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Cyberspace Implications for U.S. Domain Warfare and Sino Relations
(Johns Hopkins University, 2015-01-17)
The predominate cyber discourse has focused on the impact of information theft as it relates to personal banking and financial data with occasional journalistic exploration of cyber enabled industrial and defense related ...
Understanding the Sino-Japanese Bilateral Relationship
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-12-30)
This thesis portfolio assesses the Sino-Japanese bilateral relationship using three sources of contention. The main question is, “What are the main sources of conflict in the Sino-Japanese bilateral relationship?” Each ...
BETWEEN FOOD SECURITY AND PROFITABILITY: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF THE AGRICULTURAL WATER CRISIS IN CHINA
(Johns Hopkins University, 2017-07-18)
Why has the agricultural water system in China been slipping towards a crisis, despite its economy growing leaps and bounds in the past four decades (1978-2016)? This dissertation investigates the institutions of agricultural ...
THE PLA IN CHINA’S FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY-MAKING: DRIVERS, MECHANISM AND INTERACTIONS
(Johns Hopkins University, 2015-08-11)
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This dissertation develops a “dynamic bargaining” thesis, in which a two-level bargaining game among three actors (the Chinese Communist Party (Party), the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and the civilian foreign ...
Sovereign Leveraged Funds and Financial Statecraft: A Comparative Analysis of China and Japan
(Johns Hopkins University, 2019-05-03)
This dissertation research has driven by an empirical puzzle: despite most sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are sponsored by commodity-dependent economies, why some non-commodity-dependent economies have also established SWFs? ...
Medical Protests in China: How China's One-Party System Adapts to Social Conflict
(Johns Hopkins University, 2018-04-25)
Over the past two decades, protests and violence have become increasingly common ways for Chinese patients and families to settle their disputes with hospitals. There are likely hundreds of thousands of these incidents ...
AUTONOMY AND ENERGY SECURITY IN CENTRAL ASIA: RISKS AND IMPLICATIONS OF POLITICAL SEPRTATISIM IN GORNO-BADAKHSHAN, AND CONTRIBUTING AFGHAN FACTORS
(Johns Hopkins University, 2019-01-17)
This study aims to determine the degree to which political separatism in Gorno-Badakhshan threatens energy security in Central Asia. To answer this question, the study employs a modified ICRG method of measuring political ...
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ETIOLOGY AND INTERVENTION OPTIONS OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES USING SYSTEMS SCIENCE APPROACHES
(Johns Hopkins University, 2016-10-17)
Objectives: The overall goal of this research project is to study the etiology and intervention options of childhood obesity through comparative research between China and the US. Three specific aims are: 1) examine the ...
WRESTLING WITH THE CENTRAL STATE: COMPARATIVE ETHNIC REGIONAL AUTONOMY IN CHINA AND RUSSIA
(Johns Hopkins University, 2018-06-26)
This dissertation compares ethnically-based identity politics in two constitutionally-defined multi-ethnic states, China and Russia, by focusing upon one type of prescriptive institution, territorially-based formal autonomy ...
ELECTRIC DREAMS: INDUSTRIAL POLICY, NEW ENERGY VEHICLES, AND THE PERSISTENT ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN CHINA
(Johns Hopkins University, 2020-04-03)
The Chinese electric market and manufacturing base have expanded at a spectacular rate over the past decade thanks to a sweeping state industrial policy program. The costs and challenges associated with China’s approach, ...