My dissertation constitutes a contribution to the study of religion and political economy. It consists of four essays. My first essay argues that religious norms matter for the economic nature and modernization of political regimes. Religion is defined as a commitment device bet…
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State sovereignty has been a central and steadfast feature of international relations since the consolidation of the nation-state system. Yet, the content of sovereignty is changing as a result of policies that states employ in the international arena, which give voice to the un…
A review of the literature suggests that East Asians adhere to relationship norms that are based on the traditional Asian worldviews of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. For East Asian Americans who operate within multiple cultural contexts, differences in norms may contribute…
From the end of WWII to the end of the Cold War Greek foreign policy was shaped by the dynamics of the Cold War. The major issues facing Greek foreign policy decision makers in the post-cold war era are its relations with its Northern neighbors, Albania, The Former Yugoslav Repu…
Sacred values, this is, values people refuse to trade off for material gain, have been shown to have counterintuitive effects on decision-making. When reasoning about their sacred values, people seem to use rule-based reasoning concerned with moral duties and sacred commitments.…
As civil conflicts continue to be the most prevalent form of war, women and children are disproportionately affected by intrastate violence. In response to such findings, the United Nations, at the behest of a transitional activist network, passed United Nations Security Council…
This dissertation examines the conceptualization, promotion and diffusion of the norm of population control at international and domestic levels, as well as adoption and implementation in Egypt. It also offers a critique of mainstream constructivism, an increasingly popular anal…
In this dissertation, I examine the issues involved in the localization of global ideas associated with liberal democratic governance as seen through the cases of Malaysia and Singapore. This study addresses aspects of contemporary political developments in both these countries …
The unpleasant diplomatic experience preceding the 2003 Iraq War generated deep resentments between the United States and many of its closest European allies. Yet while a descriptive account of this trauma has been covered in the popular press, a thorough explanation has not bee…
This dissertation analyzes the language policy in Turkey and the political behavior of the proponents of the language reform, Kemalist modernists, as well as political behavior of the opposing groups, Turko-Islamic traditionalists. It also explores the causes of the language pol…
