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The PMC That is Neither Private Nor a Company: How the Wagner Group Revolutionized Russia's Quasi-PMC Model
(2024-05-02)
While the Wagner Group was Russia’s first irregular military formation to attract widespread international attention, the history of private and semi-private force in Russia stretches back to the early 1990s. Unlike other ...
Remembering or Forgiveness: Aftermath of May 1998 Riots in Indonesia
(2024-05-02)
"Chinese Indonesians have lived in Indonesia for many years. They are immersed in Indonesian culture, but also, they have also experienced discrimination and violence, so they treat the land and people with complicated ...
Reading Historical Alterity: Deconstructing the Muslim Other Trope in Hindutva Historiography, 1910-Present
(2024-05-02)
Why does the Hindutva movement in India cathect into its historical discourses? This analysis looks at the historiography produced by the intelligentsia of the Hindutva movement in India over the course of the last century ...
How Foreign Intervention Affects Regime Durability in Saudi Arabia and Jordan
(2024-05-02)
Durability is a term that is used to describe and measure a regime's ability to survive and its longevity. It also can be defined as the overall strength derived from the accountability to a state’s population. Many Authors ...
Forging Identities: The Islamic Revolution and the Daughters of the Diaspora
(2024-05-02)
This master’s thesis aims to understand the ongoing legacy of the Islamic Revolution on the growing Iranian diaspora by focusing on the experiences of Iranian mothers and daughters in Michigan. In particular, I focus on ...
Cultivating Community, Illustrating Intimacy: A Textual and Visual Analysis of 1985 and 1987 Issues of the Japanese Lesbian Minikomi Series Regumi tsūshin
(2024-05-02)
This thesis explores Japanese lesbian history and literary production via analysis of 1985 and 1987 issues of the minikomi (mini-communication) series Regumi tsūshin by the Tokyo-based lesbian group Regumi Studio Tokyo. ...
Regime Survival through Omnibalancing: Insights from Sihanouk's Regime
(2024-05-02)
Omnibalancing is an alignment strategy wherein a state aligns with the international allies of its internal threat. This strategy ultimately aims to strain the relationship between the international ally and the internal ...
Shifting Sands: Qaddafi's African Journey for Influence
(2024-05-02)
This project delves into Muammar al-Qaddafi's utilization of hard and soft power mechanisms to unite Africa under his leadership. It challenges prevailing interpretations of Qaddafi's African endeavors, examining the impact ...
The Averett Culture: Migration, Mississippianization, and Community Practice in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley
(2024)
This dissertation project explores the impact of politically stratified, hierarchical immigrants on local non-stratified communities in the precolonial southeastern United States and the processes under which these ...
The Challenges of Senescence for Adult Male Chimpanzees
(2024)
All animals eventually die. For many, death comes early from external sources of mortality, such as predation, whereas for others, there is a chance to grow old. These aging organisms experience senescence, the declines ...