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This research explores alternative policies that can contribute to the revival of collapsed states. Focusing on governance as a key factor to state rebuilding, it examines the roles of non-state actors in nation-state rebuilding. The existing literature of the state has no point…

All history is media history, and all politics are media politics. This dissertation provides an analytical frame for seeing and studying the people, ideas, political movements, and social arrangements that populate history as both solid forms and fluid processes; that is, as be…

This study asks how national power capacity and state structures are reconfigured when faced simultaneously with the power diffusion impact of political globalization--defined as a consensus of ideas and subsequent pressure on states for further democratization and liberalizatio…