This dissertation analyzes the rhetoric of regionalism, specifically with regard to the Great Plains region of North America. While rhetorical scholars have observed that regions are strategic discursive creations, subject to contention and revision, there has been little sustai…
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This essay explores how patriotism during World War II contributed to the social transformation of Marietta, Georgia, in relation to the Southern identity. Distinct regional politics, economics, and social traditions collided when workers from across the country descended upon a…
This study explores the idea of developing the capacity to prevent and resolve conflict through the enhancement of regional cooperation and resource management in Africa’s Great Lakes area. It examines the long-standing tensions between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and…
Regionalism in Latin America has historical roots dating back to the early 19th century through the post-Cold War period. This unique character has fostered a breadth of regionalist projects, with many succeeding, reimagining, overlapping, or competing with other projects within…
This dissertation is the first to examine the history of botany in the Philippines under two successive colonial regimes—Spanish and U.S. (United States). I animate this study through the lives and scientific work of a Filipino illustrator, a Spanish botanist, and a U.S. plant c…
During the 1960s, the City of Milwaukee was enduring fiscal distress. Mayor of Milwaukee, Henry Maier, turned to the State of Wisconsin to modify the state shared revenues formula as a method to increase funding for central cities. Maier created the Wisconsin Alliance of Cities,…
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in southern France, this dissertation analyzes contemporary Occitan musical expression in relation to postcolonial immigration. “Occitan” refers to a group of linguistic practices found in the south of France, including Provençal and Lan…
Territory remains a focus for identification and territorial identity an enduring topic of scholarly research. This dissertation explores the territorial identity of Cornwall in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The study does three things; it defines Cornish identit…
This thesis seeks critically to examine Sierra Leone's participation in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). From a more general perspective, it assesses the role and contribution of regional integration and co-operation groupings in developing regions to nati…
This thesis examines the determinants of institutional quality and the process of convergence in the ECOWAS in order to inform policy about the region's deep integration scheme. The first part of the thesis examines the historical changes that took place in the development of co…
Uluslararası İlişkileri analiz etmenin zorluğu farklı aktörler tarafından çok katmanlı düzeyde gerçekleşen süreçleri barındırmasından kaynaklanmaktadır. Dünya sisteminde var olan bölgeselleşme faaliyetleri ise bu karmaşık düzeni analiz etmeyi kolaylaştırır. Bölge kavramı üzerine…
This thesis expands upon food historian Camille Bégin’s assertion that the “AmericaEats” manuscript of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project was “in tune with the interwarrevival of regionalism” in the United States. Using archival material associated with the projectand regio…
This dissertation examines the conditions that have compressed social relations and political order in Tanzania, in order to understand when and why social unity and state-society relations unravel. Further, this dissertation sheds light on the type of cleavages emerging from lo…
O presente trabalho resulta de uma investigação de doutoramento sobre as negociações internacionais de âmbito regional, tendo como caso de estudo a adesão de Angola à Zona de Comércio Livre da Comunidade de Desenvolvimento da África Austral. No que concerne à dimensão teórica, e…
This dissertation is a case study of the ECO. It evaluates the ECO's structure and process, observing that since the inception of the ECO, none of its member states have been each other's major trading partners. This fact is related to the lack of regional security in the ECO, w…
Nigeria's decision to spearhead the creation of the Economic Community of West African States offers a challenge to conventional assumptions in Political Science literature. These challenges result from Nigeria's position within the international system during the 1960's and 197…
This dissertation examines why states in some water scarce regions of the world are able to cooperate over shared fresh water resources while states in other such regions are continually entangled in political tension and violent conflict. My analysis is based on empirical mater…
The Twin Cities Metropolitan Council continues to draw national attention as a unique form of regional government. Yet there have been few in-depth studies of the Council's history, current circumstances and future prospects; and no broad-based assessments have been done for mor…
This dissertation examines regional development in Algeria. Particularly, it analyzes the issue of regional disparities in the context of two paths of development: socialism (1962–78) and market socialism (1979–1992). Under socialism, the government of Algeria sought a mobilizat…