In 1975, the Vietminh (term used to denote North Vietnamese who held Communist sympathies) won their crusade to unite North Vietnam with the South. It was as much a Civil War as a war of resistance against foreign invasion. In order to understand how the Communist Vietminh won, …
This qualitative, phenomenological study provides a broad view of the effects of Army female service members' post deployment psychological condition as described by their caregiver husbands' perspective. The Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes a …
This dissertation is an inquiry into the naturalization of war. It examines forms of life in a rural borderland that is also a battlefield through an ethnographic exploration of the intertwining of war and everyday living on Lebanon's southern border with Israel. Life in these p…
In this dissertation, I aim to answer the question of how televised images of violence affect public support for war. My contributions are three-fold. First, by developing a systematic and reproducible method of coding to measure news imagery, I seek to capture the power of war …
American foreign policy in Africa has been at the epicenter of discussions in academia, government, and non-government institutions since post-colonialism. Policies that the US has pursued in Africa span from promoting democracy to ensuring peace in nations plagued by civil war.…