This dissertation deals with Albanian state building between 1920 and 1924. In 1920, after nearly 500 years in the Ottoman Empire, the majority of Albanian statesmen were status-quo Moslem conservatives who were determined to retain the essentially feudal socio-economic system. …
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The dissertation attempts to answer the following questions: Why has religion been a persistent and significant factor in Third World politics? How did Third World countries address the challenge of religious pluralism? How can development theory be reformulated so that religion…
This research aims to understand the nature, the capacities and the salience of local agency in international state building projects. Applied in highly varied contexts such as Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Timor East, Afghanistan, Iraq or Kosovo, international state building is …
Efforts to restructure security forces in countries emerging from civil war have led to mixed results. While large interventions have left police and military forces factionalized and ineffective, smaller interventions have resulted in more professional and publicly responsive f…
The United States and the international community intervened in a number of internal conflicts throughout the 1990s, generally justifying their actions on humanitarian grounds. In most cases, external military intervention largely halted the fighting and allowed humanitarian ass…
This dissertation analyzes the protracted conflicts of the Horn of Africa region, which embraces Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, in terms of state, society, and the world order. In order to avoid overly abstract conceptualizations of the notion of state, this dissertation employs t…
This project aims to explain why, in the face of otherwise similar types of threats and disputes, some borders become well-organized institutions that provide security to contiguous states and populations living in border areas while other boundaries remain sites of escalation, …
Recent cases of international intervention to rebuild countries after war constitute a departure from more standard cases of peacekeeping, military occupation, or state-building as used in the political science literature. This ‘new politics of occupation’ is marked by extensive…
Until the reign of Amir'Abd al-Rahman Khan (r. 1880–1901), Afghanistan was a loosely governed country with parts of it devoid of government ( hukumat). It was the amir's clear determination to impose the ordinance of government on the entire domain over which he was sovereign. T…
Between September 1991 and April 1992, twenty new states appeared on the world scene. Fifteen countries emerged from the USSR; five from Yugoslavia. By the end of 1992, Czechoslovakia split into two more new states. The last time the international community experienced such a bu…
Reunification cases represent two sovereign states that share a common national identity with a mutual desire to integrate their countries into a single polity. Despite this sentiment for union, some states have failed to integrate, while others have successfully achieved it. Th…
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…
The war in Bosnia and its post-war peace heralded the coming-into-being of the "international community" as the dominant protagonist of post-cold war order, structured around the values of peace, democracy, the rule of law, humanitarian solidarity, and the inviolability of human…
This dissertation explores the intersection between rival forms of consciousness in Pirin Macedonia: national and local, from the anti-Ottoman Ilinden Uprising in Macedonia in 1903 to the end of the Communist "Macedonianization" campaign in 1952. Bulgarian, Macedonian and Englis…
How did political order emerge in Tajikistan and Georgia after the violent chaos of the Soviet collapse? Despite enormous structural weaknesses--the absence of a national army, impassable mountains, ethnic cleavages, poverty, and foreign-backed insurgencies--stable regimes conso…
This dissertation addresses the relationship between majority nationalism and state legitimization in the context of an externally-imposed peace settlement which ended a violent ethnic conflict. Using the case of post-Dayton Bosnia, the project demonstrates how state practices o…
This dissertation focuses on post-conflict Bosnia, one of Europe's most divided post-conflict societies, and where the external leadership of the state building process has been pronounced. The specific goal is to delineate a framework of analysis that accounts for the elite dyn…
This thesis explores ten years of international intervention in criminal justice reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) from 1995 to 2005. BiH is taken as an example of a country undergoing multiple transitions following its secession from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugos…
Since the 1906 Constitutional Revolution that established the first representative government in the Middle East, all Iranian regimes have aimed to build a modern nation-state. But the main body of the literature depicts the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which resulted in the establi…