Diplomacy

Complex global challenges--including environmental, economic, diplomatic, and health-related--span national boundaries and increasingly necessitate international cooperation. As a result, diplomacy has broadened from government-to-government relations to include government-to-pu…

Over the course of the sixteenth century, the Spanish Habsburgs developed a diplomatic system in Italy which bound most of the independent Italian states to Spain, so that by 1559 only Venice and the Papal States remained truly independent from Spanish rule. To control these pot…

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…

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 …

This dissertation examines European involvement in the efforts of the Ottoman government to restructure the Orthodox Church and community ( millet) during the mid-nineteenth century. This is accomplished by placing squarely within the context of international diplomacy the progr…

During the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961), development became an essential part of the strategic vision of containment in the Middle East. In 1953, Eisenhower attempted to use a plan created by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United Nations c…

The "Special Relationship" between the United States and Great Britain was one of the fundamental factors in International diplomacy in the years between 1950 and the Suez Crisis of 1956. Although many articles and books have been written which examine individual crises and epis…

The end of the Cold War and the dawn of the information age have been characterized by increasing communication and decreasing cooperation among different interest groups (ethnic, political, religious, etc.) around the world. Internal conflicts like the recent Bosnian and Rwanda…

Bölgeselleşme ve küreselleşme faaliyetlerinin artmasıyla beraber dış politika uygulamalarında aktörler çeşitlenmiştir. Sınırların daha şeffaf hale geldiği, uluslararası mal ve para hareketlerinin yaygınlaştığı durumda ülkelerin, ticaret yapıcıları dış politika uygulamalarında ar…

This thesis explores China's relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from 1991 to 2005, contributing to the body of knowledge by arguing that China's relations with post-Soviet Central Asia were shaped by security and economic imperatives…

President Ronald Reagan participated in more U.S.-Soviet summits than any previous U.S. president, as he met with his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, on four occasions between November 1985 and June 1988. Prior to, during, and following each meeting with Gorbachev, Reagan…

From the time Otto the Great was proclaimed Western Emperor in 962 to the conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, numerous ambassadors traveled east on errands from their principals. The diplomacy they engaged in at the Byzantine capital infected every aspect o…

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 …

The purpose of the study is to examine whether or not the teaching of ASP, compared to teaching conventional Arabic, will motivate the learners and enhance their performance. The idea of conducting such a study is motivated by the following factors: (1) The lack of literature in…

Religious freedom has played an essential role in American history. Yet, there is a long tradition of neglect and ignorance in matters of faith in the U.S. foreign policy arena. As a result, diplomats are ill prepared to understand the evolution of religious freedom in the Ameri…

This dissertation analyses the relationship between the Ottoman and the Mamluk powers from the mid-fourteenth century to 1512, or from the inception of Ottoman-Mamluk diplomatic relations through the rule of Bayezid II. During this period, the relationship between these two powe…

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…