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Showing 1 to 20 of 362 for “"Ambitions"”.
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Iran; A Nuclear Super Power? Understanding Nuclear Ambitions
"Iran is a nation in flux, with a history of political strife and revolution. The everchanging political atmosphere in the nation has made Iran an unpredictable political actor. It is a nation coping with a new governing system, just a few decades out from a revolution from the reign of the Shah of …
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A human rights analysis of housing informality in Namibia: Challenges, ambitions, and misses
This thesis set out to assess the legislative, administrative, and financial measures taken by the Namibian Government to address the proliferation of informal settlements in the country as per the dictates of international human rights law. It did this by applying the OPERA framework of …
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The People's Republic of China's Preeminent Power Ambitions: An Assessment of Its Maritime Efforts
… of the People's Republic of China's ambitions and strategic doctrine. The imperial era laid the foundation for China's regional sphere of influence, and its self-proclaimed status as the "Middle Kingdom" and period of "humiliation" left indelible memories that help form policy to this …
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Violent peace in Liberia. A Study of the Roles and Ambitions of Ex-combatants
Liberia emerged from 14 years of brutal civil conflict, demobilized and “reintegrated” large numbers of ex-combatants, but there are still concerns about ex-combatants’ re-engagement in violence. Yet, adequate knowledge and empirical evidence about this are still sketchy. Qualitative fieldwork …
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Violent peace in Liberia. A Study of the Roles and Ambitions of Ex-combatants
Liberia emerged from 14 years of brutal civil conflict, demobilized and “reintegrated” large numbers of ex-combatants, but there are still concerns about ex-combatants’ re-engagement in violence. Yet, adequate knowledge and empirical evidence about this are still sketchy. Qualitative fieldwork …
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Ambitions of cidade : war-displacement and concepts of the urban among bairro residents in Benguela, Angola
The dissertation explores concepts of upward social mobility, proper personhood and processes of social change as a result of the rural-urban migration provoked by the war in post-colonial Angola between 1975 and 2002. The study focuses on the city of Benguela, which received large numbers of …
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Ambitions of Cidade: War-Displacement and concepts of the urban among bairro residents in Benguela, Angola
The dissertation explores concepts of upward social mobility, proper personhood and processes of social change as a result of the rural - urban migration provoked by the war in post-colonial Angola between 1975 and 2002. The study focuses on the city of Benguela, which received large numbers of …
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The parliamentary experience in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States : a step towards democracy; facts and ambitions
Literature on legislatures in developing countries shows two opposing views on their effectiveness and efficiency. In the light of these views, this study chronicles the rise of the GCC States' assemblies, focusing on their role, structure, legitimacy and mechanism, as well as their relevance and …
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Barriers to the C-Suite: The Impact of Perceptions of Gender Bias on Women Leaders’ Senior Leadership Ambitions
… whether women leaders' senior leadership ambitions are more strongly negatively affected by perceptions of gender bias (i.e., subtle gender bias, inequity, and mistreatment) in the workplace than leaders who are men and whether this association occurs through cynicism towards work. To test …
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A Legal History of Narrowing Ambitions: The Rise of Human Rights in Inter-American Regional Law and Organisation
This thesis examines the rise of human rights in inter-American regional law and organisation. It contends that, first, despite their present centrality, inter-American human rights were originally not a priority of American states. Rather, the codification and institutionalisation of …
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Kínai nagyhatalmiság. A Kínai Népköztársaság nagyhatalmi ambíciói, szerepvállalása, és partnerei a XXI. században = Great power with Chinese characteristics. Great power ambitions, role and partners of the People’s Republic of China in the twenty-first century
A hidegháború végét követően a Kínai Népköztársaság olyan nemzetközi környezetben találta magát, amilyenben soha korábban nem volt, s azóta sem került. Bár az országot övező nemzetközi elutasítottság viszonylag rövidnek bizonyult, ahhoz mindenképp elég volt, hogy a kínai vezetés tudja, többé nem …
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Peer Effects on Educational Aspirations
… of social influence and selection on academic ambitions and achievement in two school subjects: Hungarian literature and mathematics. Using longitudinal social network models, the analysis disentangled social influence on academic ambitions from friendship selection based on academic ambitions. …
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Pax Australis: The History of Australia's Imperial Internationalism
… about how global affairs and the international ambitions of other nations have shaped Australia, but almost nothing has been written to address the question of just how effective Australian Governments have been at devising and pursuing their own visions for how the world should be organised. In …
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Pax Australis: The History of Australia's Imperial Internationalism
… about how global affairs and the international ambitions of other nations have shaped Australia, but almost nothing has been written to address the question of just how effective Australian Governments have been at devising and pursuing their own visions for how the world should be organised. In …
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Participation in vocational further education : a study of factors influencing entry into commercial, construction and engineering training in Inner London
… has been paid to vocational preferences and job ambitions, due to their close links with training choices. The study adopted an inter-disciplinary approach. Analyses of the spatial patterns of entry into the three types of training (from maps of students' home addresses) revealed significant …
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An Economic Reevaluation of Navi Mumbai and the Indian Satellite City
… discipline as underperforming its original ambitions. Drawing upon the goals enumerated in the city’s original development plan, this thesis proposes a series of quantitative metrics corresponding to said goals and then utilizes data drawn from surveys, censuses, official reports, financial …
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Student Perceptions of Their Decision to Enroll in Agricultural Education
… Education, and identify student’s future ambitions for their educational and career goals. The following research objectives were developed to guide the study: (a) describe the demographics of students enrolled in Agricultural Education, (b) describe enrollment factors that impact a …
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Getting A's in B-School: Do Conservatism and Conventional Ambition Predict Higher GPA?
… outcomes is really driven by differences in ambitions. In other words, conservatives tend to have a higher desire to achieve goals related to the American Dream than liberals, which influences their success in business school and beyond. While the former line only speculates as to why …
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Bourgeois Balkans: world-building in Belgrade and Sofia 1830-1912
… institutions based on expertise. I explore the ambitions and limits of this “bourgeois world-building” through three constitutive processes: the production of space, the gendered transformation of intimate labor, and the re-calibration of state violence. With the advent of autonomous rule, the …
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