This study aims to identify whether entertainment media broadcast in Republic Moldova, which struggles with its identity crisis, contains frames that represent belonging to a particular national identity. Secondly, the study is preoccupied with the cinematic representations that…
Hatırat türü eserler tarih araştırmalarının önemli bir kaynağıdır. Biyografi çalışmaları da şahsın hayatının yanında dönemin anlaşılmasına ciddi katkı sağlayacak hüviyette değerlendirilmelidir. Vasıf Bey de Meşrutiyet ve Cumhuriyet döneminin iz bırakmış isimlerinden birisidir ve…
Genç ve eğitimli bireylerin yurtdışına olan göçü, günümüz göç literatürü tarafından tartışılan sosyal bir olgudur. Nitelikli göç akımı, son yıllarda Türkiye’de gerçekleşen sosyal, ekonomik ve politik değişimlerden etkilemiştir. Bu yaşanan göç; Almanya, Amerika Birleşik Devletler…
The issue of language policies in Ukraine gained prominence in 2014 when Russia launched an armed aggression against this Eastern European country at the pretext that language rights of its Russian-speaking citizens were violated. Three language laws in particular caused outrage…
My dissertation project examines the gradual phases of recontextualizing, folklorizing, heritagizing, and choreographing dance in Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia, and in the Former Yugoslavia in general. In order to demonstrate how dance becomes an intangible cultural heritage, I…
This dissertation explores the fate of ethnic groups internally deported by the Soviet leadership during the Second World War. Known collectively in the literature as "The Punished Peoples", the Russian Germans, Karachays, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, and Crimean Tatars w…
This study analyses the effect the Hungarian government had on Austro-Hungarian policy towards Serbia in the four years after the 1867 Ausgleich. Benjamin Kallay, at the request of the Hungarian minister president, Andrassy, was appointed consul at Belgrade in 1868, and thereaft…
This study examined the relationships between personal, political, geographic, socio-economic, and demographic factors and the perceptions of conflict and cooperation of Turkey's metropolitan municipality officials. In order to find the answers for the research questions, this r…
This study analyzes the impact of domestic factors on the Europeanization of minority protection policies in Latvia, Bulgaria and Turkey. The study argues that domestic conditions have significant impact on the decision of the candidate states on fulfilling the EU requirements i…
Previous research on sexual violence has focused on individual level behaviors that typically include a single victim in an isolated event. Social scientists have failed to examine sexual violence as a group level phenomenon, which is often exhibited during war. In this disserta…
The Constitutional Revolution of 1908 promised a new start for the Ottoman Empire and placed the reins of government in the hands of the Committee of Union and Progress, frequently known as the Young Turks. This new government sought to aggressively initiate a program of reform …
The institutionalization of separate standard varieties for Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian in the 1990s was hailed by many Bosnians as the long-denied recognition of the Bosnian idiom as distinct from the Serbian and Croatian varieties it had so often been subordinated under. Ye…
This study is devoted to politics of nationalism under Bulgarian communism (1944-89). The research aims to analyse the actual content of the Bulgarian communist policies on three main national questions and the ideas behind them. How did Bulgarian communism understand nation and…
Овај научни рад је посвећен питању побијања скупштинских одлука акционарских друштава. Предмет истраживања се анализира у свим аспектима, те се тако проучавају основи за вршење права, рокови, правила самог поступка побијања и питање идентитета овлашћеника права на побијање. У ди…
Why do some autocrats redistribute resource rents through high welfare spending, while others do not? Conventional wisdom suggests that authoritarian leaders unconstrained by institutions and with unlimited access to resource wealth would siphon off these funds for themselves an…
Azerbaijan, a landlocked post-Soviet country since its independence has been trying to utilize its energy resources in its foreign policy. With production-sharing agreements with Western oil companies beginning with the 1994 signing of the "Contract of the Century" and the const…
This dissertation analyzes the works of Yiddish and Hebrew writer Isaac Leib Peretz (1852-1915) during the 1890's. It criticaly engages with the entire range of Peretz's literary output during this period in both languages. It argues that Peretz functioned as a literary agent of…
This dissertation explores a discourse of democratic modernity in EU-member Bulgaria, which revolves around a hybrid popular music called chalga. I argue that chalga does not function as the name of a defined music genre. Rather, Bulgarians use it as a self-reflexive voice of am…