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Spring 2015

DeGagne, Alexa

My doctoral dissertation examines the discursive strategies of ten organizations engaged in the 2008-2013 same-sex marriage battle of Proposition 8 in California. In November 2008 Californians voted to ban same-sex marriage under the state constitution through Proposition 8. Based on a queer...

Spring 2018

Navid Pourmokhtari Yakhdani

In June 2009 there appeared on the streets of Tehran and other major Iranian cities something unprecedented in the thirty-year history of the Islamic Republic: immense crowds engaged in spontaneous forms of collective action directed against what was widely perceived to be election fraud. The...

Spring 2021

Gu, Qingchuan

In this thesis, I critique extant theories of settler colonialism to find one that can be applied to the Chinese state. As most settler colonial theories emerge from Anglo-settler states, they contain specificities that do not work when applied to China. Furthermore, extant theories are produced...

Spring 2010

Gordner, Matthew

In this thesis I address the topic ‘Islam and democracy.’ I argue that rather than asking whether Islam and democracy are compatible, Western theorists should be seeking out how Muslims practice democracy. The ultimate aim of this thesis is to present a groundwork for meaningful and inclusive...

1989

Hasan, Ashraful.

1992

Abe, Kimiko.

Spring 2000

Hoogensen, Gunhild Elizabeth Birgitta

Fall 2004

Ponting, Mike

Spring 2010

Hong, Nong

This dissertation evaluates the applicability and effectiveness of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as a settlement mechanism for addressing the South China Sea (SCS) dispute, the most complex and challenging ocean-related regional conflict in East Asia. This...

1989

Bhattacharya, Chanchal.