Trans-Kafkasya, tarih boyunca Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Moğollar, Safeviler ve Bizans İmparatorluğu gibi pek çok önemli aktörün güç mücadelelerine sahne olmuştur. Bu aktörler arasında Rusların kurduğu siyasal birimler (Rus Çarlığı, Sovyet Sosyalist Cumhuriyetler Birliği) de yer alm…
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Following continued battles about the place of Confederate monuments in American society and public memory, this study explores the nuances of Civil War memory and apparent lack thereof in newspaper coverage of the initial construction and dedication of four Confederate monument…
This research will focus on the sexual misconduct of the United States military following the end of the Second World War in the Korean peninsula, Japan, and the Philippines. In this research, I will argue that the United States military engaged in a system of widespread sexual …
Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the characteristics of existing choral pedagogical repertoire for early adolescent males, and to place those findings within a broader historical framework. Specifically, the study endeavor…
The use of stereotypes against Jews is rooted in the false notion that they have distinguishing physical features, but also distinctive personality traits that tend to set them apart from the idealized Aryan persona (Byers & Kreiger, 2005). Stereotypes are not cultivated through…
Within the world, some systems have historically targeted marginalized groups to be left out of historical narratives. This system is composed of multiple facets that all work in tandem and allow for this marginalization to continue. The components of this system include legal m…
My thesis argues that the New Right (NR) sought to manipulate state education as a mechanism of both social transformation and social control in the UK between 1979 and 1992. This is investigated by employing a 'critical realist' perspective which is located within a wider 'neo-…
Even though aid is a cornerstone of the Egyptian-American relationship, there is little research about economic aid's role in achieving US objectives, especially in producing policy alignment that would normalize Israel. Likewise, an under-studied derivative question is how the …
In 2009, the IASB published IFRS for SMEs, extending their work beyond standard setting for listed entities. This thesis investigates the IASB's political processes in the development of IFRS for SMEs. The board's discourse presents an image of technocratic expertise, which acts…
International monetary and financial crises have punctuated US hegemony since 1945. With US hegemony likely to endure and crises likely to recur, we need to understand how the US reacts to such events: benevolently or exploitatively? Using a case study of US behaviour during the…
The conflict that started in Syria and Iraq in 2011 has inspired an unprecedented surge of foreign fighters to join jihadist terrorist groups and engage in terrorist activities on a global scale. The primary focus of this research was to explore the term “terrorism” in the conte…
Hegemonya Kuramı Bağlamında Medya-İktidar İlişkileri: Türkiye Televizyon Kanallarında Haber Yayıncılığı isimli bu Doktora tezinin temel sorunsalı, Türkiye Televizyon Kanallarında Haber Yayıncılığının tarihsel süreç boyunca medya-iktidar ilişkileri bağlamında hegemonya tartışmala…
This study tries to understand how the postcolonial state in India has treated its religious minorities since independence (1947-1997) by examining the official policy of secularism which, in the Indian context, stands for 'equal respect for all religions.' I argue that since th…
This dissertation consists of three substantive essays. Each essay is rooted in the experiences that I had in conducting a qualitative study on survival within `precarious contexts', using Palestine/Israel as the geographical context. Essay One (Chapter 2) explores, through a co…
This dissertation explores how three social movements deployed an anti-neoliberal master frame during the course of a multi-movement protest wave. Using ethnographic content analysis. I examine the Global Justice (GJM), Antiwar (AWM), and Immigrant Rights movements (IRM) of the …
Today, a “High-carbon Energy compleX” (HEX) of fossil-fuel enterprises and their allies hold the future captive, attempting to indefinitely preserve global reliance on carbon- emitting energy. Emergent social forces offer alternative futures, from ‘climate capitalism’ to energy …
The phenomenon of mass incarceration in the United States has been attributed to a number of factors, including punitive legislation, neo-liberal economic policies, and a "culture of control" that supports continual carceral growth. Little research has examined how these nationa…