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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Great Powers"”.
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Nationalism in the 21st Century and its impact on revisionist great powers
… focus on the attainment, or re-establishment, of great power status. Both President’s Xi and Putin contend that this status is a vital part of their countries national identities. Because of the close association between nationalism and the attainment of great power status both China and Russia …
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Make Us Great Again: The Causes and Consequences of Declinism in Great Powers
… narratives of international decline emerge in great powers frequently, often independent of ‘objective’ measures of international decline. Such narratives frequently sustain policies of global expansion to save face, regain lost glory, and reverse decline. Yet we have little understanding of …
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The Preemptive Paradox: The Rise of Great Powers & Management of the International System
… system only a few select nations have achieved great power status. But what can account for their rise? The presence of existing great powers would suggest that aspiring states should encounter formidable obstacles that would render their success implausible. In some cases extant great powers …
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Great Powers Have Great Currencies: Popular Nationalist Discourse and China's Campaign to Internationalize the Renminbi
… China's central bank had long explored promoting greater international use of the renminbi, and such a policy would generate some benefits for China, I find that both institutions and interests fall short of explaining this policy shift. Rather, I suggest that beliefs, influenced by popular …
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On death ground : why weak states resist great powers explaining coercion failure in asymmetric interstate conflict
Great Powers often adopt coercive strategies, threatening or using limited force to convince weak states to comply with their demands. While coercive strategies have succeeded in just over half of asymmetric crises since World War I, there remain a number of cases in which weak states have chosen …
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Learning the lessons of war : the impact of World War I upon the interwar great powers
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1993.
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Dilemmas of decline, risks of rise : the systemic and military sources of rising state strategy towards declining great powers
… rising state strategy towards declining great powers? This project develops and tests a theory of state strategy vis-a-vis declining great powers, termed Realist Decline Theory. Realist Decline Theory argues that states debating the strategies to adopt towards a declining peer are forced …
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Hypersonic Glide Vehicles: Implications for Strategic Stability in the Coming Hypersonic Era
… strategic balance of terror that has kept that great powers at peace since the late 1940's. Their maneuverability, speed, and altitude make them impervious to ballistic missile defences now and into the near future, ensuring the continued survival of an assured destruction capacity for the three …
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Digital Regulation Contested: Regulatory Approaches of the US, the EU, and China to Cross-Border Personal Data Transfers
… technologies, regulatory battles among great powers to set the rules for international personal data transfers increasingly intensify. In the unfolding digital era, the regulatory battles over international personal data transfers have increasingly come to the foreground of great powers …
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Digital Regulation Contested: Regulatory Approaches of the US, the EU, and China to Cross-Border Personal Data Transfers
… technologies, regulatory battles among great powers to set the rules for international personal data transfers increasingly intensify. In the unfolding digital era, the regulatory battles over international personal data transfers have increasingly come to the foreground of great powers …
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Attalid Networks: Seeking Status And Acquiring Authority Beyond State Capacity
… in the eastern Mediterranean comparable to the great powers such as the Ptolemies, Seleucids, or Antigonids. I demonstrate that the Attalids pursued this status as an alternative source of influence to compensate for the limits of traditionally defined military- political power. …
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Η ΔΟΜΗ ΚΑΙ Η ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΝΑΥΤΙΚΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΚΑΠΟΔΙΣΤΡΙΑΚΗ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟ: ΤΑ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΟΣΑΡΜΟΓΗΣ (1828-1831)
… EUROPEAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS, THE ROLE OF THE GREAT POWERS AND THE ASSOCIATION OF THE NAVY WITH THE OPPOSITION- EVENTS THAT LEAD ON TO REVOLUTIONARY ACTIONS AND ENDED UP IN THE POROS COUP DE ETAT- ARE EXAMINED. FINALLY THE EVENTS IN POROS, THE ACTIONS TAKEN BY KAPODISTRIAS AND THE GREAT POWERS …
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Ontological Security and Status-Seeking: Thailand's Proactive Behaviours during the Second World War
… pursued a proactive foreign policy towards greater powers during the Second World War. The main literature on Thai foreign policy-making generally suggests that Thailand is traditionally passive vis-à-vis greater powers. Oftentimes, it is believed that the fate of Thailand is subjected to …
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A postcolonial approach to Nepal's geopolitics, hydro-politics, and border-politics
… IR that prioritises the interests and views of great powers like China and India. In this context, considering the case of Nepal’s relationship as a small state vis-à-vis its much larger neighbours India and China, I contend that a postcolonial approach allows us to reveal hitherto marginalised …
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The strategy & politics of expansionism: United States foreign policy toward Cuba and the Philippines in 1898
The study of Great Power behavior is a relevant and timeless pursuit, as the major powers can impact economies, societies, and lives around the world. Be it war, trade, or other assertions of interests abroad, such activities affect the global political landscape significantly. Important questions …
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The Impact of Oil Production and Consumption on the Balance of Power
… The introduction of shale oil. - H1. Every Great Power had access to the majority of the proved oil reserves since the Industrial Revolution. In the case of H1. I aggregated the available data in Table 19. to show the distribution of reserves in the proposed macro periods. In the case of H1. …
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Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy since Independence: A Small State From Order Taker to Order Maker (1991-2021)
… has been thought of as one of deference to great powers. In this view, great powers can create, maintain, and dictate behaviour, while small states must follow their lead. Small states are considered weak, vulnerable, lacking in power, and therefore as “takers”. However, this thesis makes …
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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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