The Assemblies of God (AG) in Europe, specifically in Spain, currently struggles to reach families from a secular background. This study seeks to develop a description of the main competencies of children’s ministry needed to empower the Spanish Assemblies of God to evangelize a…
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The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the role of collective memory in the European 'postnational' constellation. In nation-building processes, the construction of a common past has played a well documented role in fostering notions of a collective political actor. If Europ…
This dissertation is a study of ethics in motion for German-Turkish return migrants. I argue that migration and return prompt ethical reflection, ethical change, and ethical work. Drawing from 25 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the ethical dilemmas migrants confront …
This dissertation analyzes everyday practices of externalization of African migration control beyond and within Europe's geopolitical limits, in sites such as detention centers in Libya, but also in Rome; in dinghies adrift at sea among herds of sophisticated military vessels, b…
Istanbul is for Pamuk what Paris is for Baudelaire: an inexhaustible source of inspiration and spleen. But, if the French poet is more conscious of his states of mind, the most widely read contemporary Turkish novelist seems at first to deliberately disregard the fact that any d…
A central debate in the Comparative Foreign Policy literature concerns the role of government composition on the international behavior of parliamentary democracies. For the past two decades, a multitude of studies have discussed whether single-party governments were more or les…
This thesis investigates the conditions under which decisions for military intervention are constrained by public opinion. Prior studies have identified electoral cycles and legislative checks as potential constraints on foreign policy making, but the interaction of these constr…
This dissertation explores a peculiarly French case of the ideological thaw in the Sixties, when the belated disenchantment with USSR prompted Parisian intellectuals to recast their interests: out of Europe, via tiers-mondisme, or out of history, via structuralism. Towering figu…
Irregular migration has become a politically controversial issue in most immigrant-receiving countries. Academic research has shown that states and their immigration policies actively create the legal conditions for the existence and perpetuation of irregular migration. Much of …
Heroin prices are a reflection of supply and demand, and similar to any other market, profits motivate participation. The intent of this research is to examine the change in Afghan opium production due to political conflict affecting Europe's heroin market and government policie…
The Baha'i Faith is a religion that arose in the Islamic milieu of mid nineteenth century Iran and entered the United States in 1894, after its basic teachings had been defined and the writings of its prophet had been completed. The number of American Baha'is quickly rose to abo…
The purpose of this dissertation is to understand how international criminal tribunals (ICTs) are received in different contexts. The dissertation is driven by the following puzzle: Why has there often been a negative response to international criminal tribunals (ICTs) in local …
Accepting Muslim immigrants and providing for their religious needs and practices is an unprecedented challenge for Western European governments. States have responded in very different ways, but the existing scholarly literature has failed to account for this variation. Based o…
This dissertation empirically investigates the inter-related issues in the emerging markets. The first issue, we examine is portfolio optimization in emerging stock markets using Mean-Variance theorem and Extreme Value theory. We compare the optimal portfolio selected under Safe…
This political biography of Ana Pauker, Communist leader (1944-52) and Foreign Minister (1947-52) of Romania, is based on both archival documents and oral histories of participants and witnesses. It examines the conventional wisdom of Romanian Communist history, which consistent…
This dissertation is the first historical account of the Confederation of Iranian Students/National Union (CISNU). The CISNU was the largest Iranian opposition organization active throughout the two decades preceding the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79. During most of this period,…
The establishment of a European Union security arm in 1991 and the development of common foreign and defense policies have triggered a heated debate about the degree of security cooperation and the future of Europe. For some, European security cooperation has been more talk than…
The dissertation studies the visual construction of outsider and socially marginalized groups in early modern European art, with an emphasis on prints and book illustrations. It shows that a similar iconography and strategy of representation were used for groups of Others as div…
This thesis is the written result of a practice-based PhD. The thesis presents a 'located' model of curatorial practice that aims to actively benefit the cultural landscape of host regions. It challenges existing definitions of 'the curatorial', taking a multidisciplinary unders…