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From National Security to Environmental Security: A Historical Overview

Vella, Andre` (2012-02-23)

The study attempts to provide a historical approach to the role of the environment in security studies. Contemporary security challenges have shown that the narrow definition given to national security is no longer adequate. ...

From Our Abundance: the Logics and Practices of US Foreign Assistance, 1789-1949

Melissa Sinclair (2019)

Conventional wisdom places the origins of US Foreign Assistance in the wake of the Second World War, primarily as a tactic intended to thwart the spread of Communism and to promote peace through the expansion of a liberal ...

From Power Mediation to Dialogue Support? Assessing the European Union's Capabilities for Multi-Track Diplomacy

Goldner-Ebenthal, Karin; Dudouet, Veronique (Berghof Foundation, 2017-08)

This report seeks to answer this question, by assessing EU capabilities for multi-track diplomacy from a ‘whole-of-society’ perspective, as defined in the Horizon 2020-funded project “Whole-of-Society Conflict Prevention ...

From Standard English to Synergistic English Work: Uncovering Writing Instructors' Negotiations of the Standard English Dilemma and Paradox in Their Writing Assessment Practices

Sarah Johnson (2021)

In response to the extensive work surrounding Standard English (SE), translingualism, and antiracist writing assessment in the field of writing studies, this study shifts the focus from theoretical calls about combatting ...

From Tariffs to the Income Tax: Trade Protection and Revenue in the United States Tax System

Magness, Phillip W. (2009-11-13)

Utilizing historical and statistical data, it is argued that the federal income tax amendment of 1913 drastically, and somewhat inadvertently, altered the constitutional political economy of congressional trade politics ...

From Teachers’ Perspective: Implementation of Literacy Materials in Middle School Science

Weingartner, Judith A. (2008-07-02)

Documentation of adolescents’ difficulty in comprehending textbooks spans a century. For just as long, researchers have advocated that explicit instruction of reading strategies can help students’ comprehension of text; ...

From the Black Forest to Philadelphia: Gottlieb Vollmer, Upholsterer and Cabinetmaker, 1841-1883

Mills, Alanna Deirdre

A massive completely gilt, blue brocatelle-upholstered Louis XVI revival parlor suite was made by Gottlieb Vollmer for the White House Blue Room during President James Buchanan’s residency. Outside of this parlor suite ...

From the Closet to St. Mark’s Cathedral: Acts of Rage and Opacity within Queer Social Movements

Poapst, Jackie A (2017-01-27)

With every decade that society progresses, majority groups in the United States and internationally hail how much improvement has occurred for inclusion of minority groups into social, political and economic structures. ...

From the Cold War to the Crypto War

Shumate, Nicholas (2020)

After the Cold War came to a close, in the United States a new informational society emerged from the rubble. This society, based on open access to information, challenged decades old policies of closed information. ...

From the Potomac to the Chickahominy

Unknown (2011-06-15)

Hand colored wood engraving depicting the eastern part of Virginia from the Potomac River in the north to the state line in the south. Shows natural features, cities and towns, roads and railroads. February 1862. Measures ...

From Washington’s Streaking Bullets to “Washington’s Great Wizard Delusion”: The Winning and Losing Discourse of the Washington Bullets and Wizards

Lavine, Jamel (2014-10-07)

The Washington Wizards are one of several franchises to have won a championship in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Although the franchise achieved this during a decade of consecutive postseason appearances, ...

from What is the What

Eggers, Dave (2007-03-26)

Reading at George Mason University, 05 October 2006

From “Frogs in the Lake” to “Learning to Stand Up”: Land Rights Social Mobilization in Cambodia

Sarah Rose-Jensen (2019)

This research examines resistance to forced eviction in two communities in Cambodia, Areng Valley and Boeung Kak Lake. The research asks how mobilization is being generated and sustained in a context which might discourage ...

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