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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"IR Theory"”.
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Understanding international efforts to address the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions, 2003-08.
… and several bodies of international relations (IR) theory. Part I explains the research methodology and discusses the theoretical context for the thesis. It is argued that several core assumptions of rationalist-materialist approaches to IR theory impede understanding of the CCM¿s emergence, and …
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The Experiential Aspects of Sport Stadiums: An Examination of Emotion and Memory
… landmarks within American society. Although their primary function is to serve as the spaces within which our favorite athletes and teams compete, we often imbue stadiums with a level of significance beyond their primary function. As spaces intended for large social gatherings, sport stadiums …
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The BRICS configuration’s conversion of common sense into good sense: the relevance of a neo-Gramscian study for inclusive international relations
… theories in International Relations (IR). Some scholars argue that the five economies aim to integrate the international system and co-exist with established powers (Burges, 2013, Narlikar, 2013, Vickers. 2013). Meanwhile, in critical IR theory, Worth (2009a) argues that …
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Capillaries of force: constituent power, porous sovereignty, and the ethics of anarchism
Despite the omnipresence of anarchy in IR, anarchist political thought is only partly mobilized by the discipline. IR has been paying a great deal of attention to anarchy, but it failed so far to consistently incorporate anarchism into its conceptual repertoire. Conversely, anarchist theorists have …
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Islam and International Relations: Towards an Alternative Conception of Universality
<p>This dissertation develops an Islamic Theory of International Relations (ITIR) based on modifying the classic Islamic categories of <em>Dar al Harb and Dar al Salaam</em>. The main purpose of this dissertation is to use categories of Islamic political thought not derived from Western …
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Afrikan contribution to international relations theory: an Afrocentric philosophical enquiry
The academic field of IR has been haunted by its Westerncentric philosophical founding masters. This has consequently led almost the overall (if not the entire) literature, of this particular academic discipline, to have become a typical platform wherein the Eurocentric driven masternarratives have …
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Power and International Relations Theory; Why the 'Debate About Empire' Matters?
… how different understandings of power in IR theory lead to different understandings of world order. In particular, I examine how notions of power have informed recent 'debate about empire' and what the term empire might usefully mean in the context of contemporary international relations. …
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Drivers of Change: Explaining IMF Low Income Country Reform in the Post Washington Consensus
… constructivist, and historical structural theory, this study of IMF Low Income Country (LIC) policy change from 1996 to 2010 identifies potential causal variables and mechanisms that drive contemporary reform in the institution toward its poorest member states. Patterns uncovered through …
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Asymmetric Strategies and Asymmetric Threats: A Structural-realist Critique of Drone Strikes in Pakistan, 2004-2014
… an official armed conflict aligns with the theory of neo- or structural realism developed by Kenneth Waltz. And yet although 9/11 served as the impetus for the U.S. to refocus attention on ameliorating the threat of terrorism and to initiate far-reaching measures to protect homeland …
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Devilish straits: re-interpreting the source of Boundary Waters Treaty success
… minor dispute? More importantly, given irregularities between theoretical assertions and institutional history, what theory of international relations best explains a cooperative agreement that spans a near-century? Due to the complexities of shared river systems, any theory that seeks …
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Fostering Global Security: Nonviolent Resistance and US Foreign Policy
… dissertation comprehensively evaluates, for the first time, nonviolence and its relationship to International Relations (IR) theory and US foreign policy along the categories of principled, strategic, and regulative nonviolence. The current debate within nonviolence studies is between principled …
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Re-politicizing State Sovereignty in Global Governance: A Political Economy of Transparency in the Oil Sectors of Gabon and Ghana
… as the main actor in International Relations (IR). This dissertation argues that along with this paradigm shift, IPE and global governance scholars have increasingly understated the role that sate actors –especially those from the global south– play within global governance structures. My …
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Factors influencing China's behaviour in the South China Sea
… peace' argument in International Relations theory valid when applied to China's international behaviour, and towards the South China Sea disputes in particular'? The advocates of the `liberal peace' argument have spent much energy attempting to prove the positive correlation between peace …
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The Risks of Outsourcing Security: Foreign Security Forces in United States National Security Policy
… I advance constructivist principal-agent theory. This theory 1) reveals how the principal's evolving perception of its agent defines different bases of the principal-agent problem and 2) shows how each of these bases specifies particular policies--from among all those available--for …