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The component essays of my dissertation identify historical mechanisms that have been successful in fostering tolerance and cooperation among members of different social or ethnic groups and derive possible implications for contemporary policy. "Trade, institutions and religious…

This dissertation approaches the geopolitics of river infrastructure in the Indus Basin through the structured interaction of "hydraulic regionalism" and "technocratic developmentalism". The former occurs when regional elites feel their access to river resources are threatened b…

Designers today are part of a global network that aims to radically transform how public policies are formulated and implemented. They take up technopolitical questions in avowedly democratic regimes that have evolved a large bureaucracy of unelected civil servants, many of them…

Digital networks often are celebrated for their ability to induce horizontal modes of social organization and resistance to authoritarian control, yet these dreams have been largely dashed as such networks have come to be enclosed by corporate actors, remaining dependent upon ve…