Browsing by Subject "sovereignty"
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Human Rights and the Sovereign State: An Examination of the Compatibility of State Sovereignty with the Humanitarian Necessities of a Global World
(2013-05-02)This thesis looks at the problem of sustaining human rights in a world of sovereign states. What does it mean for the global human rights movement that the predominant form of political organization in the world is the individual ... -
Raiding Sovereignty in Central African Borderlands
(2012)This dissertation focuses on raiding and sovereignty in the Central African Republic's (CAR) northeastern borderlands, on the margins of Darfur. A vast literature on social evolution has assumed the inevitability ... -
States' Pursuit of Sovereignty in a Globalized Security Context: Controlling International Human Mobility
(2010)The goal of this dissertation is to inquire into how states balance economic motivations and security concerns when pursuing sovereignty at borders. More precisely, the dissertation examines tradeoffs between interdependence ... -
Survival of a Perverse Nation: Sexuality and Kinship in Post-Soviet Armenia
(2016)Survival of a Perverse Nation traces the ways in which contemporary Armenian anxieties are congealing into the figure of the “homosexual.” As in other post-Soviet republics, homosexuality has increasingly become defined ...
