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…
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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…
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…
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 …
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 …
Between the sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the Shiite Safavids of Iran and the Sunni Ottomans of Turkey--two of the greatest Islamic empires in history--developed a complex relationship in which tenuous peace alternated with bloody conflict, often with dizzying speed. …
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…
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…
The establishment of the European External Action Service (EEAS) was the latest organisational innovation aimed at bridging the disjuncture between EU external relations and foreign policy structures. Almost immediately after its creation, it attracted wide-spread criticism of i…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Jewish migration from Romania began in mid-1900, and, owing to its particular political and temporal context, from its outset until early 1903 this migration commanded significant attention and interventions from the governments of the United States and Canada and from the organ…
In January 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton confidentially sent a diplomatic cable to the international community. In it, she sought "to secure the cooperation of" concerned recipients with America's strategy for dissuading Iran from developing nuclear weapon…
This dissertation examines the case of 250-300,000 largely Orthodox Christian refugees who fled Ottoman Bosnia and Hercegovina for the Habsburg Empire during the uprisings of 1875–1878. The violence during this period started out as a peasant uprising, but over the course of thr…
This dissertation addresses early British intelligence activities and Anglo-Ottoman relations by viewing the activities of army officers and private individuals as a collective pursuit to safeguard British imperial interests. It offers a new understanding of the relationships be…