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How Citizenship Informs Political Authority: The Case of Kuwait and Bahrain
Both Bahrain and Kuwait’s monarchies use citizenship as a reward and punishment system to maintain political authority. The ability to award or revoke citizenship is perhaps the most important tool for political governance ... -
Inuit Compromise and Resurgence: The Legacies of the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement
Tension between Anglophone and Francophone Canadians is well documented, and these disparate parts have been infamously dubbed the “two solitudes.” However, there is another, often ignored solitude - the Indigenous population ... -
Unsustainable and Uncontrolled: Framing Immigration During the Brexit Campaign
The British vote to leave the European Union in 2016 came as a major surprise to politicians and scholars. Pre-referendum scholarship indicated that while British voters had concerns about cultural issues, such as identity ... -
Islamist Radicalization in France Since the Algerian War
Despite France's history as a victim of violent extremism, France is the largest source of Western fighters to the conflicts in Iraq and Syria, which signals the presence of a disproportionately large radicalized population ... -
21st Century European Populism: Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion
What factors determine if a populist movement will bend ideologically left or right? Specifically looking at Europe, I investigate why populism takes left-leaning ideological manifestations in Southern Europe (Spain and ... -
The Paradoxes of Peruvian Infrastructure: NGO Governance, Rural Energy Transitions, and Public-Private Partnerships
What are the policies and procedures that have led to successful NGO delivery of solar energy in Peru, from both the perspective of the institution, as well as the rural campesinos it serves? And how can the Peruvian ... -
Let My People Stay: Irregular Migrants' Struggle for Rights and Recognition
In January 2014, a mass protest of 40,000 African migrants, demanding rights, recognition and a fair asylum process took place in Tel-Aviv. Their demonstration was unprecedented in its nature and magnitude offering a unique ... -
Between the Ground and the Air: Refugee Residences and Integration in Berlin, Germany
Integration is of critical importance to refugees displaced from their home countries and to host countries with large influxes of refugees. This actuality is especially evident in Germany, where the government introduced ... -
Plagiarism in Chinese Popular Fiction: Tolerated Copyright Infringement in a Money-making Industry
This thesis is built upon a research project aimed at providing interesting insights into plagiarism in the field of popular Chinese fiction, which has been a controversial issue on the Internet in China for the past decade. ... -
Projecting South Korea’s Future as a Middle Power in the Arctic
Because of thinning of Arctic sea ice and economic opportunities such as access to natural resources and new shipping routes caused by climate change, the Arctic has become an area of interest not only of the Arctic states ... -
"That Stinks": News Framing of a Corruption Scandal
Whereas political scandals expose the corrupt nature of a society’s public affairs, media play a central role in publicizing a scandal and influencing public opinion. The summer 2015 garbage management scandal in Lebanon ... -
"Scotland's Future in Scotland's Hands": Identity, Memory, and Grievance in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum was a benchmark moment in the history of Scottish nationalism, resulting directly from the Scottish National Party’s landslide victory in the 2011 Scottish parliamentary elections ... -
Host land or homeland?: Civic-cultural identity and banal integration in Latvia
This dissertation challenges conventional approaches in the study of minority integration by looking at the spaces in which integration occurs, rather than at instances of conflict. It develops a framework that considers ... -
Electoral Campaigning and the Internet in Japan in the 2010s
In the late spring of 2013, Japanese politicians passed a revision to their election laws that essentially unbanned the use of the Internet in electoral campaigns. This dissertation is composed of three independent, but ... -
Interpretative Dubbing: The Voice Stars in the 1980s China
The thesis is a study of the voice actors’ reading of foreign films in the late 1970s and 1980s China. The specific group of voice actors who achieved stardom constitutes the subject of this study. By delving into the ... -
The Exodus from Iraq and the end of Christian Nation-building
After 70 years of battle against Communists, genocidal leaders, and Islamists, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has laid down the sword of righteous American interventionism in the name of liberty. The SBC’s loss of ... -
Contemporary Sanctuary in Germany: Bavaria and the Intricacies of Church Asylum
This thesis analyzes the case study of Germany and explains why there is a larger prevalence of church asylum in Bavaria than in other German states. Due to a variety of factors, this research examines how church asylum ... -
The Imagery of Migrants in the British Media and its Impact on the Brexit Vote in the Midlands.
The vote to leave the European Union by the United Kingdom was a shocking political event. Pollsters had predicted a slight edge for the Remain camp right up to the day of the referendum. After the votes had been counted ... -
The Third Sector and Refugee Governance in Jordan: Local NGO Contributions to Humanitarian Assistance
The Syrian Civil War has displaced millions of people to neighboring countries. In Jordan, the government has handled the crisis in an exclusionary way attempting to reduce its impact on the labor market by enforcing an ... -
Following The Black Square: The Cosmic, The Nostalgic & The Transformative In Russian Avant-Garde Museology
Contemporary Russian art and museology is experiencing a revival of interest in the pioneering museology of the Russian artistic and political avant-garde of the early 20th century. This revival is exemplified in the work ...
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