In an increasingly globalized world, threats originating from outside the North Atlantic/European area affect the security of the transatlantic alliance, forcing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to develop capabilities to combat a multiplicity of global threats. Thi…
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This dissertation is a study of influence among friends in the international arena. It explores how states convince each other to change behavior when the basic enforcement mechanism of international relations—the threat or use of force—is not an option. The experience of the tr…
Via the lens of cultural studies and feminist thought, this dissertation targets Washington Irving's considerations of the Atlantic world on the nineteenth-century American female. The study of twelve works demonstrates Irving's perspective on women by providing analysis of his …
Apocalyptic millenarian beliefs swayed puritans and separatists, who left England between 1620 and 1642 for settlement in the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies. Derived from Daniel, Canticles, and the Book of Revelation, the biblically-based ideas must be included among a …
Cartographic sources tell us 18th century Gorée was a rural colonial outpost with few military structures and three distinct villages of African settlement: Gourmettes (free merchants), Habitants (free persons associated with Company headquarters), and captives. The last group a…
Enduring Memory: Metaphors of the Slave Trade in West African Literature investigates the means by which West Africans have preserved, both consciously and unconsciously, the memory of the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the postcolonial period. This study intervenes in…
My dissertation is entitled "Idolatry and the construction of the Spanish Empire". It is a study of the role that the shifting concept of idolatry played in the spiritual and territorial conquest of the Americas, in particular in colonial Mexico, as well as its relation to the s…
This dissertation examines influence and decision-making within the transatlantic security regime, focusing on the four major member states of NATO. Two cases of post-Cold War transatlantic military intervention are examined in which regime member states sought to develop and ad…