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The oscillation of the conflicts in Israel and Northern Ireland in recent years between advances towards peaceful resolution and regressions to new cycles of bloodshed were explained by the inherent difficulties of territorial compromise, security threats, and effective politica…

Over the last fifteen years, the number of civil conflicts worldwide has declined and negotiated settlements have increased. The spread of democracy and greater international concern about domestic conflicts have encouraged states to adopt a negotiations-based approach to addres…

This dissertation contains three essays that deal with the political consequences of globalization. More specifically, these essays examine the constituency of globalization's losers, those that feel harmed by their country opening up to the international economy. The key questi…

This comparative study of Egyptian aesthetics interprets the historical and political context of artistic discourse during the years 1938 to 1966. It is a period marked by intense clashes between landlords and rural laborers over the material conditions of labor set against the …