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The purpose of the present study was to examine the additive effect of an Alliance Focused Training on the psychotherapy process in 20 cases derived from an archival dataset. The specialized training, as administered by the Brief Psychotherapy Research Program at Beth Israel Med…

The Southern Farmers' Alliance led the largest coalition of late-nineteenth-century farmers' and urban reformers. The reform movement called for laws opposing speculation on agricultural prices, restricting the powers of business trusts, regulating railroad freight rates, and in…

Jordan emerged as a key component of American-Middle East diplomacy during the period from 1945–1969. Initially viewed as a liability because of the precarious nature of its monarchy, the perception of Jordan in the United States gradually evolved to that of a moderate, pro-West…

The notion of the therapeutic alliance derived from the early psychoanalytic literature and eventually gained appeal as a transtheoretical construct. By the 1980s, empirical evidence began to accumulate that the therapeutic alliance was one of the best predictors of psychotherap…

This thesis examines the foreign policy evolution of Japan from the time of its modernization during the mid-nineteenth century though the present. It is argued that infringements upon Japanese sovereignty and geopolitical vulnerabilities have conditioned Japanese leaders toward…

This dissertation will seek to answer the following questions: Why has the US-Saudi relationship survived for so long in spite of numerous changes in world order? Can the reason for the longevity of this relationship be explained through alliance theory? In sum, is alliance theo…

This study traces the representations of the Nizari Isma'ilis, or Assassins, in medieval European texts, a process revealing three different discourses about the sect. I argue that when the crusaders first encountered the Syrian branch of the sect, they sought to enter into an a…

This mixed-methods dissertation investigates the countries of the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq (2003-2009) to identify the determinants of defection and of fluctuation in troop numbers. It makes theoretical contributions to the literature on alliance and coalition defection …

My dissertation offers a new theoretical framework to study why formally allied states engage in militarized disputes. This theoretical framework explicitly links the alliance formation stage to the intra-alliance conflict stage and includes a typology of intra-alliance conflict…

This study develops an integrated model of foreign policy change particularly for Third World countries. According to this model, foreign policy changes are determined by systemic, transnational and domestic factors. Following the logic of integrated approaches, omni-balancing t…