In this dissertation, I explore the texts of several writers from Haiti and Algeria to better understand how people live out their revolutions. I argue that in these two countries, revolution has been a cultural raison d'être since the fight for independence. This research perta…
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This dissertation examines the literary and cinematic constructions of Dominican bodies in the context of different geographical locations: the Dominican Republic, the United States, Puerto Rico, and Haiti. I argue that the artistic representations of these bodies are marked by …
From drug trafficking in Mexico and Central America, to violent extremism in the Horn of Africa, to insurgents in Colombia, to all three in Afghanistan and Pakistan, significant weaknesses in governance and economic development underlie many of the greatest security threats curr…
This research uses extended case study research method to address the issue of local ownership of international projects funded by the U.S. Government. The focus on development projects uncovers factors that have escaped the policy discussion on local ownership so far, for examp…
This dissertation examines the migratory experiences of the protagonists from four African diasporic novels: Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy (1999), Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta (1994), Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994), and The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982). …
This dissertation examines the use of mortuary tropes for the articulation of identities in seven Francophone Black narratives: Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée, Jean-Claude Fignolé's Les possédés de la pleine lune and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove—for the Car…
This study explores U.S. National Security decisions involving the use of military force that were made during the post-Cold War era in cases where there was general agreement among the decision makers that traditional U.S. security interests were not involved. Eight separate de…
This research set out to explore the role peacekeepers might play in post-Cold War peace operations and focused on the religious figures who accompanied national contingents into a mission area. Sixty-eight US military chaplains who had deployed with US peacekeepers to Somalia, …
The number of United Nations interventions in civil conflicts has increased since the end of the Cold War. Traditional peace-keeping has proved ill-suited to deal with them; second-generation, multi-task peace-keeping operations have emerged as a substitute. These new operations…
Failed and failing states are a growing concern throughout the world. These states leave the United Nations and the international community in the position of either helping or ignoring them. Unfortunately, when the UN has chosen to intervene, it has been unsuccessful in solving…
As humanitarianism has become an increasingly popular banner under which to take action, its successes and promises have been expanded upon exponentially while its ideological conundrums, failures, and aporias have remained largely unexamined. That is where this dissertation beg…
The media acts as a gatekeeper and decides what material to cover and what not to cover. In order to better understand why one disaster receives media coverage and another crisis is virtually unnoticed by the media, the motives behind covering one story over another is analyzed …
Photojournalistic images today are distributed around the world via the Internet across a spectrum of demographics that represent various cultural, ethnic and religious perspectives. Visual communication passes messages through images that carry layers of interpretation of meani…
This dissertation studies a vital yet neglected aspect of multilateral economic sanctions: how are sanctions to be monitored once imposed? The bulk of the academic and policy literature on sanctions assesses sanctions effectiveness without evaluating efforts at monitoring their …
By examining three postcolonial novels in a comparative context, the aim of this dissertation is to study the social, political, and philosophical significance of the ways in which the sexual adventures of three young black men with the white women of their former colonizers are…
President Bill Clinton became the first president to lead the country after the transition to the post-Cold War world. This study examined Clinton's war rhetoric from 1993 to 1995 as it pertained to military involvement in Iraq, Somalia and Haiti. This study further examined the…
This dissertation explores the emergence from 1967 to 1985 of first-person novels written in French by women writers from France and Francophone countries, novels whose prevailing emotional tenor is anger. It attributes the cause for this phenomenon to global upheavals of the er…
This dissertation examines the impact of the spectrum of debate in Washington on the spectrum of debate in the news in cases of American military intervention in the post-Vietnam era. If there is conflict in Washington, critical viewpoints are easy to find in the news. If there …
While sanctions proliferated after the Cold War, concerns remain about their effectiveness and humanitarian impact. In addressing these concerns, scholars have offered diverse frameworks generally emphasizing sanctions' design or application. This thesis argues that the proper f…