The “Days of Empire,” when political entities extolled their control over other territories, have long since expired. Yet hierarchies between states remain. While international relations theorists often assume that states are fully sovereign, weak states sometimes delegate decis…
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This humanistic research explores the central Christian doctrine of the Trinity as a guide for reviewing the apostolate and reshaping the mission of the Church and religious education in the Catholic Diocese of Awka in Nigeria. The study contends: the Christian belief in the Tri…
This dissertation explains the dynamics if state alignment with external armed groups. Academics and policymakers alike often label the armed groups as the state’s agents, allies, and proxies interchangeably. This seemingly minor semantic confusion hints at larger questions abou…
Current anti and counter-piracy strategies and operations by both the United States and the international community at large in the Gulf of Aden are fundamentally flawed. These strategies and resulting operations address the maritime symptoms of Somali piracy rather than the on …
This dissertation explains why some political actors willingly surrender sovereignty to great powers and others choose to resist, often violently. It argues that political competition and conflict at a domestic level drive actors to surrender sovereignty. Where domestic politica…
The Hoysaḷa family ruled in southern India, in the present-day state of Karnataka from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries. Previous studies of this family and other contemporary royal households have primarily focused on establishing a chronology for the lineage and demons…
Economic inequality is associated with a host of social ills, and it harms the majority of those within an unequal society. In the U.S., however, the existence and persistence of racial inequality privileges White Americans as a group. I argue that White Americans are thus motiv…