As leader of the Russian Federation, a state with both a large military stockpile and veto power in the United Nations, it is important to understand who Vladimir Putin is as a leader. In order to do so, we must first identify and understand the contexts of Putin’s leadership. O…
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This dissertation consists of three studies that evaluate how women form partnerships, leave partnerships, and the economic outcomes of those partnerships. These demographic transitions and outcomes are evaluated in three country contexts with differing political, welfare regime…
This study focuses on nationalist language in Russian official discourse (political and media discourse) regarding Crimea. The discourse reveals two major trends: anti-Ukrainian sentiment and pro-Russian sentiment. While several studies outline the official narrative and documen…
The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the appearance of North Korea and Iran as significant cyber threats to the United States, in addition to China and Russia. This paper presented key findings and studies that showed the timeline of significant events through the history o…
This thesis seeks to find out how NATO military interventions in Kosovo, Libya and Afghanistan have negatively affected relations with Russia. In order to achieve the aim and hypothesis of the study, the critical geopolitical approach is chosen as a theoretical framework. The sc…
For centuries the pursuit of competing political objectives has led to military conflict. Prussian military theorist Major-General Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.” History has shown that the ability to affect an adversa…
Between 1878 and 1886, diplomatic relations between the Russian Empire and the newly-formed Principality of Bulgaria went from being exceptionally good to being so poor as to be severed altogether. The purpose of this thesis is to discover first, how this dramatic change came ab…
This project examines the role that the Cold War discourse plays in informing and structuring the Russian and US mainstream and alternative news media narratives about international events and controversies that occur in the post-Cold War time but trace their historical roots to…
This study explores varying outcomes of energy cooperation, defined as diplomatic relations, bilateral trade, and investment in oil and natural gas. Tests of theories pertinent to energy security - broadly speaking, realism, liberalism, and domestic politics—reveal that they alo…
This paper analyzes contemporary Russian Foreign Policy toward the Middle East. Six factors are identified as most critical to Russian foreign policy in the region: Islamic terrorism, arms transfers, natural resources, influence over former Soviet Spaces, general trade, and grea…
For Russia, religion is one factor that fostered its formation and assisted in the development of all facets of its culture. A current analysis of the relations between the Russian state and Islam is, therefore, the foundation of this study. The changes that took place in the re…
This dissertation reevaluates the model of poet as prophet in Russian literature as a mechanism of political and social negotiation between the early nineteenth century Russia educated gentry, the imperial state, and the Russian reading public. Beginning in the Catherinian era, …
The focus of the dissertation is on the state-transnational crime relationship in a changing international context. Through an analysis of four cases (Russia, Chechnya, Bosnia and France), this exploratory study demonstrates that the hegemony of the state, as a system of governa…
This dissertation aims at reaching an in-depth understanding of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's (1901-1962) Mahur Beste (1944), the first modernist-existentialist Turkish novel written by the foremost aesthete of Turkish literary modernism. The dissertation's emphasis is on the analysis …
Using the comparative historical method, this project examines the reasons behind the differential policy of the Russian state toward the secessions of the republics of Tatarstan and Chechnya, despite the existence of significant similarities between the cases. The Russian state…
This dissertation treats for the first time as an object of archival research Russian state and society in connection with political and religious reforms in Greece during the years 1833–1844, a crucial period in the history of both countries. It argues that the Russian governme…
The subject of this dissertation is the Nikol'skij Apocalypse Codex, a 13th-century Russian Church Slavonic manuscript (MS 1 of the Nikol'skij Collection, Fond 32 in the Library of the Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia). This codex is the oldest extant Slavic manuscrip…
This dissertation, based on thirteen months of dissertation fieldwork in Moscow, Russia (from October 1995 to November 1996), addresses religious ritual as the means through which people express and create their ethnicities in the post-Soviet context. I focus on the ritual life …
Research presented in this dissertation focuses on the emergence, development, and dissolution of the Eurasianist ideology and movement in the 1920s. The invention of exiles from the former Russian Empire, Eurasianism may well be considered as one of the most original product of…
Why does democratization cause some ethnic regions of a multinational state to secede but not others? This dissertation argues that democratization traps regionally concentrated nationality groups in an "ethnic security dilemma" since it forces regional leaders to compete for lo…