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Papers

This section includes papers that I have written post-high school work that were above average to outstanding but have not been expanded upon or published. There has been significant improvement in my critical thinking ability and writing style and prose over time.

I have also noticed with increasing clarity that my most recent interests ranging from security studies to decolonizing international relations to alternative nationalisms have a central theme based on the ‘Other.’ Maybe unconsciously my need to find and carve a safe space for myself has encouraged me to write about things concerning spaces for marginalized groups and ideas.

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Papers during Community College. These are well-cited but nowhere near my current level of work.

• The Central Intelligence Agency: Defrauding America
• In Defense of Affirmative Action
• Hate Crimes and Punishment: Sexual Orientation
• The Bracero Program and Mexican Immigration

4-year University Undergraduate level

• The Marxist Theory of Exploitation in Historical Context – What does Marx mean by Exploitation?
• Deconstructing the Myth of the ‘Population Problem’
• Deconstructing the National Security State – Towards a New Framework of Analysis

Graduate Work

• Operation Sustainable Development: Get Rid of Capital!
• Environmental Degradation and Economic Inequality: Byproducts of the Capital Accumulation Process
• Deconstructing Security Discourse: Review and Critique of Past National Security Strategies
• The Construction of Indian / Hindu nationalism and Implications of India’s Future as a Postcolonial State
• History beyond Nations seminar paper
• Constructing a Primary Right to Secession in International Law – Beyond Positivist Blinders
• Hegel, Marx, Foucault – Critique of the Social Contract
• Decolonizing International Relations – THESIS