This paper investigates secessionist conflicts that occurred in Kazakhstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Each of these states contains mature separatist movements, several of which have achieved the status of what can be called a semi-sovereign entity. All six separatist mo…
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One component of the education arena is to provide adequate instruction for high-ability gifted learners. To ensure that gifted learners receive instruction that enables them to work and learn at their highest level of potential, proper evaluation, reform efforts, and best pract…
Problem. The problem was to determine whether a relationship exists between psychological types, as determined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and tobacco use among college students. Procedures. The study was a cross-sectional survey of students from 8 Georgia college and un…
This dissertation examines the postwar activism of both black and white southern veterans in Georgia and the South. As part of the growing effort to understand the complexities and contradictions of the Second World War's impact on the region, this study offers the first in-dept…
The purpose of this study was to analyze and evaluate the progress of student performance in reading and writing for 2 years in mixed-age classrooms as compared to students in traditional classrooms. The 471 subjects evaluated in the study were those who completed their first 2 …
The Baha'i Faith is one of the least studied of the world's globally-oriented religious movements. Not only does its ideology inculcate a universal religious/human identity for its adherents, but the Baha'i "Administrative Order" establishes a network of local, national and inte…
The paramount chiefdom of Coosa was described by members of the Hernando de Soto entrada as one of the most powerful aboriginal societies encountered in the interior Southeast in the sixteenth-century. The three skeletal series in this analysis were excavated from sites (Little …
The literature on security sector actors in transitional societies emerging from war and/or authoritarianism has evolved by critiquing local perspectives recently. While the existing literature has extensively analysed transitional societies in Africa, Middle East and Eastern Eu…
This dissertation addresses organized crime in post-Soviet Eurasia (Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan) exploring the nexus between politics, business and crime. Based on extensive field research in the three countries the dissertation examines organized crime groups in the region and…
This thesis finds that the term ‘terrorist financing’ is a misnomer in that much of the activity encompassed by that term involves neither terrorism nor money. Instead, terrorist financing more accurately refers either to the flow of economic and material value to ‘terrorist’ ac…
Around the world, network utilities (i.e., electricity, natural gas, railway, telecommunications, and water supply industries) are undergoing major structural transformation. A new wave of market liberalization, together with rapid technological changes, has challenged the previ…
A relatively new mosquitocidal strain of Bacillus thuringiensis, Bacillus thuringiensis jegathesan (Btj, strain 367), isolated from Malaysia was assayed for its larvicidal efficacy against field-derived early fourth-instar larvae of the southern house mosquito Culex quinquefasci…
This dissertation explores the forces that gave birth to the Civil Rights Movement in Hancock County, Georgia, and how local history, knowledge, practices, and ideas drove the ways the movement developed. It examines the leadership of John L. McCown and the rise and collapse of …
As Henry Jackson exhorted defense lobbyists during the height of the Cold War, “The Russians are determined to play the game of power politics, and we cannot choose not to play. The only course open to us is to play it better or to lose.” This mindset typified a “Coterie” of Sen…
This thesis is a study of John Wesley and Georgia. While Wesley's biographers have all dealt with the Georgia sojourn, no one has yet produced a book-length investigation of his experience in the New World. The central argument of this study is that the Georgia mission, for Wesl…
This dissertation examines the introduction of evangelical religion into the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia during the frontier era, the formation and characteristics of biracial churches during the antebellum period, and the post-bellum racial separation and organization of in…
The revolutions that began in Tunisia in late 2010 spread across the region and toppled many seemingly durable authoritarian regimes in the Arab world. These revolutions in the name of democracy drew many comparisons to the popular color revolutions of the early 2000s that ouste…
The downturn in the economy from 2009 to 2011 caused public service leaders to adopt austerity measures, such as increased costs of nonwage benefits, mandatory furlough days, and merit increase freezes. There is little research on the impact of austerity measures on the lives of…