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Showing 1 to 20 of 281 for “"International and Area Studies"”.
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The Internal Determinants of International Organization Actorness: The European Union and Climate Change?
<p>Climate change mitigation and adaptation requires global, coordinated responses. Each region/country must do its part, led by multinational, multilateral actors and organizations on the local, national and regional level. The European Union (EU) is the region’s representative. The effectiveness …
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Challenges and Livelihood Strategies of Darfurian Refugees Living in Kampala, Uganda
… for Refugees (UNHCR), host governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are providing services to them, thereby posing many challenges to the refugees themselves in having their needs addressed. My research with the Darfurian refugee population in Kampala, Uganda provides …
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Globalization: From a Political, Economical and Cultural Perspective
Looking at the state and nature of international relations at the beginning of the 21st century, the world has evolved from a rather isolationist and independent territory dominated and defined by nation-states and national borders to an increasingly interdependent, global community that is based …
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Art, Science, and Construction: Exploring the Boundaries of Modern Architecture in the Arabic Context, the Work of Sayed Karim and Rifat Chadirji
… explores the changing boundaries of architecture and its relationship to other fields of knowledge, mainly science, mathematics, and art, to develop a reading of modern Arab architecture situated within its own intellectual background. Notwithstanding the emergence of modern ideas, technologies, …
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Rare Earth: Gemstones, Geohistory, and Commercial Geography c. 1600-1750
… the world’s precious stones were mined in South and Southeast Asia. Europeans had long associated these parts of the world with mineral wealth, but it was not until the establishment of direct maritime connections to Indian Ocean trade in the early modern period that European scholars were able …
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The Family Business: DNA Ancestry Tests and White Identity
… two decades as a exponentially growing industry, and advertisements for these products in recent years have permeated households throughout the global West. This research explores the history of nation and race as human social categories and how these concepts relate to modern studies on the …
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Occupational Stereotypes Among Haitian High School Seniors : Their Relative Importance to Career Aspirations in Relation to Selected Variables and the Implications for Educational Leadership
… determine the nature of occupational stereotypes and their relative importance to career aspirations with implications for educational leadership.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>Eight high schools were chosen by a stratified random sampling method from all private secondary schools and "lycees" in Haiti to …
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The Origins of Organized Crime
… illustrate the correlation between democratic and market economy transitions and the increase of organized crime. This correlation exists despite the differences in political system prior to the democratic transition. What matters the most is that these transitions either occur at the same time …
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The Effect of Chinese Industrial Investment Projects in Central Africa on the Perception of China’s Commercial Diplomacy in Foreign Policy
… of hard currency, supply inexpensive industrial and consumer products, and diversify their economic interests, China plays a key role in the new global marketplace. The Chinese system of investment diversification forms the foundation of their commercial diplomacy. One advantage China enjoys is a …
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FROM KIN TO KIND: ARMENIAN RACIALIZATION AND THE MEDIATION OF THE “HUMAN” IN THE LATE-TO-POST OTTOMAN EMPIRE
“From Kin to Kind: Armenian Racialization and the Mediation of the ‘Human’ in the Late-to-Post Ottoman Empire” traces the interspecies dynamics of racialization in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish republic through the perspective of one of the empire’s ethnominority communities: Armenians. …
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Sound Of “Di” Police: Community Policing and Crime Abatement in Post-Colonial Jamaica
… <p>In 2007, the third largest island in the Caribbean, Jamaica, implemented a policing strategy known as community policing. With a population of just over 2.9 million, Jamaica is listed as number 10 out of 20 of the most dangerous places in the world. Additionally, the IMF has …
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A New Era of Distilling: How Dynamic Capabilities Drive Transformation in the Distilling Industry
… people realized that by adding water, sugar, and starch together, they could develop a drink with alcohol that was safer to drink than the water all around them. Over several centuries, this discovery has grown into a significant industry worldwide. In the United States, the distilling …
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Dislocation and Adjustment of International Student-Athletes
<p>One reason that attracts international student-athletes to American universities could be the interest in earning high quality education with the possibility of playing high performance sports. However, when compared to other international students, differences are seen: Other foreign students …
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Child Soldiers: Solutions from a Humanistic Lens
… examines the issue of Child Soldiers using case studies of three conflicts in which children were found fighting. The paper also looks at the CSPA and the Presidential waiver of four countries by President Obama.</p>
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Recalling the Lineage: Practices of Recitation and Renunciation at Three Thai Bhikkhuni Monasteries, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Pathom, Songkhla
This dissertation is based upon a year and a half of ethnographic fieldwork with three communities of Thai Buddhist female monks (bhikkhuni). Because neither the Thai government nor the Supreme Sangha Council, the monastic body of Thailand, will grant them legitimacy, bhikkhuni build networks …
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"Assessing the Efficacy of Integration Strategies for Immigrant Communities: A Case Study of the United States and France"
… often been a prominent issue in the context of international relations, both historically when looking at the mass waves of European immigration throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and even more so in the current context of our globalized society with its increasingly complex migration …
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Beyond the Cloth: Exploring How Women are Represented in Human Rights Organizations through Bangladesh's Garment Industry
<p><strong>Understanding Beyond the Cloth </strong></p> <p>This thesis conducts a textual analysis of several human rights organizations. It looks at how human rights organizations represent women in the garment industry. I investigate a variety of organizations and look at how they utilize women’s …
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Countering the DREAMer Narrative: Storytelling, Immigration Reform, and the Work of 67 Sueños
… of the immigrant community. In 2010, the Bay Area-based group 67 Sueños (“67 Dreams”) was formed in order to express the voices of undocumented youth not represented in the debate. Storytelling is one of the tactics the group utilizes. The nature of the group’s storytelling practices was …
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