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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"JZ International relations"”.
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Explaining Foreign Policy Change on the Korean Peninsula
… various states. Two major issues affect these international relationships, (1) the North Korean nuclear crisis, (2) the power competition between the US and China. There are four major actors in these relations, South Korea, North Korea, the US and China. This study aims to analyse how changes …
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The Role of State and Non-State Actors in Determining Violent and Nonviolent Tactics in Political Conflict
This thesis seeks to explain the choices of violent and nonviolent tactics in political conflict. It consists of three papers that focus on different aspects pertaining to the initiation and development of internal political conflict considering violence and nonviolence as potential mobilization …
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Between Passive and Active: The Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy Towards Israel
… The discourse surrounding Saudi-Israeli relations have either emphasised the strong animosity between them, or, have suggested a kind of ‘alliance’ resulting from Saudi-Israeli shared animosity towards Iran. This project argues against both accounts. Instead, it will argue that Saudi …
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Money. Money. Money? Economic incentives in civil conflict
… on the influence of wealth to explain the relationship between economic factors and civil peace. Many scholars have suggested that this may not be enough, but it does not appear that we have been listening. This thesis assesses the strength of economic incentives to influence the actions of …
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Food Security and Preferential Trade Agreements
Different disciplinary lenses condition the views on whether trade is generally seen as an opportunity for or threat to food security. Until now there is no consensus on the (empirical) impact in the literature. First, I analyse the impact of PTAs on food security across 93 low and middle income …
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Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence: The Case of Domestic Terrorism on Behalf of Ethnic Groups
… Attacks (DEMTA) is built using the Ethnic Power Relationship (EPR) dataset, the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), information from the Terrorist Organizations Profiles (TOPs) and other sources. The first chapter introduces the concept of ethnically motivated terrorism and a newly built database …
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The global politics of illicit-drug control
… and drug use has occurred despite increasing international action to prevent it. In describing the situation as a "drug problem", policy-makers have responded to the concern as if it were a single issue. However, the drug phenomenon is multi-faceted and multi-dimensional. It is the concern of …
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The transformation of the oil market: A study of financialisation through crises
… This thesis examines the evolution of the international oil market with a view to investigate how, and to what effect, the process of financialisation has transformed the structure and dynamics of the global oil market between 1980 and 2010. In tracing this phenomenon to the contemporary …
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The media in transition: The rise of an "independent" press in Post-Invasion Iraq and the American role in shaping the Iraqi press 2003 - 2005
This thesis covers the situation of the Iraqi press landscape after the toppling of Saddam’s regime on the 9th of April 2003. In particular, it attempts to disclose American interventions in the work of the Iraqi press in the period 2003-2006. It examines three main aspects of these interventions, …
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Global and local trajectories of social standardisation: The cases of Argentina and Brazil
… economic development, the model of state-society relations, and the political discourse promoted by the government. On this basis, this thesis can explain the divergent participation patterns found in Brazil and Argentina regarding the three global case study initiatives and their overall …
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The Least Developed Countries, the World Trade Organisation and the Norm of Special Treatment
… classification of counties, but also created an international norm of special treatment for these countries. The norm of special treatment for LDCs has, since then, slowly spread throughout the international system and has been institutionalised in many international organisations, including the …
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The politics of accountability at the World Bank and IMF: reforming engagements with low-income countries
The accountability relationships that surround the operations of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are a key feature of global politics. These institutions continue to face criticism from both state and non-state actors over perceived ‘democratic deficit’, and yet the frameworks that …
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Ambiguous Borders: the European Commission and the reconstruction of borders
The thrust of this study is to provide a critical reading of the configuration of borders through the discourse of one of the main institutions of the European Union (EU), the European Commission. My starting point is the observation of multiplication and transformation of EU and European borders …
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The United Nations and international peace and security: a legal and practical analysis
… to deal with matters in the sphere of international peace and security. The Cold War put an obstacle in the way of the Organisation to use its delegated powers in conflict resolution within the few years of its establishment. As a result, and because of the necessity to deal with …
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Coercion, norms and atrocity: explaining state compliance with international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia arrest and surrender orders
State compliance with International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) arrest and surrender orders, Article 29(d) and (e) obligations, remains under explored in international criminal tribunal (ICT) scholarship despite the fact compliance with ICTY orders often proved not …
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Rebuilding livelihoods of the poor affected by conflict through donor-led market-based approaches: the case of Liberia
A pro-poor market-based approach has increasingly been adopted by INGOs as a livelihoods rebuilding strategy following destructive armed-conflicts. However, there remains a gap in knowledge of the feasibility of such an approach in post-conflict contexts. This research seeks to address this gap. It …
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Strategic action in EU foreign policy: the Euro-Mediterranean partnership
Abstract available: p. [2]
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National images in international relations: Putin’s Russia and the West
… this problem by exploring the evolution of international images of the Russian Federation in the ‘West’ in the years of Vladimir Putin’s presidency (2000-2008) and by examining attempts by the Russian authorities to improve them with the help of foreign propaganda. Russian political elites …
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Human rights and environmental sustainability in the context of globalisation
This thesis undertakes a sustained engagement with theoretical debates within and between the fields of human rights and environmental sustainability, which, it is argued here, inevitably come together in the context of globalisation. At issue in this thesis are questions about the nature of and …
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