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- In the 1960s, the International Theatre Institute (ITI), the organization sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with a mission to represents the world’s theaters, was faced with a crisis of representation. After twenty years of existence, the institution had not succeeded in substantially expanding beyond...
- Keyword:
- World Theatre, International Theatre Institute, Progressive, Cold War, Cultural Diplomacy, and Theatre
- Subject:
- Literature, International relations, and Theater history
- Creator:
- Randle-Bent, Matthew Gordon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16609 and etdadmin_upload_986891
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- From colonial practices designed to civilize indigenous communities, to counter-terrorism initiatives aimed at de-radicalizing dissidents in the wake of the War on Terror, to controversies over blasphemy and religious harm cases in international law, religious passions have been cast as a specter of unreason, treason, and radicalization. These assumptions sustain...
- Keyword:
- Emotion, Religion, International Law, Affect, Human Rights, and Political Theory
- Subject:
- Religion, International relations, and Political science
- Creator:
- Giliberti, Gina Camille
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16359 and etdadmin_upload_946425
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- This dissertation centers gay and lesbian activists, their lawyers, and public interest litigation organizations in a genealogical understanding of the evolution of human rights law in the LGBTIQ+ issue space. I ask why sexual minorities turned to the courts in pursuit of the decriminalization of homosexual sex. Empirically, I examine...
- Keyword:
- Social Movements, LGBTQ Rights, Transnational Judicial Dialogue, Norm Diffusion, Human Rights, and Legal Mobilization
- Subject:
- International relations
- Creator:
- Perrin, Ayodeji Kamau
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15973 and etdadmin_upload_888425
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- How do ever-changing international systems and rapidly emerging technology shape counter-systemic revolutionary insurgent (CSRI) behavior and outcomes? The purpose of this publication is to identify causes and develop a conceptual typology of CSRI survival and behavior in a Post-9/11 era. I argue three global shocks acted as junctures for new...
- Keyword:
- Systemic and Insurgents
- Subject:
- International relations and Political science
- Creator:
- Humpal, Jesse
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15550 and etdadmin_upload_817723
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- After the Second World War, two states claimed to represent the same nation: “China.” This work examines how the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) competed to represent China and the international consequences of that competition. The CPC’s victory in the Chinese Civil War (1946-1949) led to...
- Keyword:
- Taipei, Kuomintang, United Nations, Beijing, legitimacy, and Communist Party of China
- Subject:
- History, Asian history, and International relations
- Creator:
- Clark, Keith Allan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763206 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15238
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- The relationship between law and war has evolved substantially over two centuries. One aspect of this evolution that merits further examination is legal accountability. Some international relations (IR) scholars maintain international law lacks meaningful influence without enforcement capabilities. But this critique of international law’s capacity to deliver meaningful influence in...
- Subject:
- International relations and International law
- Creator:
- Trabucco, M. Lena
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780967 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15415
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- This study is a response to the observation that people articulate meanings of rules in flexible and context-specific ways, but that literature on international legal, norm-based, strategic-logical, and ethical/moral rules typically treats them as pregiven, stable objects. By examining people’s evolving justifications of practices related to firefighting (protecting against and...
- Keyword:
- incendiary munitions, conflagrations, rules, and rhetoric
- Subject:
- International relations and Political science
- Creator:
- Dijmarescu, Horia M.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15055 and etdadmin_upload_736297
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- Political leaders often engage in open fights for recognition, announcing that some crucial element of their state’s identity, status, or history, has not been properly acknowledged and respected in the conduct of diplomacy. Among international relations scholars, these instances are usually ascribed to the fact that states, like individuals, need...
- Keyword:
- Identity, Recognition, Israel-Palestine, Status, Armenia-Turkey, and Britain-EU
- Subject:
- International relations, International law, and Political science
- Creator:
- Freedman, Joshua
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_660729 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14591
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- This dissertation, titled “The Rocket’s Red Glare: Global Power and the Rise of American State Technology, 1940-1960,” makes three distinct but interlocking historical interventions. First, it argues that the rise of technology as a central ideological component of global hegemony represents a historical contingency, rather than a reflexive characteristic of...
- Keyword:
- Anglo-American, Global power, Foreign relations, Hegemony, Statebuilding, and Technology
- Subject:
- History, Science history, and International relations
- Creator:
- Falcone, Michael Alan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14657 and etdadmin_upload_662729
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- The term blowback originated from the American intelligence community to indicate the unexpected consequences of American foreign policy. In my dissertation, I give an account of how blowback results from these security policies. Blowback shows the cases that security policies create more harm than good to the enacting country due...
- Keyword:
- Script, Unintended Consequences, Ambiguity, Policy Implementation, Security, and Performance
- Subject:
- International relations
- Creator:
- Kang, Hye Yun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662398 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14637
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- Description:
- Abstract This dissertation aims to understand how the domestic high courts in Latin America rely on the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The “relationship between courts” is a phenomenon that happens in domestic and international politics when domestic high courts start to resist or follow international jurisprudence....
- Keyword:
- Domestic Courts, International Courts, Judicial Behavior, and Human Rights
- Subject:
- International relations, International law, and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- de Lima e Silva, Caroline
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686324 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14837