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This collection includes Senior Individualized Projects (SIPs) completed in the Political Science Department. Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email us at dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this material.
All materials in the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, authors retain the copyright for all content posted to the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive.
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An International Relations Examination of Private Miiitaiy Companies : The Post-Cold War Security Vacuum, A Tendency Toward Immorality, and United States Foreign Policy
(2015)This essay presents a new framework for prescribing policies regarding the United States' use of private military companies (PMCs). Although this essay culminates in a specific policy prescription, its significance rests ... -
No a la Ley Monsanto : An analysis of the framing and dissemination strategies utilized by the anti-GM agriculture and anti-seed patenting movements in contemporary Chile
(2015)This paper will look into the framing and dissemination strategies used by the anti-GMO and anti-seed patenting movement in contemporary Chile, ultimately identifying the major frameworks used and analyzing their impacts. ... -
UN Peacekeeping Missions What Makes Them Successful
(2015)This study explores factors that could most likely facilitate a successful UN peacekeeping mission through analyzing three case studies. Kosovo, Croatia, and Mozambique are used to determine which factors matter most in a ... -
Public Participation and its Discontents : The Planning Process in Land Management Bureaucracies
(2014)This project draws from literature that explains the opportunities for public participation and the effectiveness of these traditional methods, which reflect Barber's analogy of zoo-keeping. The first chapter will argue ... -
The Construction of the Hispanic Migrant as Terrorist
(2014)In order to understand the deeply troubling conditions that migrants face, the author first tackles the descriptive question: how are Hispanic migrants labelled and treated in Arizona? She propose that Hispanic migrants ... -
A New Way of Constitutional Parenting : Not Return, Not Reform, Not Reframe, But Refound
(2015)This project is not an indictment of any particular political ideology or party. It is an endeavor to identify the extent of the saturation of political apathy and the omnipresence of constitution worship in twenty-first ... -
Retrenchment at the Ivory Tower and the Perseverance of Resistance by Black Scholars : a Tale of Inextricable Despair and Hope For Critical Race Theory
(2015)This paper seeks to explain how liberals, conservatives, and critical race theorists interacted in both legal academia and within constitutional scholarship. The legal world— and society more generally— was ravaged by ... -
Chelsea Manning and the Contemporary Intelligence Whistleblower : Prescriptions for the 21st Century
(2014)Instead of an act of betrayal, principled whistle blowing ought to be considered a different realization of the sworn oath to one's country. Political scientist C. Fred Alford stated, "A real cynic isn't going to blow the ... -
Stateless, Not Fateless : Indigenous Communities, Citizenship Policy, and Human Rights in the Hills of Northern Thailand
(2014)According to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), there are over 500,000 stateless persons currently residing in Thai land. These groups number roughly 1.1 million people, or approximately 11% of the ... -
The Reality of Collective Action in Chile : An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Student Movement and the Mapuche Movement in Chile
(2014)The present study aims to focus on the disparity between the students and the Mapuche activists, or the strongest and weakest movement groups active in Chile today. Though many believe the student movement inspired these ... -
The Prison Rape Elimination Act : A Treatment for the U.S. Prison Sexual Assault Epidemic
(2014)Until a decade ago, the responsibility to protect the safety of prison inmates was entirely up to the initiative of corrections officials. As can be expected in an over-crowded and under-funded corrections system such as ... -
Same-Sex Adoption : What's Marriage Got To Do With It?
(2014)This paper explores how same-sex legislation in France has progressed over the last few decades, from the politicization of AIDS in the mid 1980s-1990s until spring 2013, when the French government legalized same-sex ... -
The Divergence of the Khalistan Movement: A critical analysis of the division between the Panjabi Sikh and North American Diaspora Sikh population in the Khalistani ethnonationalist movement.
(2013)My interest in the Sikh nation's struggle for statehood began with my family. I come from a Sikh Punjabi family that was not directly affected by the Indian Army attack on the Harmandir Sahib in 1984 or the events ... -
Copyright Infringement & its Impact on Society
(2013)What exactly is copyright infringement? How does our government deal with it? Why does it have such a big impact on the music industry and us as the consumers? These are all questions that I will be addressing throughout ... -
Global Politics and Cultural Hegemony
(2013)The following paper will analyze the ways that the structure of global politics operates: first through cultural flows, and then through both the economic and political effects of this cultural influence. Through this ... -
Negotiation and Success: The Organization of the Tea Party Movement
(2012)The Tea Party movement was a new and exciting political force when I started researching for my SIP. I was curious about why it was here, what it was about, and how it might change U.S. politics. I wanted to know more ... -
The Continuation of the Get Tough Policy Era In Juvenile Justice Systems
(2013)This research topic came forth through my experience and work at the Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home. This experience began my interest in juvenile justice. This topic is important because it is addressing the "get tough" ... -
Non-Traditional Candidates and Negative Campaigning in American Presidential Elections
(2013)This paper will compare the campaigns of three American presidential elections over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries; namely, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four consecutive campaigns beginning in 1932, John F. ... -
The Normative Value of Term Limits on Promoting Republican Virtue
(2010)Over this past summer I had the opportunity to work in the office of Michigan House Representative Tim Bledsoe of the 1st District due in part to the generosity of the Ham Fund Grant which provided me with the cost of ... -
The Potential for Individual Autonomy in Common Protest Tactics
(2013)This SIP has undergone a lot of change since I started writing it. It began as a historical study comparing American protest movements. Since then, my focus has shifted to one aspect of such movements in particular: the ...
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