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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"European politics"”.
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Religious influences in European politics
… everyday carry stories in which religion and politics are seen as interconnected and at the same time, operating within different bodies of societies. To assess adequately the complex interaction between religion and politics, both sides need to be considered. Throughout my findings, I will …
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A study of the life and works of Blaze de Bury : a counter-narrative of a transcultural woman’s involvement in nineteenth-century European politics
… participation in nineteenthcentury discourses on European international politics, using the case study of the writer Baroness Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (1813?–1894). It argues that examining Blaze de Bury’s life and works, specifically through a transcultural lens, reveals a political …
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The Holy League of 1571 the Diplomatic Background of the Battle of Lepanto
… a study of the increasingly secular nature of European politics during the sixteenth century. The interrelationships of Catholic Europe and the Muslim Empire were, at. the beginning of this period, totally hostile. By the end of the sixteenth century, the Turk had been assimilated into an …
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The people and the mob: The ideology of civil conflict in modern Europe
… of the masses to have a radical effect on European politics. These new political actors were typically depicted in one of two opposite ways; as the virtuous people or as the wicked mob. However, these dichotomous depictions of the masses, have become complementary rather than exclusive …
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Challenging the Image of Karol Lipiński as an Ambassador of Polish Culture
… these fissures through the lens of Central European politics of Lipiński’s lifetime, I present him as an artist whose motivations in taking on a nationalist role were fueled predominantly by a pragmatic desire to advance his career, rather than a patriotic urge to display affinity for his …
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Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of Europe's Frontiers
… developments in the recent history of European integration, namely the institutionalization of a regional policy regime to manage the continent’s frontiers. By adopting this regime (known in policy circles as ‘Schengen’), European governments have in fact relinquished part of their …
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Continuity and Change in German Security Policy: the Pivotal Role of Unification
… lack of action in the Gulf by being active in European politics, specifically with the early recognition of the breakaway Yugoslav republics and leading the call for European integration, including broadening security structures to include its neighbors in Central Europe. At home, Germany must …
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Transnational Women’s Organizing in Colonial Tunisia (1929 – 1963)
… chapters within the landscape of Tunisian and European politics as well as the global women’s movement allows for a richer understanding of how local chapters of the WILPF and the WIDF interpreted broader organizational ideas of peace and freedom. In particular, it asks how two international …
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Pascal-Xavier Coste (1787-1879) : a French architect in Egypt
… culture, creating a stylistic synthesis of European and Islamic forms. Unfortunately, due to Muhammad Ali's military expenditures, much of Coste's work was sidelined, to be built later in the governor's reign. Coste's original designs and realized buildings, however, continued to have a …
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The impact of European integration on the Danish and British party systems
European integration has been the zeitgeist of Western European politics since the end of the Second World War. Governments and parties not committed to the project have been unable to avoid the issue in the wake of ongoing integration. It has generated unprecedented inter- and intra-party tensions …
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Dealing with Conflicting Visions of the Past: The Case of European Memory
… and critically evaluate how the idea of European memory has been conceptualised by different actors at the European level and to develop a novel, pluralist conception. Attempting to ground European integration and the attachment to Europe in historical narratives has become increasingly …
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Constrained Partisanship: A Comparative Study of Policy Choices and Party Discourses in the British and Spanish Crisis Experiences (2008-2014)
… about the changing nature of partisanship in European politics. Technocratic, legalistic and exceptionalist discourses cut across ideological and party lines. The endurance of these discourses questions the relevance of the language of left and right as a way of making sense of political …
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Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499-1610
… French royal children and architecture affected politics, court rituals, and architectural forms. Existent literature analyzes the construction and décor of royal châteaux, but little is known about their functions, which later renovations and a formal focus obscure. This dissertation argues that …
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Revolution of the right: explaining the rise of the front national in light of the 2008 financial crisis
… from the fray to the mainstream of French politics, and the political situation in France is particularly volatile due to the economic mismanagement during the financial crisis of 2008, so it was more susceptible to growing strength of a far right party. </p>
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The Conflict of the 2015 European Migration Crisis A Multi-Level Analysis in Austria and Hungary
The 2015 European migration crisis marked a significant turning point in contemporary European politics, highlighting widespread societal and political tensions across the continent. The unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants, particularly from the Middle East and North Africa, posed complex …
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Role Expectations and State Socialization: Germany's Rediscovery of the Use of Force 1990–1995
<p>This dissertation engages the question of why German political elites accepted the use of force during the 1990s and started to commit the country's armed forces to multilateral peacekeeping missions. Previous governments of the Federal Republic had opposed foreign deployment of the military and …
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The battle to stem the tide of decline
This thesis’ core aim is to understand the role that intra-party factionalism has in two major social democratic parties – the Labour Party and the SPD, respectively – on the parties’ responses to electoral decline. To so do, a review of the changing social, political, economic and electoral …
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The far right in the UK: The BNP in comparative perspective. Examining the development of the British Nation Party within the context of UK and continental far right politics
… also investigated comparatively with other West European parties who have enjoyed national success, as a means of discovering whether the party are similar to their far right neighbours and why they have not enjoyed similar national success. The press coverage of the BNP is examined at a local …
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The determinants of ethnic minority party formation and success in Europe
… role of international organizations such as the European Union. I test my predictions with a mixed-methods approach combining a large-N, cross-national quantitative analysis with a detailed case study focusing on Bulgaria. The quantitative portion of my analysis uses an original dataset of …
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