Senior Thesis Research
2012 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Ryan Baatz | The Desirability of Nongovernmental Organizations: The Role of NGOs in The Educational System of Developing Countries |
| Zack Banton | Economic Development and Democracy: The Roots of the Correlation and How it May Be Subverted |
| Carrie Blodgett | China: The Unsuspected Leader of Climate Change Mitigation |
| Catherine Buckley | Mass vs. Alternative Tourism: The Role of Commodification in Tourism |
| Tatiana Cary |
Insurgent Citizenship in Mumbai’s Slums: The Limitations of Insurgency and Dharavi Slum Dwellers’ “Right to the City” |
| Megan Chambers |
Hidden Relationships: The Connection Between Women’s Wellbeing, Human Development & Economic Growth |
| Ben Cohn | Music’s Role in Society: A Legitimate Factor in Enacting Change in Developing Countries |
| Sean Colligan |
American Imperium: On the Ash Heap of History |
| Harrison Diamond |
Reinterpreting Nuclear Consequences: Realism, Constructivism, and the Iranian Crisis |
| Travis Gibson |
The Need for Cooperation: The Social, Political and Economic Causes and Consequences of Desertification |
| Jorden Greiner |
Oceans, Mines, and Money: The Debacle of Clashing Interests |
| Jeremy Gwinner |
How Viable is Financial Independence for Microfinance Institutions? |
| Michael Hammer |
Private Military Firms: Asymmetric Warfare Changing Rules of the Game |
| Brahm Heyman |
Un-Obtainium: The Quest for Rare Earth Elements |
| Sally Judson |
Turkey’s Synthesis of Islam and Democracy: A Model for Tunisia and Egypt? |
| Mike Knape |
Public and Private Firms in Natural Resource Industry: Comparing the Development of the Lithium Industry in South America |
| John Links |
The Good Governance Agenda: Well Intentioned but Clearly Misguided |
| Chris Marsh |
Conflicting Values: Currency Manipulation & Trade Relations |
| Morgan McCloskey |
Globalization, Health and the Nutrition Transition: How Global TNCs are Changing Local Food Consumption Patterns |
| Zane Muller |
Hot Air: Deconstructing Climate Change Discourse in Canada and Australia |
| Sierra Philipps |
Mutual Understanding and Global Civil Society: Using the Peace Corps as a Model for International Cooperation |
| Matt Price |
Pedaling Towards Sustainability: Sustainable Development, Social Maturation, and the Bicycle |
| Sean Rice |
China to the Rescue? The Implications of China’s Engagement with Resource-Rich Countries |
| Nico Romeijn-Stout | Terror in the Name of ______________. |
| Lauren Sakin |
An Evaluation of Occupy Wall Street and the Global Justice Movement |
| Dwight Sanders |
Democracy Under Attack: The Perception of Islam as a Threat to Western Society |
| Emily Strong |
The Potential of Urban Agriculture: Moving Beyond the Industrial Agriculture System and Achieving Food Sovereignty |
| Fletcher Stucky |
Re-considering the Concept of Corruption: A Chinese Perspective |
| Peter Topolski |
The Preeminent Role of Definition and Law in Fighting Sex Trafficking |
| Bo Turek |
Implementing Microfinance Programs Targeted at Rural Chinese Women |
| Taylor Volz |
A Different Perspective on the Global Climate Crisis: How Potential Policy Options Relate to the Process of Development |
| Stephanie Wood |
The Role of Women in the Arab Spring to Create Forward Momentum for Democracy in the Middle East |
| Jeffrey Young |
Ethanol Policy in the United States: Lessons from Home and Abroad |
| Tristan Zielinski |
The Successes and Failures of Political, Economic, and Social Strategies to Combat Human Trafficking |
2011 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Ryan Anderson | The Role of Motivations in Determining the Impact of Food Aid Policy |
| Zachary Benton | Ecotourism’s Dependency on Education: Ecotourism Classification Should Be Loosened |
| Peter Bittner | China’s 2008 Fiscal Stimulus: Placating the Peasantry while Continuing its Urban-biased Development |
| Curtis Brooks | The Not So Great Transformation |
| Katherine Buckley | This Land is My Land: A Comparative Analysis of the Evolution of Indigenous Land Claims |
| Janet Buendia | The European Union Military, 1999-2009: Not a Typical Tool for Aggression |
| Audrey Butler | Brazil to Bengal: Theater of the Oppressed as a Transformative Tool |
| Alexandra Carey | Thwarting the Damnation of Riverside Communities: Large Scale Dam Planning |
| Kevin Chambers | National Products in Colombia and France: The Benefits of Alternative National Branding Options |
| Elizabeth Cohen | Global Health Diplomacy: The Promotion of Self-Interest for the Advancement of Health into the Foreign Policy Arena |
| Micaela Cooley | How to Grow Community: Effectiveness of Community Development Through Tacoma’s Community Gardens |
| Cony Craighead | The Cost of an Idea: Some Considerations for Governments of Low-Income Countries When Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights |
| Audrey Dohm | The Politics of Language: Implications of language planning on development in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Kate Eberle | Remittances in the Face of Recession: Revisiting a Source of Development Funding in the Midst of Economic Contraction |
| D. Ross Fortney | The Balance of Power between the United States and the People’s Republic of China: A multi-level analysis of the prospects of a Chinese dominated century |
| Dashiell Gordon | Sustainable Development in a Hot, Flat, and Crowded World |
| Kelley Gorsuch | Concessions of the Mega-Event Bid: Winners and Losers in the Competition for Global Games |
| Lisa Griswold | The Relationship between Creativity and Productivity in Creative Clusters in Middle Income Countries |
| Robert Griswold | Liquid Investments: Globalization and the Investment Wine Market |
| Erica Hann | Flying Geese or Hidden Dragons? Chinese-style Development Aid to sub-Saharan Africa |
| Amara Haresco | The Double Edged Sword: Remittances and Labor Migration |
| Tim Jergesen | Shifting Exclusion: Class, Citizenship, and the State in Brazil |
| Sara Kang | The Prevalence of Civil Violence, Crime, and Illicit Activity in West African Failed States and the Need for an Alternative Framework to Repair Them |
| Samantha Kielty | Urban Cornucopias - Turning Challenge into Opportunity: Formalizing Urban Agriculture in Less Developed Countries |
| Alexander Laidlaw | Can the Mass Media’s Misused Power to influence Public Policy be Countered by the New Social Media? |
| Jordan Lane | Bondage in an Area of Freedom: The Creation of Human Trafficking as an Illicit Market in the European Union |
| Michelle Leung | The Potential of Artisanal Fishing for Community-Based Resource Management and Domestic Food Security: The Sustainable Use of the Commons |
| Alex Mann | Where Oil Meets Ideology: Breeding grounds for Terror in the International Political Economy: Russia, United States, and Islam in the North Caucasus |
| Hannah Miner | Exporting Culture in the Film ‘Blood Diamond’ |
| Elizabeth Newton | Economic and Employment growth through SMEs: The Effectiveness of Government Third Party Investment Strategies in South Africa |
| Jeni Oppenheimer | Economic and Employment growth through SMEs: The Effectiveness of Government Third Party Investment Strategies in South Africa |
| Julia Peters | Is She Worth Saving?: The Importance of Cultural Factors and Women’s Status in Understanding Maternal mortality in the Developing World |
| Lindsey Potter | Overconsumption, Misrepresentation, Poverty, and Toxic Waste |
| Joshua Rains | Illegal Economic Competition and Social Cooperation: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Individual-Consumer Copyright Piracy |
| David Reyes | Growth and the Environment: A Constructivist inspired approach to China’s Industrialization |
| Billy Robinson | Making Sense of the Indigenous Knowledge Debate: Can Indigenous Knowledge Be Integrated into the International Intellectual Property Rights Regime? |
| Andrew Sheridan | Automobility: A Polanyian Critique |
| Zachary Sherman | Somalia: Failed State or Successful Free Market Economy? |
| Kate Simeon | A World of Teamwork and Exploitation: using Sports and Athletics for International and Domestic Government Policy Interventions |
| Samuel H. Stevens | Examining the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Food Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Paige Stewart | Banning Virtual Battlegrounds: Protecting and Promoting National Security through Video Game Censorship |
| Ryan Tate | Building a New Socialist Countryside: The Role of Informal Financial Institutions in China’s Rural Development |
| Gina Tzodikov | Investigating the Positive Relationship between Obesity and Socioeconomic Status in Low to Middle Income Countries |
| Caitlin Van Patten | The Consumer’s Conflict: Coltan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Amy Vuong | A Whole New World: creating space for hackers in society and state-relations |
| Hayley Walker | Humbling a Nuclear Revival: Nuclear Energy as a Last Resort Solution to the Global Energy Crisis |
2010 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Andrew Barker | Vietnamese Immigrants in King County: A Comparison of Different Migrant’s Adaptations in Housing Around Seattle, WA |
| Nathan Smith Berkowitz | Cracking the Chinese Enigma: Free Finance and the Perfect Policy for an Imperfect World |
| Kendle Bjelland | The Seeds of Urban Development: An Exploration of Urban Agriculture in Latin America |
| Arianna Bodhagi | Enabling Refugees to Find Home Again |
| Karinne M. Breidenbach | The Identity Crisis of Northern Ireland: The Good Friday Agreement as an Insufficient Model of Conflict Resolution |
| Elizabeth Butt | Delivering on Health: The Coordination Required to Deliver Primary Health Care in Conflict Regions |
| Prescilla Celino | Offshore Oil in Brazil Blessing or Curse |
| Ryan Donahue | Chaos and Control at the Forest Frontier: Property Rights and the Integration of Conservation and Development in Madagascar in Mexico |
| Alana Eakin | Corporate Food: Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It |
| Samuel Fielding | The Fate of the Panda Bear: China’s Loss of Biodiversity, Struggle for Sustainable Development, and the Necessity for International Cooperation |
| Amory Genter | Ecotourism in Latin America: Balancing Economic Growth and Environmental Use through Integrated Policy and Decision Making |
| David Gulugian-Taylor | Productivity, Efficiency, and Trade: How Nations Can Reach their Maximum Potential |
| Raphaela Haessler | Women in Transition: Women’s Public and Private Lives in Societies Making the Transition from Socialism to Capitalism |
| Brendan Hammond | Optimizing Food Security under Conditions of Water Scarcity |
| Cole Hardman | Combating the Curse of Oil |
| Chloe Horner | Power and the Inherent Nature of Man Towards War: A Study of the Actions that Forced the French out of Indochina and the Motivations that Brought the United states to War in Vietnam |
| Phillip Hughes | Why Are All The Brazilians in Europe? International Soccer Player Migration in a Dualistic Market |
| Kalli Kamphaus | Sweden: Fate of the Welfare State in the Era of Globalization |
| Kaitlin Knochenmus | The World’s Most Precious Resources Has Yet to be Discovered |
| Colin Koach | Love Life: How Education Can Change the Way We See the World |
| Erin Lewis | Neodependency and Latin America: The Consequences of U.S. Intervention and Policy |
| Andrew Maas | Cultural Barriers to the Taiwanese Determination Question |
| Sean McCotter | Sour Grapes, Tangles Vines: The Chinese Wine Market and the Washington State Wine Industry |
| Kathryn McMillan | Travels of a Bean: A Dual Global Value Chain Analysis of the Argentine Soybean Industry |
| Merissa Moeller | Balancing Social Justice, Environmental Protection, and Economic Benefits in the Transboundary Hazardous Waste Regime |
| Kayla Morrison | Coca Cultivation and the State: Balancing Farmer’s Rights with Drug Control Strategies |
| Zen Newman | Hegemony Amongst the Empire: Understanding the Duality of Force and Leadership |
| Caitlin Odell | The Social Power of Language: The Case of Ireland Past and Present |
| Nazir Olanigan | Post-Ideological Cinema and Post-Colonial Liberation: On Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop |
| Jessica Reichard | Rethinking American Drug Policy in Latin America: Ending the Real Unhealthy Addiction |
| Katherine M. Ricks | The Trials and Tribulations of Multi-Layered Sovereignty: American Indians and the Case for Self Determination |
| Jackie Roth | Good Intentions Gone Wrong: Redefining Development Strategies through an Assessment of Failed Attempts |
| Christopher Sande | Slipping Away: How Globalization, Waning Legitimacy, and Broken Consensus Eroded State Authority and Started a War South of the Border |
| Holden Sapp | Media and the Power to Change the World: The Power of the Information Age |
| Jessica Scarsella | Empowering Women through Microfinance: A Magnification of Changing Gender Relations in the Developing World |
| Leana Schwartz | Fencing ‘Eden’: How Western Rhetoric Has Shaped Wildlife Conservation Policies in Tanzania |
| Elise Stephenson | The Relationship Between Mobile Phones and Economic Development: How Mobile Telephones Promote Economic Development in Developing Countries and the Optimal Conditions to Facilitate It |
| Laura Thomas | International Politics and Sports: A Story of Money, Glory, and Battles on the Playing Field |
| Emily Wiecki | A Hero of Our Time: The Rise of Vladmir Putin and the Fall of Mikhail Khodorkovsky |
2009 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Daniel Weston Adler | One Nation, Many Possibilities: Growth Diagnostics and the Search for Constraints on Food Security |
| Clinton Agresti | Culture Jamming and the Free Culture Movement - Understanding and Resisting the Corporate Colonization of Culture |
| Ian Douglas Andrews | Fusion and Finance: An Analysis of the Impact of the Financial Crisis on the U.S. Nuclear Energy Industry |
| Taylor Ash | How the West Won: Free Market Transition Strategies, Central Eastern European Integration into the EU, and the Current Financial Crisis |
| Leigh Barrick | The Culture of Consumption: Analysis of the Role of Specialty Coffee in Mexico and Brazil |
| Anna Katherine Beers | The Power of Visual Art: A Countermovement to the Market Economy and a Tool of Fascism |
| Charlie Bevis (Class of 2008) | Hunger and Famine: Food Aid in Ethiopia |
| Jay Robert Borodic (Class of 2008) | Transition: Why has China's Transition to a Market Economy Been More Successful than Others? |
| Alexi Butler | Teaching Economic Success: The Political Economy of Education in Japan and the United States |
| Wilson Cecil | Bubbly and Basmati: Evaluating the Importance of Culture in Geographic Indicators |
| Kate Darlington | Slums of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Civil Society in a Zone of Abandonment |
| InderBir Singh Datta | The Might Military: Pakistan's Security Concerns and the Resulting Detriments to Its Society |
| Karen Ebeling | Why Can't She Survive?: Maternal Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Thomas J. Ersfeld | Hidden Consequences: Negative Externalities and Chilean Government Support of the Forestry and Aquaculture Industries |
| Lindsay Etheredge | Militarizing Mexico: The Failure of Force to Weaken the Grip of Drug Cartels |
| Beth Graves | The Impacts of NGO-State Partnerships on NGO Legitimacy in the International System |
| Kent Hamar Jr. | Financial Crisis: Past Lessons Forgotten in Wake of Rapid Economic Growth |
| Kerala Hise | Education and Development for All But Half: A look at why women's education is so important, why it's been neglected, and the prospects for hope in educational development in the developing world. |
| Brittannia James | How and Why Chinese and U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Regimes Differ (And Why It Matters) |
| Linnea Johansen | The Ongoing Battle Against AIDS: How Past Mistakes of South African Government are Hindering its Nation's Development |
| Michael Jones | Cities in the Digitally Connected Global Economy: The Urban Needs of Advanced Producer Services |
| Taylor Larson | Sovereign Wealth Funds: Nationalistic Fears & Global Refutations |
| Brittany Jane McManus | The Natural Born Winner That Lost: A Case Study of How Multi-National Corporations Have Destroyed a Quality Industry |
| Rachel Elizabeth Meyer | U.S. Policy in Colombia: Fuel for Two Wars |
| Andrew Miller-McKeever | How Errors in Economic Theory and Public Policy Produced the Crash of 2008 |
| Jonathan Myers | The Sustainable Building Industry: An Exercise of Biopower |
| Kevin Nguyen | The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged: Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Internet Censorship in China |
| Maria Palomo | Embracing Paradox: The Zapatista's Postmodern Revolution |
| Jens Pascucci | HIV/AIDS the Reversal of Development |
| Lynsday Polluck | The Involvement of International Organizations in Post-Conflict Societies |
| Madeline Priest | The Impacts of Deforestation: Creating Sustainable Development, Forestry, and Agriculture in Mexico and Brazil |
| Kelsey Leigh Quam | Natural Allies: The Partnership of Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas in Biodiversity Conservation |
| Sara Saunders | Islamic Feminism and Reform in the Maghreb: The Most Viable Challenge to Inequitable Family Law |
| Erin Scheurer | Sustainable Rural Energy Supply in Developing Countries |
| Meghan Schimanski | Exploiting the Vulnerable: Alternative Explanations of Sex Abuse |
| Bret Schluederberg | Formal Property in Informal Settlements: Legal Timing and Its Role in Urban Poverty Reduction |
| Megan Schrader | Towards an Agnostic Politics of Resistance: A Post-Marxist Critique of the Multitude |
| Sam Seligman | Mobile is Beautiful: Mobile Telephones as an Appropriate Technology for Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria |
| Nathan Sharpe | The New Rentier: The Role of Energy in the Russian Political Economy |
| Stephanie Brooke Sievers | The Cacophony of International Standards IFOAM's Mission to Harmonize the Organic Market |
| Maxfield B. Silverson | The Hezbollah-Israel Conflict: Arguments for Diplomacy on Behalf of All Involved Parties |
| Ethan Taylor | Urban Development: The International Economy and the New Global City |
| William Hamlin True | The War on Khat: Failed Attempts to Control the Production and Consumption of Catha Edulis in the Middle East and Northeast Africa |
| Robin K. Wade | A Trade Regime in Crisis - The Shortcomings of the WTO in Agriculture and Emerging Alternative Trading Strategies |
| Linsey Marie Warren | Somalia: Modern Day Piracy as Political Leverage for State-Building |
2008 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Georgina Allen | Tax Haven Survival: Inaction Speaks Louder Than Words |
| Brian Arthur Ames | Will China Fly? The Potential for Future Entrance Into the Large Aircraft Manufacturing Industry |
| Samuel James Armocido | Quality Control and Consumer Confidence in the International Market: A Case Study of China’s Toys. |
| Sean Bolin | The United States’ Distortion of the Global Maize Trade through Agricultural Policy: A Study of the Effects in Ghana and Uganda |
| Nikki Brokmeyer | Private Military Corporations & Legality: An Analysis of the Motivations and Consequences of Lawless Behavior |
| Jessica Bruce | The Value Added Tax in the Economic Community of West African States: The One-Size-Fits-All Policy that Just Doesn’t Fit |
| Drew Cameron | Infra-Structural Violence: The Relationship between Transport Infrastructure and Structural Violence in Rural Peru |
| Joseph Dell | The Learning of the Firm: Mechanisms for Knowledge Transfer in International Equity Joint Ventures |
| Christopher Faggella | Ethnic Classification or Cultural Unification: An Exploration of French and American Immigration Policy |
| Natalie Fish | The Effects of Immigration on the US and Developed Host Countries: Why only Legal Immigration is Necessary and Beneficial |
| Sam Fogleman | Lessons From Versailles: How Past German Military Defeats Can Guide Modern Conflict Resolutions |
| Jessica Pearl Frank (Class of 2009) | Blood and Sweat: The Struggle for Sustainable Products and Public Awareness in the World of Menstruation |
| Millicent Hadjivassiliou | Violence and Capitalism: Building Common Ground between Structural and Post-Modern Critique |
| Carolyn R. Ham | The Effects of Reproductive Health and Family Planning on Economic Wellbeing in the Developing World: Cairo, Condoms and (Unfortunate) Choices |
| Trevor Richard Hanlin | Airships on the Horizon: The Case for Efficiency Over Speed |
| Joel Higa | Analyzing the Underlying Factors of the TRIPS Agreement and Doha Declaration |
| Christina Marie Hirshberg | Breaching Biosecurity: Discord Leaves U.S. Vulnerable to Avian Influenza |
| Brad Karr | Catching up with a Tiger: How the EU’s Newest Members Plan to Replicate Ireland’s Economic Success |
| Laura Elizabeth Kinney | The End of an Empire: How Competition Changed the Diamond Industry |
| Derek Paul Leuzzi | Colombia is Addicted to Oil: The Resource Curse and the U’wa |
| Daniel Lieser | Ecotourism in Peru: Achieving a Proper Balance |
| Logan Gassett MacKinnon | The Effect of Globalization on the Automotive Industry and its implications for the development of a stable alternative fuel and hybrid electric initiative. |
| Rahul Suresh Madhavan | The Big Bang-Galore: The Rapid Expansion and Impending Regression of Bangalore’s Metropolis |
| Jake Miller | Free Trade and the Perseverance of Protectionism |
| Caroline Lee Milleson | Transparency in the Extractive Industries: Origins and Outlook |
| Jacob Minne | The New Copyright Regime: An Examination World Intellectual Property Organization’s Work to Expand the Power of Copyright |
| Rachel Moshier (Class of 2009) | Welcome Aboard: Aviation’s Impact on Climate Change |
| Lan Nguyen | Peace of Mind: Role of Reconciliation Policy on the Brain Drain and the Nation-Building Process |
| Ian Nimmo | China’s Role as an Emerging Market for the Global Movement Towards Renewable Energy |
| Emily Susan Noel | Peeling the Onion: How Unilateral Liberalization Led to a Multilateral Stalemate |
| Tristan N. Orford | Trade Troubles, Currency Confusion: A Political Economy Approach to the Renminbi Revaluation Debate |
| Silas Paul | Patently Absurd |
| Jeff Pearson (Class of 2009) | Conflict, Progress, and Nationalism: Media Culture, Identity Politics, and Development • in Malaysia |
| Peter Corrigan Rice | Remaking International Copyright: The Maximalist System and the Digital Age |
| Sam O. Riggs | Chile and China: Redefining Trade through Copper |
| Tatiana Sahagun | The Absence of a Cultural Hegemony: The Political and Social Neglect of the Interior and the result of Argentine Economic Stagnation |
| Matthieu Sauvage-Mar | Privatizing Security: 21st century Private Military Firms Enhancing the United States of America’s Military Capabilities • Zachary Stoddard, Explaining US Income Inequality: the effect of Technology and its role in a Marxian framework |
| Matthew Van Horne | Collective Development: Examining the Factors of Mexican HTA Participation |
| Kevin Wetzler | How Global Fears and Politics Have Shaped Education Reforms in America |
| C. Shane Wright | Beyond Athleticism: How The Olympic Games Impact Domestic Political, Economic and Social Policies of Host and Participating Nations |
| Jay Winslow Wyatt | The Intellectual Property Rights Regime: A Case of Corporate Influence and Poor Drug Access in the Developing World |
| Walid Zafar | The Siege of La Paz: Bolivian Indigenous Movements and Market Reform |
2007 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Rose Anderson | Water Scarcity and Conflict in Southern Africa |
| Maggie Arends | Hijacking the Gravy Train: Divergent Interests in the Codex Alimentarius Commission |
| Jeffrey Bale | Nature’s Emerging Voice: Conserving Ecosystems for their Ecosystem Services |
| Katherine Bloomquist | Responsible Outsourcing: Creating an Ethical Environment for Clinical Research |
| Steven Burckhalter | The Malaysian Crisis: Political Economy, Realist Resurgence, and Challenging Liberal Hegemony |
| Katherine Bush | Clean Development Mechanism: The Brazilian Proposal and the Exploitation of the Values behind the Kyoto Protocol |
| Nicolas Cary | India’s Development and Dilemmas of Special Economic Zones |
| David Chebuske | Reducing the Failures of Theory: The Academic Disconnect in IPE theory and its moral and ethical implications |
| Andrew Chow | Looking at ‘Peace by Trade’ theories and the Application to the Real World: The lessons provided by the Taiwan Straight |
| Brenna Cote | A Better Means to an End? Universal Human Rights and the Case of Female Circumcision |
| Daniil Davydoff | Black to Beneficial: Using Nationally Regulated Markets to Fight the Global Shortage of Organs |
| Alicia DeBoer | Armani versus Big Tony: The Classic Italian Divide |
| Casey Dillon | Soda and Sustainability: How Non-governmental Organizations Can Influence Coke, Pepsi, and Cadbury Schweppes to Maintain and Expand on Advances in Cleaner Production |
| Christine DuPuis | Agenda Setting in The Media: How CNN And The New York Times Captured The Hezbollah/Israel War in 2006. |
| Dane Eppler | American Popular Music and Popular Culture in Japan and Germany: A Case of Cultural Homogenization? |
| Brandon Forester | Empowering Women: A New Approach to Development in Africa |
| Jonathan Gately | The Tragedy of TRIPS: Antiretroviral Access and Innovation |
| Michael Goldsmith | Consensus through Pseudo-Regime: Sustainable Development and International Environmental Agreements |
| Diana Hawk | Game On: An Analysis of Sports and Cultural Diplomacy |
| Amy Ille | Blogs: The Forum for Iranian Political Dissent |
| Angelea John | The Impact of Mexican Migration: The Role of Remittances in Fostering Development |
| Katherine Ketter | Ethical Food? The Tensions between the Organic Movement’s Values and Organic Certification |
| Emily Knudsen | Immigrant Dreams and Native Desires: An Exploration of Immigration Policies in Welfare States. |
| Lauren Lamp | What a Waste: Minimizing the trade-off between economic growth and environmental policy in urban waste management |
| Jess Martin | China’s Household Registration System, Economic Growth, and Stability |
| Mieko Matsumoto | Where Have All the Locals Gone? An Exploration of the Tourist Industry's Impact on the Autonomy of Indigenous People |
| Andrew Neal | Alternative Currency Systems: Contesting Neoliberal Globalization Through Community Building |
| Adrienne Parrish | Dependency and Underdevelopment: A Historical Approach |
| Kaitlin Paulson | Sustainable Nonprofits: An Evaluation of Successful Practices of Nonprofit Organizations |
| Katherine Russell | Latin America’s New Robin Hood: How Venezuela is Redirecting Oil Profits to Aid Social Equality |
| David Schilmoeller | Konstantin Go Home: Obstacles to European Citizenship Rights in the EU27 |
| Hal Stinchfield | Foreign Direct Investment in India: A Closer Look at Current Trends |
| Spencer Thanhouser | The TRIPS Patent Regime and Economic Development: Innovation and technology transfer in theoretical and historical perspective |
| Kathleen Tokuda | Institutionalized ODA: The shaping of Mongolia’s institutions through official development assistance |
| Nicholas Vasilius | European Union Technology Policy: The Structural and Cultural Challenges to the Growth of Europe’s High Tech Industry |
| Devin Visciano | Land Policy Reform: Economic Development and Cultural Obstacles |
| Elizabeth Walker | Black Market Loans: The Problem of Financing Growth in China’s Private Sector |
| Johanna Wallner | Pity the Poor Immigrant: Why the United States Owes Illegal Latino Immigrants a Favorable Immigration Policy |
| Nicholas White | The Adjoining of The Microfinance And Commercial Banking Industries |
| Robin Wolthausen | Biting the Hand that Feeds You A Theoretical Exploration of Progressive and Precautionary Attitudes towards Biotechnology in the EU and US |
2006 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Josh Anderson | China's Two Nationalisms: The Strategic Consequences of Ideological Contestation |
| Vincent Buehler | Fostering Trust: A Freakonomical Analysis of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Mechanism |
| Kate Brooke | NGOs: An Effective Means of Combating World Poverty? |
| Najja Bullock | AIDS, AID and Africa: Inducing PhRMAs Market Behavior to Favor the Public Good |
| Ian Colville | The Local Developing Power of Informal Finance and Its Impact on the Chinese Economy |
| Christy Combs | Democratization of the European Union: Social Factors Affecting the EU |
| Anders Conway | Poverty, Repression and Islam: Conflict in Post-Soviet Central Asia |
| Lucy Cosgrove | Modern Day Slavery: Reconsiderations for the International Discourse on Combating the Illicit Sex Trafficking Industry |
| Jen Davis | Demons of Transition: Roots of Corruption in Post-Soviet Countries |
| David Evans | Fake News, Real Critiques: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of The Daily Show's Coverage of the Recent War in Iraq |
| Minna Friedlander | Corporate Responsibility: Who's Responsible? |
| Elisa Gallegos | The Reemergence of Socialism in Latin America |
| Greg Groggel | Global Recess: Sporting Alternatives to Idle Development |
| Heather Hanson | The Best Way to Provide Drinking Water to the World (Class of 2005) |
| Katey King | Effects of International Migration on Domestic Economies |
| Katie Koch | Making the Case for Nutrition: Does Brazil's Fome Zero Overcome past Roadblocks to Effective Nutrition Policy? (Class of 2005) |
| Grace Lerner | Counterhegemonic Movements and the Search For Freedom: A Case Study of Cuba and Sweden |
| Melissa Lewis | America: A Hopeful Empire Attempt with Hegemonic Military Might |
| Rebecca Lynch | Rough Cut: An Analysis of the Sustaining Resources of Sierra Leone's Civil War |
| Denise Marks | Neoliberal Interventionism: Another Look at the Chilean Model of Development |
| Monika Maslikowski | Friend to a Superpower or the Next-Door Neighbors: Polish-American-EU Relations in Regard to the War in Iraq |
| Svetlana Matt | Wishful Thinking: Exploring the Realities of Implementing Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Countries |
| Zack McVey | Terrorism as a Religion: The Diverging Paths of Osama Bin Laden and Rachid Ghannouchi |
| Morgan Montgomery | Looking Toward Ankara: Should the EU Grant Turkey Full Membership? |
| Megan Nelson | Infrastructure Privatization: Polarization of South American Cities |
| Alyssa Newton | The Star Also Rises: Socialist Cuba in the Twenty-First Century |
| Rebecca Olsen | When Dragons Get Thirsty: How Chinese Economic Growth Affects and World – and Why the World Should Care |
| Sonja Petersen | Drugs and Terrorism: How US Policies are Hurting Afghanistan (Class of 2005) |
| Stephen Pettey | Waking Dragon: The Global Reach of the Chinese Mafia |
| Andrew Rice | Parties of God: Terrorism and Parliamentary Politics in Northern Ireland and Lebanon |
| Sam Richardson | Slavic Seduction: The Hidden Factors of Inward FDI in East and Central Europe |
| Rachel Ridings | Negotiations Interrupted: An Analysis of Immigration Reform under Vicente Fox and George W. Bush, 1999-2005 |
| Pat Riley | Russia's Policies in Chechnya |
| Nicolette Rowe | How Chinese Brand Nationalism Affects US-China Relations and Global Stability |
| Erin Schneider | Genetically Modified Seed for the Sake of Development: A Receipe for Unsustainable Growth |
| Mariah Smith | Following the Diamond Trail: Investigating Resource Conflict Resolution through the Building of New Regimes |
| Stacey Spaulding | Bluegrass Breakdown: Globalization and the Hybridization of Traditional Cultures |
| Patrick Stearns | A Global Dilemma: Why and How the United Nations Must Balance State Sovereignty with the Greater Good |
| Matt Stevens | The Age of the Fugger and the Capital-War Cycle: The Pursuit of War for Money and Money for War |
| Austin Stockwell | Losing Sight of Legitimacy: A Closer Look at the Bush Doctrine |
| Kimron Thomas | Outside the Actor's Studio: Contemporary International Relations and Celebrities Where They're Not Supposed To Be |
2005 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Erik Bergset | Mexico & Remittances: Getting the Most Bang for the Peso |
| Sarah Brabeck | Adjusting Adjustment: A Call for a Gendered Approach to Development |
| Alexa Mackenzie Cares | “Made in Bangladesh”: The End of the Multi-Fiber Agreement and the Implications of a Quota-Free System in the Textile and Apparel Industry |
| Shannon Carroll | Fishy Politics: the lack of adequate regulation in the salmon farming industry |
| Christopher Aaron Cummins | No Respect: Semi-Peripheral States and the Hidden Source of Power |
| Ryan Cunningham | Threat-Based Image Framing: The Role Of Fear And Enemy Images In American Foreign Policy Since September 2001 |
| Cristie Dee Carlie DeVoss | Theories of Politico-Religious Terrorist Radicalization: The Consequences of Deploying the Militaristic Versus Political Model of Counterterrorism |
| Josephine Eckert | International Intervention: Why the United States is in the middle of it all and the European Union isn’t |
| Michael Elliott | Currencies, Conflict, and Crisis: A Call for Exchange Rate Flexibility in China |
| Victor Feno | Voices of Intolerance: Radical Populist Right Parties in Western Europe |
| Zach Fonner | Transboundary Water Rights: Conflict and Cooperation Along the Nile River |
| Kevin James Ford | Economic Transition in the Czech Republic and the Failure of Health Care System Reform |
| Jessica Lauren Fritz | The European Court of Justice: Independent Political Force or Servant of the Member States? |
| Anna Hansen | When One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The Importance of Tailored Migration and Remittance Policy in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and the Philippines |
| A.W. Rogers Hawley | The Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Military Presence in Europe: Less Is More |
| Matt Herron | The United Nations Law of the Sea and the Protection of Marine Stocks of Fish: The Story of the One That Got Away |
| Stefan Hoerschelmann | Chopsticks and Big Macs |
| M. Neil Jones | If It’s Broke, Don’t Fix It: An Examination of the Failure of Structural Adjustment Policies and Their Continued Use |
| Nicole J. Jones | The Global Gag Rule: How (in)effective is the Mexico City Policy? |
| Lucie Kroschel | Insurgent Strength and State Weakness: The Semi-Statal Nature of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios del Colombia |
| Laura Jean Kukulan | Apple Juice Concentrate Flooding the Market: An Evaluation of the Trade Dispute Settlement Process |
| Christopher W. Leffingwell | Beyond Islam: The Absence Of Democracy In The Arab Middle East |
| Michael Martin Licata | Buried Treasure or Hidden Curse: Oil Revenues and Underdevelopment in Iraq |
| Phillip Londen | In Defense of Government Intervention: The East Asian Development Model Revisited |
| Karen K. Miller | Black Gold: The Role of Oil in the Development of Venezuela and Iran |
| Rachel A. Minea | The European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy: The Past Conflict, Present Problems, and Future Viability |
| Aleka Natzke | Boeing Corporation and China: Negotiations Between a Transnational Firm and a Nation State |
| Calla Rose Ostrander | All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men: An examination of the factors and difficulties surrounding the creation of effective environmental policy from an IPE perspective |
| Alexander Rasnavad | Open or Closed Skies? Turbulence in the Transatlantic Aviation Market |
| Sara Ramey | Tourism as a Development Strategy: Pitfalls and Possibilities in Costa Rica and Nicaragua |
| Matt Riopelle | The Outsourcing Debate: Prescriptions to Maximize the Benefits |
| Misty D. Schreppel | Women and Economic Development: Export Processing Zones in Mauritius, the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic |
| Bryce Schunke | Toward a WTO Framework Agreement on Competition Policy: A “Principled” Approach to Protecting International Competition |
| Saba Siddiki | Positive Effects of Islamic Banking in Middle East Countries |
| Jenna Silcott | Pacifist Army: The Trials and Tribulations Behind Legitimizing Japan’s Defense |
| Andrew James Strobel | The Political Economy of Deforestation in Southeast Asia: Agenda Based Politics in Forestry Management |
| Britta L Strother | Controlling For Disaster: Population Control and Development |
| Anna Terry | Migration of the Minds: Suggestions for coping with contemporary healthcare dilemmas in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Brad Vickers | Outsourcing Security, Enhancing Military Capabilities: Private Military Firms and the Nation State |
| Kali Wadsworth | Silencing the Voice of Terrorism: How Albert Hirschman’s Economic Theory Could Help Fight Terrorism |
| Scott Warren | Banking on the Euro: A New Key Currency? |
| Brian West | Give a Farmer a Tractor and He’ll Become a Communist: China’s Hegemonic Drive Behind Agricultural Tech Policy |
| Elizabeth Wommack | The Irony of the Three Cultures: An Examination of the Cultures of Science, Politics, and Economics in the Development of Agricultural Policy. |
| Melissa Zolkeply | The United States of Europe— not without a common immigration policy |
2004 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Kathryn Ahrens | Transitioning an Economy: Why Poland Succeeded and Russia Failed |
| Debbie Akhbari | Hegemony: A Sufficient Condition For International Stability? |
| Adam Beasley | Multi-Stage Liberalization: An International Study of Financial Development |
| Sara Leah Berman | Water Equals Power: The Ramifications of Bilateral Development of the Mekong River Basin Power Grid on Greater Mekong Subregion National Economics |
| Tanya Marie Borchardt | Creating Equality: The Development of Universal Health Care in Cuba |
| Katie Briggs | Minimizing the trade-offs between poverty alleviation and institutional viability for microcredit programs |
| Lia Eleanor Brown | Concerns and Conclusions: Offshore Outsourcing of U.S. Information Technology Jobs to India |
| Tyler L. Brown | Qui Bono? The Veiled, Negative Impact of Trade Unions on Pacific Northwest Businesses |
| Courtney Buck | Facing a Dark Future: Powerless Energy Efforts in Eastern Africa |
| Amanda Buhl | NAFTA and the Liberalization of Mexico’s Corn Sector: A Case of Unanticipated Outcomes |
| Samuel Harrison Bunnett | Implementing Oil Revenue Redistribution Policy Directly to Nigerians |
| Noelle DeHarpporte | Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: NGOs Filling in the Gaps |
| Nicholas Edwards | US Foreign Policy and the Ideology of Nation-Building |
| Adam Michael Erickson | The Social Dangers of Light Trucks: From Loopholes to Oil Dependency |
| Sarah Farber | Playing the Game of Nation-Building: A critical look at the role of sports in the development of national identity and unity |
| Rachel Lane Hansen | The Microcredit Vision |
| Chris Hlavaty | The Character of Chinese Design, A Contextual Analysis |
| Kathleen J. Holmes | AIDS Education Programs and their Effectiveness in Facilitating Condom Use in Sub-Saharan African Adolescents |
| Elli J. Koskella | The Implementation of Gender Quotas in the IMF and World Bank as a tool to Improve Global Policy |
| Catherine Kurz | Corporate Social Responsibility in the International Business Environment |
| Anne Catherine Law | Republican Islam?: A Study of North-African Islamic Integration into the French Republic |
| Aaron Mainer | Blowback in a Hegemonic International Order |
| Anne Royce McHugh | Off the Beaten Path: Changing Roles for Ecotourism as a Sustainable Development Model |
| Liam R. Millhiser | U.S. Security Through Unilateral Economic Sanctions |
| Sarah Ashleigh Puckett Norris | The Power of American Media Forces Abroad: Factors Determining the Influence on National Culture |
| Kasia Podbielski | The Factors Which Determine the Success of U.S. Military Intervention |
| Katherine Quinn | EU Common Immigration Policy: A problem of the past? |
| Ameer Radwan | Culture and Development: Why Egypt has Failed to Modernize |
| Keagan Douglass Rubel | Illusions of Power: The Limits of American Influence |
| Warren Schaefer | European Union Agricultural Subsidies and the Maximization of Benefits to Farmers |
| Erica Perrin Schultz | A Cautionary Look at Ecotourism: A case Study of Costa Rica |
| Michael Severeid | Hong Kong’s Bubbling IPO Market |
| John Patrick Sheppard | Underground Resistance: Do-It-Yourself Punk Rock in the Age of Neoliberal Economic Globalization |
| Laina Stensvold | Policies of Exclusion: The European Union and Asylum Seekers |
| Kelley Thomas | The Effectiveness of IMF Austerity Measures |
| Paul Tourville | European Football: A Critique of Commodification |
| Melissa B. Watson | Costs and Benefits of Increased Labor Mobility within North-South Trade Blocs: The United States and Morocco |
| Bridget Whelan | Exploitation of the Third World: A Study of Why the World Bank Does Not Aid the Poor |
2003 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Kirsten Benites | Communism and the Development of Civil Society in Romania. |
| Emily Black | Ecotourism, Globalism, and New Regionalism: Identifying and Overcoming the Challenges of Implementing "Genuine" Ecotourism. |
| Lindsey Bonner | The Exploitation of Indigenous Knowledge Through the Western Dominated System of Intellectual Property Rights. |
| Sarah Bousman | Immigration Policies of the European Union and their Impact on the Capabilities of Immigrants. |
| Lanna Dowd | Development Anew: The Grameen Bank Model of Alternative Development Theory |
| Edward DuVivier | The Missing Middle: The Political Economy of Business-Government Relations in South Korea |
| T. Patrick Egan | Mongolia's Capitalist Development: The Necessity of forming Appropriate Market Institutions to Sustain Successful Growth |
| Matt Feldmar | Peacekeeping: The UN on Trial |
| J.R. Floweree | The Prisoner's Dilemma of Agricultural Liberalization between the U.S., the EU, and the Developing World |
| Breanne Goss | (Class of 2001) The Quest for Economic, Political and Social Development: A Theoretical and Practical Evaluation of Solutions for Overcoming Dependency |
| Geoff Graham | Contemporary Consumerism: Individuals as Agents of Social Change |
| Chris Gulugian-Taylor | Multilateral Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Implications for Developing Nations |
| Brad Haydel | Agricultural Paradigms and the WTO Dilemma |
| Noah Hibbard | Popular Public Resistance: Hip-Hop Culture's Instrumental Role in Challenging Neoliberal Hegemony & Globalization |
| Josh Hiltunen | Misconceptions of Violence: Conflict, Co-operation and Human Nature |
| Christina Jensen | The Realistic Approach to Regulating Labor Standard |
| Jen Johnson | The Other War: Humanitarian Intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Jonathan Kendrick | The Demands of a Global Citizenry: Stability Through Institutional Radicalization |
| Mikaela Kookier | Regionalism as a Development Strategy: Regional Integration vs. Regional Cooperation |
| Jarrett Lanfear | (Class of 2001) The Microfinance Movement: Is There a Need for a Uniform Approach? |
| Glenn Lytle | (Class of 2004) Assuaging the Last Torment of Men: A cosmopolitan Democratic Proposal to Realize a State of Perpetual World Peace |
| Andrew Marrone | (Class of 2001) Intellectual Property Rights, Pharmaceuticals, and Indigenous Peoples: International Treaties, Complications, Possibilities, and Priorities |
| Callie Miller | Changing the Face of Globalism through Sovereignty Sacrifice: Th Effects of Sustainable Development and Environmental Policies in the EU Enlargement |
| Alissa Mundt | In Whose Interest? How Donor Interests Shape the Pattern of International Aid to Mozambique |
| Abby Ormsbee | Going Public: Accountability versus Legitimacy in International NGOs |
| Nicole Parsons | Guatemala on the Brink |
| Brian Pautske | Alternative Paths to Economic Recovery: a case study of Malaysia and Korea |
| Megan Elizabeth Petty | Rust on the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reality of the Floating Population Policy |
| Jacques Plaa | Why the EU is Unlikely to be Successful in Forming an Effective European Security Defense Policy, Re-affirming the Need to Strengthen NATO |
| Eileen Poole | The Case Against the IMF |
| Dave Poster | Unveiling the Illusion of Security: A Flaw in American Realist Foreign Policy |
| Branson Quenzer | The Cyclical Nature of Logics of Consequences and Logics of Appropriateness: The Sykes-Picot Agreement |
| Lauren Reyes | Are Sweatshops Inevitable? |
| Ron Ringuette | Down But Not Out: September 11th, the Decline of the Anti-Globalization Movement and the Prospect of Movement Resurgence |
| Kirsten Schlewitz | Selling Sovereign for U.S. Dollars: Replacing Nicaragua’s Revolutionary Spirit with the Neoliberal Mindset and Its Implications for Sustainable Development Practices |
| Andrew Smith | Freedom Fry Fiasco: Complicated U.S.-EU Differences and Why They Matter |
| Joel Von Trapp | IMF Failure in Argentina: The Greater Implications and Possible Reform |
| Emily Vonk | Materialism, Happiness, Family and Social Stability: Reconsidering the Importance of Households to Sustained Development in the International Political Economy |
| Sarah Yearwood | Building Capabilities: The Role of Government Policy in Taiwan's Success and on Outward Investor |
2002 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Christine Bachman | The Promise for Basic Health in South Africa: Neoliberal Deficiencies in the Provision of Care |
| Shannon Belding | Hope Despite Realism: Shifting Towards Post-Modern Assumptions and Values in order to Address the Problem of Global Climate Change |
| Dana Boyle | Climbing up the Food Chain: Examining the Health Costs of the Nutritional Transition in the Developing World |
| Elizabeth Anne Caley | Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in the Time of Globalization: Can Regimes Be Effective for Solving This Problem? |
| Jon Collins | Giving up your Currency? The Internal Factors that Determine a Nations Decision to join a Monetary Union |
| Krista Crum | Assessing Sustainable Development Through Human Factors |
| Frank de Jong | Investigating the motives of European Integration through history and as a response to globalization |
| Desirae Alison DeWesse | Italy and Albania: A case study of the Jihad vs. McWorld and the undermining of democracy |
| Joshua Dean | Small States and Realism: The Influence of History and Culture on Estonia’s Economic and Political Policies |
| Andrew Frederick | Changing Tastes: National Identity Evolving through the Spread of American Fast Food |
| Jonathan Galloway | Critical Consumption: Towards a Model of Consumption |
| Paul William Gebhardt | Axelrod, Agenda 21, The Montreal Protocol, OzonAction and the Environment: A Solution to Environmental Crisis in the Third World? |
| Julie Goldenberg | Regulating the International Financial Architecture: Preventing Future Crises |
| Colin J. Guheen | Today’s Capitalist Elite in the Global Policy Process: A Self Interested Majority and a Disinterested Steward Minority |
| Lavonda Joy Jackson | Korean Security Matters: The Manipulation of Economic and Social Issues in the Realist Game |
| Kathy Johns | The Exclusion of Evaluation of Social Change Within Microfinance: Limitations and Institutional Solutions |
| Katie Johnson | Urban Migration, Informal and Industrial Employment: Why Women are Moving For Work in the Third World |
| Krzysztof Anton Kosmicki | The Market Submerged: A Transformation Analysis of Partial Market-Based Reform in Cuba |
| Erin M. Krane Green Globalization | The Rise in Power and Influence of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations in Germany and Slovakia |
| Kari Lambert | Flexible Exchange Rates and Capital Controls in an Argentinean Context |
| Stephan Louis Lanwermeyer | An Ideological Paradox: The Neoliberal Trap in the Czech Republic |
| Matthew Lovseth | The Neoliberal Overextension: Why Free Markets Won’t Lead to Political Freedom in China |
| Megan Mooney | Microfinance: Reconciling the Importance of Access to Credit for the Poorest of the Poor and the Pursuit of Institutional Financial Sustainability |
| Luke Fletcher O’Dell | Colonial Legacies and Corruption as Indicators of Development for sub-Saharan Africa |
| Erika A. Oliver | The Ideal Combination of Formal and Informal Microfinance Lending Institutions that Best Enables Women to Acquire Access to Credit |
| Lisa Ridenour | The Illusion of American Imperialism: Informally Creating Economic Dependency through Promoting Democratic Ideology |
| Midori Rachel Sagara | A Keynesian View of the Japanese Financial Crisis: the Double Movement in Question |
| Hillary Schenk | An Alternative Development Strategy: Reproductive Rights for Women |
| Patrick Solano | Water For All: Integrated Water Resource Management and its Obstacles |
| Dianna Tingg | Star Wars II: George W. Bush Strikes Back- An Analysis of the Decision Making Process on National Missile Defense |
| Christopher Turillo | New Religious Politics and Democracy: The circumstances surrounding a successful union in India |
| Matthew Van Sickle | A Return to the Passions: Augusto Pinochet and Neoliberalism in Chile and (Re)Deregulating Public Policy Through the Inclusion of Grassroots Organizations: Learning from Chile |
| Stephanie L. Wight | Almost There: An Analysis of Regionalism as a Strategy of Oceans Management in the Caribbean |
2001 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Tara A. Lunde | Microfinance Institutions: Financial Sustainability Vs. Outreach. A Study Of The Bolivian Banco Solidario's Experience With For-Profit Microlending |
| Scott Ryan Bailey | Fiscal Federalism: Theory And Practice In Post-Dictatorship Brazil |
| Matthew Muldoon Bryant | It Takes Two To Tango: Privatization And Regulation Of Argentina's State-Owned Utilities Companies Under The Menem Administration |
| Mathew Macdonald | The U.S. Embargo On Cuba: Its Effects On Castro's Legitimacy, Cuban Sovereignty, And The Survival Of The Socialist Experiment In A Capitalism World |
| Andrew James Frantz | Trade Over The Environment: How The Rules And Procedures Of The Postwar Liberal Regime Inhibit Collective Action For The Environment |
| Brooke K. Sherman | Free Market Environmental Theory: Aquatic Commons And Market Limitations |
| Amanda Claire Hopkins | Acknowledging Origins: The Conflicts Of And Solutions To The Inclusion Of Indigenous Community Ideology In The Intellectual Property Rights Regime |
| Adil Aziz Siddiki | Is There A Market For Morals? A Comparison Of The Moral Justification For Capitalism And Positive Moral Virtue In Islam |
| James M. Fay | Cultural Practices V. Cultural Values: An Examination Of The Effects Of Globalization |
| Marina Dyan Green | Reassessing Thailand's Democratic Consolidation: The Role Of "Crisis Coalitions" And Class Interests |
| Michele E. Cummings | Regionalism And The Post-Cold War Structure: The Forces Behind The Transformation Of The European Neutral Nations |
| Natalie Jones | Austrian Cold War Neutrality And The Development Of The Austrian National Identity |
| Kate McCallum Fusillo | The State Needs Help: A Two Level Solution To Instability Throughout Financial Markets |
| Maxine S. Cram | Special Interests And Two Tiered Games: The Case Of The World Trade Organization |
| Jessica Malia Meyers | Information Technologies: Towards An Egalitarian Society? |
| Douglas Martin Aamoth | Sex And Finance: Grameen Bank And The Thai Sex Trade |
| Andrew Marrone | Intellectual Property Rights, Pharmaceuticals, and Indigenous Peoples: International Treaties, Comnplications, Possibilities, and Priorities |
2000 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Daniel J. Abrams | The Last Kibbutz: an IPE Perspective on a Changing Movement |
| Christine E. Chansley | Religion & Development: Islamic Banking in Turkey |
| Gianna Marie Piccardo | Cultural Resistance to Economic Globalization: The Wine Industry in Italy |
| Wendy K. Soo Hoo | An Evaluation of the Economic and Social Performance of Contract Farming |
| William Ryan Baker | The Myth of the Free Press: Examining the Effects of the Economic Structure of the Mass Media From the Perspective of the Propaganda Model |
| Alysia Hazelton | The Decline of the State and the Rise of NGOs in Kenya: Examining State/NGO Combinations |
| Jessica A. Lowell | Turning Economics into Politics: The Political Economy of Britain and the EMU |
| Nickolaus Patrick Momyer | Democratic Diplomacy: Collaboration as a Catalyst for Change |
| Julie Steele | The HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Zimbabwe: A Political Economic Approach |
| Beth Argenti | Evaluating the Role of Economic Sanctions as an Effective Tool of U.S. Foreign Policy |
| Sarah Beth Garfunkel | Never Again: International Enforcement Mechanisms of International Law for Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, and Genocide |
| Cassidy H. McTigue | The Cuban Embargo and U.S. Sovereignty |
| Greg Steen | Feeding the World's Hungry: Agricultural Biotechnology, Food Security and IPE |
| Colleen Renee Dyble | The Role of Women in Democratic Spain: The Transition from the Private to the Public Sphere |
| Ryan Edward Polich | Retooling Labor: Developing Cross-Border Solidarity in Response to NAFTA |
| Jonathan Reed | Agricultural Development in South and Southeast Asia: Conventional and Alternative Development Strategies |
| Amy Temple | Multinational Corporations and the Developing World: The Negative and Positive Aspects of Foreign Investment in Developing Countries |
| Kristine Joy Kalanges | The Devil's Arithmetic: Economic Rationalism and the Loss of Human Security: An Ethical Critique of Neoliberalism |
| Michael Steven LeFevre | Towards a Model of Lasting Happiness: A Critical Analysis of John Maynard Keynes's Economic Possibilities of Our Grandchildren |
1999 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Adam Hersh | Democratization and Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
| Stephanie Rubio | Corruption: The Great Impediment to Economic Growth |
| Valerie Evans-Hoff | Model of Rural to Urban Migration: The Effects of Policy on Mexico City |
| Cherelle Kohn | Creating an "Ideal" Development Model: From the East Asian Example |
| Cort Weber | A Rejection of the Official Story: Why the Cuba Embargo Persists After the Cold War |
| Amanda Jacobsen | Why Uruguay Fares Better than Chile in regards to its Street Children Dilemma: A Comparative Analysis of the Street Children Issue in Chile and Uruguay |
| Jeannette Grey | Europe is More Politically United Because of the European Union |
| Erica Nau | How the European Union Helps Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic Solve Stock Exchange Problems |
| Courtney Webber | The WTO, NAFTA, and the Environment |
| Tam Brine | The Debt-for-Nature Swap: Analysis of an Environmental Development Strategy |
| Jonathan Westerman | The IPE Piracy of Software Intellectual Property Media |
1998 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Mikala Bittlingmaier | Rags and Riches: Real Dangers For The Future Of South Africa's Democratization |
| Cindy Cooper | The Practical Application of Gradualist Theory and the Success of Its Implementation in the Czech Republic |
| Jennifer Swanson | The Final Transition: Small States in the Global Economy |
| Heather Barnett | Blonde Beauty Brazens Billboards: The Role of the Nation-State in Regulating Foreign Advertising |
| Mark J. Vahrenwald | "Hit the Ball and Touch 'Em All:" An Examination of the Effect of Sports on International Political Economy |
| Kent Craford | Save a Logger, Eat a Spotted Owl! Current Timber Regulation as Inappropriate Industrial Policy |
| Gina Dawn Wolverton | Cosmetic Communism |
| Lee Christine Sutton | Walking on Two Legs into China's Future |
| Meg Hendricks | The Role of Human Rights Abuses in Chile during the Implementation of Free Market Policies under General Pinochet |
| Frank K. Johnson | Breaking the Mold: How and Why International Development Efforts have led to Systemic Conditions of Dependence |
| Khaleefa S. Al-Mansouri | The Gulf Cooperation Council: A Critical Review |
| Andrew G. McEldowney | The ASEAN Regional Forum: Conflict Prevention and Management in East Asia |
| Patrick M. Classen | The Pacific Salmon Crisis: A Tragedy of the Commons |
| Valerie Hopkins | The Pursuit of Adam Smith: Acceptance and Misconception from 1776-1840 |
| Megan Haynes | The IPE of the Environment: A Look at the Forces that act upon the Formation of Global Environmental Accords |
| Tracy Williams | The IPE of Rainforest Preservation |
| Justin D. Meisberger | The Negative Effect China's Most Favored Nation (MFN) Status Has on the Endangered Species Trade |
| Garrett W. Crawshaw | Cheeseburger in Paradise: A Study of the Effects of Tourist-Based Development in Bali, Indonesia |
| Susannah Muench | The Necessary Preconditions for Conservation of Forests within Developing Nations: The Case of Costa Rica and Kenya |
| Corina Gerety | Global Warming: The Kyoto Summit and Beyond |
| Lyndi M. Peterson |
Ecotourism: Key Conservation Strategy or Natural Disaster? A Case Study of Sustainable Development in Costa Rica |
1997 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Rachel Little | Progressive Capitalism: The Contribution of the Body Shop |
| Kelly Wadsworth | Implications of Exploitative Child Labor: A Look at Individual and National Consequences |
| Whitney C. Gore | Equitable Development Strategies: The Demise of the Double Burden |
| Christy Clapp | Grassroots Women of Brazil and El Salvador: The Cause and Effect of Politicization |
| Joran Lawrence | Information and Communication Technology: The Force Behind Globalization |
| Peter Liedtke | The International Political Economy of the Global Narcotics Trade: Northern Consumers, Southern Producers, Everyone's Problem |
| Angela Strickland | Transnational Crime Organizations: How to Turn the Table on These Successful International Alliances |
| Mark Wischmeyer | Global Environmental Fund, Brazil, and the Future of the Global Environment |
| Wyomia Clifton | The Changing Nature of Power, Hegemony, and the Role of the United States |
| George Grant Roane IV | The Ascendance of the Multinational Corporation at the Dawn of the Information Age: A New Hegemony |
| Bryan Anthony Beidle | Economic and Monetary Union of Europe: Moving to a Single Currency |
| Rob Reinhardt | The Theory of Interactive Spillover Effects and the Democratization of China |
| Amy Judah | Communism to Capitalism: U.S.-Vietnam Relations |
1996 Senior Theses
| Senior | Thesis |
| Aaron Ausland | Microlending: taking the poor into account in development strategy |
| Jennifer Bohn | Population, Distribution, and Economic Inequality in Latin America: a theoretical analysis |
| Mark O'Connor | German Reunification: the shock of resentment |
| Claudia Stickler | Elephants and Tigers: The effectiveness of international efforts to limit international trade in endangered species |
| Julie Suchanek | Escalators and Bridges: The evolution of non-governmental organizations in the twentieth century |
| Steven Cho | National Unity the Struggle for Ethnic Solidarity in Malaysia: An evaluation of the NEP and its effects on the Socio Political Economy of Malaysia |
| Sara Stolzenburg | Justification and Paradox: the development of citizen and state in Renaissance Europe as reflected in The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and Utopia by Sir Thomas More |
| Erika Van Nynatten | Women's Cooperatives in Developing Societies: the power of social and economic transformation |
| Vanessa Bugbee | The Canadian Question: eruptions from Mt. Quebec and the fallout for the rest of Canada |
| Jimmy Leu | An Incentive for Regional Economic Integration |
| Darla Rhodes | Regional Development in the European Union: the political success of an economic policy |
| Mike Rucier | Mercosur: A Critique of Regional Integration |
| Mitsu Akinaga | The Political Economy of Sanctions on South Africa |
| Lisa Anderson | What Are the Prospects to Control Nuclear Proliferation? |
| Jon Haralson | The Alliance for Progress: U.S. foreign aid policy in Latin America during the 1960s and its political economic consequences |
| Blair Mus | A Necessary Evil: A study of sanctions and their use in the political economy |
| Greg Rhodes | The Emotional Policy Failures of U.S./Cuban Relations |
| Kimberly White | One Small Step for the Western World, One Giant Leap for Vietnam |
| Tom Baumgartner | Japan: the leader of an economically integrated East Asia |
| Scot Duffield | Japanese Multinational Enterprises Drifting Out to Sea: how the expansion of Japanese multinational enterprises signals the coming liberalization of Japan |
| Aaron Glynn | Why Trees to Cattle? The Latin American cattle industry |
| Joe Little | Walking a Tightrope: the Bank of Japan balancing domestic and international interests |
| Ezra A. Snyder | Multinational Enterprises in Action: Cutco in Austria |
| Pen Suwannarat | Globalization Effects on the Thai Auto Industry |
