Inspired by the frequent references to Bashar al-Asad's medical qualifications, this dissertation explores the historical process, more than a century old, which brought temporal sovereignty and medical authority together in the figure of the Syrian president. Medicine was an im…
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The legitimacy of humanitarian intervention in international relations has long been a subject of controversy. In the wake of recent humanitarian crises and varying international responses to such situations, the debate surrounding humanitarian intervention has experienced a rev…
This dissertation aims to examine three questions concerning Malay Muslims of southernmost Thailand in relation to the unrest which started in 2004. First, it examines how the unrest took place with a focus on how it was experienced and explained by Malay Muslims of a locality c…
The limited body of literature addressing the livelihood of citizens in de facto states presents questions of how inhabitants of these 'sovereignty limbo' spaces live their everyday lives. While previous research on de facto states has extensively documented the political proces…
Building on existing motive clause research, this work extends the analysis of motive clauses by examining statements of divine motive across the whole of the Hebrew Bible. Anscombe's three motive categories: backward-looking motives, motives-in-general, and intentions are used …
Practices of cultivation and control over land are deeply entangled matters in Israel-Palestine. By the turn of the twentieth century scientists had begun to systematically examine the cultivation practices of Arab farmers. Around the same time, the area was the scene of major l…
This dissertation reintegrates the Mediterranean into the history of the development of the early modern British Empire. During the seventeenth century, the Mediterranean emerged as a distinct political, legal and commercial space within the wider currents of English expansion. …
Marion Woodman suggests that the penultimate happiness comes from cultivating the seeds of right relationship. In Dancing in the Flames she dedicates her book to the goddess, Sophia, and writes that "integrity in love is the only true guide to the wisdom that leads to freedom." …
This dissertation explains why some political actors willingly surrender sovereignty to great powers and others choose to resist, often violently. It argues that political competition and conflict at a domestic level drive actors to surrender sovereignty. Where domestic politica…
This thesis will examine the interdependent relationship of drugs, border security, and sovereignty following the 1991 collapse of communism in Russia and the 2001 US-led overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Regime changes, particularly in Russia, led to a sharp decline in s…
From 2004 to the present the United States Government has employed drones for cross-border law enforcement purposes in the sovereign territory of Pakistan. Various opinions exist as to whether the US is justified in its intrusion into the territory of another sovereign state. Ma…
The literature on the case of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq focuses mainly on the historical aspect of the Kurds' struggle against successive Iraqi regimes. The literature lacks a solid theoretical and analytical framework for examining the feasibility of an independent Kurdish S…
This dissertation explores what it means for a developing country such as Lebanon to implement an international environmental or natural resource treaty. The colonial legacy has left much of the third world structurally dependent on the West; and the post-colonial period has fur…
The “Days of Empire,” when political entities extolled their control over other territories, have long since expired. Yet hierarchies between states remain. While international relations theorists often assume that states are fully sovereign, weak states sometimes delegate decis…
The role that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play in international relations is assumed by the dominant paradigms to have an erosive effect on the state. Tensions between liberalism and realism (and their respective variants), however, have resulted in a gap in the literat…
This study advances an alternate methodological perspective on the formation of new states in Asia and Africa. Taking the case of the Indonesian "New Order" state, this study attempts through the exceptional perspective to harmonize the analytical depiction of the creation of it…
Why do nationalizing states, committed to preferential treatment of the dominant nation within the state, vary in their treatment of ethnic minorities? Why do some nationalizing states choose to simultaneously provide a certain degree of accommodation to their ethnic minorities …
This dissertation explores the relationship between state sovereignty and major instances of crimes against humanity committed in the latter 20 th century. In order to examine this dynamics of this relationship, the author analyzes the history and theory of the concept of sovere…
As opposed to territoriality, where a state claims exclusive jurisdiction over all people within its territorial boundaries regardless of their nationalities, extraterritoriality refers to a legal regime where a state claims exclusive jurisdiction over its citizens residing with…