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Ethnic divisions undermine statebuilding efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina almost twenty years after the end of a war among the three main ethnic groups in the country. The political elites influence on how nationalism and identity is experienced in Bosnia-Herzegovina and offer refl…

This dissertation exegetically examines the eschatology of Hosea that the prophet communicated through his prophetic sign acts in the first three chapters and subsequently in the context of Yahweh’s covenant lawsuit against Israel and Judah in chapters 4–14. I investigate the sh…

Lithuania is a fledgling nation built on 19th and 20th century conceptions of ethno-linguistic nationalism.Yet its capital, Vilnius, is a hybrid state of Polish, Jewish, Soviet, and Lithuanian heritage that challenges the notionof a singular state identity. Memory and identity c…

This arts-informed life-history study reveals how intra- and interpersonal and intergenerational coping mechanisms were used to internalize Soviet rule in Latvian public and private lives and exposes how oppressions operate across generational time. Forty eight of the author's i…