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The thesis examines why business people from various economic sectors in the Middle East and North Africa have continued to support authoritarian regimes in spite of the fact that these regimes failed to satisfy several of business' fundamental interests. Studies of business reg…

This thesis examines the question of language in liberal regimes. It begins with challenging two assumptions that seem to be wide-spread in liberal scholarship. The first regards the nature of language and the intrinsic value of particular languages. While many scholars view lan…

This dissertation explores the modern history of the Jewish community of Algeria by placing it in the context of a colonial triangle, which is formed by the French colonial power, the Algerian Jews, and the Algerian Muslims. Within the framework of those tumultuous trilateral re…