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  • Author: Jamie Pauline Olss

JSIS 495 F – Niko Switek: Confronting the Democratic Deficit in the European Union: The Potential of Europarties

August 16, 2019

Posted by: Jamie Pauline Olss

Ultimately, the European Union (EU) is a success story: a closely knit alliance of today 28 nation-states that brought peace and prosperity to Europe and helped the transition of Eastern

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JSIS 495 H – Nadine Fabbi & Michelle Koutnik: The Right to Sea Ice: Canadian Arctic Policy and Inuit Knowledge

August 16, 2019

Posted by: Jamie Pauline Olss

As Inuit, our relationship with the environment is steeped with meaning. It shapes our identity, values and worldview … Keeping our homeland cold is critical to us as a people.

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JSIS 495 D – Danny Hoffman: A Multiperspective Analysis of Renewable Energy Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana Case Study

August 16, 2019

Posted by: Jamie Pauline Olss

How electricity infrastructure reaches rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa matters.  Two-thirds of the population of this 46-nation region live without reliable electricity.  The consequences are real.  At the household level,

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JSIS 495 C – Robert Pekkanen: Explaining Opposition Failure in Japan: Institutions, Party Fragmentation, and the Rural-Urban Divide

August 16, 2019

Posted by: Jamie Pauline Olss

The Liberal Democratic Party has ruled Japan almost continuously since its creation in 1955 (1955-1993, 1994-2009, 2012-present). Does Japan need a more effective opposition to be more of a democracy?

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JSIS 495 B – Jessica Beyer: The World Wide Race for Artificial Intelligence: A Path Forward for U.S. Policy

August 16, 2019

Posted by: Jamie Pauline Olss

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has broad and controversial national security application from cybersecurity to espionage to law enforcement to development. AI’s transformative potential has meant that governments around the world have

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JSIS 495 A: Preventing ISIL’S Rebirth Through a Greater Understanding of Radicalization: A Case Study of ISIL Foreign Fighters

August 16, 2019

Posted by: Jamie Pauline Olss

While the consequences of terrorism are unfortunately all too well-known and palpable, its causes very often evade us due to their politicization. Thus, one person’s “terrorist” may be another person’s

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The end of democracy?: Global trends in democratic erosion and cases of persistence

October 19, 2018

Posted by: Jamie Pauline Olss

Is democracy “over”? Around the world, established democracies are said to face “deconsolidation” or “erosion.” In other words, democracies seem a lot less stable and even less democratic. Separating rhetoric

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Energy and climate change: Nonpartisan policies for the next U.S. President

October 19, 2018

Posted by: Jamie Pauline Olss

For the first time in many decades, the world has entered a period of major energy transition, driven by deep-seated concerns about climate change, health impacts of carbon fuels, and

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Reconstructing Syria: Resettling refugees and internally displaced persons

October 19, 2018

Posted by: Jamie Pauline Olss

After over seven years of civil war, the conflict in Syria is slowly coming to an end, leaving over 12 million people injured, displaced or dead: almost half of the

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Flight risk: ICE Air’s secrecy and systematic abuse in King County and beyond

October 19, 2018

Posted by: Jamie Pauline Olss

Are you concerned about immigrant rights in our state today? Interested in conducting firsthand research requested by local and national organizations working to address rights concerns that arise in the

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