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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Sociology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-172). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1240706801&SrchMode=1&sid=16&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1195058857&clientId=5220

This thesis examines the reconstruction of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) since the end of the Cold War. Conventional knowledge in International Relations argues that alliances should dissolve with the disappearance of the military threat which they were created to address. But NATO still exists and has engaged in new activities that depart from its original purpose - specifically, engaging in crisis management beyond its territorial boundary. How is it possible to explain this shift in NATO's purpose and its transformation from an anti-Communist alliance into one that is concerned with humanitarian crises? The thesis analyses this question by posing a view, based on constructivism, that 'international' organisations are developed as state leaders try to meet 'domestic' normative concerns.

Thesis--School of Advanced Airpower Studies, 1996. / Shipping list no.: 98-0921-M. "August 1997." Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet from the Air University Press web site. Address as of 10/9/03: http://aupress.au.af.mil/SAAS%5FTheses/Beale/beale.pdf; current access is available via PURL.

The war in the Balkans (1991-1999) demonstrated dramatically the European dependence on the United States in military issues. The EU was paralyzed by the events in the Balkans and showed a startling incapacity to deal with this crisis. Even in 2005, some critics argue that, though the European Union (EU) has become an economic superpower, it is still a negligible player in the realm of security and defense issues. This thesis demonstrates that since 1998 the EU has developed a credible security and defense policy and the capabilities and the mindset successfully to conduct military missions. The thesis argues that the EU forces, EUFOR, will successfully implement the 1995 Dayton Accords in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the wake of NATO's Implementation and Stabilization Forces (IFOR/SFOR). Following an overview of the development of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP), the thesis highlights how the ESDP was put into practice for the first time during operation CONCORDIA in Macedonia in 2003. The thesis further examines the challenges that EUFOR has to face in Bosnia and Herzegovina today and it outlines the ways and means that the EU and EUFOR chose to deal with the challenges in the country. The thesis summarizes the findings to show how they support the argument that EUFOR will successfully implement the Dayton Accords and the implications of the topic for ESDP more generally.

Ethnicity is an important social construct mobilised in the discourses of multicultural education. At present, little research exists on the way ethnicity impacts on the schooling experiences of students with former Yugoslav background (SFYB) in Australia. This qualitative study looks at the daily realities of twelve SFYB at a Western Australian government secondary school. Particular attention is paid to the management of their ethnic identities to achieve their educational, social and other goals. Data gathered from the twelve in-depth, guided interviews with SFYB is analysed through the lens of critical multiculturalism, posited as one of several notions of multiculturalism and one with a specific social justice agenda. Theories of hybridity developed by Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall are translated into the critical multiculturalist framework and provide a further development of the analysis of the data in which hybridity is seen as both experiences and enactments. The study findings suggest that these SFYB embody the principles of critical multiculturalism as skilful managers of contingencies of ethnic identities, aspirations and challenges they encounter at the school. The study also proposes that the notion of critical, power conscious hybridity could be useful as a conceptual tool in the future work of critical multiculturalists.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2005. / Submitted to the Dept. of Child Development. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-126). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

"Teza za doktorskii ispit"--Beograd. / "Prilozi": p. [136]-152 in Church Slavic. Bibliography: p. [124]-135.

"Teza za doktorskii ispit"--Beograd. / "Prilozi": p. [136]-152 in Church Slavic. Bibliography: p. [124]-135.