This dissertation examines supra-ethnic nation-building in Kazakhstan, particularly focusing on policy outcomes since the republic became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. The population of Kazakhstan is distinctive among countries of the post-Soviet space in terms of i…
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This dissertation concerns a crucial episode in the international legal history of nation-building: the Greek-Turkish population exchange. Supported by Athens and Ankara, and implemented largely by the League of Nations, the population exchange showcased the new pragmatism of th…
This dissertation is about nation-building and the emergence of a new forestry regime in modern Turkey. I employ a historical and ethnographic approach to argue that the establishment of a national forestry paradigm was a major building block in the foundation of Turkey as a you…
This research explores alternative policies that can contribute to the revival of collapsed states. Focusing on governance as a key factor to state rebuilding, it examines the roles of non-state actors in nation-state rebuilding. The existing literature of the state has no point…
This work is a study of ethnic change and self-identification in the post-communist period in Bulgaria. A review of the major literature on ethnic identity from the disciplines of political science, sociology, anthropology, and psychology reveals that few scholars to date have d…
In Nigeria, the rhetoric surrounding football focuses on how important the game is to national unity and how the rare moment when Nigerians feel a unity of purpose is when their national team is playing. How did football, a completely foreign cultural practice, come to become so…
Nigeria, a political entity created by the British, has several obstacles in its attempt to build its nation. In spite of possessing human and material resources, Nigeria has not used these resources to enhance and improve human development in terms of health care, education, ba…
This is a study of comparative political development. It focuses on Nigeria and draws on the political and constitutional developments of some selected countries from three different socio-cultural and historical perspectives. The study examines how political culture plays a rol…
This dissertation explores the intersection between rival forms of consciousness in Pirin Macedonia: national and local, from the anti-Ottoman Ilinden Uprising in Macedonia in 1903 to the end of the Communist "Macedonianization" campaign in 1952. Bulgarian, Macedonian and Englis…
The late 1990s saw a new trend in "the magic turn of the European social democracy". The British sociologist Anthony Giddens, in transcending the traditional "left" and "right" politics of Europe, has advocated "the third way" for "the renewal of social democracy." The scope of …
This thesis examines the role of securitizing discourses in the Karimov regime's nation-building project since Uzbekistan's independence in 1991, which has been termed the "Ideology of National Independence". It examines how has the elite vision of Uzbekistani identity been disc…
This study shows how Tunisia, the cross road of 3000 years of invasions and their respective cultures has given birth to a dress that reflects symbols of 'placenessness' (Hill 2005) rather than of its unique history. If browsing in the malls of Tunisia today, one would see the s…
Since the establishment of the State of Israel a body of literature has amassed that deals with the question of the Arabs in Israel. Most researchers start from the empirical reality that Palestinians and Jews in Israel are residentially segregated from each other. Many write of…
This dissertation investigates identity, art, and architecture in twentieth-century Iran. Through case studies of two museums and a mosque in the capital city, Tehran, the project aims to elucidate the interdisciplinarity of identity formation and its relationship to nation buil…
For over two hundred years the U.S. military has conducted operations other than "major war." Rarely, however, has the institution translated the experience to doctrine, education, or training, leaving each generation with only personal experience, ingenuity, and initiative to a…
Jewish museums in Israel reflect Israeli identities by emphasizing the importance of heritage and nation building. This dissertation examines the role of community-based museums by examining the development, style, and content of three museums in Israel. Two community museums, t…
This dissertation explores the buildings that were constructed in response to the German government's post-reunification relocation from Bonn to Berlin (Norman Foster's renovation of the historical Reichstag building, completed in 1999, Axel Schultes's and Charlotte Frank's Chan…
This study investigated how Somalis and, in some cases, external interveners, have negotiated the convergences and divergences between Somali and imported understandings of governance and conflict resolution, and their accompanying structures, and processes, in the lands of the …
Since the World War II era, the United States Army has been heavily involved in nation-building. Although these represent the majority of the missions that were executed in the last sixty years, the army still primarily focuses on planning, organizing and training to fight conve…