The discourse of climate change has become important in the field of political science, as well as in the policy-making community. Climate change has become a political phenomenon that has and will greatly impact political stability regionally and globally. Using the ecological …
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Transnational studies of schizophrenia that detected a differential prognosis for persons in developed versus developing countries and established the influence of family emotional environment on relapse, as well as the perceived efficacy of traditional treatment of mental illne…
This study examines the textual production and narration of “multiple identities” in third world and US third world feminist writings of the last three decades. These feminist writers suggest a tactical articulation of their identities between, across, and through a transnationa…
This projects engages with trends in postcolonial studies that view anticolonial resistance as resistance to capital, and argues instead, through readings of Marx Lukacs, and Fanon, that the moment of decolonization actually marks the moment at which the ex-colonies enter the wo…
This thesis examines the missiological writings of Orlando E. Costas (1943-1987), particularly The Church and Its Mission: A Shattering Critique from the Third World (1974); Theology of the Crossroads in Contemporary Latin America (1976); Christ Outside the Gate (1982); and Libe…
Current studies on the intellectual exchanges between the West and the Third Worldhave tended to focus either on the phenomenon of the birth of the Third World in thepost-War period or have concentrated instead on a political reading of theseexchanges. The first group of studies…
Globalization in general and economic globalization in particular, as operated through the agencies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and Multinational Corporations (MNCs) is seen as a "saviour" (mostly by the developed countries) necessary for the attainm…
The US "women's rights as human rights" doctrine continues to represent campaigns for international women's rights through the stories and images of Asian, African, and Latin American women. As both the idea of global human rights, and the place of women within the context of in…
This dissertation examines the consolidation of elite networks as global experts in three cities of the Middle East. Based upon fieldwork in Cairo, Beirut, and Istanbul, it addresses the question of how processes of globalization are made natural through the creation of particul…
The proliferation of chemical weapons and the military utility of chemical warfare: A case study of the Iran-Iraq War examines whether the Iraqi use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War supports the perception that chemical weapons are a viable national defense option du…
This study examines women's employment in Iran between 1979-1997, analysing the changing position of the Islamic state in reaction to economic circumstances and women's responses. In making this assessment the interaction between economic circumstances, the institutionalisation …
The advent of the New World Order has challenged Syria's role in the Middle East. Traditionally viewed as a pariah state, and a Soviet satellite, Syria's future looked uncertain. Syria, however, has been able to accommodate the transformation in the world order. The New World Or…
This dissertation traces the full intellectual history of the Third World Turn: when theorists and activists in the United States began to look to liberation movements within the colonized and formerly colonized nations of the ‘Third World’ in search of models for political, soc…
Independence from British rule for several colonies was not just a political and ideological phenomenon, but also spatially articulated through modernism. In India, the adoption of the International style was symbolic of a shedding of identity tied to a colonial past. Nehru, oft…
From the literature of empire through contemporary cultural production, "brown women" have been alternately fetishized, objectified, and absented within dominant discourse. In this dissertation, I examine western constructions of third world women, particularly Arab women, and t…