North Korea’s Nuclear Program and Negotiation: How Nuclear Negotiation during the Clinton Years Produced Lessons for Current International Relations

North Korea’s road of survival began in the aftermath of World War II, when the United States and the Soviet Union sparred over rival ideologies. Ultimately, Korea split into a free south and an authoritarian north. Over seventy years later, North Korea remains a bastion of communism. Nuclear weaponry is a factor behind North Korea’s survival, and the history of their program can offer insight for American policy makers today. This paper offers a history of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program during the Clinton presidency, along with recommendations for present day policy makers. Without an understanding of history decision-makers tend to make mistakes and act rashly. It is imperative America understands its diplomatic issues with North Korea, and provide diplomatic, strategic, and military solutions for future negotiations

Tattoos in the Workplace

Test the hypothesis that there is a stigma attached to individuals with tattoos in the workplace

Telling the Transnational Self: Shifting Identities in the Voyages of Pierre- Esprit Radisson

Between his birth, most likely in Paris, in 1636, and his death, in London, in 1710, Pierre-Esprit Radisson led a vagabond life. His youth was spent in the colonies of New France and among the neighboring Native American communities. At roughly fifteen years of age he was taken captive by the Iroquois and adopted into a Mohawk family. After his return to New France, Radisson made good use of his knowledge of Native American customs, traveling west into Huronia with his brother-in-law and trading for furs. After a falling-out with the governor of New France, however, Radisson and his brother-in-law ended up in England, where Radisson made a manuscript record of their voyages. Radisson then played a key role in the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company, which, from 1670 onwards, established the English as an important force in the fur trade. Radisson, however, returned to the service of the French king, Louis XIV, briefly in the 1680s, in large part because of anti-French sentiment in the Company. And yet, Radisson's family ties in England made it difficult for him to find the kind of employment he had hoped for in France, and so he returned again to England, where he remained until his death. This essay examines his life and writings in the context of changing concepts of identity and authorship in the seventeenth century

Coastal Cities: How Efficacious are Climate Change Policies in Urban Settings? Examining New York City:

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

From Data Citation to Scholarly Impact: Marking a Path and Clearing a Way for Access and Analysis

Starting from Mooney and Newton’s work on data citation (http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1035) we decided to examine what happens to a data set after it is set on its path as a piece of scholarly communication. Briefly reviewing a selection of datasets, repositories, and platforms we found an uneven application of commonly accepted standards. Although guides for repositories such as Dryad or identifier registrars such as DataCite recommend inclusion of the key elements of Author, Title, Published date, and Publisher, there are two notable trends: to leave off the Material designator, leading to confusion when differentiating between data sets, and other data publications, and articles; and to unify the Electronic retrieval location and Persistent identifier. To encourage scholars to develop and cite data, consistent practices must be promulgated for data citation and indexing