This thesis carefully examines the question of the effect of nuclear weapons possession on international relations through a detailed examination of all international crises between nuclear powers, as identified by the International Crisis Behavior Project (ICB). It distinguishe…
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By adopting the qualitative mode of analyses as research methodology, this study examines the problems associated with the United Nations - Nigeria relations in the maintenance of domestic and international peace and security. It is a study in post-coloniality whose primary obje…
Everyone in Israel wants peace yet it remains an elusive goal. Fieldwork was conducted with Jewish Israeli women and women who are Palestinian citizens of Israel to access their perspectives regarding issues related to peace in Israel, including national unity, security and iden…
This dissertation examines one particular means of transforming protracted conflict from a destructive to a constructive process, the peacebuilding programs at the School for International Training (SIT) located in Vermont in the northeastern United States. Given that conflict i…
This PDE consists of a book entitled Beyond War and Peace in the Arab Israeli Conflict, accompanied by a contextual essay that places Worldwork in the context of the larger field of conflict management. The book is based on applying Worldwork, the group process and conflict work…
The long and remarkably stable peace between democratic states in the international system since the end of the Second World War has led an increasing number of analysts to assert that “democracies don't go to war with one other.” They claim that democracies invariably maintain …
Alternative explanations of Arab-Israeli relations at the global, regional, and state/domestic levels are tested using the comparative case method against two types of evidence: decisions by regional leaders whether or not to initiate war, and whether or not a crisis escalated t…
Post-conflict peacebuilding operations aim to prevent the recurrence of violence in countries that are just emerging from civil wars. I examine eight such operations conducted between 1989 and 1996 in Angola, Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia, Namibia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Mozambi…
This dissertation is about why nations make significant foreign policy shifts in protracted bilateral conflicts. For nearly twenty-six years, Israeli foreign policy was largely resistant to negotiations with the PLO over a settlement that would produce an indepent Palestinian st…
The dissertation consists of three essays on the foreign militants who joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The first essay examines the within-group role preference of ISIS soldiers. I look at the characteristics of the Islamic's States members who volunteer to be…
Since 2009, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has been in a serious humanitarian crisis emerging from insurgency headed by militant jihadist organization: Boko Haram. The group has carried out deadly attacks on civilians in northeast Nigeria leading to mass internal displ…
The Boko Haram insurgency, which began in Borno State, in the north-eastern region of Nigeria in 2002 with the aim of overthrowing the Nigerian government and replacing it with a Caliphate system of government, later diffused its ideology and insurgency practice in the neighbour…
Baas Partisi, Arap dünyasında ilk ideolojik parti olarak Suriye'de doğdu ve Arap politik düşüncesinde büyük bir boşluğu doldurdu. Baasçılar, bir ideoloji oluşturmak ve Suriye ve diğer Arap devletlerinde pek çok kişiyi çekmek için etkili bir ideoloji üretmeyi başardılar. Baasçı A…
The relationships connecting women, war and peace are shifting and tangled. For instance, at this current political juncture, third wave feminism proudly melds scholarly critique, political activism and playful forms of femininity, and the conservative Bush administration claims…
This dissertation explores whether and how the bounding practices of Israeli and Palestinian groups working nonviolently towards a "just and lasting peace" (even in times of armed conflict) shape 'group' and 'individual' identities that differ from 'official' zero-sum Self-Other…
The inhabitants of the Roman Empire drew on a variety of methods to enforce laws, encourage public order, and promote state control. While the empire lacked any institution fully comparable to modern police forces, this dissertation examines several groups of men who were armed …
For over two hundred years the U.S. military has conducted operations other than "major war." Rarely, however, has the institution translated the experience to doctrine, education, or training, leaving each generation with only personal experience, ingenuity, and initiative to a…
This dissertation develops a theory of agency, which engages the agent-structure debate in constructivist International Relations. I examine the policies of the oldest international women's peace organization, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), towar…
This research seeks to answer the questions: Has U.S. anti-war music's presence changed from 1963-2007? And, if so, why has it changed? Specifically, how did the periods of Vietnam and Afghanistan/Iraq compare with reference to the amount, label affiliation (major vs. independen…