Thesis Supervision

PhD Thesis

Name	Dissertation Title	Department
Ashley, Richard K.	Growth, Rivalry, and Balance: The Sino-Soviet-American Triangle of Conflict	Political Science
Brecke, Peter Kevin	Modeling Migration to the Arab Gulf States: Computer Simulation of Development Processes	Political Science
Bryant, Thomas A.	Big Dam Politics: A Hindsight Evaluation of Large Multipurpose Water Projects	Political Science
de Castro Santos, Maria Helena	Alcohol as Fuel in Brazil: An Alternative Energy Policy and Politics	Political Science
Ferraro, Vincent	The Political Dynamics of International Resource Cartels: Case Studies of Petroleum and Copper	Political Science
Haas, Peter M.	Dishonorable Discharges: International Collaboration for Mediterranean Pollution Control	Political Science
Hart, Craig A.	The private Sector’s Capacity to Manage Climate Risks and Finance Carbon Neutral Energy Infrastructure	Political Science
Hazbun, Waleed	Between Global Flows & Territorial Control: The State, Tourism Development, and the Politics of Reterritorialization in the Middle East	Political Science
Ogban-Iyam, Ogban	The Nigerian Iron and Steel Industry 1960-1980: A Case Study of Problems of Technology Acquisition and Development	Political Science
Ozeroff, Harry	Advocacy Groups versus State Power: Creating Global Politics of the Environment	Political Science
Pollins, Brian Michael	The Political Economy of Trade: A Computer Simulation of Contending Regimes and the International Division of Labor	Political Science
Rodman, Kenneth Aaron	Permanent Sanctity versus Permanent Sovereignty: The Evolution of United States Policy Toward the Expropriation of Raw Material Investments in the Developing World	Political Science
Rosberg, James H.	Roads to the Rule of Law: The Emergence of an Independent Judiciary in Contemporary Egypt	Political Science
Smith, Dale L.	Linking the Foreign Policy Process to International Action: A Formal and Empirical Analysis of Policy Dynamics	Political Science
Sundgren, Jan Matias	Private Regimes and Legitimacy: The Politics of Self-Regulation in Liner Shipping and International Standardization	Political Science
Van Wicklin III, Warren A.	Private Voluntary Organization as Agents of Alternative Development Strategies	Political Science
Wickboldt, Anne-Katrin	Does it Take One or Two to Tango?: Language Skills, Physical Appearance, and Immigrant Integration in Germany	Political Science
Member of Advisory Committee
Amin, Tahir	Rise and decline of ethno-national movements of Pakistan: domestic and international factors	Political Science
Bennett, James Pacey	Perpetuating Failure: Security Practices and System Transformation of Southern Pacific Transnational Politics 1830-1905	Political Science
Cohen, Matthew S.	Beyond Theory: Applying Emperical Evidence to Cyberspace Theories	Northeastern University
Fiddaman, Thomas Scott	Feedback complexity in integrated climate-economy models	Sloan School of Management
Inoguchi, Takashi	Wars as International Learning: Chinese, British and Japanese in East Asia	Political Science
Kawk, Taeshin S.	Nuclear non-proliferation regime effectiveness: an integrated methodology for analyzing highly enriched uranium production scenarios at gas centrifuge enrichment plants	Nuclear Science & Engineering
Personne, Marion	Contribution à la Méthodologie d’intégration de l’environnement dans les PME-PMI: Évaluation des Performances Environnementales	MINES Saint-Étienne: Une école de I’IMT
Russell, Sharon Stanton	Uneasy welcome–the political economy in migration policy in Kuwait	Political Science
Sewel II, Jesse Horton	Finding Order in Contentious Internet	Engineering Systems Division
Trepetin, Stanley	Privacy in Context: The Costs and Benefits of Deindentification Method	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Truffa, Stefania	Le Tecnologie Dell’Informazione e Della Comunicazione e lo Sviluppo Sostenibile	Università degli Studi di Torino
Yamakage, Susumu	Regional integration in the developing world : ASEAN in a new perspective	Political Science
Zhu, Hongwei	Effective Information Integration and Reutilization: Solutions to Technological Deficiency and Legal Uncertainty	Engineering Systems Division
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S.M. (Masters) Thesis

Name	Dissertation Title	Department
Agarwal, Gaurav	A Matrix based Integrated Framework for Multi-disciplinary Exploration of Cyber-International Relations	Engineering Systems Division
Baker, Brian Lee	The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Role in Reconstruction of Kuwait: A Case Study and its Implications for Future International Missions	Civil & Environmental Engineering
Bareño, Leonel Pérez	State Autonomy and The Colombian Oil Industry	Political Science
Borrero Mutis, Santiago	The Impacts of Labor-intensive Roads in Colombia: A Framework for Analysis, Research Design and Preliminary Test	Political Science
Carey, Elizabeth Ann	The Dilemmas of United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post Cold War Era.	Political Science
Deber, Raisa Rebecca Sarah Berlin	International Political Behavior: Historical Analysis of Scandinavia and the Netherlands	Political Science
Dominguez, Ricardo Mario	The Paradoxes of Industrial Strategies: Neoliberal Reform and State Intervention In Argentine Industry From ISI To Martínez De Hoz	Political Science
Emmons, Charles Edward	The United States Foreign Service, A Personnel Model	Political Science
Funk, Karina	Information Networking as an Instrument of Sustainable Development: The Photovoltaic Example	Civil & Environmental Engineering
Haghseta, Farnaz Saboori	Information Technology and Sustainable Development: Understanding Linkages in Theory and Practice	Technology & Policy Program
Haraldsson, Vignir Mar	The value of Knowledge Networks: Conceptual Framework in Application to Sustainable Production	Political Science
Huang, Biao	Global Knowledge Network	Technology & Policy Program
Lebling, Peter David	An Interactive Statistics Package for the Social Sciences	Political Science
Lee, Leebong	Sustainability Standards for Biofuels: Analyses of the Current Standards and Recommendations of the Future Direction	Technology & Policy Program
Levin, Jeremy Ben	Markets for Energy Efficiency–Development, Challenges, and Opportunities: An Analysis of the Joint Impacts of Regulation and Market Forces on Efficient Residential and Commercial End-use Equipment	Civil & Environmental Engineering
Lim, Shung Yar	Global Knowledge Networking for the Multinational Enterprise	Technology & Policy Program
Liu, Wenyun	Winning the Competitive Edge in the DRAM Market: A System Dynamics Analysis	Political Science
Lofdahl, Corey L.	Relationships between Aggregate Human Activity, The Environment and Global Politics: A Computer Simulation	Political Science
Malek, Ilham Moussa	The Development of the Informatics Sector in Brazil: Technology, Politics, and Economics	Political Science
Mansur, Kashfia	Human Resource Development in Jordan: Problems and Perspectives	Political Science
McHugh, Gerald Paul	State Collapse: Causes, Dynamics and Linkages to Conflict	Political Science
Mistree, Dinsha	Dependence, Independence, and Interdependence in World Politics	Political Science
Ogura, Shin-Ichiro	A Review of Select Issues Relating to Appropriate Technology for Developing Countries	Political Science
Priaadi, Yudo Dwinanda	Strategic Assessment of Indonesian Technological Policy: An Analysis from Technology Triangle Framework	Sloan Management School
Raghavan, Amrith	Re-engineering Knowledge Networks for Development	Technology & Policy Program
Rosberg, James Howard	Indebted Democratization: Lessons from Egypt	Political Science
Starr, Jeffrey Michael	The Prospects for Defense Cooperation in the Persian Gulf: Saudi Arabia’s Continuing Search for Security	Political Science
Theodorou, Jerry	Political Risk Analysis	Political Science
Toya, Hiroki	Comparative Analysis of Patent Policy: Technology Acquisition and Technology Protection	Political Science
Vitalis, Robert James	Egypt in the Nineteen Thirties: Roots of the Transition to What?	Political Science
Wickboldt, Anne-Katrin	The Effect of Property Rights Protection on Economic Growth and Environmental Pollution: A Cross-sectional Time-series Analysis	Political Science
Member of Advisory Committee
Al Noaimi, Ahmed Saleh	Bahrain’s Competitiveness in the Aluminum Industry	Sloan School of Management
Al Qassim, Abdul Razak Abdulla Hassan	The Future of Bahrain as a Financial Center	Sloan School of Management
Berry, Rebecca Lynn	Reading Contamination: An Environmental Education Center at the Wells G&H Superfund Site	Architecture
Holcombe, Robert	Development of a Bayesian Network to Monitor the Probability of Nuclear Proliferation	Nuclear Science & Engineering; Political Science
Tsuen, Gloria Kai	The Role of the Military and the Success of Democratization: The Case of South Africa	Political Science
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B.S. (Bachelors) Thesis

Name	Dissertation Title	Department
Coffey, Christine Marie	The Chlorine Issue: A New Opportunity to Expand the Role of Science in Environmental Policy Formation	Political Science
Kooistra, Russell	Dirty Money: The Effect of Environmental Regulation on FDI	Political Science
Laird, Michael William	A Dynamic Feedback Theory of Political Value Change	Political Science
Lichtman, Scott P.	Enhancing the Design of a System Dynamics Model for “Lateral Pressure”	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lien, Leigh Anne	The Bush Administration’s Management of the Media During the Persian Gulf Crisis	Political Science
Masri, Khaled S.	Modelling Lateral Pressure: United States, China and Israel	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Najia, Chafic F.	Lateral Pressure: Modelled for the United States, U.S.S.R., and Japan	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Nasrallah, May	Strategic Plan for a New Research and Education Institution in the Middle East	Political Science
Nazemi, Kevin Sina	Ariel Sharon and a Two-State Solution	Political Science
Ortiz, Carlos	Geographic Information Systems and Geopolitics: A Proof of Concept for Information Visualization in Political Science Research	Political Science
Poosanakhom, Pisit	National Profiles and Characteristics	Mechanical Engineering
Sidiqi, Samuel Dean	Energy Decisions in Egypt	Political Science; Economics
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