In recent years, the intensification of the globalization process and reactions to it by particular groups and identities, has raised awareness of the question of difference in nation states. National identity for a long time has been able to establish itself as a hegemonic enti…
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This dissertation investigated whether and how progress in Turkey's European Union (EU) membership project, particularly the acceptance of the Turkey's candidacy for the EU membership in 1999 and the decree of the National Program in 2001, influenced the Turkish radical national…
The idea that the Turkish nation is a "military-nation" has been one of the foundational myths of Turkish nationalism. This dissertation argues that this myth is a historical production, an artifact of a century of militarized practices and discourses. Based on two and a half ye…
This is a study the emergence and eventual disintegration of the dominant modernist national identity in Turkey. I argue that Turkish national identity was grounded not in an assertion of ethnic or racial purity, but in a modernist agenda of social and political transformation. …
I examine Russian national identity from political, military, intellectual, and popular perspectives during both the Crimean War and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. I focus on these two wars for my examination of Russian national identity for various reasons. One reason is bec…
This study is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the nature and issues of interfaith relations in a contemporary post-colonial plural nation state, with emphasis on Christian-Muslim relations in Nigeria. Plurality in Nigeria diverges in multiple ethno-religious and socio-politica…
This dissertation explores how the conditions of interconnectedness, flexibility and mobility engendered by globalization affect people's identifications. It takes multinational corporations as a case of transnational networks and focuses on transnational professionals who work …
This dissertation is a history of Egyptian filmmaking since its beginnings before the interwar period in 1907 to 1977. It explores the emergence of Egyptian middle-class national identity, first during the interwar period, and its achievement of a broad cultural hegemony by the …
This dissertation is guided by three questions: Why did the Abu Ghraib photographs fail to generate widespread opposition to the Iraq War among U.S. citizens? How did U.S. political leaders, news media, and entertainment media rhetorically manage the impact of the violence at Ab…
This dissertation analyzes the debates that preceded and followed the "Crémieux Decree"' of 1870, which granted full French citizenship rights to the Jews of Algeria, taking the Decree as an example of how core ideologies of colonizing societies could be transformed in fundament…
This dissertation historicizes the history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the twentieth century. It attempts to understand social and political developments through a study of religious institutions particularly of the Orthodox Church. This study helps us to understand chur…
This dissertation examines the construction of national identity, as revealed through France's relationship with the Ottoman Empire from 1660 to 1789. I reinterpret early modern France's cultural engagement with the Ottoman Empire and the image of the Turk, by arguing that fasci…
In this dissertation I examine the impact of contested national identity on Turkish and Japanese foreign policies. Applying a constructivist theoretical framework, I seek to explore the ways in which the national identities of Turkey and Japan are constructed, internalized, and …
This dissertation research is a historical-archival study of the role that interactions between Turkish elites and European and North American intellectuals played in the construction of Turkish national and racial identities in early Republican history (1923-1950). While racism…
In this research, I explore the relationship between religion and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. My goal is to find out in what ways belonging to a particular denomination and participation in church related activities influence societal support for democracy. Favorabl…
This dissertation argues that the earliest level of the biblical book of Amos was composed after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians, not before, as traditionally assumed. This earliest layer consisted of most of the current book of Amos, with major excep…
The formation of the Spanish nation and empire reverberates in its 16 th- and 17th-century literature, as the so-called "Reconquest" of the Iberian Peninsula by the Northern, Christian kingdoms (8th-15 th centuries) served to create both new national territory and also an identi…
This dissertation project examines why peace has continued to be elusive in the India-Pakistan context using ethnomethodological procedures and a relational social constructivist perspective that locates constitutive power in ongoing social processes instead of putatively existi…
This dissertation investigates the political, social, and religious influences on curriculum policy and social studies textbooks. It highlight the importance of historiography in the creation and transmission of national ideologies. This study focuses on three nations of the Ind…