This dissertation examines the challenges of political communication between early modern polities at a time when the norms of diplomacy were being comprehensively renegotiated. Whereas many studies of early modern diplomacy focus on the diplomat's activities at his host-court, …
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How do public opinion and nationalist sentiment affect the foreign policy of China and other non-democratic states? I argue that by allowing nationalist protests against foreign states, non-democratic leaders can use domestic politics for international gain. In China, anti-Japan…
This dissertation examines Cyrus Vance's approach to Soviet-American relations during the Carter administration by focusing on five specific situations: the SALT II negotiations completed in June 1979, the American reaction to the crisis in the Horn of Africa in late 1977 and ea…
This dissertation is the first study to focus on Russia's attempts to build its empire in the Caucasus in the reign of Catherine II (1762-96). Prior to the reign, Russia's presence in the region was concentrated at Fort Kizliar and in a handful of Cossack settlements on the left…
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…
This dissertation analyzes the costly failure of the Reagan Administration's foreign policy in Lebanon during the period following the Israeli invasion of that country in June 1982. The particular emphasis is a case study of the events of the crisis, with concentration on policy…
Indo-American relations prior to 1947--Indian independence in 1947--Non-Alignment and Cold War--The first Eisenhower administration--U.S.-Pakistan military alliance of 1954--SEATO--The Suez and the Hungarian crisis of 1956--The Sino-Soviet economic offensive on the third world--…
The Caspian region is considered to be one of the next oil and gas frontiers. Along with the re-distribution of political power and the emergence of new balances after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the continuous waves of change also have had significant effects on the prosp…
Conflicts in Africa are destabilizing the continent, thus hampering any efforts to achieve sustainable development. Post-Cold War conflicts are mainly internal and result in mass migrations of refugees into neighboring states that are underdeveloped and politically unstable. In …
This study analyzes U.S. relations with the Barbary States from 1784 to 1805. After the American Revolution, the young nation found its commerce menaced in the Mediterranean by North African pirates sponsored by the rulers of Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli. As the U.S. sou…
This thesis is a conflicts study - but rather than primarily examining origins or conduct, it aims to explore and illuminate the causes and conditions for reconciliation in wartime, successful and unsuccessful. This study takes in-depth looks at two periods of history in two Asi…
This thesis challenges the nature of current diplomatic buildings constructed abroad by the United States. The United States embassy and consulate, driven by fear of terrorism and the resulting requisite for security, has regressed from a dignified diplomatic center to an imposi…
This dissertation examines the contributions of private military contractors and their networks to the development of empire in early modern Europe and to the emergence of new forms of expertise and professionalism. The focus is transregional. It explores the experiences of Ital…
Pope Benedict XV's pontificate (1914-1922), misunderstood by his contemporaries and neglected by recent scholarship, coincides with the reshaping of the Middle East, from the beginning of World War One to the assignment of Mandates to France and Britain over Syria and Palestine.…
This dissertation recreates the biography of several power holders in Wallachia and Moldavia to explore how local, imperial and inter-imperial politics interacted on this Ottoman borderland between the 1780s and 1850s and promoted European imperialist aims in the Ottoman Empire.…
This dissertation examines the role of opium in the political and economic development of Afghanistan from a world historical perspective. My research reveals that the Afghan government's adoption of American anti-narcotics policy after World War II led it to enforce prohibition…
Why do states reject Westphalian diplomatic practice? Diplomacy in international society is a highly regulated practice involving the exchange of representatives, the hosting of embassies, the upholding of rights of immunity and extraterritoriality, and the performance of ceremo…
Each September states and their representatives converge at the United Nations to mount an annual show with a global audience. In international institutions one finds many species of theatre, but that appellation should not be taken pejoratively. Placing the work of the United N…
This dissertation is an overview of the life and the career of Ottoman grand vizier Rüstem Pasha and contextualization of his grand vizierate with respect to foreign policy, bureaucratization and economic policies. This dissertation shows that beginning in the mid-sixteenth cent…