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This dissertation highlights the experiences of three Friulian women alive in the first half of the sixteenth-century who negotiated complex issues around property, rights, and law generated out of conflicts in or around their marriages. In examining moments of transition and co…

In this dissertation, I explore the relationship between legal systems, the rule of law, and states' cooperative and conflictual behavior. I analyze how domestic legal systems (common, civil, Islamic, etc.) influence a state's foreign policy behavior towards other states and int…