Scholars of nationalism contend the nation or national identity is an artificial construction and they acknowledge one cannot create something from nothing — a kind of “building block” is required. For some socio-political movements, including those that use violence, human righ…
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This thesis poses a singular but challenging question for comparative history. Why did two pre-industrial economies, faced with the same level of depopulation from the Black Death, respond so differently to the same external shock? While England recovered, Egypt collapsed. Focus…
Ethical decisions related to development and use of information systems (I.S.) are subject to several factors. Research shows that legal codes, corporate policies, and professional codes of conduct are among the main factors that influence individuals' courses of action. However…
The Hebrew book of Jonah has gained the attention of Old Testament scholars throughout its interpretive history. Many recent studies have even applied the principles of Discourse Analysis to aid in the book's interpretation. Such studies include Longacre and Hwang's "A Textlingu…
Earthquakes with the most fatalities seem to be located in developing nations. As a result, it appears that poor nations have a higher seismic risk than rich nations. A community's seismic risk assessment requires knowledge of its geophysical, economic, and social factors. Evalu…
The purpose of this study was to investigate demographic factors as well as attributes of the innovations that affect the adoption of the Internet by public relations practitioners in Kuwait. In addition, the study examined variables related to the social system in which these p…
Why have benefits to labor in Egypt remained constant after neoliberal economic reform began, whereas benefits to labor in Mexico have clearly decreased? Interestingly, the political economy of Egypt and Mexico displayed striking similarities pre-reform. Yet, despite the similar…
Constructing Abolition: Theaters of Protest in American Antislavery Movements provides a comparative historical analysis of the political and social process behind organized movements for change. I trace the historical evolution of the American antislavery movement from the begi…
The issue of privatization is an important one especially in developing countries. Pushed by international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, privatization was propelled into the forefront of public policy in the 1980s. The Reagan adm…
In 1981, at the U.N. General Assembly's 36th session, Iran's representative declared that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights represented a secular interpretation of Judeo-Christian tradition that could not be implemented by Muslim states. This dissertation explores that c…
Christology, defined as the interpretation of the nature, person, and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth, has long been regarded as a predominantly Christian study. However, in our modern religiously pluralistic society, the necessity for Jews and Christians to achieve a mutually satisf…
In this study we are investigating the long-run causal relationship between real total government expenditure and real gross domestic product in terms of total GDP and non-oil GDP separately. Wagner's Law represents an hypothesis that causality runs from GDP to government spendi…
The overriding objective of this research was to develop an understanding of Iran's policy environment, within which the country's mining sector operates, in relation to that of the rest of the world. In an effort to diversify the country's economy, the first five-year developme…
The first part of my essay investigates the institutions-growth relationship while analyzing the role of EU membership process, as a supranational anchor to further improving institutional quality. I conduct a comparative analysis of Turkey, Poland and Spain and examine this iss…
Shari'a compliant home mortgage replacement products (SCHMRP) are not a choice but compulsion for a large number of Muslims in North America, based on dictates of their faith. An equitable and affordable access to home mortgages necessitates, in their case, access and supply of …
This thesis is a comparative analysis of Ibn Taymiyya of Damascus and Gregory of Rimini within their respective religious and philosophical traditions. Ibn Taymiyya and Gregory of Rimini rejected the use of Aristotelian logic in the valorization of divine revelation in Islam and…
This dissertation examines the potentials and incentives for, and impediments to, regional integration in the Middle East, based on the conceptual paradigm of economist Jagdish Bhagwati, who defines regionalism as preferential trade among a subset of nations, requiring a catalys…
This book, which is directed toward tutors and learners in women's studies and community-based adult education programs who wish to cross the boundaries between arts, social science, and natural science, explores the relationship between research, feminism, and adult education. …