Between Empire and Nation provides a spatial history of Egypt's western borderland in order to illuminate the Egyptian nation-state as a work-in-progress in the decades prior to World War I. It argues that state and nation did not come fully formed to Egypt's western domains, bu…
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This thesis will inquire into the practicable strategies that Thomas Hobbes described in his major works of political philosophy, on the one hand, to allow his sovereign to ensure civil peace, and on the other, to enable his sovereign to defend the commonwealth. In terms of civi…
This dissertation is concerned to rethink the relation between money and the state in a way that challenges both Marxist and chartalist stories about the history and nature of money and monetary phenomena. In doing so, it examines the problem of liquidity, or the question of whe…
This dissertation is a philosophical exploration of the formulation, convergence and divergence of conceptions of freedom1 in selected contemporary South African feminisms. I engage critically with concepts and conceptions that I identify as dominant within the feminisms underpi…
In the modern world, sovereignty provides the conceptual framework enabling states to interact and claim supremacy over all other social forms. It is sovereignty that allows all states to be nominally equal, while also exerting a claim to be the highest authority in their own te…
Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, colonial projects in southern New England sponsored dozens of communities commonly called “praying towns.” Missionaries and colonial authorities envisioned these as bounded settlements where Indigenous people would learn to adopt Christi…
This dissertation examines rhetorical and historical issues of the two Japanese constitutions, the Meiji constitution (1889 − 1946) and the postwar constitution (1946 −). It examines a rhetorical issue of how persuasive narratives ground a constitution. It also examines a histor…
Over the course of twenty years after 1763, thirteen of the Britain’s most-prized colonies tore away from their imperial fold, erupting eventually into a bloody civil war and a global revolution. Central to this all too familiar story, however, is an otherwise forgotten factor, …
Research on the Hmong people in Southeast Asia offers contrasting views about their relationship to the mountain landscapes where so many Hmong people live. One view portrays the Hmong as finding self-realisation in mountain settings, which are deemed to provide them a secure re…
In 2016, enrollment in a public school Indian education program in the western United States dropped by over 1,000 students. Changes in enrollment policy for Title VI Formula Grants in 2015, coupled with findings of a program review conducted by the Office of Indian Education, f…
Indigenous communities’ ties to land predate the settler state’s formation and have continued despite projects of genocide and land expropriation. In this thesis, I examine the history, place-making, and lived experience of the Ruffey Indian community in northern California. Thr…
This dissertation analyzes mobility and power in an age of expansionary imperialism and accelerated globalization. Based on archival research in France, the U.K., and Vietnam, "In-between Empires" reconstructs the social histories of steamship voyages along the Trans-Suez mariti…
Self-determination claims to statehood continue to be the basis for war, strife and contention. Often state power interests can either align or collide with legitimacy claims for self-determination. How, when and why is the noise made by such claimants accorded the space to beco…
The dissertation analyzes two interrelated issues, popular sovereignty and secularism, through the lens of the Turkish experience with democracy. Its objective is, first, to deconstruct Turkish secularism, laiklik , linked to the political theology of the homogeneous, sovereign …
Liberal feminism views vulnerability as weakness and dominance as strength. This binary parallels nationalistic assertions of sovereignty. Within militaristic responses such as the U.S. retaliation to 9/11, however, we see the cost of refusing to acknowledge our vulnerability. I…
A dramatic shift in international practice emerged in the 1990s when the United Nations Security Council authorized military humanitarian intervention to stop gross human rights violations. During the Cold War, the Security Council did not halt mass killing and sanctioned states…
Political conflict erupted after the fall of the Soviet Union instead of the convergent world that was anticipated. Responding in part to protests and ethnic strife after the Cold War, authors predicted breakdowns in prevailing power arrangements--particularly the nation-state. …
State sovereignty has been a central and steadfast feature of international relations since the consolidation of the nation-state system. Yet, the content of sovereignty is changing as a result of policies that states employ in the international arena, which give voice to the un…
The Balkan states have all responded to the EU's conditional offer of membership with domestic institutional and policy changes in line with the EU requirements. Yet, there is a remarkable variation among the countries from the region in terms of their formal sovereignty, both w…