Politics

2011     2010     2009     2008     2007     2006     2005     2004     2003     2002     2001     2000     1999     1998

Summer 2011:

• U.S. Democracy Promotion in Egypt: a Critique of USAID
  Meagan McGinty (Regina Freer)
   
• The Dynamic Nature of State Courts in Education Rights Litigation
  Sara McKnight (Thalia Gonzalez)
   
• Public Interest Law in L.A. through a Lens of Rebellious Lawyering
  Mark Silva (Thalia Gonzalez)

Summer 2010:

• Queers in Pink Keffiyehs: The Motivations of Modern Radical Queer Activists
  Jacqueline Adorni (Caroline Heldman)
   
• Financial Fiasco
  Stephanie Babij (Larry Caldwell, Jim Whitney and Gerald McIntyre)
   
• Extraterritorial Application of the US Constitution: Endorsing the ‘Impracticable and Anomalous Standard’ as refined by the Boumediene Court
  Alexander Nourafshan (Thalia Gonzalez)
   

Summer 2009:

• Shouldering the Burden: Shedding America's Failed Welfare State through National Service
  Ben Dalgetty (Regina Freer)
   
• Russian Energy Politics in the Putin/Medvedev Era
  Lainna Fader (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Sustainable Energy Technology Exchange Between China and the United Sates: Competition or Collaboration
  Matthew Harter (Tsung Chi)
   
• “Into the Sunlight:” Assessing the Legacy of IRCA with Respect to Comprehensive Amnesty under Obama
  Christina LeBlanc (Regina Freer)
   
• The Iconography of Barack Obama: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Pictorial Articulations and Implications of Images
  Sky Mangin (Regina Freer)
   
• Dual Federalism and the State of Gay Rights
  Alexander Nourafshan (Regina Freer)

Summer 2008:

• Today’s Boundaries of Blackness: Is Secondary Marginalization Still Applicable to the AIDS Crisis in 2008?
  Amanda Armstrong (Regina Freer)
   
• Politics of U.S. Immigration Reform: Is a Point Based System the Future?
  John Ferguson (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Breaking the Syrian-Iranian Axis: Rapprochement with Syria and the Future of the Middle East
  Brian Francisco (Larry Caldwell)
   
• European Security Cooperation Moving Forward: The Current State and the French Plan for Progress
  Thomas Gonzalez (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Towards Worker's Rights: A Restructured NAFTA
  Jack Hans (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Disaster Politics: Assessing the Impact on Student Relief Workers in Post-Katrina New Orleans
  Mackenzie Israel-Trummel (Caroline Heldman and Larry Caldwell)
   
• City on a Hill: The Aftermath of Los Angeles' Utopia
  Brenda McNary (Regina Freer and Sharla Fett)
   
• Problems of Legislating Network Neutrality: From Economic Theory to Legislative Reality
  Hilary Norcott (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Case Studies in Latin American Socialism
  Melissa Rudberg (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Intelligence in a Post 9/11 World
  Krystal Zayas-Wright (Larry Caldwell)

Summer 2007:

• Russian foreign policy strategy towards Central Asia
  Jessica Abenstein (Walter Richmond and Larry Caldwell)
   
• Turkey's Political Identity: East vs. West?
  Tervanda (Vanda) Ayrapetyan (Larry Caldwell)
   
• In Search of Sound: Black Music & Community Post Hurricane Katrina
  Charmisha Baker (Caroline Heldman)
   
• France & the European Union: Diplomatic Relations and Tensions/talk-US-Russia Showdown: Summer 2007 Missile Defense Crisis
  Simona G. Gavrila (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Power in Contemporary Los Angeles: An Elite--Latino Coalition
  Brett Safford (Regina Freer)
   
• Developing Nonprofits on the Entrepreneurial Edge: Sustainability and Performance-Driven Philanthropy
  Kenneth Smutny (Larry Caldwell)

Summer 2006:

• Determining the probable voting patterns of first generation Armenian-Americans living in Los Angeles
  Tervanda (Vanda) Ayrapetyan (Jennifer Taw)

• Strauss and the Crisis of the West
  Gregory Bice (Roger Boesche)

• The Fission of One-Dimensionality: An Existential Investigation into the Work of Herbert Marcuse and the Potential for a Restorative Future
  Matthew Cheek (Roger Boesche)

• The United Nations’ Involvement in Somalia and Rwanda: Transitioning Roles of U.N. Peacekeeping and the Concept of Sovereignty
  Mary Kanny (Larry Caldwell)

• A Grand Strategic Approach for the Long War: American National Security in the 21st Century
  Ionut Popescu (Larry Caldwell)

• Artist Identity and Allegiance: National vs. Imagined Communities
  Emily Rasmussen (Larry Caldwell)

• Intelligence and the Iraq War
  Emily Springhart (Larry Caldwell)
   
• France Flambé: An examination of French immigration policy in fiery times
  Joan Wickham (Larry Caldwell)

Summer 2005:

• Variations in Rhetoric and Coverage: How American and English-Language Arab Newspapers Differ in Their Presentation of International Conflict
  Kevin Adler (Roger Boesche)
   
• Russian Foreign Policy and the Expansion of the European Union and NATO into Central and Eastern Europe in the 21st Century
  Eriks Berzins (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Los Angeles Unified School District’s Campus Construction Project and the Revision of Los Angeles’s Urban Landscape: Is there room for all the communities’ needs?
  William Carter (Regina Freer)
   
• Reflections on the Historical Unrest in South LA and Contemporary Turmoil at Jefferson High School
  Nidia Garcia, Sergio Hernandez, and Natalie Simon (Regina Freer)
   
• Bulgaria's Euro-integration: A Crucial Factor for Stabilization and Sustained Growth
  Asen Hristov (Larry Caldwell)
   
• UNESCO's Influence in International Arts Education: Assessing Arts Education in China
  Travel: Beijing, China
  Emily Rasmussen (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Common Foreign and Security Policy and the 7-7 Crisis
  Elishia Trainer (Larry Caldwell)

Summer 2004:

• The Economy’s Influence on Voters’ Gubernatorial Choice.
  Jonathan Brogaard (Roger Boesche)
   
• Russia's Impact on Eastern European Transition.
  Maria Stoyadinova (Larry Caldwell)
   
• The Values and Ideals that Motivate Candidates for Public Office.
  Peter Wright (Ted Mitchell)

Summer 2003:

• Martin, Malcolm, Mandela, and Biko: Resistance to Modern Day Slavery and Philosophies for Black Liberation.
  Nathan Baptiste (Movindri Reddy)
   
• The Conflation of Legal and Illegal Immigration and its Effects on Welfare and Immigration Reform.
  Jackelyn Cornejo (Regina Freer)
   
• The Variation of African-American Communication in Printed Media: A Study of African-American Coverage of War in the United States.
  Brandon Smith (Regina Freer)
   
• Different Paths to European Union Membership: Case Studies of the Accession Efforts of Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary.
  Maria Stoyadinova (Larry Caldwell)

Summer 2002:

• Contemporary Anglo-American Foreign Policy & Iraq.
  Casper Oswald (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Political Aspects of Existentialist Thought: Problems of Individuality.
  Paul Seeley (Roger Boesche)
   
• Defining the Enemy in Post-9/11 Discourse: The Rhetorical Strategies of George W. Bush.
  Jeff Zimmerman (Regina Freer)

Summer 2001:

• An Examination of the Mexico City Policy, Past and Present, and its Effects on Health Abroad.
  Regina Clemente (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Mental Health Services for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness.
  David Flores (Larry Caldwell and Nancy Dess)
   
• A Study of the Political Dynamics of the Iran-Iraq War/ A Study of the the Media Coverage of the Iran-Iraq War.
  Casper Oswald (Larry Caldwell)

Summer 2000:

• Women in Armed Conflict: The Story of Kosovo
  Bianca Karim (Larry Caldwell)
   
• Political and Social Mobility of Women in Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
  Nicole Knighten (Regina Freer)
   
• The Nature and Future of European Security Integration
  Matthew Tompkins (Larry Caldwell)

Summer 1999:

• How Taiwanese Americans Influence American Foreign Policy on U.S., China, and Taiwan Relations.
  Jerry Chou (Tsung Chi)
   
• Census 2000: The Impact of "Self-identification" on the Representation of Racial and Ethnic Collectives.
  Luana Espana (Regina Freer)
   
• Demographic Transformations: A Political Struggle in Compton, Inglewood, and Lynwood.
  Hector V. Perez-Roman (Regina Freer)
   
• The Revolution before the Revolution.
  Silva J. Zeneian (Roger Boesche)

Summer 1998:

• Taiwanese Democratization and its Effect on the Sino-Taiwan Sovereignty Dispute
  Ryan Ginn (Tsung Chi)
   
• The City of Compton: The Causes and Effects that Brought on Racial Demographic Change
  Leticia LaFawn Sims (Regina Freer)
   
• Radical Islamists Turn Toward Terrorism in Modern Egypt: Causes and Solutions
  Serena Waheed (Brice Harris)