Brazil's position in the world has undergone significant changes since the end of the Cold War. Along with China, India, and other emerging countries, Brazil is demanding a larger international role to reflect changing international realities. Yet Brazil has adopted a different …
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From the early days of the American Republic, Protestant Christianity and the American values which derived from it have had a heavy influence on U.S. foreign affairs. The initial 19th century missionaries to Anatolia in the Ottoman Empire were highly-educated men steeped in Cal…
This dissertation responds to historiography that overlooks roles played by non-state actors in shaping American foreign relations, domestic politics, and popular culture. It looks at ways in which influential Americans—government, cultural industries, and business—joined audien…
Amid the global superpower conflict and rising race-consciousness of the twentieth-century, “Third World” decolonization redrew the atlas and opened a future promising and dangerous to East and West alike. Much remains to be learned about its course in many parts of the world, i…
Despite various overlaps in English and German interests in the period from the beginning of the Thirty Years War to the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, the role of Germany in seventeenth and early eighteenth century English print discourse has received only minor atte…
How has the Vietnam War affected America's response to international conflicts? Have American Presidents been less likely to sanction a US military response to international conflicts in the post-Vietnam era? Has their ability to deploy US forces been weakened in any way by the …
This dissertation explores the American belief in a historic national mission and the uses of mission and religion within the context of conflict from 1898 to 1945. Tracing the origins of this thought back to colonial times, continuity is established from the earliest settlement…
Keywords: Caucasus states, Russia, foreign policy analysis, weak state The key features of foreign policy formulation and execution in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are selected in an attempt to reveal the sources of foreign policy-behavior of new, post-Soviet (and in effect p…
Enacted in 1833, Great Britain's abolition of West Indian slavery confronted the United States with the complex interrelationship between slavery and progress. Dubbed the Great Experiment, British abolition held the possibility of demonstrating free labor more profitable than sl…
The outbreak of ethnic wars in the aftermath of the Cold War revived the interest in the study of identity, ethnicity and culture. These ethnic wars gave scholars ample case studies, where they could investigate the ways in which these three factors interact and eventually cause…
In the aftermath of the Second World War, British writers engaged with the reconfiguration of national identity that resulted from the dissolution of the empire. In many regards, the postwar British novel performs the work of diplomacy. While colonial power held together global …
This historical investigation of U.S.-Turkish relations from the end of World War II to 1964 provides a greater understanding of the challenges inherent in the formation and implementation of U.S. policy in Turkey at a time when the Turks embarked on multiparty politics and a de…
The United States has shaped the global response to drugs over the last century. Afghanistan, and its resultant massive opium production, is the greatest failure of the internationalization of the American-led war on drugs. Starting during the Progressive-era, the United States …
The present study attempts to understand the shift that occurred in Saudi-British relations by the year 1953. The tracing of such a shift is dealt with by investigating the development of these relations from 1939 and through to 1953.The research is drawn upon a documentary dipl…
A study of President John F. Kennedy's policy toward the Middle East illustrates the agency and unexpected power wielded by so-called “third world” countries during the Cold War era. In spite of careful planning in Washington, Middle East leaders often manipulated and directed K…
In the last couple decades of scholarship, historical research has turned primarily qualitative, firmly embedding the field into the humanities. But recent advances in computation and accessibility of digitized materials have revived an interest in quantitative methods and platf…
This research investigated the impact of Boko Haram insurgency on the Nigerian Cameroun relations to ascertain whether it had improved, worsened or remained the same, as the insurgency created socio-economic crisis, such as poverty, low level of education, as well as religious i…
This dissertation examines a discourse of Japanese images constructed in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish primary literature at the turn of the twentieth century in order to discern the prevailing understanding of "Eastern" modernity among members of Ottoman society in one particular …
American missionaries were continuously active in Iran from 1832 until 1979 and yet their foundational role in shaping the relationship between America and Iran has been largely ignored. The missionaries brought with them to Iran an ideology of mission that informed their action…