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• Proliferation signals: information, uncertainty, threat perception and response 

  Robinson, Todd (2015-01-21)

  This dissertation is broken into two interrelated parts. The first explores the consequences of what is often called the "dual-use problem," that many of the technologies and knowledge required for the production of nuclear ...

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• Socrates' Simile of the Cave 

  Park, Dong-Chun (1994)

  Socrates has been widely understood as trying to find a master key to the world of Being, which is distinct from the world of appearances. His question is taken to be a request for a universal definition, which holds the ...

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• Security, Technology and Ideology: &Quot;strategic Enclaves" In Brazil and India, 1945-1989 

  Abraham, Itty (1993)

  "Strategic enclaves" are spatially distinct, technologically insulated industrial sectors producing strategic goods. This dissertation compared the development of the defense production enclaves in Brazil and ...

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• The Allocation of Federal Aid: The Distribution of Federal Mass Transportation Assistance From 1965--1986 

  Hamman, John Arden (1988)

  This dissertation reacts to two problems found in the existing literature on federal aid allocations: the first concerns the almost exclusive focus given to committee influences, the second the implicit assumption that ...

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• Presidential Campaigns, White Evangelicals, and the New Republican Coalition 

  Nesmith, Bruce Forrester (1987)

  Two important factors have contributed to the development during the 1980s of a Republican Party coalition prominently including white evangelicals. First, Republican candidates have been willing to express support for the ...

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