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This project aims to explain why, in the face of otherwise similar types of threats and disputes, some borders become well-organized institutions that provide security to contiguous states and populations living in border areas while other boundaries remain sites of escalation, …

The fullest and most comprehensive unpacking of the term finis has yet to be achieved. Studies have narrowly focussed on the idea of border, boundary or frontier, without even entertaining the prospect of interpreting the study from the ancient point of view. This investigation …

This thesis considers the archaeological remains of field systems and cairnfields as evidence for changes in the relations between land and society during the second millennium BC. The theoretical argument aims to demonstrate that the relations between land and society were comp…

This dissertation explores whether and how the bounding practices of Israeli and Palestinian groups working nonviolently towards a "just and lasting peace" (even in times of armed conflict) shape 'group' and 'individual' identities that differ from 'official' zero-sum Self-Other…

This dissertation investigates the process through which identity categories are created, institutionalized, and contested by analyzing boundary making narratives and practices in the borderlands of India and Bangladesh. Although the border has been in place since the 1947 parti…

Nationalist movements typically describe their vision of the nation and its desired state as the true and eternal one. In reality, however, the articulated definitions of key foundational attributes of the nation-state, including its appropriate territorial borders, membership b…

Rather than starting with physical form as "state"-centered theories do, a more useful theoretical model should begin with the content of political units. Specifically, this model should examine a crucial element of the content of a political unit, the "source of transcendent cr…

This thesis is primarily focused on flow-field upstream of hydropower intakes, with emphasis on the use of temperature control curtains and predicting the flow acceleration zone. By reviewing the available literature, it is concluded that the flow-field upstream of hydropower in…

This historical literature review focuses on the history of touch in the psychotherapeutic setting. Through examining old and new literature, touch in psychotherapy has been understood to be positive by many great members in the field of psychotherapy and can be constructive if …