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Our Global Research Tradition: International Relations, IPE & Comparative Politics

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Researching World Politics​
Our longstanding focus on the study of International Relations explores theoretical and applied concerns regarding the external relations of nation states in their regional and global dimensions. Faculty and students are able to explore these matters within the context of the transnational struggle for hegemony, sovereignty, stability and cooperation. This exploration examines competing theoretical and conceptual frameworks employed to describe and explain relations among states and other transnational actors. Major attention focuses on the transnational praxes of states  and other transnational actors, conflict and cooperation, war and peace, center and peripheral states in the global order, regional integration and globalization, and multi-state and non-state actors.

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Analyzing Intersections of Politics & Economics

The study of International Political Economy focuses on issues of international trade, finance, globalization and development. It conceptualizes these matters within the context of the global struggle for political and economic hegemony, markets, profit, and economic development. It examines a range of theoretical and applied concerns central to the interaction of politics, economics, ideology, society and culture as they relate to the issues of the globalized production and exchange of goods and services, and the impact of this production and exchange on “development.”. ​

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Comparing & Contrasting Global Politics

The study of African political economy explores the historical origins and contemporary structures and features of the domestic and international political economies of Africa. It surveys contending theoretical perspectives regarding African political economy. It reviews the processes and outcomes of interactions among historic political economic formations and imperialist invasion. It examines current day African political economies on a comparative basis, focusing on the core characteristics of African states and economies, the manifestations and impacts of transnational economic dependency, and efforts to pursue national and continental self-agency and sustainable development.

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- Dr. Bonfas Owinga, Dr. Hashim Gibrill, & Dr. Kurt B. Young

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Selected Global Research-related

Dissertation and Thesis Research, 1976-2025

 

1976.  Paul, Alix Herard.  “Relations under economic dependency: Mexico and Canada.”


1980.  Bailey, Arthur James.     “The political economy of deep sea bed mining.”


1981.    Slaughter, Ronald Lopez.  “An analysis of the United States counterinsurgency policy in Colombia, 1960-1975."


1982.  Adebo, Ademola E.  “The political economy of the Lome convention and the relations between the European Economic Community, and Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific States.”


1982.  Mickens, Maria Kelker.  “Chile and the Modernization Process.”


1983.  Chakrabarti, Nitai.  “The United States policy toward South Asia during the Bangladesh crisis: A social-psychology analysis of foreign policy decision-making.”


1984.  Gibrill, Hashim T.  “The European Economic Community and the Third World: rhetoric and reality.”


1985.  Grandison, Coy L.  “The International Monetary Fund, a strategy for development: A case study of Jamaica.”


1986.  Haire, Marvin.  “The political economy of the free flow of information in the new international order.”


1988.  Abed, Ali Jalah.  “Isreal's policies in the West Bank and Gaza: A study of underdevelopment, 1967-1986.”


1989.  Ekemam, Hillary I.  “An analysis of US foreign policy in the Middle East: The role of the Camp David Peace Accord.”


1989.  Mc-Ogonor, Chinonye U.  “The Franco-American cold war conflict: The Communist Party of France as a relevant factor.”


1989.  Al-Shahrani, Abdullah S.  “Modernization in a traditional society: The case study of Saudi Arabia.”


1990.  Major, Elkanah.  “The Caribbean Basin initiative: An analysis of United States policy toward America and the Caribbean in the 1980's.”


1990.  Nasser, Hatem A.  “The Gulf cooperation Council: Trends, concepts and dynamics of international regional organization.”


1991.  Nwagboso, Emmanuel C.  “The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the global debt crisis: A comparative analysis of Brazil and Sierra Leone.”


1994.  Jall, Hutokshi.  “Ray Kapoor and Hindi Films: Catalysts of political socialization in India.”


1994.  Ogunsuyi, Austin Ogbe.  “The politics of transnational television: Beyond the cultural imperialism question."


1994.  Park, Sung-Kwan.  “A study of foreign policy change in a southeast Asian weak state, linking internal and external explanations: The Philippines under martial law, 1972-1981."


1995.  Udezulu,Ifeyinwa E.  “The state of capitalist patriarchy: Women and politics in developing countries.”


1995.  Zaglul, Haider.  “The changing patterns of Bangladesh foreign policy: A  comparative study of the Mujib and Zia regimes, 1971-1981.”


1996.  Kibitlewski, Joseph Leo.  “A comparison of the citizen's rights to silence under United States' and English political system.”


1997.  Dixon, David L.  “Race, class and national identity in black Ecuador: Afro-Ecuadorians and the struggle for human rights.”


1997.  Inyang, Ini George.  “The political economy of international trade in hazardous and toxic wastes in West Africa: Theoretical and case analysis.”


1997.  Smith, Gejuanna A.  “An African centered critique of European global environment and development cultural politics: A political ecology case study of Madagasikara.”


1998.  Ihmoud, Abu Salim.  “The U.S. policy towards the Middle East: The case study of the 1990-1991 Gulf War.”


2001.  Martin, Luisa E.  “The political attitudes and activities of Antilleans in Port Limon, Costa Rica.”

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2002. Young, Kurt B.  "Pan-African Nationalism in the Post-Cold War Era: A grassroot-based analysis of the state of Pan-Africanism."


2009.  Williams, Latonya M.  “Negotiating the security paradox: Afro-Colombians, Uribe ( the United States) and the intrastate security crisis in Colombia.”


2011.  Khader Naim H.  “The impact of the Palestinian uprising of 187-1993 on the peace process: A Palestinian perspective.”


2012.  Armstrong Ayanna R.  “Comparative and competitive advantages of drug trafficking in the southern Caribbean Islands: A comparative study of Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.”


2012.  Westfield, Volma T.  “Colonial and post-colonial educational policies in the British West Indies: St. Vincent and the Grenadines.”


2012.  Westfield, Alwyn W.  “The impact of leadership on politics and political development in St. Vincent and the Grenadines under Ebenezer Theodore Joshua and Robert Milton Cato.”
 

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“Dr. DuBois was an eminent scholar who spent much of his career at Atlanta University conducting cutting-edge research on the social and political conditions of Black people in the South.”

Dr. George T. French Jr., President of

Clark Atlanta University.

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