Prevailing approaches in the comparative historical study of peasant mobilization assume the relationship between peasants and state institutions to be inherently antagonistic. By contrast, this dissertation argues that locally embedded legal cultures are crucial in mediating an…
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Can civil war build states? Since the end of World War II, civil war has eclipsed interstate war as the most dominant form of conflict. Yet, although the destructive consequences of civil war are fairly well-documented, we know little about its social and institutional legacies.…
Military interventions in the post-Cold War era—including both multilateral humanitarian interventions during the 1990s and American actions in Afghanistan and Iraq—have brought to the forefront of public debate and political analysis questions of "nation-building." These interv…
The United States and the international community intervened in a number of internal conflicts throughout the 1990s, generally justifying their actions on humanitarian grounds. In most cases, external military intervention largely halted the fighting and allowed humanitarian ass…
This dissertation analyzes the protracted conflicts of the Horn of Africa region, which embraces Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, in terms of state, society, and the world order. In order to avoid overly abstract conceptualizations of the notion of state, this dissertation employs t…
This project aims to explain why, in the face of otherwise similar types of threats and disputes, some borders become well-organized institutions that provide security to contiguous states and populations living in border areas while other boundaries remain sites of escalation, …
The dissertation attempts to answer the following questions: Why has religion been a persistent and significant factor in Third World politics? How did Third World countries address the challenge of religious pluralism? How can development theory be reformulated so that religion…
This dissertation deals with Albanian state building between 1920 and 1924. In 1920, after nearly 500 years in the Ottoman Empire, the majority of Albanian statesmen were status-quo Moslem conservatives who were determined to retain the essentially feudal socio-economic system. …
Between September 1991 and April 1992, twenty new states appeared on the world scene. Fifteen countries emerged from the USSR; five from Yugoslavia. By the end of 1992, Czechoslovakia split into two more new states. The last time the international community experienced such a bu…
The thesis examines the practice of corruption in the Palestinian Authority (PA) from the period of its establishment until the death of Arafat. Palestinian elite formation from the late Ottoman period until the establishment of the PA was assessed in order to identify the elite…
The incidence of violence and the configuration of areas of instability, which have accompanied rapid urbanisation processes in the global South, have led to a wide range of responses by state authorities at different levels. These responses include attempts to control, prevent …
This research has analyzed how the institutions of the merit-based bureaucratic system in the Korean Government changed from 1948 to 1963, applying the gradual institutional change theory of Mahoney and Thelen (2010). Though copious research has been produced on Korean economic …
This dissertation explores the intersection between rival forms of consciousness in Pirin Macedonia: national and local, from the anti-Ottoman Ilinden Uprising in Macedonia in 1903 to the end of the Communist "Macedonianization" campaign in 1952. Bulgarian, Macedonian and Englis…
As opposed to territoriality, where a state claims exclusive jurisdiction over all people within its territorial boundaries regardless of their nationalities, extraterritoriality refers to a legal regime where a state claims exclusive jurisdiction over its citizens residing with…
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…
Reunification cases represent two sovereign states that share a common national identity with a mutual desire to integrate their countries into a single polity. Despite this sentiment for union, some states have failed to integrate, while others have successfully achieved it. Th…
This dissertation addresses the relationship between majority nationalism and state legitimization in the context of an externally-imposed peace settlement which ended a violent ethnic conflict. Using the case of post-Dayton Bosnia, the project demonstrates how state practices o…
How did political order emerge in Tajikistan and Georgia after the violent chaos of the Soviet collapse? Despite enormous structural weaknesses--the absence of a national army, impassable mountains, ethnic cleavages, poverty, and foreign-backed insurgencies--stable regimes conso…
This dissertation focuses on post-conflict Bosnia, one of Europe's most divided post-conflict societies, and where the external leadership of the state building process has been pronounced. The specific goal is to delineate a framework of analysis that accounts for the elite dyn…