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Item Ending civil war in Colombia(2015-05) Popa, Stoica Cristinel; Givens, Terri E., 1964-; Weyland, KurtCivil war is one of the most studied phenomena in political science. Its impact on human lives and economic development makes it one of the most destructive events known to mankind. Yet no scholarly consensus has emerged over what causes a civil war to be brought to a resolution. This master's report, relying on a case study of Colombia, shows that two of the most popular theories for explaining the continuation of civil war, the international context and the availability of drugs or other resources, are inaccurate. Instead, the continuation of civil war depends on the state's capacity to obtain military success against the armed groups and it's capability to guarantee the safety of the demobilized rebels. This report uses Weber’s concept of state capacity as the monopoly over the use of legitimate violence.Item Eschatology in the ISIS narrative(2015-12) Petit, David Nathaniel; Moin, A. Azfar; Kuperman, Alan JApocalyptic millenarianism, rooted in traditional Islamic eschatology, is at the very core of the self-proclaimed Islamic State’s narrative and its claim to sovereignty and legitimacy. The millenarian narrative also represents a radical departure from the jihadist paradigm of al-Qa’ida and provides a major conceptual and theoretical challenge to al-Qa’ida’s leadership of the global jihadist movement. Other combatant groups in the Syrian civil war, such as Jabhat al-Nusra and Hezbollah, make some limited use of millenarian symbols. This essay will reference these cases briefly, for the purposes of comparison and context. The primary goals are to analyze the Islamic State’s challenge to al-Qa’ida, document ISIS’s millenarian narrative, and to contextualize these millenarian outbursts.Item Resistance and remembrance : 21st century Spain reengaging 20th century trauma(2010-05) Breen, Alanna Mary; Holloway, Vance R.; Arroyo-Martinez, Jossianna; Bos, Pascale R.; Lindstrom, Naomi E.; Roncador, SoniaThis dissertation centers on the realization that history evolves and is never complete because the past is elusive and perceptions sway as society changes. Throughout the turn to the twenty-first century, Spain has been moving from resistance to remembrance with regard to individual, cultural and governmental interest in the Civil War and dictatorship of the twentieth century. During the transition to democracy after General Francisco Franco’s death on November 20th, 1975, the reunified government opted to forget the divisive past with the unofficial Pacto de Olvido. Despite this impulse toward resistance, the urge for remembrance at a personal and social level evolved into a, nationwide debate. On December 26th, 2007, the incumbent Congress of Deputies enacted La Ley de Memoria Histórica, a law that mandates attention to previously denied history. In essence, this controversial ruling seeks to promote remembrance of both sides of the Civil War. Contemporary literature, media and film have long been involved in this deeply political and personal work. From the multitude of options, this project selected five renowned texts published between 1992 and 2005. The authors of Autobiografía del General Franco (1992), La voz dormida (2002), El lápiz del carpintero (1998), Enterrar a los muertos (2005), and Soldados de Salamina (2001) belong to what Marienne Hirsch defines as the postmemory generation, the one born following a national trauma. These writers do not have the privileged position of immediate contact with survivors, yet emotional and temporal distance from the events narrated empowers these Spanish authors to create nuanced, literary depictions of war and post-war experiences. In their texts, these writers challenge accepted history, poetically weave a collective memory based on testimonies, illuminate idealistic differences, counter-balance hope with horror, and narrate the transformative experience of historical research. By engaging with the past from the perspective of the present, their narrators articulate the tension between resistance and remembrance. The texts studied here offer five contrastive representations of ways in which versions of history are alternately censured or suppressed, and subsequently unearthed and refashioned in collective and official memory as political power and narrative agency are transformed in an ever-changing society.Item The Syrian conflict in Lebanese media(2013-05) Carr, Daryl Thomas; Wilkins, Karin Gwinn, 1962-This thesis examines how three Lebanese satellite stations and two print journals cover the Syrian civil war. It is useful to analyze Lebanon’s news programming because the relative lack of regulation over its media allows them to take drastically different political stances. Syria and Lebanon’s unique political and cultural connection causes the conflict to permeate both the debates over foreign and domestic policy. My paper is significant because it elucidates the specific ways in which the Syrian crisis divides the already fractured Lebanese populace. My analysis reveals how regional news sources give meaning to the Arab Spring using language drawn from local historical and political experiences.