This thesis examines the affect of prior combat experience on the political views of veterans of Vietnam and Afghanistan. These attitudinal shifts are examined in light of an earlier study by Markus and Jennings of Vietnam veterans to determine if these findings are consistent w…
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Despite contextual conditions unique to every manifestation of political Islam, there exist certain commonalities among movement identity politics which allow for an analysis of how collective action changes over time. The initial formation of group identity in these movements i…
This thesis deals with the political philosophy of al-Ghazzali from an analytical point of view. It focuses its examination on his theory regarding the imamate and sultanate. This examination is based on four of his works, namely, Fad[dotbelow]a'ih[dotbelow] al-Bat[dotbelow]iniy…
Inspired by entertaining, opinionated voices with debatable, controversial messages I wrote "Sacramento." EVA RIVERA, a 32 year old Honduran poet is captured and incarcerated by the "Maduros Guerrilla" due to her controversial political activism through a network called "Las Hij…
In recent years struggles have taken place in a number of states concerning the presence of religion, particularly Islam, in the public sphere. This dissertation investigates the emergence of the presence of religion in the public sphere as a problem, not in order to offer a for…
This dissertation examines the architectural evidence in the ongoing debate surrounding the demographical and political value of the shifting Iberian frontier of the tenth through twelfth centuries. In particular, it seeks to problematize the current generalization of rural ston…
This thesis investigates the activities of the Majlisul Islamil A`la Indonesia (MIAI), an Islamic federative organization of pre-independent Indonesia, elaborating in particular on the federation's socio-religious and political stance. Operating for only six years (1937-1943), t…
Women's contributions to peace negotiations and post-conflict peacebuilding are too often overlooked, undocumented and anecdotal. Is international peace, security and democracy enhanced when women are active participants in all aspects of peace processes including post-conflict …
This study gives a description of the nature of the ideologies of the groups and forces that shaped Persian Judah (Yehud) by offering a critique of the rhetoric they produced, namely the separatist rhetoric in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13. Many scholars argue that during the mid-fi…
This study attempts to identify and characterize capital development in Indonesia. Specifically, why, after three decades of capital expansion and infusion of massive financial resources into the economy, has the emergence of an open political system and a democratic regime rema…
This dissertation is a study of the Mongolian royal marriages from the World Empire (1206–1279) to the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), focusing on the various aspects of the marriage strategies of the Mongol royal family and the political implications of these marriages. It also attem…
This study sets out to explore first person theatre as a means of opening the individual to the problems of contemporary capitalism and its increasing pervasion of the personal in an era of embeddedness enabled by networked pervasive technology. Firstly setting out key definitio…
In recent years, due to globalization processes, religion emerged as a primary source of inter-communal tensions worldwide. Academic thinking tackling with possibilities of diffusing such tensions has been dominated by the liberal view, which offers the legal separation of relig…
The 1990 Gulf War disrupted the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan's secular nationalist trend. To the extent that Palestinian in Jordan, who constitute the majority, saw Saddam Hussein as a force willing to challenge Israeli regional hegemony, his defeat not only represented another A…
The challenges to stability, unity, and democracy in Iraq are typically characterized as factional (sectarian and ethnic) or as struggle against the presence of foreign troops. However, this assumption remains largely erroneous. The problems and challenges in Iraq are actually a…
This research questions the "role model" status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in the secular context with a specific reference to the women with headscarves. The Turkish Republic's commitment to modernization is what renders it a role m…
The goals of this proposed study were to explore the history, challenges, and accomplishments of Iranian women in higher education and to be able to contribute to the literature of what we do know about the integration of these women into higher education. The impact of Iranian …
This thesis is a study of the development of the Babi movement and the political implications embodied in its religious teachings. The thesis basically assumes that in its early development (1844-1848), the movement may be seen merely as religiously dissenting from the mainstrea…
This study asks how national power capacity and state structures are reconfigured when faced simultaneously with the power diffusion impact of political globalization--defined as a consensus of ideas and subsequent pressure on states for further democratization and liberalizatio…