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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 ... -
A Certain Idea of Space: How Leaders Shape Military Space Posture in Europe
Why do regional powers facing similar external constraints adopt different approaches to the military uses of space? The history of Western European space actors, from the Cold War through the present, demonstrates variation ... -
Bearing the Burden: An Ethnographic Account of Women’s Online Entrepreneurship in the Jordanian Political Economy of Development
This study evaluates whether and how information and communication technologies (ICTs) help overcome constraints to female labor force participation in Jordan. It yields insights about how women’s ICT-enabled economic ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Heliocracy: A Comprehensive Reevaluation of Japanese Political History
Who governs? This question has hounded scholars of Japan Studies of the modern era. Some have argued that it is the bureaucracy that governs. Others claim that it is a combination of corporations and the bureaucracy. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
How to Hide a Mushroom Cloud: An Examination and Oral History of Nuclear Hagiography in Richland, Washington.
In the waning days of World War II, two Japanese cities were annihilated. Each bombing run contained only one plane and one bomb. The names of the two Silverplate-class B-29 Superfortress bombers, and their solitary payloads, ... -
Indigenous Participation in the Arctic Council: An Analysis of Principle and Practice
The Arctic is an ever-changing region, specifically in its environment and the increasing number of political actors interested in natural resource development in the region, which requires innovative modes of policy ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Legitimated State Repression in Authoritarian Regimes: Russia, 2010 - 2017
This research aims to reveal and to account for the moderate levels of state repression under contemporary authoritarian regimes, focusing on the case of Russia. I show in this research that, contrary to the previous ... -
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 ... -
National Security Expertise, and Borderland Saints: Policing Religion and Police Religion
A skeletal saint graces the side of DEA collectable coin, busts of a mustachioed bandit fill sets of crime-drama television, white blocks of cocaine top shrines during police press releases. Images of borderland religion ... -
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 ...