Daniel Braaten
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Braaten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Braaten |
| SIGNATURE | BRAATEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Lutheran University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9941-3654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What drives continuity and change in foreign policy? Developing a theory with the cases of multilateral development banks and Unesco
This paper presents a theory of continuity and change in foreign policy developed through a plausibility probe of two cases: U.S. foreign policy in multilateral development banks (MDBs) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Analyzing data of U.S. votes on 29,000+ individual development projects in MDBs from 2004 to 2023, we found remarkable policy continuity, demonstrating a (mostly) business-as-usual appr…
Anti-environmentalism as conservative coalition maintenance
Children seeking asylum
This paper examines the treatment and processing of immigration court decisions for unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in the United States from 2013 to 2017. We focus on two primary questions in our research: (1) whether asylum cases involving UAC are substantially different in outcome than non‐UAC cases, and (2) whether there have been significant differences in the immigration courts' asylum decisions involving unaccompanied minors before and …
Human Rights
There is no shortage of bad human rights news around the world. Human rights are threatened in dictatorships to consolidated democracies. The rise of nationalist demagoguery within countries and the rise of China as a potential hegemon in the international system pose significant challenges for the realization of universal human rights. Concurrently, a new strain of human rights scholarship has emerged to challenge the progress made in human righ…
Suffer the Little Children to Come
This article analyses United States (US) federal court jurisprudence to determine the legal rights of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in various stages of immigration enforcement proceedings. After briefly discussing statistics on UAC in the US, it explains the legal context of US laws governing unaccompanied minors. Through examining 40 cases decided by the 12 US Circuit Courts of Appeals and various federal district courts, the article speci…
The Role of Hospitable and Inhospitable States in the Process of Refugee Resettlement in the United States
Although the resettlement of refugees is always politically contentious in host countries, the current global refugee crisis has only magnified those contentions. In the United States and in many European countries, there has been a strong backlash against the resettlement of refugees—particularly those from Muslim-majority countries. However, within countries such as the United States, there are areas of the country that are more anti-refugee th…
Walking a Tightrope
What Rights and Which Countries
What rights in particular does the United States seek to promote in the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), and what countries does the United States single out for sanction in the MDBs for their record on human rights? The present article examines these questions through an analysis of the US voting record in the MDBs. In 2004, the US Treasury Department began publishing the US voting record in the MDBs along with an explanation for why the U…
Determinants of US foreign policy in multilateral development banks
The purpose of this study is to identify and explain recent US human rights policy in the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). Foreign aid, whether distributed directly (bilateral aid) or indirectly through multilateral institutions such as the MDBs, is one of several tools through which the USA furthers its human rights policy. Several studies show the conflicted human rights policies the USA pursues with bilateral aid, but very few examine th…
Children seeking asylum
This paper examines the treatment and processing of immigration court decisions for unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in the United States from 2013 to 2017. We focus on two primary questions in our research: (1) whether asylum cases involving UAC are substantially different in outcome than non‐UAC cases, and (2) whether there have been significant differences in the immigration courts' asylum decisions involving unaccompanied minors before and …
Determinants of US foreign policy in multilateral development banks
The purpose of this study is to identify and explain recent US human rights policy in the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). Foreign aid, whether distributed directly (bilateral aid) or indirectly through multilateral institutions such as the MDBs, is one of several tools through which the USA furthers its human rights policy. Several studies show the conflicted human rights policies the USA pursues with bilateral aid, but very few examine th…
Human Rights
There is no shortage of bad human rights news around the world. Human rights are threatened in dictatorships to consolidated democracies. The rise of nationalist demagoguery within countries and the rise of China as a potential hegemon in the international system pose significant challenges for the realization of universal human rights. Concurrently, a new strain of human rights scholarship has emerged to challenge the progress made in human righ…
The Role of Hospitable and Inhospitable States in the Process of Refugee Resettlement in the United States
Although the resettlement of refugees is always politically contentious in host countries, the current global refugee crisis has only magnified those contentions. In the United States and in many European countries, there has been a strong backlash against the resettlement of refugees—particularly those from Muslim-majority countries. However, within countries such as the United States, there are areas of the country that are more anti-refugee th…
Walking a Tightrope
What Rights and Which Countries
What rights in particular does the United States seek to promote in the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), and what countries does the United States single out for sanction in the MDBs for their record on human rights? The present article examines these questions through an analysis of the US voting record in the MDBs. In 2004, the US Treasury Department began publishing the US voting record in the MDBs along with an explanation for why the U…
What Rights and Which Countries
What rights in particular does the United States seek to promote in the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), and what countries does the United States single out for sanction in the MDBs for their record on human rights? The present article examines these questions through an analysis of the US voting record in the MDBs. In 2004, the US Treasury Department began publishing the US voting record in the MDBs along with an explanation for why the U…
Determinants of US foreign policy in multilateral development banks
The purpose of this study is to identify and explain recent US human rights policy in the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). Foreign aid, whether distributed directly (bilateral aid) or indirectly through multilateral institutions such as the MDBs, is one of several tools through which the USA furthers its human rights policy. Several studies show the conflicted human rights policies the USA pursues with bilateral aid, but very few examine th…
Walking a Tightrope
Suffer the Little Children to Come
This article analyses United States (US) federal court jurisprudence to determine the legal rights of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in various stages of immigration enforcement proceedings. After briefly discussing statistics on UAC in the US, it explains the legal context of US laws governing unaccompanied minors. Through examining 40 cases decided by the 12 US Circuit Courts of Appeals and various federal district courts, the article speci…
The Role of Hospitable and Inhospitable States in the Process of Refugee Resettlement in the United States
Although the resettlement of refugees is always politically contentious in host countries, the current global refugee crisis has only magnified those contentions. In the United States and in many European countries, there has been a strong backlash against the resettlement of refugees—particularly those from Muslim-majority countries. However, within countries such as the United States, there are areas of the country that are more anti-refugee th…
Human Rights
There is no shortage of bad human rights news around the world. Human rights are threatened in dictatorships to consolidated democracies. The rise of nationalist demagoguery within countries and the rise of China as a potential hegemon in the international system pose significant challenges for the realization of universal human rights. Concurrently, a new strain of human rights scholarship has emerged to challenge the progress made in human righ…
Children seeking asylum
This paper examines the treatment and processing of immigration court decisions for unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in the United States from 2013 to 2017. We focus on two primary questions in our research: (1) whether asylum cases involving UAC are substantially different in outcome than non‐UAC cases, and (2) whether there have been significant differences in the immigration courts' asylum decisions involving unaccompanied minors before and …
Anti-environmentalism as conservative coalition maintenance
What drives continuity and change in foreign policy? Developing a theory with the cases of multilateral development banks and Unesco
This paper presents a theory of continuity and change in foreign policy developed through a plausibility probe of two cases: U.S. foreign policy in multilateral development banks (MDBs) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Analyzing data of U.S. votes on 29,000+ individual development projects in MDBs from 2004 to 2023, we found remarkable policy continuity, demonstrating a (mostly) business-as-usual appr…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Human rights (4 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Human Rights and Development (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (3 works)