Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, both Austria and Persia were each repeatedly at war with the Ottoman Turks. Diplomats travelled between the two countries in an attempt to forge an alliance against their common enemy. Although the alliance never materialized the relations…
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This thesis identifies the relationship between economic factors and non-economic factors, and the relative weight of each, in the conduct of Middle East foreign policies but with special reference to Saudi Arabia and Iran between 2001 and 2012. In the Saudi case, economic facto…
Niketas Byzantios was a Byzantine polemicist active in ninth-century Constantinople. His writings against Islam include two letters in response to an un-named Muslim intellectual and a general refutation of the Qur'an. Unlike earlier Byzantine anti-Islamic writers, Niketas does …
This dissertation analyzes British overtures to Persia in two periods--initial contacts at the start of the seventeenth century, and the re-establishment of diplomatic relations at the beginning of the nineteenth. It argues that the performative nature of British diplomacy in Pe…
This study operates from the understanding that diplomacy between 1501 and 1555 can shed light on not only political, but religious and administrative features of the ruling Iranian dynasty, the Safavids (1501-1722). Carving out a dynastic presence in the fractured post-Timurid …
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 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…
From the beginning of the republic's founding, Turkey displayed impressive diplomatic prudence in maintaining strong relations with Europe's major powers. However, the end of the Second World War marked the beginning of a new chapter in Turkish foreign policy. In response to the…
The expansion of the Imperial German Navy through the implementation of the Tirpitz Plan, named for Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, in 1898 caused a significant breakdown in diplomatic relations between Berlin and London. It pushed Britain to ally with its historical rivals, France …
This study seeks to explain the role and activities of the organized American Jewish community in the decision by the United States to enter into a diplomatic dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization. I argue that American Jewish support was essential for the success …
The purpose of this dissertation is to broaden the categories of image studies, which primarily focus on the opponent or the enemy and nation-states that are dependent on the Western countries, to include three additional classifications that examine Cyrus Vance's worldview or p…
Women in diplomacy have received attention from historians and scholars of international relations and political science, yet the characteristics and personal stories of women ambassadors 1960-1989 are still largely neglected. The movement of women into critical, senior-level ro…
Diplomasi uluslararası ilişkilerin diyalog ve barış yoluyla yürütülmesidir. Diplomasi İlk Çağlarda Dünya’nın çeşitli bölgelerinde uygulama açısından farklılıklar gösterirken amacı genellikle haberin taşınması, evlilik akdinin yerine getirilmesi, antlaşmaların imzalanması veya sa…
The French presence on the Upper Ohio during the Seven Years’ War was secured by their alliances with local Indigenous nations and bolstered by a resilient logistics network. With Lenape, Shawnee, and Mingo combatants leading offensives against the Middle Colonies and the Illino…
This thesis analyzes Nieh Hualing's 1976 novel Sangqing yu Taohong, or Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China as a literary imagination of alternative freedoms that refute the hegemony of Cold War American liberalism. As a refugee of both the People's Republic of China and the R…
This thesis traces the growth of the National Ballet of Canada (NBC) and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB) through international ballet exchanges and reveals how foundational they were to the companies’ current reputations. In the mid-twentieth century, the development of Canadian…
Much scholarly attention has been given to the development of Sir Francis Walsingham’s intelligence-gathering network and how it played an important role in Elizabethan foreign and domestic politics during the 1580s, but little has been attempted for the 1590s. This thesis will …
China´s increasing presence in the African continent is intensely discussed both in the business and academic fields. Although China´s companies are not traditional investors in the continent, the history can still be traced back to the period just after the establishment of the…
Após o seu handover em 1999, Macau viu-lhe atribuída a missão de operar como plataforma entre a China e os Países de Língua Portuguesa (PLPs). Sob a atenta orientação de Pequim, a sua vocação histórica, lusófona e multicultural surge coadunada com a estratégia chinesa de going o…