This thesis analyzes the meaning of genocide within legal discourse and cultural narratives. The dissertation treats relations of law and literature in the initial formulation of the concept of genocide in the postwar years and then in its more recent legal and journalistic appl…
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This thesis is on the need for a fresh look at humanitarian intervention. I am interested in this topic because of recent events that have taken place in Africa, especially Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia and particularly, in Ghana. In March 1994, war broke out in Northern Ghana betwee…
This thesis analyzes the US response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It argues that in 1994, the US was retooling its stance on humanitarian intervention because of the disastrous US-led Operation Gothic Serpent in Somalia in 1993. Therefore, the American response to the genocide …
After the Nazi Holocaust, the international community vowed to prevent genocide from occurring in the future. Yet, genocide has continued to occur. Accordingly, this study seeks to better understand why and how genocide takes place. I ask two key questions: 1) What are the cause…
As mobile phones reach the remote corners of the world, they bring with them a sense of great optimism. Hailed as a technology that "can transform the lives of the people who are able to access them," mobile phones have the potential to play a positive role in the lives of many …
The urgency of gendering transitional justice, and indeed larger peacebuilding exercises, cannot be overstated. How does the introduction of gender perspectives in transitional justice shape the status of women in a transitioning society? And how can gender sensitivity be mainst…
If a Hebrew Biblical text could motivate eighth century B.C.E Israelite society to move a away from the horrendous practice of violence and blood revenge, isn't it possible that the same text can motivate a twenty first century society to move away from the crisis of revenge and…
The involvement of the international community in internal situations of ethnic conflict is becoming more common as international actors intervene to restore order after the outbreak of violent ethnic conflict. This dissertation addresses the assumption that these multilateral f…
This dissertation compares Cold War peacekeeping missions with missions in the Post Cold War era, identifying reasons for the success of the former and the failure of the latter. The author dissects the basic components of Classical Peacekeeping (Cold War era) and states that th…
Peace operations have become the most prevalent and prominent form of operation undertaken by the U.S. military in the post-Cold War era. Still, there is little systematic scholarship devoted to mass American public opinion on peace operations. In an attempt to fill this void, t…
This dissertation explores variance in state responses to refugee crises. It argues that contrary to public perception, assistance to refugees is more of a realist than humanitarian endeavor. In other words, states provide assistance based upon their perceived national interests…
My research examines how international organizations (state and non-state actors) understand and respond to human rights violations. How could the international community react to Rwanda and Kosovo so differently? In Rwanda, peacekeepers were pulled back and in 100 days over 800…
This study examines the military interventionary behavior of four democratic states—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada—during the post-Cold War era. Using a data set created for the purposes of this examination, the variations in these states' intervention…
Modern technology has brought the benefits of rapid international flow of information, trade, capital and people, promising prosperity for the great majority. A by-product threatening this prosperity is the rapid spread of conflicts across the globe. Economic decline increases t…
What factors appear influential to U.S. decisions of armed humanitarian intervention and nonintervention? Utilizing the “story model” mode of problem representation first utilized by psychologists Pennington and Hastie (1986; 1988) and adapted to the domain of foreign policy by …
This thesis will examine the principal impediments to successful United Nations intervention in violent intra-state conflicts. Using the cases of Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina, impediments to United Nations intervention, including the structure of the United Nations, internation…
This study explores U.S. National Security decisions involving the use of military force that were made during the post-Cold War era in cases where there was general agreement among the decision makers that traditional U.S. security interests were not involved. Eight separate de…
The end of the Cold War and the dawn of the information age have been characterized by increasing communication and decreasing cooperation among different interest groups (ethnic, political, religious, etc.) around the world. Internal conflicts like the recent Bosnian and Rwanda…
Why do states intervene militarily in some CHEs but not others sharing similar characteristics - and why do states justify still other military interventions on humanitarian grounds? What accounts for changes in the rules, meanings, and social purposes to which states can and sh…