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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Bosnian War"”.
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Eastern European Cinema vs. Hollywood: Bosnia War Films
The Bosnian War was a conflict that occurred in a little known European country after the fall of the Iron Curtain and break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. The purpose of this study is to compare and contrast the films from the Hollywood and Eastern European arenas. This study will …
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Essays in Empirical Development Economics
… Chapter 1 focuses on the effects of civil wars on the welfare of individuals. I use a unique data set that contains information on war casualties of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, and exploit the variation in war intensity and birth cohorts of children, to identify the effects of the war on …
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Waiting, Part One of a Sarajevo Novel: The Figure of the Siege and the Refugee in a Selection of Twentieth-Century Siege-Exile Literature
… Beginning with a discussion of the siege in post-war literature, the critical section then looks at the double figure of the siege in Camus’s The Plague, before turning to themes of siege and exile in Susan Sontag’s 1993 Sarajevo production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It finally examines …
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When Do Ties Bind? Foreign Fighters, Social Embeddedness, and Combatant Repertoires of Behavior During Civil War
… behavior on and off the battlefield during civil war? This dissertation examines why rebel group propensities to engage in governance and violence during war vary at the macro and microlevels of analysis and uses as its point of departure the presence of foreign fighters in the ranks of rebel …
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Model Interventions: The Evolution of Media Development Strategies in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Macedonia from 2000 to 2007
… more than fifteen years after the end of the Bosnian war and twelve after the end of the war in Kosovo, numerous assessments by government sponsors and independent evaluators have reported success in achieving fundamental media freedoms in these countries, yet these media sectors have not …
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Nostalgia, landscape, and social criticism in Brooklyn Babylon: a contemporary theatrical work by jazz composer Darcy James Argue and media artist Danijel Žeželj
… experience in the former Yugoslavia and the Bosnian War, served to motivate the artists to create Brooklyn Babylon as a statement on the social injustice of displaced people throughout the world. In the conclusion, I offer insight on conducting the music from the work, point to further …
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Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective
<p>Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective</p> <p>This dissertation documents the resettlement experiences of Bosnian Muslims relocated to two urban locales in the north of New York State during and after the Bosnian War in the Balkans. To do so, it relies on …
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Bosnian Refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky: Refugee Resettlement and Community Based Research
… reasons for the increase in recent years of the Bosnian population in Bowling Green, Kentucky and their adaptation problems as refugees in their host country, this study focused upon the Bosnian community in Bowling Green and addressed what the role of their challenges is in the shaping of …