"Current IR theories and approaches, which are almost exclusively built in the West, are alien to the non-Western contexts which engender the most hard pressing problems of world and ultimately unhelpful in understanding or addressing the needs surrounding these issues. Our supp…
This book has four main objectives: to bring the thus far almost entirely neglected historical case of 'the rise of Japan' into the literature on power shifts in general and 'the rise of China' in particular; to propose a discourse-based conceptualization of identity for the stu…
The relationships between psychological mechanisms and human rights attitudes have received increased attention in recent years. Strikingly, though, the implications of the generative school in cognitive science—which conceives of certain mental systems as governed by innate set…
Why do actors sometimes engage in sustained, organized violence against civilians, such that large numbers of the civilians die in a relatively short time span? Between 1900 and 2008, 50,000+ were killed in five or fewer years fifty-five times. Our extant answers about why these…
The world is shifting from a unipolar system following the end of the Cold War to a multipolar system that is ushered in by “the rise of the rest.” This change in the global structure has led some analysts to predict an increase in nuclear weapons proliferation caused by increas…
This thesis adds to the burgeoning literature on the role of religion in International Relations (IR), and adds theoretical depth to the emerging sub-field of International Political Theology (IPT), by examining the subject through the prism of regime theory, which is necessaril…
This dissertation project examines the role of identity, the politics of identity contestation and domestic political structures as part of the mechanisms and processes that may be involved in the decisions that states make regarding disengagement from their colonial and territo…
Two prevailing approaches in international relations neo-realism and constructivism emphasize the role of material capabilities or ideas in systemic change. Alternatively, this dissertation focuses on the change and persistence of domestic institutions of states that turn materi…
This book explores the history of Syria's borders and boundaries, from their creation (1920) until the civil war (2011) and their contestation by the Islamic State or the Kurdish movement. The volume's main objective is to reconsider the "artificial" character of the Syrian terr…
