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…
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…
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…
This thesis is a multi-sited investigation of the campaign against excision in urban Mali and of the responses to it. Fieldwork took place in 1997-1998 through feminist action-research with a local women's association that carried out programs against excision. Part I situates t…
'The Brussels Effect' offers a novel account of the EU by challenging the view that it is a declining world power. Anu Bradford explains how the EU exerts global influence through its ability to unilaterally regulate the global marketplace without the need to engage in neither i…
Cohen and DeLong (regional planning and economics, U. of California, Berkeley) explore how America's international trade deficit might impact its power in the world. They illustrate the ways the US lost its money, how oil-producing and Asian manufacturing countries now hold the …
"This stellar collection of Paul Craig Roberts essays dating from 2013 explores the extreme dangers in Washington's imposition of vassalage on other countries and Washington's resurrection of distrust among nuclear powers, the very distrust that Reagan and Gorbachev worked to el…