Körfez ĠĢbirliği Konseyi (KĠK), Basra Körfezi‟ne kıyısı bulunan ve ortak coğrafi, tarihi, kültürel, sosyal ve siyasal rejimleri benzer özelliklere sahip altı komĢu Arap ülkesini bir araya getiren bölgesel bir teĢkilattır. Soğuk SavaĢ döneminde özellikle 1970‟li yılların sonunda …
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My thesis is an exploration of how human rights are understood and experienced by Papua New Guinean people living with HIV, men with diverse sexualities and transgender women. I examine the emergence and progress of two organisations established by these communities: Igat Hope a…
This dissertation develops the concept of an International Security Cooperation Market. The currency of this market is the side-deal. These deals, also known as issue-linkages or side-payments, are systematically negotiated between Lead Nations - nations for which the execution …
A critical gap in the literature is the lack of detailed knowledge about the experience of hospitals undergoing the process of collaboration. A primary purpose of this study is to close this gap by gaining a deeper understanding of a hospital's experience living through such a c…
Scholars of conflict resolution have studied ways to reduce prejudice in society for years, believing that prejudice leads to or increases the likelihood of conflict. The primary focus has been on schools, universities and communities. More limited research has been conducted on…
1 Introduction and research overview “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin | English Naturalist and Geologist (1809 – 1882) The world is changing: Digital…
In this dissertation I empirically study government supported international research alliances. The dissertation consists of three essays. In the first I examine the determinants of the choice of penetration strategy by Israeli firms that penetrate the American market. The choic…
Most theoretical approaches to the study of international alliances involve an assumption of effective capability aggregation: once two or more states make a diplomatic decision to form an alliance, their combined military power will be at least as strong as, if not stronger tha…
On September 18, 2011, the Republic of Cyprus announced it had begun the process of extracting offshore hydrocarbons. The announcement sparked a crisis. Great Britain, Greece, Russia and Israel voiced their support for the right of the Republic of Cyprus to recover their offshor…
Why has South Asia's history been mired in a perpetual and often violent rivalry between the neighboring states of India and Pakistan? What explains Pakistan's persistent willingness to initiate conflict against its militarily superior adversary, India? Given that Pakistan appea…
In counterinsurgency wars with large-scale foreign military interventions, under what conditions do in-country allies comply with the demands of foreign intervening forces and under what conditions do allies dismiss foreign demands? By examining thousands of primary source docum…
Survivor is often credited with launching the reality television fad of the 2000s and remains a widely popular show today, yet very few empirical studies have focused on this topic. This paper examines the factors affecting whether an alliance will stay together or break apart. …
The removal of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime in Iraq gave rise to a plethora of non-state actors, sub-state political factions, warring ethnic groups, and terrorist organizations all seeking to fill the political power vacuum. Using theories from academic literature on coali…
Bu çalışmada, Rize ili kırsal ahşap konut yapıların mekan kurgusu başlığı altında Rize ilindeki konutların konumları, yapı malzemeleri, yapı sistemleri ve elemanları, plan tipleri, mekan kurguları ele alınmaya çalışılmıştır. Altı bölümden oluşan bu çalışmanın birinci bölümü giri…
The unpleasant diplomatic experience preceding the 2003 Iraq War generated deep resentments between the United States and many of its closest European allies. Yet while a descriptive account of this trauma has been covered in the popular press, a thorough explanation has not bee…
This dissertation asks why and under what conditions the US seeks allies for foreign military interventions and when multilateralism pays for a state with a unilateral option. It is not a study of whether to intervene or not, but rather the motivations and payoffs for hegemonic …
Studies of J-curve phenomenon have evolved from the Marshall-Lerner condition to establish a direct link between trade balance and exchange rate. Due to the problem of aggregation bias, empirical studies of the J-curve further evolve from employing aggregate data to bilateral da…
Alliance diplomacy was the cornerstone of the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China in the era of Mao Zedong, but this extraordinary historical phenomenon has received little systematic study. The existing research on China's individual alliances is both fragmented an…
Why are opposition groups able to form alliances in their activism against the regime in some cases but not in others? Specifically, why did opposition groups in Pakistan engage in high levels of alliance building, regardless of ideological and other divides, while similar allia…