2022-2023

*Katherine Beadle, “An Instrument of Progress or Perpetuation: The Political Economy of Education and Training. Lessons from Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Australia”

     *Senior Honors Thesis Award in International and Economics Recipient

Jerry Li, “WTO and Laws of Chinese Export Control”

Cooper Mills, “Can Money Buy Friends? -  Modelling the Effects of US-China Foreign Aid Competition on Recipient Country Political Alignment”

Steven Zheng, “Strategic Hedging for Clarity and Flexibility: Why Saudi Arabia Turns to China”

2021-2022

Nathan Moll, “The Modernization of the U.S. Nuclear Triad”

Giulia Shaughnessy, “The Development of the Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry and its Economic and Political Ramifications”

Lucy Townend, “Your Money or Your Morals? Examining Key Drivers of the Alternative for Germany Vote in the 2017 German Federal Election”

2020-2021

Isaac Brynne, “OLD WOUNDS NEW OINTMENTS: A Study of Consociationalism and Ethnic Conflicts”

Jaehyung Cho, “Innovation and Social Enterprises in China’s Social Management System”

Abigail Judge, “Selling, Buying, and Denying Free Trade: Navigating Stances on Globalization and Xenophobia in the U.K. and U.S.A.”

Sophia J. Kurowski, “IMPACT OF WEAPONIZED WATER ON THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Three Palestinian Municipalities and Israeli Settlements in the West Bank”

Jenny Moss, “Reporting for Duty: Military and Economic Implications of Overseas Chinese Ports in the South China Sea and Beyond”

*Sabrina Roberts, Regional Integration and Development Outcomes in Africa: The West African Gas Pipeline and Electricity Access in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo”

      *Senior Honors Thesis Award in International and Economics Recipient

Benjamin Arost Slater, The Healthcare Regulatory State: Comparing the Quality and Effects of Public Policies Governing Biopharmaceuticals in the United States and Europe”

2019-2020

Henry Fleming, “Debt and Deindustrialization: Assessing the Economic Policymaking of the Military Regime in Argentina Between 1976-1983”

*Rand Jibril, “Determined Despite Restrictions: The Effects of Mobility Restrictions on the Palestinian labor Market”

     *Senior Honors Thesis Award in International and Economics Recipient

Mahli Knutson, “International Adoption from China to the U.S. and The Effects of the Hague Adoption Convention”

Miles McQueen, “A Narrative and Empirical Analysis of Chinese Hukou Reform and Its Impact on Rural Wage Growth”

2018-2019

Margaret Knox, “The New Flight to Safety: Internationalization of the Euro & A Low-Risk, Liquid Eurozone Asset”

Henry Kremer, “A Quantitative Narrative of Moscow’s Office Market”

James Lumley, “Driving the Democracy Deficit: the Sources of Democratic Values in Contemporary Russia”

*Hayley Manges, “The Legacy of Communism and Contemporary Attitudes Towards Gender: Lessons from the Soviet Union”

     *Senior Honors Thesis Award in International and Economics Recipient

Benjamin Manoukian, “Exploring Brazilian Lobby Interests in Mercosur: The Political Economy of Interregional Trade Negotiations”

Colby Morris, “The Economic Impact of Adding Puerto Rico to the 1989 MLB Draft: How Political Relationships Changed Player Salaries”

Andrew Plotch, “A New Era? Changes in Moral Appeals by Congressional Campaigns in the Trump Era”

Nathan Rose, “The Pushers: MIGHT CHINESE AID FLOWS TO AFRICA TRIGGER A CONTINETNIAL “BIG PUSH”?”

Sofia Siqueira, “Immigration to Spain: Trends, Challenges, and the Daily Lives of Migrants in Spain Today” 

Julien Souffrant, “An Assessment of the Relationship between the Black Market Premia And Corruption”

Doug Wilson, “Introducing ‘Three Rights Separation’ as the Foundation to Overcome the ‘Three Rural Issues’”