Abstract: This study tests two interventions conducted in Afghanistan: The USSR's between 1979 and 1989, and that of the United States from 2001 to the present day. Using Paul Kennedy's hypothesis of Imperial Overstretch as a guideline, an analytical understanding of the hypothe…
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This study seeks to explore the link between foreign policy and the rise and decline of political hegemonies in Turkey. It offers a poststructuralist foreign policy analysis that rests on two basic premises. First, in contrast with the mainstream view of foreign policy, which fo…
This dissertation examines the specific problem of North and South Yemen's 1990 unification as a case study of power-sharing in a regionally divided country. At the same time it investigates the more general problem of hegemony in all power-sharing arrangements. Power-sharing th…
Borders are oftentimes perceived as byproducts of nation-state formation; as peripheral geographies that are fixed and subject to distant negotiations of power. Among other things, such understanding inhibits a conception of borders as autonomous spaces, shaped by local, regiona…
This dissertation explores the concepts of “hegemony” and “utopianism” in the conceptualization of a “technopole” in a Southeast Asian state. I describe how “cybernetics” flow transculturally and is inscribed onto human consciousness as illustrated in the case of Malaysia's gran…
Bu çalışmada, önemli ve kapsamlı bir siyasal teori olan hegemonya teorisi temel alınarak, Türkiye’deki hegemonya süreçleri gözden geçirilmiştir. Çalışmanın içerisinde Türkiye siyasal tarihindeki iki önemli hegemonya süreci olan Kemalizm ve Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi’nin hegemony…
AB -Türkiye ilişkileri genellikle Türkiye’nin Avrupa Birliği (AB) üyeliği perspektifinde değerlendirilip müzakerlerin ve siyasi süreçlerinekseninde incelenmiştir. AB– Türkiye ilişkilerini ekonomik temelde ele alan çalışmalar ise, siyasi süreçlerin ilişkileri etkilemesi gerçeğini…
In this dissertation, based on German-language primary documents found in the German and Tanzanian National Archives, I examine the spatial strategies of resistance in the colony German East Africa. I argue that German policies on transportation, labor, Islamic practice, and edu…
The present dissertation offers a critical study of how two contemporary U.S. women writers critique, resist, dismantle and disrupt the hegemonic discourse that represents U.S. Third World women as a monolithic and homogeneous category. The unsettling of the monolithic image of …
This project highlights an alternative method for reading the biblical presentation of Jerusalem temple leadership in the cultural and historical context of Achaemenid Judah. This study provides further nuance to Hebrew Bible studies by stressing close attention to the Persian i…
My thesis, in one sentence, is that the entire political discourse in Denmark (and in many parts of Europe) has moved to the right through the debate on immigration in the last two decades. The left/right distinction is pushed to the background and a cultural one - the "Danish p…
This dissertation is a 'thick' description and analysis of the institutions, practices and mentalités that framed a vital arena for the daily lives of the cosmopolitan denizens of mid-eighteenth-century Islamic Eurasia. It was within this arena that men, goods, ideas and knowled…