Why does democratization cause some ethnic regions of a multinational state to secede but not others? This dissertation argues that democratization traps regionally concentrated nationality groups in an "ethnic security dilemma" since it forces regional leaders to compete for lo…
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Nuclear proliferation has been identified as the greatest threat to international security in the post Cold-War era. This study assesses the prospects for success of new U.S. policies aimed at promoting nuclear rollback. Nuclear rollback occurs when a nation with a nuclear weapo…
This dissertation examines the development of narrative form in 19 th century Yiddish and 20th century West African literature. Engaging with the theory of “minor” literature articulated by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, this study adds to their framework for identifying “mi…
This dissertation is an attempt to update the theory of prosody and integrate it within recent developments in literary criticism. At the core of this study is the assumption that the sound of discourse transfers the text from its silent fictional existence to an independent ent…
Through a case study of Galician Zionism before the first world war, this thesis seeks to broaden scholarly understanding of Jewish nationalism and identity in the modern period. It does so on two levels. First, it demonstrates the extent to which Jewish nationalism as a movemen…
This dissertation examines the gendering of Hebrew-Yiddish diglossia within the Eastern European Jewish community. In this study, I take "diglossia" to mean the symbiotic, complementary, and hierarchical relationship of two (partial) languages within a single speech community. M…
This dissertation develops a framework for understanding the alignment patterns of states of the former Soviet Union (FSU) vis-à-vis Russia. The framework challenges traditional alignment theories, such as balance of power and balance of threat theories, and suggests that these …
This work is an anatomy of the nationalist challenge to incumbent power in the Soviet Union Republics and of its continuing reverberations in the successor states during the tumultuous years from 1988–1994. It is a study of commonality and variation. Similarities are readily app…
Between 1900 and 1939 the Greek-Catholic parish clergy in Galicia underwent a transformation of its social, national, political and cultural consciousness. In part this was the result of the political changes taking place in the province, as its Ruthenian population developed a …
This dissertation addresses organized crime in post-Soviet Eurasia (Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan) exploring the nexus between politics, business and crime. Based on extensive field research in the three countries the dissertation examines organized crime groups in the region and…
My dissertation describes the social and economic history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. According to the all-Russ…
International nonproliferation efforts that are implemented by the international nonproliferation community to prevent nuclear proliferation dates back to the 1950's. While these efforts have helped ensure the vast majority of nations decide against pursuing a nuclear weapons pr…
The eruption of highly contagious conflicts in post-Soviet Eurasia necessitates urgency in monitoring events in terms of regional and international security as well as for conflict prevention and preventive diplomacy. Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, home to the Russian Black Sea Fl…
A scarce body of scientific knowledge is available on IPV in the transitional countries of the former Soviet Union/fSU and the magnitude, risk factors, and acute and lifetime health consequences of IPV remain unknown in the fSU region. The fact that the transitional countries of…
In this thesis, I examine associations between measures of intimate partner violence and sexual behaviors, particularly behaviors that increase the risk of infection with HIV or another sexually transmitted infection (STI), including failing to use condoms, having multiple sexua…
This thesis empirically analyses the role that human rights and democracy have played in European Union foreign policy towards Ukraine and Egypt since the end of the Cold War. It departs from the dominant approach in international relations theory that conceptualises the pursuit…
The collapse of the Soviet Union provides several situations where the presence of Russian-speaking minorities produces a potential challenge to the consolidation of former Soviet Republics as independent democracies. My dissertation examines ethnic relations in two former Sovie…
The post-Soviet region is the only area of the world in which every state is secular. Since independence in 1991, each of the 15 states has formally declared its secular nature; however, they have had drastically different policies towards religion. The Baltic states and Ukraine…
This dissertation explains why some political actors willingly surrender sovereignty to great powers and others choose to resist, often violently. It argues that political competition and conflict at a domestic level drive actors to surrender sovereignty. Where domestic politica…