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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"International Image"”.
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Exhibit Eh: Canadian Dependency, U.S. Hegemony, and the Amorphousness of English Canadian Culture
… the appropriation of Canadian space by the international image industry. Such categorization of Canadian space reflects and perpetuates the imaginary representation of Canada within the dominant ideology as an indistinct and amorphous entity, and comes to usurp the materiality that …
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Calculating bully : explaining Chinese coercion
… Dalai Lama, despite adverse implications for its international image. China is also curiously selective in the timing, target, and tools of coercion: most cases of Chinese coercion are not military coercion, nor does China use coercion against all states that pose the same threats to its national …
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a City and Nation Branding Tool: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Image of International Opinion Leaders
… broader soft power strategy and their impact on international perceptions of Beijing and China. Drawing from urban geography, political geography, international relations, and marketing theory, the study explores how mega-events contribute to the construction of national identity and global …
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Chinese 'loan-for-oil' deals in Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador : local concerns and perceptions
China's international behaviour has been the subject of scholarly attention in the past decade. The implementation of the 'going out' strategy of international relations in Latin American countries has been inserted in the mainstream debate about China's rise. The Chinese national oil companies' …
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The Civilian and the War on Terror: Do Norms Shape Strategy?
… with the human rights-based aspects of the international order.</p><p>My argument, based on a social conception of power, hinges on the observation that state interests change over time and that this is evident as sovereignty-based attitudes toward civilian casualties move toward a more …
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“Biopolitics from below?” — Lessons of Emergent Urban Governance Trend Under Covid-19 in China
… has used the socialist narrative to build up its international image; c) the strong comeback of capitalist practices the pandemic exacerbated the precariousness of work; d) how the pandemic has been used as a justification to impose panoptic surveillance and control on Chinese citizens and asked …
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Wavelet-based Image Compression Using Human Visual System Models
Recent research in transform-based image compression has focused on the wavelet transform due to its superior performance over other transforms. Performance is often measured solely in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and compression algorithms are optimized for this quantitative metric. …
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Collaboration and Conflict: Organized Labor, Business, and the State in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
… of preserving civil order and conveying an international image of stability in Mexico, authorities opted to confront dissent firmly. Skirmishes between student-led groups and government forces escalated until culminating in the killing of hundreds of protestors in the Tlatelolco district of …
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Identity and public attitudes to foreign aid: a framework for bottom-up policy reform
… the policy commitments governments make at the international level and policy implementation at the domestic level in order to address global problems such as poverty and climate change? I integrate the constructivist perspective in international relations and self-categorization theory in …
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Identity and public attitudes to foreign aid: a framework for bottom-up policy reform
… the policy commitments governments make at the international level and policy implementation at the domestic level in order to address global problems such as poverty and climate change? I integrate the constructivist perspective in international relations and self-categorization theory in …
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Selling Mexico: Race, Gender, and American Influence in Cancún, 1970-2000
… the importance of Cancún, Mexico’s top international tourism resort, in modern Mexican history. It promotes a deeper understanding of Mexico’s social, economic, and cultural history in the late twentieth century. In particular, this study focuses on the rise of mass middle-class tourism …
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In the era of normative power Europe
… Caribbean, able to punch above their weight in international affairs, thus overcoming limitations of acutely small size? This is the first of two questions that the dissertation addresses, by investigating how and under what conditions the Caribbean Region-an extremely small, marginal …
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IDENTITY MANAGEMENT POLITICS IN GLOCALIZED ENGLISH HEGEMONY: CULTURAL STRUGGLES, FACEWORK STRATEGIES, AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS IN TAIWANESE ENGLISH EDUCATION
… the world” and/or to increase their nation’s international image. However, in these NNES countries, English often does not hold official capacity and is taught as a foreign language (EFL). Although English (language) education can bring positive changes to a nation, it is not free of problems. …