Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland. / Typescript. Bibliography: leaves 146-169. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2010. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 613 p. : col. maps. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 597-613).

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2005. / Thesis Advisor(s): Donald Abenheim, Hans-Eberhard Peters. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-102). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2010. / Thesis advisor: David Kideckel. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in International Studies." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-76). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Undergraduate honors paper--Mount Holyoke College, 2007. Program in International Relations. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-136).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Political Science. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-268). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNR11565

The exploitation and extermination of people in the context of internal conflict in the former Yugoslavia is a grave injustice and the result of a systematic policy of war by an unconventional state. Internal conflict requires investigation by international relations scholars because it is evidence of the changing nature of war. Given that both the methods of violence (ethnic cleansing, systematic/genocidal rape, and sexual torture) and (ethno)nationalism are gendered, a 'new' approach to war is needed. Traditional international relations theoretical approaches to the state, anarchy, and war/peace prove unable to analyze: one, the unconventional state (structure); two, the dichotomous separation of the public/international/external/formal/masculine/autonomous from the private/domestic/internal/informal/feminine/vulnerable; three, unconventional war policy; and four, the 'new' actors, the external and internal 'Others,' the 'Invisibles,' the noncombatants/ civilians, the 'women' (women and men; people with identities). Thinking that will lead to solutions for the dilemma of war, inclusively defined, will be - to employ Joy Kogawa's word - merciful; it will not exclude people and, while critical, it will be hopeful that the protection of both human dignity and community is in the 'national interest,' in 'our and their interest' as political/social/economic/etc. beings. Because it analyzes dichotomies and deals with the role of identity in the various aspects of (changing) war, a feminist or gendered/identity-deconstructivist approach is advanced as a means to more effectively examine internal/international conflicts, such as the former Yugoslav wars - i.e., unconventional wars whose character challenges the rigid traditionalist international relations definition of war. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

This study focuses on annual earnings assimilation and the employment probability, described as the assimilation of annual earnings and the extent of which available workers are being used respectively (in this case workers originating from a certain country) of immigrants arriving from former Yugoslavia, i.e. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia, to Sweden during the Yugoslav wars occurring in the 1990s. Previous research made on immigrants, and in this case focusing on refugees, brings some empirical standpoints; initial annual earnings of refugees are lower than those of labour-market immigrants and natives, higher education level as well as geographic closeness and cultural similarities between source country and host country makes the transition and assimilation easier for immigrants. Immigrants incur a net-cost on public sector finances during their first years in host country, but that it diminishes as years since migration increases. These longitudinal regressions were made for two different cohorts and genders separately. The cohorts included individuals in ages 20-64 years of age from countries previously being a part of former Yugoslav that arrived in Sweden between the years of 1990 and 1995, and between 1996 and 1999. These cohorts are being studied in three cross-sections, 1990, 1995 and 1999. A brief history of the Yugoslav wars will also be presented in this thesis. Our results show that the refugees from former Yugoslavia had a positive assimilation in to the Swedish labour market, and our results are in line with previous theory regarding labour market assimilation. Moreover, men without university education as well as women with university education assimilate faster in comparison to their corresponding opposites in regards of educational level. However, both genders, regardless of educational level, assimilated. This confirms some of the theory presented in this thesis.

En puisant dans différentes traditions de l’histoire intellectuelle et en faisant appel au savoir cumulé par la sociologie des intellectuels, la thèse propose un examen critique de l’univers des sciences sociales en Serbie et en Croatie, de leur production et de leurs reconfigurations, durant la dissolution yougoslave, en se concentrant sur la période qui va de la disparition de la Ligue des Communistes de Yougoslavie en 1990, à la fin de la guerre en Bosnie en 1995. La recherche reconstruit et analyse dans un premier temps quelques-uns des principaux débats et réflexions développés dans le monde scientifique et intellectuel yougoslave et (post)yougoslave depuis la période socialiste, sur la base de publications périodiques, de livres et de travaux inédits. L’étude se concentre notamment sur la période de la dissolution du pays et elle examine en détail les réflexions des sciences sociales autour des grandes problématiques des années 1990, telles que la guerre, la montée du nationalisme, la transition politique et économique et enfin, les nouvelles manières de penser la modernisation à l’époque de la globalisation. Dans un second temps, à partir d’entretiens en profondeur menés avec des chercheurs et à partir de documents institutionnels, matériaux statistiques et documents de presse, la recherche décrit et analyse le monde des sciences sociales dans la République Fédérale Socialiste de Yougoslavie, ainsi que ses reconfigurations pendant la crise et la dissolution du pays. La thèse s’intéresse surtout aux transformations des conditions de production des chercheurs dans la première moitié des années 1990, une période caractérisée par l’effondrement du système socialiste, le début de la guerre dans la région, la rupture des liens de coopération panyougoslaves, la crise économique, la montée de l’autoritarisme et le recul général de l’espace (post)yougoslave dans le système mondial. / Drawing from different traditions of intellectual history, as well as from the sociology of intellectuals, the dissertation proposes a critical examination of the univers of social sciences in Serbia and Croatia, their production and reconfiguration, during the breakup of Yugoslavia. The work focuses on the period that goes from the dissolution of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1990 to the end of the war in Bosnia in 1995. On the one hand, the research reconstructs and analyses some of the main debates and reflections that took place in the Yugoslav and (post)Yugoslav scientific and intellectual world from the socialist period onwards, drawing from scientific journals, books and unpublished works. The study focuses especially on the period of the country's disintegration, examining in detail the reflections in social sciences around some of the main issues of the 1990s such as war, nationalism, political and economic transition and new approaches to modernization characteristic of the era of globalisation. On the oher hand, ressorting to in-depth interviews conducted with researchers, as well as institutional documents, statistical materials and sources from the press, the research describes and analyzes the world of social sciences in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its reconfigurations during the crisis and dissolution of the country. The thesis particularly addresses the transformations that took place in the conditions of production for local researchers during the early 1990s, a period that was characterized by the collapse of the socialist system, the beginning of war in the region, the breakup of panyugoslav scientific and intellectual links, economic crisis, the rise of authoritarianism and the general regression of the (post)Yugoslav space in the global system.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Texas, Dec., 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.