This dissertation examines the negotiation processes of financial and monetary cooperation in East Asia since the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis, which have been understudied. The purpose of this study is to explore the various strategies and tactics that helped to shape parti…
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This dissertation is concerned with literary and postcolonial (re)configurations of resistance and negotiation as concepts through which to approach representations of postcolonial conflict in contemporary African literatures. These concepts operate at various levels of the narr…
In Cyprus, women's voices may not be heard by the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. The study aims to investigate how the Cypriot women activists perceive the inclusiveness of the peace negotiation table and the importance of discussing women's victim…
This project analyzes the relationship between outside support provided to counterinsurgents and negotiated settlements in insurgencies. I hypothesize that outside support to counterinsurgents is associated with the entrance into negotiations with insurgents. To test my hypothes…
America's longest war will end in defeat, but it is still possible to achieve a tolerable outcome to the war in Afghanistan. The United States must decide the best alternative for ending the war and it must decide now. The U.S. has limited time to make meaningful progress on the…
Access to education is one of the foundational steps to improving agency and equality in a social system, and it is a prominent theme in the responses to conflict through peacebuilding, international development, and the conflict analysis and resolution field more broadly. Bedou…
The dissertation analyzes the processes by which enemy groups in violent, protracted conflicts decide to initiate direct negotiation, to recognize and legitimize one another, and to commit themselves to peaceful resolution of disputes. The primary data are derived from over 75 i…
In light of increasing speculation about the potential for reconciliation with insurgents in Afghanistan, this paper examines the merit of negotiating and reconciling with long-time insurgent faction, Hizb-i Islami Gulbuddin (HIG). By qualitatively applying a quantitative model …
This dissertation gives a cultural explanation to Oman's negotiation behavior during Oman's border negotiations with its neighbors, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, with particular attention paid to the role played by Oman's Arab/Islamic culture in its negotiation strategy. To acco…
This dissertation examines the choices minorities in Bosnia make about migration and inter-ethnic negotiation after war and massive ethnic homogenization. My research demonstrates that the international community, given its involvement in rebuilding plural post-conflict societie…
Sangin District, in Helmand Province, was once described by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates as “the most dangerous not only in Afghanistan but maybe the whole world.” Nevertheless, Afghan Government officials received a written offer of peace from the principal local grouping …
The published works that form the basis of this PhD are a selection of hip-hop songs written over a period of six years between 2010 and 2015. The lyrics for these pieces are all written by the author and performed with hip-hop group Stanley Odd. The songs have been recorded and…
This study investigates the term, and the poetry of, the Rearguard Poets (saqat al-shuʿaraʾ). It demonstrates through the investigation of both literary and non-literary texts of the Abbasid era that socio-political circumstances were major factors in forming the critical thinki…
We present a study of conflict from an economic perspective. We start by reviewing the approach to conflict in the economic sciences. We model conflict as a process of allocation of resources into two main technologies, production and appropriation. Then we complement this frame…
This thesis examines the processes of the peace negotiations in Cambodia (1987-1993) and El Salvador (1989-1993) in order to address the following question: What does the interplay between the national factions and the external interveners in peace negotiations tell us about the…
A doctoral thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of PhD of Loughborough University.
I identify and analyse an emergent sub-genre of contemporary literature by women that I am calling ‘New Femininities’ fiction. This fiction is about the distinctly feminine experience of contemporary domestic life written by women about the lives of heterosexual female character…
This thesis is concerned with how entrepreneurs’ performance - the act of impression (Goffman, 1959a), is accomplished through emotion management - the work that an individual does to manage and display situation-appropriate feelings (Hochschild, 1983). There is literature that …
Social interaction, including social behavior and associated outcomes, consists of a continuous exchange and interpretation of information between social actors. According to attribution theory, subjective causal analysis of the causes of important social events determines, at l…