Critics of international relations research point out that most theories of war have paid too much attention to preventive attack cases between major powers, but their assumed universality does not fit preventive attack cases between major and minor powers and ones between minor…
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This study constitutes the contextualized and analytical biography of Frederick Charles Schwarz (1914-2009), an anticommunist figure who had a marked influence on American postwar conservatism. Born in Brisbane, Australia, and trained as a physician, Schwarz was a conservative e…
This dissertation addresses the question of the foreign policy views of the leading spokespeople for the Religious Right in the United States since the end of World War II. The analysis begins with the early years of the Cold War, focusing on the religious overtones that quickly…
The purpose of this study was to provide an interpretive commentary of the first Mass Literacy Campaign in Nigeria from 1940-1952. The researcher traced earlier events and forces as they interacted to shape the Campaign. Within the context in which they occurred, five major area…
The study of conflict management in the post war period has encompassed various aspects, including the debates over the usefulness of international attempts in the maintenance of peace and security. Since 1945, Canada has been involved in all major United Nations peacekeeping mi…
Most research on post-1945 Britain and the end of empire has concentrated on policy and policy making: that is how and why successive post-World War II British governments gave political freedom to Britain's colonies. This thesis has been motivated by a conviction that neither t…
Recurrent conflict between states accounts for much of the devastation that is seen in the international system. Some pairs of countries have witnessed one war after another while other states have been able to move away from this cycle of violence. What accounts for these diffe…
Images of evil, scissor-wielding censors lurk in most narratives of literary and film history. Japan has had its own share of artists being persecuted by the official censors and their self-appointed minions. The brutal murders of proletariat writer Kobayashi Takiji by police in…
Central to the rise of American air power was America's cultural fascination with aviation. Just as many Americans ascribed near-miraculous powers to airplanes in general, many also predicted salvation through air power. Interwar figures like Billy Mitchell used popular culture …
Post-World War 11 history has proven with disturbing clarity that the Holocaust was not the century's last genocide. Horrible events in Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia, and Rwanda have tragically demonstrated that we have in fact experienced what some have called an “age of genocide.” Ho…
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…
This analysis is based on a comparative study of democratization assistance to political parties in four central Bosnian municipalities in which the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) worked. Through extensive interviews and analyses of electoral data, it…
The current study examined family-level intervening variables hypothesized to link severe economic adversities in post-war Bosnia with adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems. The study design essentially replicated the family stress model in post-war Bosnia. This st…
The war in Bosnia and its post-war peace heralded the coming-into-being of the "international community" as the dominant protagonist of post-cold war order, structured around the values of peace, democracy, the rule of law, humanitarian solidarity, and the inviolability of human…
This study utilizes cross-sectional data and the Life Stress Paradigm in order to investigate the relationship between recent life event stressors and current depressive symptomatology for a sample of Lebanese adults, aged 60 years and older, residing within three under-privileg…
The Secret History of Paranoia, Borders and Terrorism in American Postwar Literature and Film explores the historical re-articulations of paranoia around the problems of borders and terrorism. The introduction discusses the first English definition of "paranoia" in 1811—"alienat…
Anti-communism in America reached its apex in the 1950s. One element of this crusade focused on preventing suspected communists from working in their chosen profession, a practice called blacklisting. In attempting to assert their legal rights, the blacklisted found an imperfect…
In this dissertation, I assess large business cycle fluctuation episodes and investigate what kind of shocks caused these large fluctuations and through what kind of mechanisms did these shocks operate. In the first chapter I focus on the late 1997 Korean crisis. Three main feat…
This thesis examines the integration process and identity of three generations of Transylvanian-Saxons in Salzburg, Austria since the Second-World War, testing four hypotheses. An overview of the most important historical events in Transylvania from their settlement to the dispe…