"Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea": An investigation into the treatment of mens rea in the quest to hold individuals accountable for genocide (open access)

"Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea": An investigation into the treatment of mens rea in the quest to hold individuals accountable for genocide

This paper discusses a research investigation into the treatment of mens rea in the quest to hold individuals accountable for genocide. This paper focuses on doctrinal controversies and examines how genocide is and has been addressed by modern tribunals, with special emphasis on the subjective mens rea (mental element) required for genocide.
Date: March 30, 2006
Creator: Jung, Andrew M. & King, Kimi L.
Object Type: Paper
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
All’s Well That Ends Better: Third-Party Intervention as a Challenge to Sovereignty (open access)

All’s Well That Ends Better: Third-Party Intervention as a Challenge to Sovereignty

Paper investigates the role third party intervention has played in undermining or bolstering the stability of a state’s leadership in a post-conflict setting via capacity building and legitimacy.
Date: 2014
Creator: VanMeter, Emily
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calling in the Big Guns: Desire for Military Intervention in Politics (open access)

Calling in the Big Guns: Desire for Military Intervention in Politics

Paper explores the relationship between perceptions of legitimacy and the desire for military intervention in politics.
Date: 2013
Creator: Hayden, Sarah L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Decentralization and Conflict: The Missing Link in State Capacity Literature (open access)

Decentralization and Conflict: The Missing Link in State Capacity Literature

Paper explores the relationship between decentralization and the onset of civil wars.
Date: 2013
Creator: Fan, Derick
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discord is Beauty; Silence is Beast: Dissent in Authoritarian Regimes (open access)

Discord is Beauty; Silence is Beast: Dissent in Authoritarian Regimes

Paper explores the link between types of authoritarian regimes and violent and nonviolent dissent.
Date: 2013
Creator: Copeland, D.K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does the Truth Really Set You Free? Examining the Effect of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Social and Political Trust (open access)

Does the Truth Really Set You Free? Examining the Effect of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Social and Political Trust

Paper investigates the effect that truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) have on social and political trust in Africa, utilizing the Afrobarometer and World Values Survey.
Date: 2014
Creator: Mendez, Nicole
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engendering Violence: The Acceptability of Domestic Violence as a Determinant of Intrastate Conflict (open access)

Engendering Violence: The Acceptability of Domestic Violence as a Determinant of Intrastate Conflict

Paper analyzes the influence of attitudes regarding domestic violence upon the likelihood of civil conflict.
Date: 2014
Creator: Leban, Lucy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation (open access)

Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation

Paper explores the relationship between national capabilities and the likelihood of conflict, and in particular the impact of gender on this relationship.
Date: 2014
Creator: Ferris, Rachel Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps (open access)

Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps

This paper explores the relationship between the locations of conflict zones and refugee camps in African nations.
Date: 2014
Creator: Bolte, Brandon L.
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
For-Profit Versus Nonprofit Microfinance: How are the poor affected? (open access)

For-Profit Versus Nonprofit Microfinance: How are the poor affected?

This paper discusses research on the microfinance industry, for-profit versus nonprofit models, and the efficacy of microfinance in alleviating poverty.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Weinberg, Brian R.; Cox, Gloria C. & McPherson, Michael
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legitimacy and Participation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Public Opinion in Costa Rica, 2004-2008 (open access)

Legitimacy and Participation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Public Opinion in Costa Rica, 2004-2008

This paper discusses legitimacy and participation and a longitudinal analysis of public opinion in Costa Rice from 2004-2008.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Pascoe, Henry & Booth, John A.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Palestinian Perspective on Peace with Israel (open access)

Palestinian Perspective on Peace with Israel

This paper discusses research on Palestinian perspectives on peace with Israel.
Date: March 30, 2006
Creator: Wright, Kelly & Sahliyeh, Emile F.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Popular Resistance, Leadership Attitudes, and Turkish Accession to the European Union

This paper discusses research on popular resistance, leadership attitudes, and Turkish accession to the European Union (E.U.).
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Dean, Tahirah & Breuning, Marijke
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Joint Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (open access)

Preface to the Joint Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program

Introduction to the special section featuring the joint proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program in the 2013 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2013
Creator: Ishiyama, John T. & Greig, J. Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Repressed by the Scales of Justice: The Ramifications of the International Criminal Court (open access)

Repressed by the Scales of Justice: The Ramifications of the International Criminal Court

Paper argues that the creation of the International Criminal Court will increase repression of citizens in participating countries.
Date: 2014
Creator: Schoner, Rachel J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roles of the White House Chief of Staff (open access)

Roles of the White House Chief of Staff

Paper analyzes the roles that the White House Chief of Staff plays and how effective they are in said roles.
Date: 2013
Creator: McAlister, Lisa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sex Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates in the United States: A Study of California Public Schools (open access)

Sex Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates in the United States: A Study of California Public Schools

Paper examines teen pregnancy rates across states in the United States and proposes a study that correlates the types of sex education utilized in individual counties or independent school districts and teen pregnancy rates across a sufficiently diverse state, such as California.
Date: 2015
Creator: Horton, Hannah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Size Matters: Strength of Force in Peace Building Missions (open access)

Size Matters: Strength of Force in Peace Building Missions

Paper analyzes the correlation between the size of a peacekeeping force and the likelihood of peacekeeping failures.
Date: 2013
Creator: Fink, Frances Reka
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stronger than Yesterday: The Effect of Ethnic Conflict on Ethnic Identity (open access)

Stronger than Yesterday: The Effect of Ethnic Conflict on Ethnic Identity

Paper explores the relationship between ethnic conflict and ethnic identity using quantitative methods.
Date: 2014
Creator: Shymonyak, Andriy V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Subjectivity of State Legitimacy (open access)

The Subjectivity of State Legitimacy

Paper on the subjectivity of state legitimacy.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Siddiqi, Ahmed & Ruderman, Richard
Object Type: Paper
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

Paper explores the changes in our understanding of the defenses of duress and “superior orders” in international humanitarian law over the past several centuries, focusing primarily on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Date: 2004
Creator: Henson, Christopher M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Diplomatic Negotiations Under the Articles of Confederation (open access)

United States Diplomatic Negotiations Under the Articles of Confederation

Paper examines how and why the United States had difficulty accomplishing diplomatic goals under the Articles of Confederation.
Date: 2013
Creator: Clark, Joshua
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library