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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Monarchies"”.
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Stability versus sustainability: energy policy in the Gulf monarchies
… of oil and natural gas inside the six Gulf Arab monarchies threatens to displace hydrocarbon exports that have long provided a large source of GDP. This trend is, in large part, a result of subsidized energy pricing and distribution, practices which form an integral part of rentier structures of …
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Greening for Self-Conservation? Energy Security and Responses to Climate Change in the Small Gulf Monarchies
… responses of the small oil and gas-exporting monarchies of the Persian Gulf at the turn of the 21st century. At a more fundamental level, the study is a detailed examination of the natural resource-related ‘unsustainabilities’ of these political economies. The study centres on a comparison of …
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Feeling the Pulse of the Street: Socio-Cultural Demands and Regime Responsiveness in the Arab Monarchies of the Gulf
… and that in certain circumstances the Gulf monarchies implement or change socio-cultural policies to satisfy the demands of citizens to build support or ensure acquiescence and preserve their rule. It does so by applying the concepts of, one, authoritarian responsiveness, which holds …
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Feeling the Pulse of the Street: Socio-Cultural Demands and Regime Responsiveness in the Arab Monarchies of the Gulf
… and that in certain circumstances the Gulf monarchies implement or change socio-cultural policies to satisfy the demands of citizens to build support or ensure acquiescence and preserve their rule. It does so by applying the concepts of, one, authoritarian responsiveness, which holds …
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Governance Practice Between Monarchies and Republics: A Case Study of the Political Reform in the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Tunisia from 1990 to 2021
<p>Political Reform is one of the indicators of the governance process, which can be correctly used to build the state and to support its role at all political, economic, and social levels to achieve good governance. From this, it can be said that political reform is positively linked to …
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Civil-military relations and monarchical survival : a comparative analysis of Morocco and Jordan
… Arab world, particularly when it comes to the monarchies, has missed many crucial elements. Specifically, the role of the military within the elite coalition and the factors that lead to variation on this variable have not been adequately studied. In this report, two cases of persistent …
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Factors That Enable or Hinder the Transition of Some Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries to Green Energy
… (UAE) and tries to understand how these rentier monarchies that have built a solid global comparative advantage in producing and exporting oil and oil-related products and created well-managed, profitable, state-owned enterprises can transition to green energy. Working within the frameworks of …
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Balancing monarchical and human rights in Southern Africa: experiences from the kingdom of Eswatini
… The study seeks to examine how traditional monarchies in the 21st century treats the issue of human rights bearing in mind the fact that the current global system highly believes in upholding the fundamental freedoms and rights of the people. As a case study, this study seeks to examine the …
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Ruling with Rules: Electoral Institutions and Authoritarian Resilience in the Middle East
… Morocco have served to reinforce these two Arab monarchies. In doing so, it develops a framework in which the degree of cohesion among incumbent and opposition elites shape electoral system design and, in turn, particular electoral rules structure mass political attitudes and elite …
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From normalization of relations to war: United States-Libya relations 2001-2011
… European states (Britain and France) and Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates) whose interests included regional and political stability, or in other words, maintaining the status quo, as well as commercial interests regarding Libya’s oil and natural gas reserves. The …
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Herodotus and the birth of freedom.
… overreach to be possible in any regime, not just monarchies. This dissertation therefore serves as a first step in refuting several prominent scholarly contentions, such as the claim that the Persians were all slaves to their kings, that Herodotus considered the Greek word týrannos to be a morally …
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The Legacy of the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1965
… the democratic form of government as opposed to monarchies or other institutions. But in the middle twentieth-century that interpretation began to shift, with many both abroad and at home beginning to see the speech?s assertion of human equality as its focal point and most important contribution.
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Brunei: building and enshrining an absolute monarchy
… Darussalam is one of the few remaining absolute monarchies in the world today. In an era that sees countries move towards democratisation, Brunei has moved towards the entrenchment of its absolute monarchy. With that in mind, the question this thesis seeks to examine is how Brunei has managed to …
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Stories of the Land: Nature and Religion in Early British and Irish Literary Landscapes
… Augustine's writings and the rise of new Western monarchies, which together helped shape Anglo-Saxon cultural views significantly, distinguishing them from earlier Christian cultures in western Britain and Ireland, and laying the groundwork for modern Western attitudes toward nature."
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Liszt as Prophet: Religion, Politics, and Artists in 1830s Paris
… oppressive climates of the Restoration and July monarchies. Similarly, the Church--reinstated by Napoleon but still greatly diminished in power--struggled for relevance in an increasingly indifferent society, leading many Catholics to embrace liberal causes. Finally, the emergence of a new …
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Making Nationalism Work: German Attempts at Liberalism and Nationalism, 1848-1871
… democratic movement challenged the conservative monarchies of Germany. During the Revolutions of 1848, that movement was able to seize power and establish a new Germany which promised a nation-state based on rights and freedoms. However, by 1871 and the establishment of the German Empire Germany …
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Histories of Liberty in Scottish Thought, 1747-1787
… Laws', he had questioned whether republicanising monarchies would really render them free; the best way of sustaining both liberty and commerce in a monarchy, he argued instead, was through feudal property and feudal courts. This story was picked up in Scotland by John Dalrymple, David Hume, and …
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Monarchy in the democratic age: the head of state debate in Britain: a constitutional and comparative analysis
… and regimes, including even hereditary monarchies provided certain conditions are met. An important sector of republican sentiment is motivated less by distaste for the hereditary principle than by a positive aspiration for transparent, pluralist governance which, it considers, is not …
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Child Kingship in England, Scotland, France, and Germany, c.1050 - c.1250
… far greater political continuity across medieval monarchies than is usually appreciated. This constitutes a fresh and original contribution towards the study of medieval rulership in northwestern Europe.
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