Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1938. / "Private edition, distributed by the University of Chicago libraries, Chicago, Illinois." Bibliography: p. 229-236.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Ecole biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [551]-558) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Konstanz, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 11-33) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisors: Robert A. Fernea and Deborah A. Kapchan. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.

Literature on war crimes and crimes against humanity often focuses on political and legal perspectives, addressing international law and situations of a singularly recognized sovereign entity. This thesis seeks to explore conflict situations where multiple competing and irregular state-forms exist, using the Syrian conflict as a case study. Engaging with necropolitics, debilitation, and slow violence to understand techniques of governing through life and death, this research utilizes reporting on the Syrian conflict by non-governmental and international organizations to illustrate how war crimes and crimes against humanity function to produce sovereignty and legitimacy. Further, this research argues that the employment of techniques of governance by state-claiming actors in Syria indicates a relationship between the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity and the capacity of state-claiming actors to produce and reproduce sovereignty over territory and populations.

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Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, an estimated 11 million Syrians have fled their homes. The conflict within Syria dramatically increased population flows to neighboring countries, especially Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon. Of these, Lebanon hosts the largest per capita number of Syrian refugees with over 1 million Syrians living in Lebanon as refugees as of June 2017. This thesis asks why Syrian refugee children in Lebanon have limited access to education. Given that over half of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon are school-aged children, the main question behind this research is: what factors explain the low enrollment rate of Syrian refugees in schools in Lebanon? Though the Lebanese Ministry of Education issued a memorandum instructing all public schools to allow Syrians to enroll, approximately 250,000 school-age Syrian refugees were out of school during the 2015-2016 school year. Why is this? Based on a local case study of dynamics impacting refugees within the Bekaa governorate of Lebanon, I find that Syrian refugees do not suffer from a lack of international attention or even an overall lack of aid. Instead, actors at the local level, particularly an unofficial authority known as the Shawish, most heavily influence Syrian refugees, their access to aid, and their access to education. / Master of Arts