle

Eric Langenbacher (CG), September 10, 2002 "Memory Regimes in Contemporary Germany" Advisor: Samuel Barnes

Lerna Yanik (CG), December 4, 2002, "Brothers Apart? The Role of Ethnic Affiliation in the Making of Turkish Foreign Relations" Advisor: Charles King

Matthew Marshall (CG), December 13, 2002, "Europe's Powerbrokers: How and Why Central Bankers Determined the Outcome of the EMU Agreement"Advisor: Gregory Flynn

Rebecca Johnson (IR), April 24, 2003, "Contentious Collaboration: Explaining Great Power Cooperation in the Balkans", Advisor: Andrew Bennett

Peter Huggins (IR), May 21, 2003, "Trans-State Actors and the Law of War: A Just War Argument" Advisor: Anthony Arend

Ana Maria Evans de Carvalho (CG) August 22, 2003, "The Politics of Sectoral Defense: Pharmaceutical Retail in Portugal" Advisor: Thomas Banchoff

Rachel Goldberg (AG), August 26, 2003, "Social Movement Parties and the Inclined Voter: Comparisons from 1968 and 2000" Advisor: Clyde Wilcox

Margaret Tseng (AG), August 26, 2003, "The Unilateral Presidency: Evidence of a Lame Duck Effect" Advisor: Steven Wayne

Carl Brenner (IR), December 19, 2003, "Agency, Institutions and the Enduring Pattern of American Civil-Military Relations" Advisor: Andrew Bennett

Christina Bobrow (CG) December 22, 2003, "Arbitrary Governance: Managing Expression in Turkey" Advisor: Charles King

Jennifer Hazen (IR), April 27, 2004, "How Conflict Networks Fuel and Finish Civil Wars", Committee: Michael Brown (mentor), Charles King and Andrew Bennett

Aharon Barth (IR), June 30, 2004, "American Military Commitments in Europe: Power, Perceptions and Neoclassical Realism", Committee: Robert Lieber (mentor), Andrew Bennett, David Painter (History Department) and William Wohlforth (Dartmouth)

Joshua Busby (IR), August 16, 2004, "New Troubles for the West: Debt Relief, Climate Change, and Comparative Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era", Committee: John Ikenberry (mentor), Jeff Anderson, Andrew Bennett and Leslie Vinjamuri

Courtenay Daum (AG), August 17, 2004, "Sex, Laws and Cyberspace: Organized Interest Litigation Before the U.S. Supreme Court (1957-2004)", Committee: Doug Reed (mentor), Diana Owen and Karen O'Connor (American University)

Ben Webster (AG), August 18, 2004, "Institutional Runoff: Federal Judicial Review and Regulatory Agency Policy-Making", Committee: William Gormley (mentor), Mark Rom and Doug Reed

Wesley Joe (AG), September 29, 2004, "Dangerous Liaisons: The Role of Federal Campaign Finance System Practices in the Etiology of Mass Political Powerlessness Beliefs", Committee: Clyde Wilcox (mentor), Michael Bailey and Lee Sigelman (George Washington University)

Matthew Taylor (CG), November 9, 2004, "Activating Judges: Courts, Institutional Structure, and the Judicialization of Policy Reform in Brazil, 1988-2002", Committee Members: John Bailey (mentor), Gerald Mara, Arturo Valenzuela and Linn Hammergren (World Bank)

Phillip Karber (IR), April 14, 2005, "Bad Men v. Soft Law: Transnational Terrorism and the Global Aviation Security Regime - An Exploration into the Theoretical Contribution of 'Speech Acts' in Constructivist Jurisprudence", Committee Members: Anthony Arend (mentor), Christopher Joyner, George Shambaugh and Robert Beck (University of Wisconsin)

Bradley Holst (PT), April 21, 2005, "At the Frontier of Political Liberalism", Committee Members: R. Bruce Douglass (mentor), Thomas Banchoff, Gerald Mara and Mark Warren (University of British Columbia)

Richard Avramenko (PT), April 22, 2005, "The Phenomenology of Courage", Committee Members: Joshua Mitchell (mentor), Gerald Mara and Mark Warren (University of British Columbia)

Christopher Hull (AG), April 27, 2005, "How Presidential Candidates Win State Nomination Contests: Explaining and Predicting the Iowa Caucus", Committee Members: Clyde Wilcox (mentor); James Lengle and Mark Rom

Nicole Tronzano-Speletic (PT), April 28, 2005, "Escape from Democracy: Autonomy and Ambivalence in the Experience of Democratic Politics", Committee Members: Mark Warren (UBC; mentor), Francis Ambrosio and Bruce Douglass

Lynn Ross (AG), April 29, 2005, "Bureaucratic Responsiveness and the Administrative Presidency", Committee Members: Steve Wayne (mentor), Joseph Ferrara, Mark Rom and Patrick Wolf

Keiko Ono (AG), July 15, 2005, "Polarized Politics and Voter Participation: An Electoral Connection", Committee Members: Michael Bailey, Clyde Wilcox, Michele Swers and Paul Hernson (University of Maryland, College Park)

Joanna Tobin (PT), July 22, 2005, "Poetic Democrat: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Democracy, Self-Reliance, and the Imagination", Committee: Joshua Mitchell, Gerald Mara and Patriock Deneen

Balbina Hwang (IR), August 12, 2005, “Globalization, Strategic Culture and Ideas: Explaining Continuity in Korean Foreign Economic Policy”
Committee Members: Victor Cha (mentor), George Shambaugh, and Joshua Mitchell

Tammy Schultz (IR), December 5, 2005, “Ten Years Each Week: The Warrior’s Transformation to Win the Peace”
Committee Members: Daniel Byman (mentor), Andrew Bennett, Michael Brown (GW), and Eliot Cohen (SAIS/JHU)

Andrew Tucker (PT), December 13, 2005, “Reflexive Mistrust: Democratic Engagement in the Post-Traditional Democracies”
Committee Members: Mark Warren (Mentor; UBC), Gerald Mara, and Dario Castiglione (Exeter, UK)

Farah Godrej (PT), January 6, 2006, "Toward a Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Non-Western Texts and the Methodology of Comparative Political Theory"
Committee Members: Bruce Douglass (mentor), Mark Warren (University of British Columbia), Gerald Mara, and Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame)

Brian Collins (IR), August 25, 2006, "The United States Air Force and Profession: Why Sixty Percent of Air Force General Officers are Still Pilots When Pilots Comprise Just Twenty Percent of the Officer Corps"
Committee Members: Andrew Bennett (mentor), George Shambaugh, and Harvey Rishifof, esq. (National War College, National Defense University

Richard Bailey (AG), August 25, 2006, "Integration in the Ranks: Explaining the Effects of Social Pressure and Attitudinal Change on US Military Policy" Committee Members: Mark Rom (mentor), Clyde Wilcox, and Andrew Bennett

Jonathan Monten (IR), September 25, 2006, "Strategies of Democracy Promotion in US Foreign Policy"
Committee Members: Charles Kupchan (mentor), Kathleen McNamara, and Daniel Nexon

Karen Fernandes (PT), October 24, 2006, "Delegation and the Administrative State: The New Process of Governing and its Effect on the Democratic Soul"
Committee Members: George Carey (mentor), Joshua Mitchell, and Father James Schall

Elizabeth Stark (AG), November 8, 2006, "Citizens, Volunteers, and Democrats: The Meaning of Civic Life for Women’s Political Integration"
Committee Members: Clyde Wilcox (mentor), Michelle Swers, and Mark Warren (UBC)

Susan Alberts (CG), December 6, 2006, "Subjecting Power to Rules: Constitutionalism in New Democracies"
Committee Members: Arturo Valenzuela (mentor), Mark Warren (University of British Columbia), and Barry Weingast (Stanford University)

Irina Papkov (CG), December 6, 2006, "Orthodoxy and Democracy in Russia: New Interpretations"
Committee Members: Charles King (mentor), Thomas Banchoff, Thane Gustafson, and Harley Balzer

Kathleen Hogan, December 20, 2006, "Divide or Share? The Role of Norms in Water-Sharing Arrangements in the Indus, Jordan, and Senegal River Basins"
Committee Members : George Shambaugh (mentor), Christopher Joyner, and Andrew Bennett

Rouven Steeves (PT), April 4, 2007 , “Lost in the Ruins: Nietzsche’s Youthful Wanderings."
Committee Members: Dr. Joshua Mitchell (mentor), Father James Schall and Dr. David Walsh (Catholic University of America).

Linda Merola (AG), April 23, 2007, "A Culture of Crisis: Information and the Scope of American Civil Liberties in an Era of Terrorist Threat."
Committee Memebrs: Dr. Clyde Wilcox (mentor), Dr. Doug Reed and Dr. James Lengle.

Peride Kaleagasi-Blind (CG), July 24, 2007, “Privatizations and Labor in Neoliberal Democratization: A Comparative Perspective on Turkey and Argentina”
Committee Members: Dr. John Bailey (mentor), Dr. George Shambaugh, Dr. Sabri Sayari (Sabanci University, Turkey) and Dr. Adrian Goldin (Universidad de San Andres, Argentina)

Sarah Kreps (IR), July 25, 2007, “When Does the Mission Determine the Coalition? The Logic of Multilateral Interventions Under Unipolarity”
Committee Members: Dr. Dan Byman (mentor), Dr. Robert Lieber and Dr. David Edelstein

John Gledhill (CG), August 24, 2007, “A Veil of Anarchy: Transitional Violence in Romania and the Balkans”
Committee Members: Dr. Charles King (mentor), Dr. Marc Howard and Dr. Vladimir Tismaneanu (University of Maryland).

Christopher Gaelan Murphy (PT), August 27, 2007, “The Hegelian Compromise: Globalization, Justice, and the Modern State”
Committee Members: Dr. Joshua Mitchell (mentor), Dr. Gerald Mara and Dr. Patrick Deneen

Aspen Brinton (PT), August 28, 2007, “Civil Society Outside of Democracy: A Theory”
Committee Members: Dr. Gerald Mara (mentor), Dr. Marc Howard, Dr. Mark Warren (University of British Columbia) and Dr. Roger Chickering (History Department)

David Madland (AG), August 29, 2007, “A Wink and a Handshake: Why the Collapse of the U.S. Pension System has Provoked Little Protest”
Committee Members: Dr. Clyde Wilcox (mentor), Dr. E.J. Dionne and Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci (University of Notre Dame)

Rachel Bowen (CG), August 30, 2007, “Justice in Transition: Societal Actors and the Judicialization of Politics in Guatemala and Nicaragua, 1979-2004”
Committee Members: Dr. John Bailey (mentor), Dr. Doug Reed & Dr. Arturo Valnzuela

Thomas Wright (IR), September 19, 2007, “Great Power Responses to Threat Transitions and the Legitimacy Burden: U.S.-Soviet Relations 1943-1950”
Committee Members: Dr. Charles Kupchan (mentor), Dr. Daniel Nexon and Dr. John Ikenberry (Princeton University)

Sandra Leavitt (CG), November 26, 2007, “Persuasion, Coercion, Neglect: Understanding State Policy and the Mobilization of Muslim Minorities in Asia”
Committee Members: Dr. Charles King (mentor), Dr. Harley Balzer, Dr. Michael E. Brown (George Washington University), Dr. Karl D. Jackson (Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies)


Tuba Unlu (IR), November 28, 2007, “The European Union and the Turkish Military: Europeanization between two interventions (1997-2007)."
Committee Members: Dr. Jeffrey J. Anderson (mentor), Dr. George Shambaugh, and Dr. Hasan Ünal (Bilkent University, Department of International Relations, Ankara Turkey)

Tanja Flanagan (IR), December 13, 2007, "Normative Discourse and European Security Institutions"
Committee Members: Dr. Tom Banchoff (mentor), Dr. Andrew Bennett and Dr. Anthony Arend

Dina Shehata (CG), December 20, 2007, “Islamists and Non-Islamists in the Egyptian Opposition: Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation”
Committee Members: Dr. Daniel Brumberg (mentor), Dr. Steve Heydemann and Dr. Michael Hudson (Center for Contemporary Arab Studies)

Emily Hoechst (PT), April 9, 2008, "Spaces of Freedom: Political Theory and Interpersonal Psychology."
Committee Members: Dr. Mark E. Warren (Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia; mentor), Dr. Gerald Mara, Dr. Alisa Carse (Philosophy Department), Dr. Susan Bickford (University of North Carolina) and Dr. C. Fred Alford (University of Maryland)

Douglas Shaw (IR), April 22, 2008, "Unstoppable Force: Why Doesn't Everyone Have the Bomb and What Canada's Answer Means for World Politics."
Committee Members: Dr. Anthony Clark Arend (mentor), Dr. Robert Gallucci, Dr. Christopher Joyner and Dr. George Shambaugh

Charles Kiamie (CG), April 29, 2008, "Fringe Benefits?: Rural-Regime Dynamics, Retraditionalization, and Political (De)Liberalization in Jordan."
Committee Members: Dr. Daniel Brumberg (mentor), Dr. Stephen King, and Dr. Samer Shehata

Kristine Kalanges (IR), May 2, 2008, "The Dilemma of Religious Freedom: A Comparative Analysis of Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Human Rights Instruments."
Committee Members: Dr. Anthony Clark Arend (mentor), Dr. Thomas Banchoff and Dr. Christopher Joyner

Gustavo Flores Macias (CG), May 28, 2008, "The Political Economy of the Left in Latin America: Explaining Governments' Reactions to Neoliberal Reforms."
Committee Members: Dr. John Bailey (mentor), Dr. Marc Howard and Dr. Chappell Lawson (MIT).

Brian Smith (PT), July 17, 2008, "Nostalgia, Memory, and Decline at the Dawn of Modern Political Thought."
Committee Members: Dr. Patrick Deneen (mentor), Dr. Richard Boyd and Dr. Joshua Mitchell.

Salomon Berman (CG), July 17, 2008, "Rowing Against the Stream: Elite Regeneration and the Question of Regime Continuation in Cuba."
Committee Members: Dr. Marc Chernick (mentor), Dr. Harley Balzer, Dr. Daniel Brumberg and Dr. Julia Sweig (Council of Foreign Relations).

Carin Robinson (AG), July 25, 2008, "Doctrine, Discussion and Disagreement: Evangelical Protestant Interaction with Catholics in American Politics."
Committee Members: Dr. Clyde Wilcox (mentor), Dr. Jonathan Ladd (GOVT & GPPI) and Dr. Kimberly Gross (School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University).

Catherine Lotrionte (IR), July 25, 2008, "The Missing Piece: Why Intelligence Reform Failed After 9/11."
Committee Members: Dr. Anthony Arend (mentor), Dr. Christopher Joyner, Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft and George Tenet.

Ariel Ahram (CG), July 30, 2008, "Devolution from Above: The Origins and Persistence of State-Sponsored Militia in the International System."
Committee Members: Dr. Andrew Bennett (mentor), Dr. Charles King and Dr. Jack Goldstone (George Mason University).

Andrew Loomis (IR), August 4, 2008, "Leveraging Legitimacy in Securing U.S. Leadership: Normative Dimensions of Hegemonic Authority."
Committee Members: Dr. Andrew Bennett (mentor), Dr. Charles Kupchan, Dr. Christopher Joyner and Dr. Richard Falk (Princeton University, emeritus; UC Santa Barbara).

Daniel Baltrusaitis (IR), August 5, 2008, “Friends Indeed? Coalition Burden Sharing and the War in Iraq”
Committee Members: Dr. Andrew Bennett (mentor), Dr. Robert Lieber, and Dr. Jay Parker.

Sarah Knight (IR), August 18, 2008, “Divested Interests: Globalization and the New Politics of Exchange Rates.”
Committee Members: Dr. Kathleen McNamara (mentor), Dr. Michael Bailey and Dr. George Shambaugh.


Hyon Joo Yoo (IR), August 28, 2008, “Dealing with Dormant and Active Threats: South Korea’s Strategy toward China in the Post Cold War Era.”
Committee Member: Dr. Victor Cha (mentor), Dr. Andrew Bennett and Dr. Robert Sutter.

Rachel Templer (PT), September 5, 2008, “Love, Friendship and Images: Citizenship and Necessity in Thucydides and Plato.”
Committee Members: Dr. Gerry Mara (mentor), Dr. Patrick Deneen, Dr. Joshua Mitchell and Dr. Jill Frank (University of South Carolina).

April Longley (CG), September 23, 2008, “Shifting Light in the Qamariyya: The Reinvention of Patronage Networks in Contemporary Yemen.”
Committee Members: Dr. Daniel Brumberg (mentor), Dr. Steven Heydemann and Dr. Andrew Bennett.

Alarik Fritz (IR), October 2, 2008, “How Superpowers Go to War and Why Other States Help Them: The Impact of Asymmetric Security Interdependence on War Coalition Formation.”
Committee Members: Dr. Andrew Bennett (mentor), Dr. George Shambaugh and Dr. Daniel Byman.

Blake Mobley (IR), October 20, 2008, “Terrorist Group Counterintelligence.”
Committee Members: Dr. Daniel Byman (mentor), Dr. David Edelstein and Dr. Andrew Bennett.

Jeffrey Wertkin (AG), November 10, 2008, “Overruled: The Legalistic and Managerial Models of Administrative Adjudications.”
Committee Members: Dr. William Gormley (mentor), Dr. Doug Reed and Dr. Daniel Ernst (Law Center).

Jason Ross (PT), December 11, 2008, “The Declaration of Independence and the Crisis of American Identity.”
Committee Members: Dr. George Carey (mentor), Father James Schall and Dr. Joshua Mitchell.

Peter Haworth (PT), December 11, 2008, “Community and Federalism in the American Political Tradition.”
Committee Members: Dr. George Carey (mentor), Father James Schall and Dr. Joshua Mitchell.

Thomas Kerch (PT), December 17, 2008, “Being Dear to God: Due Measure and Moderation in Late Plato.”
Committee Members: Dr. Gerald Mara (mentor), Dr. Joshua Mitchell and Dr. Alfonso Gomez-Lobo (Philosophy Department).


Sara Wallace Goodman (CG), January 26, 2009, “Civic Integration Requirements and the Transformation of Citizenship.”
Committee Members: Dr. Marc Morjé Howard (chair), Dr. Kathleen McNamara and Dr. Susan Martin (SFS; ISIM).

Ashley Thomas Lenihan (IR), February 24, 2009, "Balancing Power Through the Market: Government Intervention in Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions."
Committee Members: Dr. George Shambaugh (Chair), Dr. Charles Kupchan, Dr. Kathleen McNamara and Dr. Christopher Joyner.

James MacDougall (IR), April 24, 2009, "Post-Soviet Alignment: The Weight of History in the South Caucasus."
Committee Members: Dr. Angela Stent (Chair), Dr. George Shambaugh and Dr. Victor Cha.

Gur Hirshberg (PT), May 21, 2009, “A Defense of Moderate Cosmopolitanism.”
Committee Members: Dr. Bruce Douglass (Chair), Dr. Gerald Mara and Dr. Mark Warren (University of British Columbia).

Christopher Bolan (IR), June 1, 2009, “"Risk in American Foreign Military Interventions."
Committee Members: Dr. Andrew Bennett (Chair), Dr. Daniel Byman and Dr. Kenneth Pollack.

Mihaela Czobor-Lupp (PT), July 10, 2009, "The Civil Power of Imagination: Intercultural Understanding and Democratic Politics."
Committee Members: Dr. Gerald Mara (Chair), Dr. Bruce Douglass, Dr. Joshua Mitchell and Dr. Mark Warren (University of British Columbia).

Krzysztof Pelc (IR), August 7, 2009, "The Cost of Wiggle-Room: On the Use of Flexibility in International Trade Agreements."
Committee Members: Dr. Marc L. Busch (Chair), Dr. Erik Voeten and Dr. James R. Vreeland.

Ji-Young Lee (IR), August 17, 2009, "The Chinese System of International Relations in Early Modern East Asia: China at the Center in the Eyes of the Periphery."
Committee Members: Dr. Kathleen McNamara (Chair), Dr. Andrew Bennett, Dr. Victor Cha, Dr. Daniel Nexon, and Dr. David Kang (University of Southern California).

Aaron Boesenecker (CG), August 27, 2009, "Defining Work and Welfare: The Politics of Social Policy Reform in Europe."
Committee Members: Dr. Jeffrey Anderson (Chair), Dr. Thomas Banchoff, Dr. Kathleen McNamara, and Dr. Andrew Bennett.