POLS 513 Introductory Game Theory:
- Paperless Paper Crimes – A 10-12 page paper proposing a simple model for the interactions between spammer and victim, expanded to evaluate the interplay between spammers and security experts.
- The Other Option – Another 10-12 page paper proposing a game-theoretic framework for head-of-state assassination, perpetrated by other heads-of-state.
POLS 490 Modeling Social Phenomena:
- Blood and Water – A paper applying graph algebraic modeling to examine violence in the Middle East as a product of water scarcity.
- Also: Assignments [2]
ECON 101 Introduction to Microeconomics:
- A summary and review of Gary Becker’s Nobel Acceptance Speech. [Also seen here.]
POLS 385 South-Asian Politics:
- Policy Paper concerning the security and stability of Pakistan in the FATA region. This was a group assignment with Alexis Kellert and Ayanthi Gunawardana.
POLS 120 Introduction to Comparative Politics:
- Measuring Regimes – A short (8-10 page) paper analyzing the variations and advantages of the Polity set, the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index, and Foreign Policy’s Failed State Index.
POLS 338 Middle-East Politics:
- Rain of Fire – A short (~10 page) paper analyzing the presence and role of Light Weaponry in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
POLS 490 Nuclear Weapons:
- North Korea and the Bomb – A longer (15-20 page) paper discussing the recent history and current (as of fall 2008) conditions surrounding North Korea’s Nuclear weapons program.
- Also: Very Short (500-1000 Words) Papers: [1] [2] [4]
POLS 374 War and Politics:
- Odds of War in Sino-Russian Relations – A short paper analyzing the recent relations between China and Russia, specifically evaluating the odds of an armed conflict over the next decade.
POLS 385 US-China Relations:
- American Strategic Security Concerns and the People’s Republic of China, 1970-1980 – A short paper drawing extensively on original documents from the Carter Center’s archives.
POLS 375 Contemporary Chinese Politics:
- Modern Chinese Intelligence Collection and Military Development – A short bibliographic essay examining the literature surrounding China and its intelligence collection capabilities. (For a better-written essay on a similar theme, please read either of the papers directly above or below.)
CHN 375 Special Topics, China: