This research examined the challenges, decisions, issues, and dilemmas facing the International Community (IC) in attempting to re-establish and rebuild public administration and other government institutions in a country that continues to suffer from instability and remains at …
The core aim of this interdisciplinary research is to provide a critical analysis of the influence of Darwinism and Social Darwinism on a sample of modern Chinese writings. To achieve these aims, the researcher uses a range of both Chinese and English sources to explore their cl…
This project was inspired by a declaration made by built environment professionals at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (GABS, 2002), of the need for a common framework to improve decision making for sustainable development. Priori theorising indicated the suitability …
This volume brings into focus contemporary lived Sufism in modern contexts across the Muslim world, from Africa to Southeast Asia and from the Middle East 'heartlands' of Islam to the UK.
Reforming chaebols is the most controversial topic in Korea now. However, the problem is that we have no definite criteria how to evaluate various reform proposals. What should be a criterion to evaluate various proposals of reforms as a Christian? I think what Jesus think as ju…
This study has attempted to find a way forward in understanding the "people of the land" and their enigmatic relationship with King Josiah by focusing on socio-political aspects of their activities. The historical and diachronic study of the term "`an? ho'ares" in the Hebrew Bib…
This study examines the variations in the practice of implementation in different implementation structures using the case of police education reforms that were undertaken by the Turkish National Police (TNP) in 2001 and 2003. Differentiations and similarities in the top-down an…
This study focuses on how civic education is changing in the context of democratization and decentralization in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The dissertation investigates how teachers' beliefs and practices have changed along with democratization and educational reform, how teachers…
William Jennings Bryan believed that political history consisted of a constant battle between an elitist minority and the people. This elitist minority, known by many different names, ruled through coercion and fear. Bryan concluded that the only government that could protect th…
This dissertation examines the role of Euro-American women in the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. I argue that American prostitutes and reformers figured centrally in the establishment of a fortified international boundary and in the making of…
This thesis analyzes the failures of Pakistan's educational system and proposes concrete measures to reform it, drawing on local models that have proven successful. Specifically, it seeks to determine a link between U.S. security and a functional primary education system in the …
This dissertation examines the processes of implementation and experience of state-initiated reforms in the first two decades of the Turkish republic in four specific sites (men's clothing, women's dress, alphabet change, and national celebrations) of the state's attempt to tran…
This dissertation examines the tactics used by a group of Iranian women to improve their status under an Islamic regime. Women's use of Islamic feminism and the human rights discourse as tools of resistance is the focus of this study. The data for this project were gathered thro…
This thesis investigates the Islamic response to modernization and its common dilemma as seen through the eyes of Nurcholish Madjid, one of the most influential and prominent Muslim thinkers in Indonesia today. He and his followers represent the most radical development in Indon…
This study examines sainthood in early modern Islamic societies as a site of contested authority. It focuses on a reform movement that operated within Sufi communities, with the figure of the Muslim saint as the prime agent of reform. This study offers a comparative analysis of …