He deplored police violence and pleaded for political prisoners to be released, but appeared to accept Jaruzelski's thesis that it had been necessary to impose military rule in order to avoid a Soviet invasion.
Israeli historian Avi Shlaim later praised Finkelstein's thesis, saying that it had established his credentials when he was still a doctoral student.
And though the internal reasons thesis too is, in an important way, a negative thesis, it clearly doesn't follow that it has no positive results, nor that it was a thesis that Williams himself held only as an abstract view in philosophical theory.
The main thesis throughout the lectures was that it has been the cultural norm for societies to be composed of different ethnic groups.
He acknowledged that there was "some controversy" surrounding Mr. Mezlekia's Ph.D. thesis but said that it had been resolved and "certainly didn't escalate to violence".
I vetted the thesis and found that it had 75 pages with uncredited verbatim sentences, often more than one per page.
For three years, he worked on a Ph.D. thesis about Milton, until he saw that it had become "a treatise on all of language and all of theology," and gave it up.
So my thesis about why this happens is that it had to happen some time, why not now?
A thesis that has a long pedigree but has only recently been gathering attention in the contemporary literature is the "Composition as Identity" thesis.
His central thesis — that banking has assumed an outsize role in economic life — is anathema to many of his establishment peers.
