This historic case study explores individual dancing bodies in Israel, Brazil, and West Germany throughout years of reframing nationality and nation. The socio-political group contains members who share a common agenda and values. They define themselves by creating their own gro…
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What shapes the dynamics of the revitalization of political participation after the collapse of a long-term authoritarian regime? While much attention has been paid to Communist successor parties in the post-Soviet space, a surprising lack of attention has been given to oppositi…
Following Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, nationalist movements arose in some—but not all—of the non-Russian republics in the Soviet Union. In the southern tier republics of Transcaucasia and Central Asia there was a regional discrepancy in the presence or absence of nationalist mo…
As an alternative to both neorealist and domestic political explanations, the dissertation develops a two-level model of international conflict. The model helps explain why leaders manipulate low-level conflicts to mobilize support for expensive, long-term security strategies. I…
This dissertation examines Islamic collective action and patterns of mobilization in Jordan. Some Islamic movement groups mobilize through formal, grassroots organizations in civil society, while others operate through informal social networks. I argue that the differing pattern…
This dissertation studies the home-town associations from the Kurdish-populated Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions of Turkey and the recently formed Kurdish ethnic associations in Istanbul. In a broader context, it presents a dynamic analysis of how to study associations …
This dissertation examines three broad questions: when, how, and why are ethnic nationalist challenges to the state mounted? In a world rent by increasing instances of ethnicity-based civil conflict, such questions appear more pressing than ever. This treatment of the issue empl…
The involvement of the international community in internal situations of ethnic conflict is becoming more common as international actors intervene to restore order after the outbreak of violent ethnic conflict. This dissertation addresses the assumption that these multilateral f…
This thesis examines fatty acid (FA) and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) dynamics in a marine top predator, the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus,) and their transfer during lactation from mother to offspring. It examines regional and annual variations in FA composition and PCB loads…
This dissertation asks why are some states able to encourage peaceful Islamic mobilization and discourage violent Islamic mobilization while other states seemingly cannot. It contends that by providing channels for institutionalized participation, which may include elections, po…
The social control of protest can be carried out by a number of agents; among them are the police, legislators, organized countermovements, and the news media. This research examines how the tactics and strategies of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) have been shaped an…
Can Islamic groups play a positive role in democratization? If so, under what conditions? I examine the case of Indonesia, where Islamic actors variously resisted, supported, and acquiesced with a secularist dictatorship over three decades. At the beginning of that timeframe, th…
In states undergoing a transition to democracy, the success of ideological political parties can vary significantly from one election to the next. Examining Jordan, this dissertation offers a partial explanation--institutionally defined mobilization--for differences in electoral…
This dissertation is a case study of the Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) in the ex-Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan during the five year period of 1990-1995. The IRP is analyzed within the framework of the categories of parallel and official Islam and the two main b…
This research examines the revolution of 2010 in Tunisia due to thepaucity of empirical research on the subject and to resolve analytical problems that plague research on similar events. The research is based in both the cultural turn in social movement research and the state co…
This project examines variation in ethnic minority mobilizations for cultural rights and asks: how, why, and under what conditions do violence-affected ethnic minority communities mobilize for increased cultural rights? Related to this, how do memories of violence interact with …
This dissertation examines the national-democratic movements in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan before and after the collapse of the USSR. It looks at the question of why the movements that began from similar points ended up with different outcomes. The selection of cases relies on th…
My dissertation examines how literary and artistic experiments shaped the social relationships and the new culture of wartime China from 1937 to 1945. It investigates this problem by focusing on the making of cultural workers and, in particularly, the creation of cultural instit…
Understanding why protests grow in size and scale in some places but not in others is an often asked question for which there are numerous potential explanatory factors. This dissertation focuses on the influence that spatiality has on the underlying mechanisms at work in the pr…