This dissertation is an attempt to understand the impact of primary school management on learning outcomes of females in Bangladesh. A major research question that guided this study was: Why the children of government primary schools have lower levels of competency compared to c…
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This project seeks to answer the question to what extent do specific individual, domestic, and system level variables affect the U.S. decision to intervene in intrastate conflicts from 1948 to 1997? Using the Correlates of War intrastate war dataset and a newly constructed datas…
Educational development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has long been delayed due to weak capacities in the production and management of relevant knowledge. The lack of adequate and reliable education management information systems continues to impede the formulation and …
This dissertation addresses the relationship between majority nationalism and state legitimization in the context of an externally-imposed peace settlement which ended a violent ethnic conflict. Using the case of post-Dayton Bosnia, the project demonstrates how state practices o…
This dissertation examines the role of the United Nations in the resolution of civil wars. I examine the UN's intervention decisions, the ultimate success of the peacekeeping missions, and the connections between these decisions and the success of these missions. In UN Peacekeep…
Over the last fifteen years, the number of civil conflicts worldwide has declined and negotiated settlements have increased. The spread of democracy and greater international concern about domestic conflicts have encouraged states to adopt a negotiations-based approach to addres…
This dissertation is an analysis of the role of the intelligence community in presidential decisions to use the CIA to intervene covertly. Specifically to what extent did CIA officials use their positions as heads of the intelligence community to push covert action. When this pr…
This dissertation seeks to explain one of the most ruinous foreign policy decisions of the postwar era: America's commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called "Diem experiment" is usually ascribed to U.S. anti-communis…
My study examines a discourse that I call "sentimental orientalism" which promotes popular support for American intervention in Asia in the 1950s. This discourse is rooted in nineteenth-century sentimental culture. For instance, fictions like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's …
Arab Americans have received very little attention in the area of domestic violence research. An understanding of the culturally rooted experience of this violence situated within the sociopolitical context of Arabs in the United States is critical in order to provide sensitive …