Uzbeks in the Ferghana Valley of Uzbekistan increasingly perceive themselves to be distinct from their ethnic brethren in other parts of the country. Two predominant approaches in existing literature, which either view identity formation as a process enmeshed in social relations…
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In my dissertation I analyze the relationships between historical and everyday state-formation and the making and remaking of the people and landscapes of Dersim, produced as the outsiders of state. I focus on three periods: the massacre and the following displacements in Dersim…
This dissertation is a comparative study of the uses of writing in the early state. To obtain a fresh perspective on the evidence for early writing from China, it looks at how the ideological and administrative needs of the early state were met in five other regions of the world…
Researchers have found that increasing rates of ratification of international human rights treaties do not necessarily imply actual improvement of human rights practice. This discrepancy raises questions about the state's intention to ratify treaties and the impact of ratificati…
Local firms producing prescription drugs for their domestic markets can be a resource for national health systems, but the range and quality of their products is constrained or encouraged by a complex structure of regulation that operates in different ways at the national and in…
Nationalism has been considered one of the greatest threats to the existing global order, where non-dominant groups create movements that reject the official ideology of state uniformity while demanding autonomy. Baloch history and identity formation is unique due to specific co…
Michael Mann (1997 [1984], p. 60) wrote, “The state is undeniably a messy concept,” but in the years since he made this observation, little seems to have been done to clean it up. This dissertation seeks to use ontology-based methods to answer three major research questions conc…
Halide Edib positioned herself as a main agent and figure of the Turkish nationalist movement, as both visionary and defender of her nation. Contributing to the evolving discourse on what it meant to be Turkish; Edib placed the family at the center of the state and identified wo…
The role of religion has been enigmatic in the study of war and International Relations. In the age of secularization, the discipline has been largely dismissive of the significance of religion, but it has become increasingly accepted in the last several decades that it is indee…
This study traces the evolution of the Rentier State Theory, quantifies its primary components, and rigorously tests the extent to which the negative impact of economic rent upon the advancement of democracy in the Arab world can be substantiated empirically. Through a series of…
This thesis is an historical examination of the most radical antireligious policy in Eastern Europe under Communism. It will document the Albanian government's religious policy during the Communist period between 1944–1991, devoting special attention to the policy initiated duri…
Using the comparative historical method, this project examines the reasons behind the differential policy of the Russian state toward the secessions of the republics of Tatarstan and Chechnya, despite the existence of significant similarities between the cases. The Russian state…
This dissertation is a comparative historical analysis between Malaysia and Singapore on the relationship between capitalist development and authoritarianism. Both Malaysia and Singapore have recorded remarkable economic growths and rapid industrial development, but both these c…
From the late eighteenth century to 1917, officials and elites in imperial Russia sought to connect the Tsar's subjects to the state, to create “invisible threads” which would weave a culturally and religiously diverse population into a coherent civic order. I analyze these “thr…
An explanatory Theory must answer an explanation-seeking “why” question concerning a “what”; e.g. why did a State develop in the Nile valley? Acceptable theories covering Egypt or anthropological theories applicable to the area do not exist. A theory consists of a general regula…
This study examines state-society relations in post-communist Kazakhstan from a civil society perspective. It discusses in detail the historical developments that shaped the growth and decline of civil society development. In contrast to the studies of democratization, which ass…
This dissertation is an empirical study of the genesis of the relationship between state-sanctioned “youth groups” and the army before and during Indonesia's New Order (1965–1998). Who were they, what function did they serve, and how did they come to play a major role in Indones…
This dissertation examines the multiple ways in which the nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ottoman-Egyptian and British state exercised its authority over its male and female subjects. As I argue, this authority was enunciated through new colonial institutions, bureaucrati…
The modern problem of “national integration” is the problem of constructing a community—or a `nation'—out of the disparate, constitutive elements contained within the physical borders of a particular state. These elements are often themselves historically bound, culturally defin…