This thesis analyzes the US response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It argues that in 1994, the US was retooling its stance on humanitarian intervention because of the disastrous US-led Operation Gothic Serpent in Somalia in 1993. Therefore, the American response to the genocide …
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This thesis will examine the principal impediments to successful United Nations intervention in violent intra-state conflicts. Using the cases of Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina, impediments to United Nations intervention, including the structure of the United Nations, internation…
This study explores U.S. National Security decisions involving the use of military force that were made during the post-Cold War era in cases where there was general agreement among the decision makers that traditional U.S. security interests were not involved. Eight separate de…
The Katwe salt industry was a key factor in the pre-colonial centrality of the western lakes region in the regional economy of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa that includes present-day Uganda, Rwanda, eastern Congo, southern Sudan, and northern Tanzania. Western Uganda,…
An increase in intra-state, ethnic conflicts has created a need for a renewed analysis of the causes, consequences and solutions to the “new” predominant type of conflict. This dissertation is a contribution to the existing academic efforts to explore the questions of ethnic con…
Inspired by Graham Allison's explanations of the Cuban missile crisis, this dissertation focuses on the October 1996–May 1997 civil war in Zaire and seeks to illuminate the complex puzzles of the changes in the behavior of state and non-state actors in the sub-region in the post…
This thesis analyzes the meaning of genocide within legal discourse and cultural narratives. The dissertation treats relations of law and literature in the initial formulation of the concept of genocide in the postwar years and then in its more recent legal and journalistic appl…
This thesis is on the need for a fresh look at humanitarian intervention. I am interested in this topic because of recent events that have taken place in Africa, especially Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia and particularly, in Ghana. In March 1994, war broke out in Northern Ghana betwee…
What factors appear influential to U.S. decisions of armed humanitarian intervention and nonintervention? Utilizing the “story model” mode of problem representation first utilized by psychologists Pennington and Hastie (1986; 1988) and adapted to the domain of foreign policy by …
The involvement of the international community in internal situations of ethnic conflict is becoming more common as international actors intervene to restore order after the outbreak of violent ethnic conflict. This dissertation addresses the assumption that these multilateral f…
The end of the Cold War and the dawn of the information age have been characterized by increasing communication and decreasing cooperation among different interest groups (ethnic, political, religious, etc.) around the world. Internal conflicts like the recent Bosnian and Rwanda…
This dissertation explores variance in state responses to refugee crises. It argues that contrary to public perception, assistance to refugees is more of a realist than humanitarian endeavor. In other words, states provide assistance based upon their perceived national interests…
My research examines how international organizations (state and non-state actors) understand and respond to human rights violations. How could the international community react to Rwanda and Kosovo so differently? In Rwanda, peacekeepers were pulled back and in 100 days over 800…
This dissertation compares Cold War peacekeeping missions with missions in the Post Cold War era, identifying reasons for the success of the former and the failure of the latter. The author dissects the basic components of Classical Peacekeeping (Cold War era) and states that th…
Peace operations have become the most prevalent and prominent form of operation undertaken by the U.S. military in the post-Cold War era. Still, there is little systematic scholarship devoted to mass American public opinion on peace operations. In an attempt to fill this void, t…
This study explores the power of ethnonationalist conflict-generated diasporas (CGD) as external actors in homeland conflict by exploring the nature of their political engagement on a transnational level using Internet Communication technologies (ICTs), with Rwanda as a case stu…
This thesis constitutes an interpretive ethnography of children’s educational experiences in rural Rwanda. It advances a theoretical argument for conceptualizing subjectivity, one which attends to how impersonal forces of political economy and history converge to inform children…
Why do states intervene militarily in some CHEs but not others sharing similar characteristics - and why do states justify still other military interventions on humanitarian grounds? What accounts for changes in the rules, meanings, and social purposes to which states can and sh…
In the spring 1994, in the small central African country of Rwanda, and in July 1995 in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, thousands of ethnic peoples were slaughtered in genocidal and ethnic violence. Each country experienced its own particular version of mass ethnic viole…