In the modern world, sovereignty provides the conceptual framework enabling states to interact and claim supremacy over all other social forms. It is sovereignty that allows all states to be nominally equal, while also exerting a claim to be the highest authority in their own te…
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Law enforcement has established through various cases an existing connection between terrorist networks, organized crime, and the illicit market of counterfeit goods. Such connection poses a significant threat to global security. The legal community has responded to this dangero…
Network concepts are increasingly viewed as offering new approaches to the analysis of organizations, and the understanding of policy processes. In general, the literature on network structures and processes within public administration is quite positive. However, this mode of o…
This study analyzes U.S. relations with the Barbary States from 1784 to 1805. After the American Revolution, the young nation found its commerce menaced in the Mediterranean by North African pirates sponsored by the rulers of Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli. As the U.S. sou…
This dissertation explores the growing field of study around Maritime Security. While an increasingly common sub-heading in American naval strategy documents, maritime security operations are largely framed around individual threats (i.e. counter-piracy, counter-terrorism, count…
This dissertation explores what it means to speak of "space" in the age of empire, arguing that geographical practices are key to understanding the political and poetic practices of the Romantic period. Though I treat a number of writers whose relation to Romantic literature is …
According to many analysts, September 11th showed that globalization has empowered terrorists to reach out and kill from across the world. But does globalization necessarily make violent transnational non-state actors' job easier? How and when does geography still matter to glob…
There has been a resurgence of political and media interest in maritime piracy, specifically in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia. This is credited to a rise in the number of piracy attacks that have been committed in Somalia's coastal waters. In response to this rise in…
This work analyzes digital censorship in Turkey, a country incorporating features of both Middle Eastern and E.U. regulation into its ICT policy framework, and often categorized as a hybrid space between Eastern and Western approaches towards information freedom. Utilizing theor…
From 2008-2012, a dramatic upsurge in incidents of maritime piracy in the Western Indian Ocean led to renewed global attention to this region: including the deployment of multi national naval patrols, attempts to prosecute suspected pirates, and the development of financial inte…
Current anti and counter-piracy strategies and operations by both the United States and the international community at large in the Gulf of Aden are fundamentally flawed. These strategies and resulting operations address the maritime symptoms of Somali piracy rather than the on …
Tarihin her döneminde belirli taleplere bağlı olarak ortaya çıkan isyan hareketleri görülmektedir. Hellenistik Çağ, dengelerin sürekli olarak değiştiği ve kargaşanın yoğun olarak yaşandığı bir dönemdir. Bu kargaşa ortamının yarattığı fırsat, isyan hareketlerine zemin hazırlamışt…
Over the course of three centuries, from 1229 to 1574, Ifriqiya was ruled by the Ḥafṣid dynasty. Claiming to be inheritors of the great Almohad administrative and ideological tradition, the Ḥafṣids came to power when the Islamicate world, and medieval Mediterranean in general, w…
This study offers a critical examination of state failure and the accompanying problems of terrorism and piracy that have plagued Somalia for almost two decades. Focusing primarily on the events that occurred within the nation following the ousting of the Union of Islamic Courts…