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Ethnicity, Civil War and International Disputes (open access)

Ethnicity, Civil War and International Disputes

Paper explores the role played by ethnicity in civil war in terms of sparking international disputes.
Date: 2010
Creator: Kenwick, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Images in Mexican-American War Literature (open access)

An Analysis of Images in Mexican-American War Literature

Paper argues that John Frost’s pictorial images and narratives of Mexicans were used as historical justifications for the intervention into Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
Date: 2016
Creator: Rudy, Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Government's Girls: How the United States Government Used War Poster Art to Recruit Women to the Workforce During World War Two (open access)

The Government's Girls: How the United States Government Used War Poster Art to Recruit Women to the Workforce During World War Two

This paper discusses research on the recruitment of women via the medium of posters during World War Two (1941-1945).
Date: April 15, 2004
Creator: Pierce, Danielle; Way, Jennifer & Dupont, Jill
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Explaining Peace Duration through Foreign Aid and Civil War Outcome (open access)

Explaining Peace Duration through Foreign Aid and Civil War Outcome

Paper explores the relationship between foreign aid and civil war outcome and analyzes the impact these factors have on peace duration in a post-conflict environment.
Date: 2011
Creator: Martinez, Melissa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parity or Peace: Varying Intensities Caused by Third Party Interventions in Civil War (open access)

Parity or Peace: Varying Intensities Caused by Third Party Interventions in Civil War

Paper explores the effects of third-party interventions in modern civil wars, and analyzes the varying effects of strong verses weak interventions.
Date: 2013
Creator: Craig-Morse, Inanna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soft Power and International Public Opinion: U.S Presidents and the Treatment of Prisoners of War (open access)

Soft Power and International Public Opinion: U.S Presidents and the Treatment of Prisoners of War

Paper discusses the international effects of the policies of a nation in the form of soft power.
Date: 2009
Creator: Wagner, Coleman
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The First World War: American Ideals and Wilsonian Idealism in Foreign Policy (open access)

The First World War: American Ideals and Wilsonian Idealism in Foreign Policy

This paper discusses research on foreign policy during the First World War.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Durant, Karis & Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

God and War: How Religious Identity Influences Senatorial Decision Making On Foreign Policy Issues: A Work In Progress

Presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on how religious identity influences Senatorial decision making on foreign policy issues.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Pascoe, Henry & Oldmixon, Elizabeth Anne
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rhetorical Analysis of the Media and History (open access)

Rhetorical Analysis of the Media and History

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the history and nature of media coverage, including Operation Desert Storm and the Civil Rights Movement. Special attention is paid to the role of television in journalism.
Date: Spring 1992
Creator: Schwartz, Cathy
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hail Mary: The Effect of the 1972 "Linebacker" Bombings on the Paris Peace Accords (open access)

Hail Mary: The Effect of the 1972 "Linebacker" Bombings on the Paris Peace Accords

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing Richard Nixon's "Linebacker" aerial bombings of the North Vietnamese army as a means by which to force peace.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Arduengo, Enrique Sebastian
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hail Mary: The Effect of the 1972 “Linebacker” Bombings on the Paris Peace Accords (open access)

Hail Mary: The Effect of the 1972 “Linebacker” Bombings on the Paris Peace Accords

Paper discusses the “Linebacker” bombings of 1972 in Vietnam, and explores what the North Vietnamese attendance at the 1973 Paris Peace Accords and their return to conflict two years later says about the effectiveness of American air power alone.
Date: 2007
Creator: Arduengo, Enrique Sebastian
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High on Repression: How Military Involvement Increases Violence and Corruption When Fighting Drug Trafficking (open access)

High on Repression: How Military Involvement Increases Violence and Corruption When Fighting Drug Trafficking

Paper describes research that tests the effectiveness of a military approach versus an approach of social and judicial reform for fighting drug cartels.
Date: 2012
Creator: Torres, Roman D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
All Terrorism is Local? A Quantitative Analysis of Al Qaeda Affiliation and Rebel Group Behavior (open access)

All Terrorism is Local? A Quantitative Analysis of Al Qaeda Affiliation and Rebel Group Behavior

Paper examines the effects of affiliation, focusing on Al Qaeda, on the behavior of rebel groups.
Date: 2014
Creator: Robbins, Arianna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refugee Representations: 1950s Non-Western/WWII Refugees in American Media with Smaller Circulation (open access)

Refugee Representations: 1950s Non-Western/WWII Refugees in American Media with Smaller Circulation

Paper explores refugee representations in the 1950s of non-western/World War II in American media, specifically “smaller circulation” media - local newspapers, academic studies, and governmental documents.
Date: 2017
Creator: Anderson, Tova
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Other Side: Fifteen Mexicans and an American (open access)

The Other Side: Fifteen Mexicans and an American

Paper argues that Albert C. Ramsey’s The Other Side: or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the U.S., a translation of a Mexican account of the war, Apuntes para la Historia de la Guerra entre M´ exico y los Estrados-Unidos depicts the Mexican perspective on the Mexican-American war to counter misrepresentations of Mexico by his American peers.
Date: 2016
Creator: Brand, Rebecca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How La Tapisserie Des Cerfs Ailés Inspired French Patriotism (open access)

How La Tapisserie Des Cerfs Ailés Inspired French Patriotism

Paper explores the origins of the Winged Stags Tapestry, hypothesizing that it was created as a form of French propaganda after the Hundred Years' war.
Date: 2015
Creator: Rice, Dylan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deterrence: American Naval Policy In The Western Pacific, Realistic Or Subject To Change (open access)

Deterrence: American Naval Policy In The Western Pacific, Realistic Or Subject To Change

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the future of United States naval deterrence and its viability.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Wicks, Harrison
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The "Philadelphia Sound": The Formative Years (1912-1920) (open access)

The "Philadelphia Sound": The Formative Years (1912-1920)

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the development of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the early career of Leopold Stokowski.
Date: April 1999
Creator: Threlkeld, Candis
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sports: Political Influence on International Competition (open access)

Sports: Political Influence on International Competition

Theses written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the role of politics in international sports (especially the Olympics), conflict within Iraq, and conflict within Northern Ireland. Newspaper clippings regarding Iraq and Northern Ireland are included.
Date: Spring 1998
Creator: Wilson, Christy
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Superior Orders and Duress as Defenses in International Law and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (open access)

Superior Orders and Duress as Defenses in International Law and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the changes in understanding of the defenses of duress and "superior orders" in international humanitarian law over the past several centuries, changing from one extreme to another.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Henson, Christopher M.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drugs and Peace Duration (open access)

Drugs and Peace Duration

Paper explores the impact that the production and/or transit of drugs have on the durability of peace following civil war.
Date: 2011
Creator: Adams, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
We Didn’t Start the Fire: The Effect of Foreign Sponsorship on Peace Duration (open access)

We Didn’t Start the Fire: The Effect of Foreign Sponsorship on Peace Duration

Paper explores the effect of foreign sponsorship on the likelihood of civil war reoccurance.
Date: 2013
Creator: Roberts, Jordan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Human Trafficking: An International Study (open access)

Human Trafficking: An International Study

Paper analyzes the factors that contribute to human trafficking worldwide.
Date: 2005
Creator: Johnykutty, Sophia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Evolution of Japan’s Foreign Policy (open access)

The Evolution of Japan’s Foreign Policy

Paper examines the effect of World War II and its aftermath on foreign policy in Japan, particularly military policy.
Date: 2008
Creator: Admire, Kristyn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library