This study demonstrates that, in the post Cold War era, US leadership becomes more crucial than ever. Through the adoption of a classical approach; a thorough case study of diplomatic efforts vis-a-vis Albania coupled with America's response to the crisis in Bosnia, highlights t…
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Prevailing approaches in the comparative historical study of peasant mobilization assume the relationship between peasants and state institutions to be inherently antagonistic. By contrast, this dissertation argues that locally embedded legal cultures are crucial in mediating an…
This dissertation analyzes public policies in different countries and assesses their impacts on different generations. The first chapter tests for intergenerational altruism using Italian cohort consumption data. Intergenerational altruism plays a major role in influencing how a…
Taking as its point of departure the border anxieties of post-Cold War Europe as they emerge in attempts to both expand and secure the perimeter of the European Union, this dissertation examines the rhetorical construction, in fiction, film, polemic, and policy papers, of one su…
This dissertation deals with Albanian state building between 1920 and 1924. In 1920, after nearly 500 years in the Ottoman Empire, the majority of Albanian statesmen were status-quo Moslem conservatives who were determined to retain the essentially feudal socio-economic system. …
From the end of WWII to the end of the Cold War Greek foreign policy was shaped by the dynamics of the Cold War. The major issues facing Greek foreign policy decision makers in the post-cold war era are its relations with its Northern neighbors, Albania, The Former Yugoslav Repu…
The Constitutional Revolution of 1908 promised a new start for the Ottoman Empire and placed the reins of government in the hands of the Committee of Union and Progress, frequently known as the Young Turks. This new government sought to aggressively initiate a program of reform …
This dissertation identifies the sustainable policies that can reduce disparity in health care utilization, education and income from the low and middle income countries represented by Albania, Nepal, Tajikistan and Tanzania. Concentration indices are used to calculate the incom…
This thesis is an exposition on the British traveller Mary Edith Durham and her various activities in the Balkans from 1900 to 1914. Durham earned a reputation as an ethnographer, traveller, reporter, political activist and relief worker. First, the thesis documents her experien…
This work is a parallel study of two different attempts to oppose Ottoman expansion in Southeastern Europe during the fifteenth century: George Castriota Scanderbeg in Albania and Prince Vlad III, the historic Dracula, in Wallachia. The careers of each of these men are presented…
This dissertation uses evaluations of three UNICEF peace education programs (Albania, Armenia, and Aceh (Indonesia)) to determine if stakeholders' implicit theories of change (how their programs would bring change to the participant) can be identified. Further this study suggest…
This study investigates biophysical and social components of environmental concern and their socio-demographic predictors in five postcommunist Muslim countries from the Balkans and Central Asia. The theories of environmental concern developed in the Western affluent societies h…
This dissertation analyzes relations between the Ottoman state and its non-Muslim subjects in late seventeenth-century Istanbul and Rumelia through the conversion experiences of Christians and Jews. In some instances in Rumelia and in palace circles Sultan Mehmed IV and his moth…