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This project investigates the perceptions of the United States in the mass publics in eight predominantly Islamic countries in the Middle East and South Asia and in six European countries in the spring and summer of 2002. Using a Bayesian Multi-level Item Response Theory (IRT) M…

The theme of nationalism has long provided the dominant framework for understanding the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and has become an increasingly popular motif in Russian and Soviet historiography. This dissertation sharply challenges that framework. It returns late Ottoman …