What explains the variation in industrialization strategies across countries? In this thesis paper, I explore the influence of the business environment and economic elites in the varieties of industrial policy. I theorize that differences in how firms are integrated into an econ…
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In Europe and North America, NATO was established in 1949 to confront communist pressure. Meanwhile in Asia Pacific, however, no collective security institution was created, despite raging communism. Using the Foreign Relations of the United States and other diplomatic archives,…
The 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings in response to a moral panic about comic books and the subsequent creation of the Comics Code Authority as the self-censorship organ of the American comic book industry drastically contracted the comic book market and…
This thesis aims to investigate the origins of identity politics by focusing on its lasting relationship between ideological politics. Concerning the literature of the left theories on the question of identity and the political context of the 1970s Turkey, which is identified by…
Since the end of the Cold War, Turkey has become a destination country for the human mobility of people who are not of 'Turkish descent and culture’. For the first time in the history of the Republic, Turkey has become a destination and not only a transit country. The thesis is …
British Hong Kong was a “borrowed place living on borrowed time”, Richard Hughes, an Australian journalist, wrote in 1968. This thesis attested that the “1997 Question”, i.e. the perplexity stemming from the expiry of the New Territories Lease in 1997, had a considerable impact …
This paper explores the applicability of concepts from genocide and denialism scholarship to the analysis of two different subgenres of Cold War cinema. Specifically, this thesis maintains that the concept of politicide, defined as attempts to destroy adherents of a particular p…
“Peace Bodies: Women, Encampments, and the Struggle against Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War, 1972-1992” examines the global 1980s women’s peace camping movement. This study aims to explore and comprehend peace in new ways. It is specifically targeted to define peace campers’…
Focusing on English anthologies of Chinese avant-garde fiction published by UK and US publishers between 1993 and 2003, this thesis studies the translational path of this literary corpus to the Anglophone cultural context in the post-Tiananmen era. Particular attention is given …
Bu çalışma, “Berlin Duvarı’nın yıkılışından sonra devletler tarafından inşa edilen yeni duvarların, inşa edilme gerekçelerindeki dönüşümle birlikte devletlerin güvenlik politikalarındaki misyonu nedir?” sorusuna cevap aramaktadır. Bu kapsamda ilk bölümde; duvarın kavramsal özü v…
Bu tezde, Türkiye'nin Filistin politikasını analiz etmek için konstrüktivizm ve post-yapısalcılık teorileri kullanılmaktadır. Tezin temel varsayımı, Filistin meselesi hakkındaki söylemin, Türk hükümetlerinin kimliğindeki değişimle ve Türk dış politikasının Ortadoğu'ya yönelik il…
This research investigates approaches to successfully facilitate acculturation of Russian immigrants into the American mainstream both during the Cold War and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Primary research methods included interviews with Russian immigrants using anon-…
This dissertation is an investigation of the position of British and Soviet music professionals (such as composers, concert agents, performers, and publishers) in the interchange of music and musicians between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1975. This study…
In the annals of popular American history, Paul Robeson is not generally looked upon as a significant player in black liberation discourse. However, close examination of Robeson’s newspaper column, “Here’s My Story,” supports the idea that Robeson helped conceptualize and orches…
During the 1950s, animal welfare advocates launched a campaign for the passage of a law to require the use of improved slaughtering methods in packinghouses across America. The campaign ignited a widespread debate between animal welfare advocates, religious communities, and the …
This thesis seeks to explain the critical underlying cause of high degrees of tension and insecurity after 1949, when the civil war ended between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Kuomingtang (KMT), based on Prof. Benjamin Miller’s State-to-nation balance theory. This thesis arg…
In 1966, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared, "India is a good and deserving friend. Let it never be said that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap that we turned in indifference from her bitter need." The sweeping presidential rhetoric did not match the re…
The Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program is one of the most pressing issues facing the United States today. All indications suggest that Iran is determined to be the next nuclear power as it continues to defy international will and resists international diplomatic pressure…
This project examines the role that the Cold War discourse plays in informing and structuring the Russian and US mainstream and alternative news media narratives about international events and controversies that occur in the post-Cold War time but trace their historical roots to…