Homophily—our tendency to form ties with people like ourselves—is a near-universal feature of human social networks. Scholars often assume that ties between members of different racial, ethnic, or religious groups will not only be rarer but also weaker on average than ties withi…
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Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) in post-conflict environments is a practice of long-standing historical significance, but rigorous, outcomes-based research on the topic is relatively rare. Over the millennia of organized warfare, military forces have often been required to en…
This dissertation starts with a hugely popular healer Nerka, a Bosnian "Queen of Health," (Kraljica Zdravlja), who heals with her hands without touching and without a price; it ends with a chapter visiting her excessively generous and tactless practice to raise a question more p…
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…
Microfinance has grown from a niche development intervention in the 1990s to one that commands global influence and donor support. By 2006 microfinance had become part of financial sector development policy through the concept of financial inclusion. At the same time theoretical…
How are important policy decisions made? There are multiple heuristics that have been employed by political scientists, but few of them make use of contemporary control theory heuristics to analyze decision cycles at the national level. However, the difficulty of applying contro…
General Dragoljub Mihailovic's Chetnik movement has been the subject of historical studies for more than half a century. Most have focused on the Chetnik- Partisan war and the issues of Chetnik resistance to and collaboration with the Axis powers. This study expands on the exist…
Ethnic divisions undermine statebuilding efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina almost twenty years after the end of a war among the three main ethnic groups in the country. The political elites influence on how nationalism and identity is experienced in Bosnia-Herzegovina and offer refl…
The central question of this thesis is whether historical experiences of violence shape the political culture and political behavior in an area following civil conflict. I specifically consider whether density of violence during conflict affects the development of support for no…
Nearly twenty years after the brutal conflict that occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), ethnosectarian ideology continues to permeate all structures and institutions of Bosnian society, from political and educational institutions to religious and cultural ones; most of all,…
This paper presents a comparison of the policies of Germany and Sweden and assessments of well-being in each country in order to evaluate the impact that immigration policies may have on the mental and physical health of immigrants. On the basis of my comparisons, I draw conclus…
Genocide has long been an instrument of warfare; augmenting domination by terrorizing targeted populations. The definition of genocide itself is broad and often varies among researchers, with context and specific circumstances continuously changing. The aim of this study is to a…
Human rights advocates have championed the establishment of a regime of international legal accountability for grave violations of human rights, including genocide. Despite recent advances in establishing a regime of responsibility for individuals, when the International Court o…
Since the end of the Cold War, millions have been killed in a series of genocides. The dismantlement of the Soviet Union left the United States with new decisions to make regarding human rights violations. The United States government no longer had hard interests to intervene in…
This dissertation examines the role of the Bosnian refugee crisis in generating support within EU Member States for a centralized, EU-level asylum policy after the 1992-95 Bosnian war. As the Bosnian war occurred on the heels of the Cold War and the signing of the Maastricht Tre…
This dissertation argues that solving the internal displacement problem is crucial for building peace, and any solution to the problem of internal displacement must include institutionalized property rights for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Granting property rights to IDP…
The main forces shaping Bosnian domestic politics today are the Office of High Representative (OHR), the national level political parties, the sub-national actors, and the Bosnian people themselves. The question this thesis seeks to answer is where, to what extent and why has Eu…
The peace agreements ending the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia partitioned the territory between the warring parties. It also made Bosnia an international protectorate, creating a complex government structure involving myriad interactions between different levels of domestic government…
This dissertation is a study of influence among friends in the international arena. It explores how states convince each other to change behavior when the basic enforcement mechanism of international relations—the threat or use of force—is not an option. The experience of the tr…