This paper examines the dynamics of the secession. In particular, it asks why political actors decide to withdraw from the political center, how they go about it, and what makes the effort successful. The process is examined from the perspective of elite circulation. It is hypot…
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The thesis chronologically presents the slow improvement of relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, starting with Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, through their full normalization in 1955 and 1956, to the renewed ideological confrontation at the end of 1956. The normal…
This thesis offers a critical history of curation in Moscow in the period between 1974 and 1993, arguing that the history of curation can be used as a lens through which to examine how culture is negotiated during a period of social change and transformation. By making use of or…
Throughout the period 1944-65, Britain confined itself to protecting its direct interests in Romania and these were fairly narrowly defined. Moreover, relations with Romania were always dominated by wider considerations of foreign policy and the state of the domestic economy. Th…
This study investigates differences in the public discourse regarding national identity and language policy issues in the Kazakh-language and Russian-language realms, by analyzing newspaper coverage of these issues. I illustrate how the usage of two languages in the country's me…
Bitter Sea is the story of Masha, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants whose path to the U.S. was anything but direct (including stops in the USSR as well as pre- and post-independence West Africa). Her questions about diaspora, connection, and home, are challenged and enriched b…
The Horn of Africa borders on the southern edge of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. The region's strategic position has made it a perfect target for the two superpowers (U.S. and USSR). From the Horn, it is possible to control the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, the…
When the militantly atheist, socialist Russian revolution reached the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia, it encountered a profoundly alien society: deeply religious, rigidly stratified, and inflected by dynamics and tensions most Bolsheviks understood nothing of. Many of the first…
The use of arguments containing increasingly technical materials has grown significantly in the recent years. Specifically, arguments that are used to justify military expenditures or to allege violations of international agreements are becoming more sophisticated. This study ex…
In 2014, Russia-backed rebels in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) declared independence from Ukraine. In addition to establishing control over large swaths of territory in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, separatists took ov…