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Showing 1 to 20 of 378 for “"Nation-State"”.
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Ethnic identity in a 'Homogeneous' Nation State
… and not aligned with key political factors of national identity, interpersonal trust, political participation, voting and government legitimacy. There are no important politically relevant cleavages structures in Botswana. This study concludes by proposing that, it may be this lack of …
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Power vs. profit: multinational corporation–nation state interaction
<p>During the early 1970s, the multinational corporations suddenly became a major issue of public concern. Among the reasons were the inflationary spiral and the dramatic rise in oil prices after the Arab oil embargo of Fall 1973.</p> <p>While to the public the companies were a novel topic, to the …
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Tourism Media Dynamics: Narratives of the Nation-State
… of tourism representational language and China’s nation-state ideology; secondly, between interpretations from overseas Chinese audiences and nation-state narratives delivered via the tourism media. In analyzing the first dialogue, this dissertation reveals that the pursuit of collective and …
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Change and the nation-state in the European Union
… areas where the Community's laws supersede the national laws. The process whereby the Union affects the state has been characterised as ' Europeanisation.' This paper examines the adaptation in certain policy areas, not of policy itself, but at changes in the decision-making mechanisms that …
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U.S. nation-state building operations in Afghanistan: A case study
… attempted by the U.S. in order to stabilize the state. This thesis was designed to test the efficacy of U.S. nation-state building operations in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. This study analyzes the following: (1) the causes for the nation-state-building operations in Afghanistan; (2) the …
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Nation -State, Development, and Community in a Rural Sinhala Setting
… to its vociferous claim to prove otherwise, the nation-state's project of social integration, totalization, and unification is carried through the denial of particularities and differences, because the nation-state's assertion of format equality and social unity has no factual basis. This …
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Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, state, and pan-Africanism in Ghana
… first independent government—during the nation-building project of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1957, when Ghana became independent, the country’s transition to self-rule emerged as a watershed moment in African and world history as this small West African country challenged an international …
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In Defense of Empire: Habsburg Sociology and the European Nation-State, 1870-1920
<p>This dissertation asks how Europe’s multinational states legitimized themselves in the face of new, nation-based theories of sovereignty around the turn of the twentieth century. It answers this question by analyzing the production, reception, and circulation of the concept of “empire” in and …
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Migration, Colonialism, Globalization: Histories of the Free -Subject and the Sovereign Nation-State
… the very categories---of free labor and nationality---that undergird bourgeois political economy and the nation-state, which we now not only privilege in studying migration, but which are among the salient categories that organize our social world. And, second, that the normative content …
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The liquid border: Subjectivity at the limits of the nation-state in southeast Europe
This is a study of power at the limits of the nation-state: an examination of the institution of the national border that focuses on the practices of the border people, from the perspective of cultural and performance theory. The site of this study is the trilateral border region of Prespa, where …
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Reimagination of Turkey: The Emergence and Challenges of Post-Kemalist Nation-State Identity (2001-2011)
… the emergence of Turkey’s post-Kemalist nation-state identity and its challenges in the post-9/11 era. By challenging the argument that there is essentially one understanding of Turkey’s identity, it exposes competing perspectives on Turkey’s new identity and its place in the world. To …
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India at the United Nations: a postcolonial nation-state on the global stage, 1945-1955
Prior to Indian independence, the Indian National Congress made savvy use of the United Nations as a global stage upon which to establish a sense of inevitability around postcolonial Congress leadership despite the uncertainty of post-independence power sharing in New Delhi. The aspirational …
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The Development of the Modern Iranian Nation-State: From Qajar Origins to Early Pahlavi Modernization
… thesis focuses on the development of the Iranian nation and state from 1811 to 1941. Both of these developments occurred in response to Iran's encounter with the European powers, specifically Russia and Great Britain. Government-led reforms opened the possibility for the development of Iranian …
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From a Confessional to a Nation State? National Identity and the Church of England, 1780-1838
… from a position of being the principal medium of nation-wide identity formation to one in which the institution represented just one of a number of different vehicles through which to form and sustain an identity. It endeavours to achieve this through the examination of the multifarious ways in …
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