During the Algerian War of Independence, the French military is known to have carried out multiple war crimes against Algerian civilians, including torture, enforced disappearance, and conflict-related sexual violence. The Evian Accords, the peace treaty signed in 1962 which bro…
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James Patrick Brady (1908-1967) helped conceptualize Métis political self-determination through his photography and activism, and his work made their identity something to be proud of rather than suppressed. This thesis considers examples from his photographic collection as an e…
This dissertation explores how several Arab NGOs in Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Kuwait practiced human rights from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Drawing on institutional archives and interviews, it argues that these organizations provide new insights into the history of h…
This thesis examines the historical development of American space policy as an imperial project. This paper is periodized in three chronological eras—the Cold War, the 1990s, and the post-9/11 era—that display distinct viewpoints and methodologies toward the practice of expansio…
Human trafficking recently shifted from being considered a marginal problem to an urgent one. As recent as twenty years ago, however, laws criminalizing trafficking were few and public perception mostly understood slavery as an issue of the past. Why do issues enter the global a…
Spanning multiple fields of scholarly inquiry, the bulk of this study concerns itself with competing notions of sovereignty, citizenship, boundary-making, and belonging in twentieth and twenty-first century Indigenous North America. Situated at the productive confluence of Borde…
Why do advanced nuclear states agree to legally forswear nuclear weapons? Many international relations studies have explored why states seek to develop nuclear weapons. Yet, the literature does not address why states would participate in multilateral nuclear arms control treatie…
In the last few decades, international investment law (IIL) has emerged as one of the most distinct legal frameworks for promoting and protecting foreign investment. However, evidence of linkages between foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth and IIL in developing coun…
Nil Havzası’nın aşağı kıyıdaş ülkesi konumunda bulunan Mısır, havzadaki diğer ülkelerle karşılaştırıldığında, tarihsel süreçte Nil Nehri sularından en fazla yararlanan ülke olmuştur. Bu özellik, yeryüzündeki diğer nehir havzalarıyla karşılaştırıldığında istisnai durumlardan biri…
This thesis scrutinises the issue of production, proliferation and effects of border violence in a frontier town of Melilla, Spain. It broadly deals with narratives of multiple bordering dynamics taking place at the border zone and within Melillan society and follows multiplicat…
This dissertation is about land, colonization, and Indigenous people. While focusing broadly on Algonquian peoples, special attention is given to the Spruce Island Cree of Cumberland House in northeastern Saskatchewan. The use of the Nehinuw (Cree) language and cultural historic…
Between the crusades and Columbus, the Genoese maritime empire centered in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea transformed into a financial empire based on the Iberian peninsula. From the thirteenth century, Mongol, Mamluk, Turcoman, and Latin formations carved out Byzan…
What is the nature of the EU’s policies towards its eastern neighbours? Is it to create a ‘ring of friends’ or an imperial strategy? Ever since the establishment of the European project, this subject has been heavily debated. The EU might present similarities with an empire, thr…
In this dissertation, I seek to explain why states fail to commit to the exchange of fugitive offenders with every other state, even where there appear to be several benefits to doing so. Commitment is equated with signature to bilateral extradition treaties. Extradition is view…
O presente trabalho analisa a relação entre as empresas transnacionais e o trabalho infantil, de forma a delimitar quais são os parâmetros internacionais que podem jogar luz à temática da responsabilização das empresas pelos Direitos Humanos no âmbito da proteção infantil. Atual…
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…
Multilateral treaties' success depends in large part on decisions made during their drafting and negotiations. Lack of support from key states, weak or non-binding commitments, and sweeping reservations often doom treaties to ineffectiveness or worse. Challenges to treaty effect…