This dissertation examines settler fear of 'natives' and its 'unsettling' impact on decolonization in French Algeria. The work employs extensive archival research, historiographical critique, and theoretic reasoning to argue that French Algeria's so-called pieds-noirs community …
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The dissertation deploys three distinct studies which examine the extent to which there is consensus, conflict, and confusion in court responses to torture in international criminal law contexts. I use an innovative quantitative method, the factorial survey, to map the "equation…
This is a rhetorical study of President George W. Bush's use of the - ideographic dialectic in his appeals for support for war in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as reelection in 2004. I argue that President Bush's use of the - dialectic in each case provided him with specific rhe…
My dissertation argues that contemporary novelists writing about partition and the post-partition state in India, Pakistan, and Northern Ireland create alternative social histories that reframe our understanding of these newly created spaces and the ways in which the intrusion o…
This dissertation is about the Kashmir crisis and how Islamic terrorism has evolved as a thread within the crisis and influenced its progress. The two questions that have been central to this research are: what are the factors that cause Islamic terrorism; and what is the role o…
The following dissertation develops a theoretical framework for guiding the strategy of democratic states in successfully countering the hostilities of nationalistic substate terrorist organizations (NSTOs), and effectively manipulating the terrorist group’s (and its supporting …
Despite the widespread prevalence of bombing in Iraq, no study has investigated its psychological impact on civilians. This thesis aimed to address this gap in the literature. Four studies were conducted consequently using civilians in Iraq. The first study aimed to explore the …