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The Polysemy of Security Community-Building: Toward a “People-Centered” Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?
(Oxford University Press, 2020-06-17)This article contributes to ongoing debates on security community-building in international relations (IR) by focusing on the productive role of discursive contestation in this process. It builds on recent work associated ... -
THE MAKING OF MINORITY POLICIES IN NATIONALIZING STATES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ESTONIA AND ISRAEL
Why do nationalizing states, committed to preferential treatment of the dominant nation within the state, vary in their treatment of ethnic minorities? Why do some nationalizing states choose to simultaneously provide a ... -
Political Obligation and Collective Self-determination: An Associative Account
This thesis is concerned with the special duties and group rights that the citizens of a state may have. It develops an associative account that relates the idea of associative duty to both political obligation and collective ... -
Ruling Islamists’ Approaches to Minorities in Sudan and Turkey
Ruling Islamists’ interactions with ethnic minorities have been largely understudied and undertheorized. This research study examines ruling Islamists’ treatment of minorities, asking two questions. The first question is ... -
The Island on the Hill: A Kingdonian Analysis of Congressional Decision-Making on the Puerto Rican Question
The two-fold purpose of the thesis is to: (1) advance a theoretical contribution to the study of congressional agenda-setting, and (2) add to the literature on Puerto Rican status politics. In the field of public policy, ... -
Business, Security and Human Rights: Governance Insights from Canadian Transnational Mining Firms in Ghana and South Africa
Over the last two decades, we have seen the proliferation of nonstate actors such as transnational corporations (TNCs) on the global stage. Despite evidence pointing to the socio-economic contributions of TNCs, there have ... -
Reading Between the Lines: Welfare Chauvinism and Depictions of Deservingness in Canadian Print News
Welfare chauvinism – the barring of minority groups from access to social benefits – is a major issue affecting many welfare states around the world. Although at first glance Canada appears to be an “exception” to this ... -
Governing Forced Migration in Racial Capitalism: Refugee Survival in Paris and Nairobi
This dissertation examines the international, national, and urban dimensions of refugee governance and the geographies of survival in two major refugee hosting cities in the global North and global South: Paris, France and ... -
Winning Friends and Influencing Others: Normative Balancing in the United Nations Security Council
As the game of power politics plays on, scholars have another chance to identify other early warning indicators of a seismic shift. In this dissertation, I offer a soft power mechanism that helps us understand the process ... -
Who is Responsible? Explaining How Contemporary Canadian Newspapers Frame Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a pressing social issue in Canada. How the news media covers this violence has the potential to generate social responsibility or reinforce misconceptions about its causes, prevalence, and solutions. ... -
Territorial Control and Minority Reforms: A Study of the Kurdish Borderlands in Turkey
This study seeks to explain the failure of the Kurdish Opening in Turkey. I theorize that an important, hitherto largely ignored, factor in explaining this failure is the state’s policy of territorial control, which has ... -
A Genealogy of Contemporary Indianness: A Foucauldian Analysis of Identity and Society in Anti-Colonization Politics
This dissertation examines the discursive construction of Indigenous identity under the conditions of colonization on Turtle Island. I investigate how the colonial discourse on Indianness discursively produced Indigenous ... -
‘STICKY WORDS’ AND TWISTED TONGUES: Rhetoric, Symbols, and Regime Resilience in Post-Genocide Rwanda
This dissertation examines the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front’s construction and deployment of political rhetoric and symbols as key facets of authoritarian resilience and ethnic ‘control’ in post-genocide Rwanda. It ... -
Europe in Hard Times: Institutional Reconfiguration in the European Union since the 2008 Great Recession
The 2008 Great Recession was the trigger for the first real stress test of the European Monetary Union. The eurozone and the European Union were faced with a succession of three crises: financial, banking, and sovereign ... -
Winning At All Costs: Explaining Opposition Party Success and Failure in Hybrid Regimes
Why would anyone form or support an opposition political party in a country where this might land you in prison, in hospital, or even in the grave? And how is it that some of these parties become so powerful and successful, ... -
Cross-Movement Coalitions and Sexuality Politics: How activists resist political homophobias in East Africa
Sexuality is part of what structures politics. States rely on reproduction to replicate their populations. How sexuality is regulated is political, and it should be considered in political science literature. In recent ... -
Autocratization of Parliamentary Democracies: the Case of Hungary and Macedonia
In the last decade, the democratic failure that appeared in parliamentary democracies in parts of post-communist Europe defies earlier expectations about democratic consolidation in that region. This doctoral dissertation ... -
Why Organizations Fight: Wars of Choice in an Age of Instability
Why Organizations Fight: Wars of Choice in an Age of Instability examines the participation of three international organizations, the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the European Union, across ... -
Going Political: Integration Policies, Group Resources and the Opportunities for Immigrants' Political Voice
This study examines the political integration of immigrants in the two advanced democracies of North America: Canada and the United States. Literature shows that immigrants tend to participate more and feel more politically ...
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