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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"External actors"”.
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The Globalization of Natural Resources: How External Actors Affect Political Survival in Resource Rich Countries
<p>This dissertation examines the effect of external actors, including foreign investors, the home governments of foreign investors, and international organizations: IOs), on leadership survival in resource rich countries. According to the existing literature, resource rich countries care less …
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Reforming Kenya: Explaining the Influence of Internal and External Actors in the Process of Liberalization
… examines the influence of internal and external actors in pressuring Kenya to embrace liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s during the Moi presidency. It argues that internal actors had more influence than external actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) …
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Framing Power: Discursive Contestations and the Influence of External Actors in the African Union’s Key Issue Areas
… Discursive Contestations and the Influence of External Actors in the African Union’s Key Issue Areas. ABSTRACT This dissertation investigates the dynamics of the power relationship between the African Union and non-African external actors. For many authors, this relationship is understood in …
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External actors, high value resources and threatened species: shark fin commodity chains of Northern Madagascar, interception for conservation
… was used to identify: the different types of actors along the commodity chain; trade routes; means of access and control; and patterns of price and income. Attempts were made to identify those species most heavily exploited by the trade.A baseline commodity chain analysis reveals that domestic …
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Influence of external actors on national information and communications technology policy formulation in developing countries: case of Malawi
… of national ICT policies is mostly influenced by actors who are external to a country. The external influence may affect the soundness of the resulting public ICT policy during a policy making activity and in turn affect the needs of society in a country. There is need, therefore, for research …
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The Political Power of Diaspora as External Actors in Armed Civil Conflict: Ethnonationalist Conflict-Generated Diaspora Use of Social Media in Transnational Political Engagement in Homeland Conflict: The Case of Rwanda.
… conflict-generated diasporas (CGD) as external actors in homeland conflict by exploring the nature of their political engagement on a transnational level using Internet Communication technologies (ICTs), with Rwanda as a case study. Virtual ethnography was chosen as the research …
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Išorinių veikėjų vaidmuo formuojant Kurdistano politinius teritorinius darinius /
External Actors Involvement in Constructing Political Territorial Entities of Kurdistan Kurdistan case analysis unveils incoherint territorial development aspect of Middle East, where external actors had a major role in shaping nowadays state borders. Influence to these actions appear had the great …
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The Kurdish nationalist movement and external influences
The Kurdish National Movement and External Influences is a historic examination of the Kurds, the Kurdish national movement, and the effects of external actors on the movement. It discussed who the Kurds are, where they are located and how many of them there are. The primary topics covered are …
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Oil, politics, society and the state in the middle east: Enduring authoritarianism in Iran and Saudi Arabia
… of several other, arguably more consequential, factors (political structures, religion, history/actions of external actors, and state mechanisms and strategies) that account for the persistence of authoritarianism in the Middle East </p>
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Užsitęsę konfliktai: Sirijos atvejis /
… and thus it is necessary to understand what factors affect the duration of the conflict. This work is a case study of the civil war in Syria. The analysis uses databases and the method of qualitative data analysis. Theoretical background comes from Edvar Azar who says that there are four main …
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Governing the Grey Zone: Why Hybrid Regimes in Europe’s Eastern Neighborhood Pursue Partial Governance Reforms
… as the reasons behind the partial impact of external actors. However, such approach portrays recipient governments as passive objects of the external influence, and overlooks the fact that domestic actors can, themselves, actively subvert or facilitate the reforms. In this dissertation, …
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Political Party Transitions in Post-Conflict States: How Political Parties Reacted and Adapted During Democratic Transitions in Cambodia, El Salvador and Mozambique
… structures and attitudes, and the influence of external actors emerged as significant factors in the way political parties adapted. National and international political contexts, ideological differences and war time political party origins played a part in incumbent and insurgent political …
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Exploring the socio-economic outcomes of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) social safety nets in Epworth and Hopley urban suburbs - Zimbabwe
… and short-lived as is typical of non-state external actors' social safety net programmes, cash transfers prove to be efficacious in fighting poverty and allowing communities to be resilient and there is great need to invest in these sustainable livelihoods programs that calls for community …
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The Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitical Expansion and Institutional Instability in the DRC and Sri Lanka
… exhibit structural vulnerabilities that allow external actors to reshape their political and economic trajectories. In the DRC, Chinese initiatives leverage abundant mineral resources and a highly centralized executive structure, reinforcing weak institutional oversight. In Sri Lanka, financial …
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Europos Sąjungos politikos įgyvendinimas už jos ribų: Arkties regiono atvejis /
… national policies but also in policies of external actors. The region which is perhaps the most affected by the climate change is Arctic. However, Arctic states prioritize economic benefits over the fight against climate change, therefore, the EU has a key role to play in ensuring …
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Quirimbas: A society reconfigured by nature
… interviews and focus group discussions with ‘external' actors including conservationists, historians, researchers, government authorities, NGOs, park authorities, conservation organisations and the private tourism sector, as well as ‘internal' ones which comprised park residents. To understand …
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‘RS-Exit’: The Geopolitics of Integration and Disintegration in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995-2020
… by evolution in the positions of three main external actors, the United States, the European and Serbia. In the immediate postwar period, as the US blocked the Serbs, the EU promised to integrate Bosnia and Serbia refused to integrate Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serbs held back from …
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Political integration of Hezbollah into Lebanese politics
… a large armed militia, and form alliances with external actors such as Syria and Iran independent of the policies of the Lebanese government. How can Hezbollah balance these interests? This thesis explores how Hezbollah seeks to reconcile these seemingly contradictory objectives.
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IL TRAFFICO ILLECITO DEI REPERTI ARCHEOLOGICI. IL RUOLO DELLE MAFIE E DEI PROFESSIONISTI.
… the involvement of mafias and the role of external actors, particularly professionals. The study aimed to address these questions through the analysis of seven case studies, employing two methods: crime script analysis (CSA) and interviews. The findings revealed different levels of mafia …
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Face Paint & Feathers: Ethnic Identity as Symbolic Resource in the Indigenous Movement of Ecuador
… a transnational movement, which includes social actors from the international legal, human rights, and environmental communities. This transnational movement exemplifies identity politics through the projection of ethnicity and essentialized signifiers of indigenousness. Indigenous actors, …
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