The relationships between psychological mechanisms and human rights attitudes have received increased attention in recent years. Strikingly, though, the implications of the generative school in cognitive science—which conceives of certain mental systems as governed by innate set…
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Regionalism in Latin America has historical roots dating back to the early 19th century through the post-Cold War period. This unique character has fostered a breadth of regionalist projects, with many succeeding, reimagining, overlapping, or competing with other projects within…
The dissertation focuses on several Romanian avant-garde magazines, such as Contimporanul, Integral, and 75HP, that Romanian artists and writers created in Romania in the 1920s, after Romanian Dadaists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Iancu disbanded from Zurich Dada in the 1910s. The R…
The recidivism rates for formerly incarcerated women in the United States is as high as seventy-five percent. With rates that are higher than most industrialized nations, the church and its faith leaders who work with the incarcerated through their respective congregations, have…
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…
The purpose of the current study was to give Christian leaders insight into the experience of verbalization as a component of spiritual formation. Verbalization was defined as putting spiritual concepts into one’s own words. The current phenomenological study used interviews to …
Sovyetler Birliği'nin çöküşünden sonra, dış politikada yeni bir devlet olarak Tacikistan açık kapı politikasını izledi.
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…
The purpose of this action research was to evaluate the effectiveness of higher order thinking graphic organizers with class specific data, using spreadsheets as a mindtool, on the quantitative literacy (QL) skills of 11th grade students enrolled in an honors level United States…
This basic qualitative research records the author’s findings from the one-on-one in-depth personal interviews with twenty-three teachers, trainers, and administrators working for the Christian Montessori schools. The purpose of the study was to explore the experiences of the te…
Realism and constructivism are international relations paradigms that define different necessary conditions for international organizations to act. While Realists argue that international organizations actions are mere reflections of the imperatives of global and regional balanc…
This study fills what has long been recognized as a major gap in the field of International Relations (IR): an account of when and how change occurs in the structure of the international system. Attempts to create social change, to create or to alter intersubjectivity, are relat…
This thesis addresses the phenomenon of female suicide bombings. Earlier thought to be an act of terrorism solely perpetrated by males, the increasing number of female suicide bombers has made this view untenable. What are their motives? Realist approaches have provided limited …
This dissertation examines the instrumental benefits of civil society discourse for Muslim civil society organizations and their pursuit of conservative agendas. Since early 1990, informal religious communities in the Muslim world have been reestablishing themselves as formal NG…