The Iranian regime has repeatedly demonstrated a singular institutional resiliency that has been absent in other countries where "colored revolutions" have succeeded in overturning incumbents, such as Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova, or where popular uprisings l…
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Military interventions in the post-Cold War era—including both multilateral humanitarian interventions during the 1990s and American actions in Afghanistan and Iraq—have brought to the forefront of public debate and political analysis questions of "nation-building." These interv…
The main objective of this dissertation is to analyze the cooperation potential and institutional feasibility of a regional integration scheme in the Mediterranean region that would follow a similar pattern as the one proposed by the Schuman Declaration on May 9th 1950, establis…
What shapes the dynamics of the revitalization of political participation after the collapse of a long-term authoritarian regime? While much attention has been paid to Communist successor parties in the post-Soviet space, a surprising lack of attention has been given to oppositi…
This dissertation examines the links between electoral reform and political party system development in new democracies where iterated reforms are increasingly common, requiring an understanding of their causes and short-term consequences. It examines this relationship in detail…
The Internet and social media have become a pervasive part of our global environment over the last few decades, utilized primarily for commerce, communication, and entertainment. The last several years, however, have seen an increase in the application of social media in politic…
My dissertation asks why ethnic riots occur where they do in the context of a country's transition to democracy. Although examinations on causes of ethnic riots abound, most existing works have accounted for variations across countries, focused on developed democracies, and fail…
This dissertation analyzes the role of the security-intelligence community in Croatia's democratization process. This analysis posits that democratization can be seen best by looking at how newly democratizing states function in secret and outside of the public view. The role of…
This dissertation proposed and tested a five-dimensional theoretical framework to explain the variations in Internet use across the post-communist countries. The framework included economic, political climate and policy, technology/infrastructure, cultural, and audience factors.…
Non-governmental Organizations have received much attention in recent years as their popularity continues to thrive as a vehicle to foster democratization. Theories of democracy continue to attempt to explain why democracy does and does not germinate in some countries. And most …
This research examined the press and communication technology's role in political transitions, particularly democratization, in Nigeria in the 1990s. In the 1990s, Nigeria like several Asian, African, Eastern European and Latin American countries underwent transition programs to…
This study analyzes the experiences of liberalization in Egypt and Jordan as well as democratization in Yemen. The initiation and the reverse of these processes are explained by focusing on the role of the ruling elites in the three countries and the choices they made at differe…
This research concerns the massive and protracted series of protest events that took place in Indonesia in 1997 and 1998. Triggered by a deep economic crisis, these protest events transformed Indonesia into the third largest democratic country in the world. The purposes of the r…
In June 1992, when Yitzhak Rabin was elected to head Israel's government, a window of opportunity was opened for establishing a self-rule regime in the West Bank and Gaza that would incorporate substantial elements of pluralism. The key to building such a regime was local elites…
This dissertation examines the contemporary (1985-1993) debate over the value basis of authority in Indonesian politics. It focuses on how Islamic organizations and their leaders, the Armed Forces, President Soeharto, and others, interpret the national ideology, Pancasila. For n…
This study attempts to identify and characterize capital development in Indonesia. Specifically, why, after three decades of capital expansion and infusion of massive financial resources into the economy, has the emergence of an open political system and a democratic regime rema…
In contrasting the political trajectories of two post-Soviet Central Asian states this study addresses one of the defining questions of political science: what factors shape regime change? Despite their shared seven decades of Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has, since communism's colla…
My dissertation focuses on the activities of the human rights organization LBH (Lembaga Bantuan Hukum, the Legal Aid Institute) in Indonesia as a case study to assess its role in the rise of civil society, and possibly democratization. I argue that the academic foci on democrati…
This dissertation examines the divergent outcomes of transition from authoritarianism in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The former has emerged as the most democratic of the Central Asian republics, while the latter has reverted to authoritarianism. The study modifies conventional el…