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A large accession of traditionally Muslim, Turkish speaking Roma (known as Millet) to Christ occurred in the early 1990's, but this church movement began to decline in the second half of the 1990's. This study explores the factors that people who left Millet churches, people who…

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 …

When embattled autocrats threatened by the Arab Spring's mobilizations turned towards their armed forces for support, the stage was set for the military elite to shape the outcome of the critical junctures in 2011. Some acted as the regime's gravediggers when they defected where…