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Revolution, Modernization And Nation-Building In Diem’S Vietnam: Civic Action, 1955-1963, Geoffrey C. Stewart

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Using archival material from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam this dissertation demonstrates that from 1954 to 1963 the South Vietnamese government of President Ngô Binh Diçm attempted to promote its own national revolution to build a modem, independent Southeast Asian nation. This revolution, I argue, was intended to rival the socialist revolution being fomented by the communists in North Vietnam and was consistent with the efforts of other Southeast Asian leaders who were attempting to create viable, independent national polities within a region that was subject to the twin forces of decolonization and the Cold War. Beginning in early 1955 …

“Argue, But Obey: ” Black Vietnam War Veterans Interpret American Exceptionalism, Robert N. Hall

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This paper describes the experiences of African American soldiers during and after the Vietnam War, using personal statements drawn from oral histories, journals, and interviews to expose their interpretation of American exceptionalism as seen in both domestic and foreign policy. Participants in both the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, black veterans argued that racial nationalism (an ethno-racial view of foreign relations and American citizenship) superseded civic nationalism (the tendency toward individual liberty, and rooted in universal equality) during defining moments in the nation’s history, determining its foreign and domestic policies, and undermining the universal appeal of American principles. …

Persepolis Gone? Theorigins, Developmentandpraxisofayatollahkhomeini's Islamic-Nationalistnarrative (1979-1989), Jonathan Robert Eeuwes

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A critical investigation of the question: what were the origins, development and implementation of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic-nationalist narrative? How did he manage to take discursive control of the 1979 Revolution, and allow Khomeini to implement his version of Islamic Government? To answer this question this thesis will look at Khomeini’s use of a Shi’a “battle myth” in order to frame the revolution as an “Islamic act” of rebellion against an unjust power. In addition, Khomeini’s political theory of Veleyat-e Faqih, its origins, structure, development and potential problems will also be studied, in order to analyze how Khomeini influenced the

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Serb, Bosnian, And Yugoslav: The Bosnian Serb Intellectuals On The Road Towards A Multi-Ethnic Identity, 1878-1914, Jelica Zdero

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This thesis is an intellectual history that examines the identity development of the Bosnian Serbs at the turn of the twentieth century. It argues that during Austria- Hungary’s peacetime occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878 to 1914, an increasing number of Bosnian Serb intellectuals gradually developed a collectivist, multiethnic approach to group identity that was flexible enough to have produced a “Serb,” a “Bosnian,” and a “Yugoslav” consciousness. Born out of a concern for their ethnic community’s social, cultural, and political survival as a newly incorporated group in the vast multi-national Empire of Austria-Hungary, these intellectuals believed that the optimal solution …