This dissertation examines the connection between costs of interstate war and postwar domestic politics of countries that waged them. Previous research focused primarily on explaining the chances of survival of war leaders by factors like outcome of war, culpability and regime t…
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This thesis examines the confluence between pan-Islamist politics, neo-liberalism and urban development in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After tracing a history of the Islamic revival in Bosnia, I examine the results of neo-liberal policy in post-war Bosnia, particularly reg…
The central question of this thesis is whether historical experiences of violence shape the political culture and political behavior in an area following civil conflict. I specifically consider whether density of violence during conflict affects the development of support for no…
Education in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina suffers from the serious consequences of ongoing ethno-national conflict. My focus is segregated education in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina generally, particularly the "two schools under one roof" phenomenon. This social…
I here hypothesize a causal relationship between the conditions of oppression and expressions of utopia. Roughly: the more a people, culture, and/or ethnicity experience physical space as a site of political, cultural, and literal encroachment, the more that distinct cultures ut…
What the future holds for Poland's reliance on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is unknown. As the war in Afghanistan dwindles down, NATO's members look forward to bringing home their troops and to reducing further their military budgets. A military capability gap o…
The Afghan stabilization mission is a new challenge for Central European countries in the XXI century, and probably the most important and the most difficult mission for Central European armed forces. The fundamental role of NATO in Central European countries’ security results f…
The United States, in cooperation with European governments and international aid organizations, has sponsored the development of independent media as a major component of both conflict interventions and democratization programs, and more recently as part of nation building effo…
On July 1, 2013 Croatia became the first state significantly impacted by the Yugoslav wars to join the European Union. While Croatia was able to progress from a new country in a state of war to an EU member state in just two decades, the country's accession process was certainly…
The last decade of the 20th century brought major changes to Yugoslavia. Shortly after Tito's death latent tensions erupted to the surface. In the early eighties Albanian riots erupted in the autonomous province of Kosovo which helped revive Serbian nationalism for decades kept …
Civil society has become a popular phenomenon in modern society especially after the demise of the Soviet Union. Since an extensive part of the literature has claimed that civil society has been the main igniter of change in the iron curtain countries, the bulk of the research h…
The purpose of the quantitative descriptive survey research study was to examine the relationship between the application of a performance measurement system and modernization of a public organization. Study outcomes, based on the analysis of the answers of 682 participants, rev…
This dissertation explored antecedents of public service motivation (PSM) in the Turkish public administration context. Data was collected from two occupational groups of middle managers working in the public sector. Findings obtained from inferential statistical techniques conf…
Prevailing approaches in the comparative historical study of peasant mobilization assume the relationship between peasants and state institutions to be inherently antagonistic. By contrast, this dissertation argues that locally embedded legal cultures are crucial in mediating an…
In this study, I examine how Jews in the United States, Western Europe, and Israel reacted to the Slansky Affair, the Doctors' Plot, and the general wave of overt Soviet antisemitism which took shape in late 1952 until Stalin's death in early March 1953. I explore how the Holoca…
What are some of the major aspects that make up Muslim identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)? This literature-based research project set out to explore Bosnian and foreign literature sources to identify, synthesize and interpret salient identity threads that contribute to who…
This thesis forwards a feminist critique of the neo-liberal approach to post-conflict reconstruction that was implemented in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina – seen with the creation of, and regulation of 'trafficking' within, what came to be known as the 'Arizona Market'. The cr…
Europe has been leading the world's largest university student exchange program, ERASMUS (EuRopean Community Action Scheme for or the Mobility of University Students), since 1987. The program has proven its success with participation of 3 million students in 25 years. Turkey has…
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.…