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Nigeria has remained classified as a developing country (World Bank, 2003). There has been no significant attempt to identify leadership characteristics of Nigeria’s presidents that might have inhibited Nigeria’s attainment of sustained economic development. In this exploratory,…

This dissertation argues that gender was a crucial organizing factor within Idi Amin's military state in the 1970s. Using newspapers, official decrees, transcripts from the Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights, and qualitative interviews, I analyze the intersect…

What were the causes of various types of regimes and their consolidation in Greece and Turkey? Why did the Greek and Turkish armed forces intervene in politics via short-lived coup d'etats and establish or support authoritarian regimes during various periods in their histories? …

Teachers' strikes, dilapidated school structures, lack of available learning tools for teachers and students, and high student dropout rates were common during Nigeria's years of military rule from 1966 to 1998. The purpose of this study was to understand the reasoning behind th…

This thesis investigates the impact of military rule on the state and society by looking at three cases from the same geographical region--Burma, Indonesia, and Thailand--that have experienced military intervention and military rule. The thesis is framed by a number of questions…

Drawing upon years of research in various archives, libraries, and other locations throughout the Philippines and the United States, this dissertation examines a formidable period of collaborative colonial identity formation and the primacy of imperial historicism as colonial di…