Every Carthage student is required to submit a senior thesis or capstone project to demonstrate their mastery of their chosen area of study.
Here is a look at recent projects by Carthage international political economy majors:
2018
- The Political Economy of The Dragon’s Ascent: An Expansion on China’s Economic Rise and Threat to U.S. National Security Interests — Owen Myers ’18
- Modern Nationalism and Undocumented Immigration in the United States — Margaret Wixted ’18
2017
- Making Somalia Safe Again – State-Building in the Horn of Africa — Carlos Daez ’17
- Responsibility to Protect: The European Union and Syria — Stephanie Flores ’17
- The Deal of the Future: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Its Impact on Asia-Pacific Trade — Logan Frank ’17
- Assessing the African Union’s Global Influence — Monica LaFaive ’17
- Stuck on Oil: A Case Study on the Venezuelan Oil Crisis — Lorena Retana ’17
2016
- The Two Sides of Energy Security: Political and Economic Implications for Nuclear Power in Japan — Victoria Dillinger ’16
- International Governmental Organizations’ Role in the Growth and Crisis of South Korea — Isaac Smith ’16
2015
- Energy Deregulation in the United Kingdom and United States — Sean Connelly ’15
- Germany’s Economic Miracle — Ben Ertl ’15
- Roles of Women in China — Cecilia Hernandez-Ruiz ’15
- Economic Bubbles — Ian Johnston ’15
- Guatemala and Political Economy of Civil War — Katherine Schlinder ’15
- South Korea and IGOs — Isaac Smith ’15
- Colombia and the Drug Economy — Kaitlin Theobald ’15
- Education Deregulation: United Kingdom and United States — Allison Von Borstel ’15
2014
- Singapore‘s Economic Development — Michael Hoefler ’14
- Economic Development in Meiji Japan — Erika Larsen ’14
- Economic and Political Effects of the One Child Policy in China — Jacque Lunney ’14
- Global Agricultural Efficiency: Diet on the World Stage — Ashley Mikkola ’14
- United States Trade Policy: The Present and Expansion for the Future — Lauren Waligorski ’14
- The United States and Germany: A Comparison of Financial Regulation and the Great Recession — Jennifer Weiss ’14
2013
- Failed Transition and the Way Forward for Ukraine — Lexi Neumann ’13
- The Economics of Food Aid and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa — Katie Niemeyer ’13
- The Causality of Interventionist Policies: The United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran — Megan Neacy ’13
- Turkish Immigration in Germany: an Institutional Examination on the Success of Turkish Immigration in Germany — Adam Marshall ’13
- The Case of a Disappearing Nation: A Critical Review of International Environmental Politics — Megan Phelps ’13
2012
- Regional Trade and Latin America — Mike Gillespie ’12
- China and Study in the United States — Jason Hartfield ’12
- The Reagan Administration’s Economic Policies — Austin Krueger ’12
- China and the World Trade Organization — Kaitlin Lowry ’12
- Turkey and the European Union — Lauren Schoepke ’12
- Russia and the World Trade Organization — Adam Sachs ’12
- Greece, Financial Crisis and the European Union — Kirsten Thomas ’12
2011
- China and Foreign Investment — Jenessa Puno ’11
2010
- Globalization and Women in India — Charlotte Finch ’10
- Brazil Ethanol Program — Kate Frese ’10
- International Monetary Regimes and a Central Bank — Jared Fryksdale ’10
- The Military-Industrial Complex — Cody Hilton ’10
- Past and Present Comparative Advantage — Chumley Hodgson ’10
- Impediments to Economic Development in Afghanistan — Adeeba Karimi ’10
- Laws and Statutes as Means of Development — Josh Lamers ’10
- China’s Economic Development — Trevor Lipsett ’10
- Ethics and Corporate Governace — Amy Santiago ’10
- Balkanization and Regionalism in Spain — Ana Soskic ’10
- Human Trafficking or Role of Women in the Middle East — Nicole Elise Victoria ’10
