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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Foreign powers"”.
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"An Ardent Military Spirit": William C. C. Claiborne and the Creation of the Orleans Territorial Militia, 1803-1805
… reduced the likelihood that local dissidents and foreign powers such as Spain and Great Britain could conspire to subvert American government in Louisiana by rebellion and invasion.
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An American Ambassador in Berlin: Observing Hitler's Gambles in Foreign Policy, 1933-1937
… deathly afraid of it, convinced that action by foreign powers was the only avenue to stop Germany's march towards war. Few in the State Department shared his doomsday beliefs. The Ambassador was left isolated and ignored.
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The Julich-Kleve succession crisis (1609-1620): A study in international relations
… and 1614 there were two crises which resulted in foreign powers mobilizing armies to intervene in Julich-Kleve; nevertheless no war was fought over the duchies. Indeed the Julich-Kleve succession has the distinction of being the first international crisis in modern times which was solved by …
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An Assessment of the Major Security Problems in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
… of external states. Of the surrounding foreign powers, Russia remains the most likely candidate for such a scenario. Accordingly, this study includes an examination of Russian involvement in these three states.
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Sevres Syndrome: Constructing the populist us versus them through fear in Turkey
… of the Turkish Republic as a fear of outside powers and their domestic collaborators intent on dividing and destroying the Turkish nation. It continues by providing an in-depth analysis of the populist discourse regarding the specific events of the July 2016 coup attempt and the April 2017 …
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Factors Affecting Developing Planning in Africa: The Need for Local Input
… both the literature which debates the value of foreign aid as well as externally-imposed liberalization, and also on a preliminary assessment of the models African countries have employed to date. To support the proposal, the thesis analyzes the plans adopted by four African countries, Tanzania, …
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Death at birth: The political, economic and social impact of the decolonization and perpetual, neocolonial control of Congo.
… argues that the predatory policies of Western powers, especially the United States, in regards to the decolonization and subsequent neocolonial stranglehold of Congo created a situation in which any nationalistic, truly independent-minded government would be stifled and ultimately fail—a …
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Syria and Saudi Arabia in post-Ta'if Lebanon
… across the border and found the open hands of foreign powers. The actions of these foreign entities have also constituted a divisive role in undermining the unification of the nation into a cohesive and functioning state, particularly during the post-civil war time period. The end of the 15 …
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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) : his relationship to Carl Heinrich Graun and the Berlin circle
… was still very much subjected to vassalage to foreign powers. Only in its church music, however, could a small but distinctly native voice be detected. With the growth of literary confidence, in particular in devotional poetry, music received considerable creative impetus. The figure who most …
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The evolution of accounting in developing countries : the study of Jordan
… which was and still is subject to pressure from foreign powers both politically and economically. This pressure has created a bias towards the U.K.! USA accounting systems. Laws and regulations, accounting education and the accounting profession, are oriented towards the accounting of these two …
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Russia in the Holy Land: Acting upon Imperial Russia's Soft Power in the Schools of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (1882-1914)
The decision of Ibrahim Pascha to allow foreign powers to open consulates in Jerusalem in the 1830s transformed the Holy Land into yet another scenario where the rivalries among the Great Powers for influence over the decaying Ottoman Empire could unfold. The pretext: the Great Powers’ ‘historical’ …
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The Global Politics of Surveillance: An Imbalance of Power and Privacy
… has been degraded by surveillance coming from foreign powers, largely the Global North/West/Occident. In this analysis this thesis finds that by using their historic and current place in the international power hierarchy, this category of nations infringes upon the privacy rights of people …
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Crafting identities : tableware for the Meiji Emperor
… of the ‘unequal treaties’ imposed upon it by foreign powers in the mid-nineteenth century, the Meiji Emperor (1868–1912) was also seeking to establish his position as ruler in the eyes of both the citizens of Japan and audiences overseas. While the country embarked on a period of widespread …
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M.I.celium mexicanus: Rejecting Modernity through Zapotec Futurism
… of colonisation and exploitation by not only foreign powers, but their own country and people. The city itself currently as of 2021 has not completely been able to rebuild the damage faced in the event of the 2017 hurricane that struck in the southern coast of the Isthmus de Tehuantepec. …
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A MACROECONOMIC MODEL FOR INTEREST-FREE ECONOMIES: AN INTEGRATIVE STUDY OF WESTERN AND ISLAMIC ECONOMIC SYSTEMS (BANKING)
… in the Muslim economies since independence from foreign powers. Islamic scholars unanimously support the organization of the financial institutions on the basis of modaraba, a form of sleeping partnership. In modarabas, entrepreneurs and financiers agree on a profit-sharing ratio to share profits …
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The Case of California Against the Communist Party
… do and what can we do, about the activities of foreign powers who are striving to overthrow our government. |This state of anxiety is not due to the silly fears of a group of alarmists, it is an unquestioned fact that has been known for some time. The question has not been whether or not we …
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Tracking Technology and Society along the Ottoman Anatolian Railroad, 1890-1914
… Baghdad Railroad, is often considered a case of foreign-driven modernization and pseudo-colonial investment in the Ottoman Empire and is assigned primary importance as a diplomatic problem aggravating tensions between the European powers in the run-up to World War I. Far less scrutiny has been …
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The Heping District, Tianjin, China: conservation of a cultural landscape
… since 1860, with the invasion of the western powers. The area of the Heping District, once rural, was ceded by the Qing government as a concession to four foreign countries: Britain, France, the United States and Japan. Each state built their infrastructure and urban fabric in their …
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Three Instances of Western Colonial Governments and Christian Missions in Cameroon Education: 1884-1961
… policies of the three formidable Western powers that colonized the country: the Germans (1884-1914), the British (1914-19621), and the French (1914-1960). This study focuses on the interactions that these Western colonial governments had with various Western Christian missionary …
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