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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"National Interest"”.
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Education in the National Interest
… of educational policy devoted to serving "national interests." It begins with an interpretation of the 1983 educational reforms that received the greatest publicity with the U.S. Department of Education document A Nation at Risk, which prescribed educational policies intended to serve the …
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Manhunting : a methodology for finding persons of national interest
The asymmetrical threats that challenge U.S. national policies are not large standing armies, but rather individuals who seek to usurp and coerce U.S. national interests. The nature of today's threats call for the U.S. military to change from finding, fixing, and destroying the enemy's forces to …
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Self-interest, national interest and the political leader's responsibility
The two major schools of thought on international relations in the United States are the realists and the internationalists (often called utopians). Both have a long history in Anglo-American thinking on foreign affairs but the internationalists have taken a back seat to the realists since World …
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Russian Influence and Kyrgyz Weakness: A Realist Understanding of Kyrgyz National Interest
… whether the Kyrgyz Republic has operated in its national interest during the post-September 11, 2001 era by examining the Kyrgyz government’s decisions in the cases of the American and Russian military installations leased within Kyrgyzstan. It uses a Realist approach to “national interest” and …
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Challenges of safeguarding national interest in negotiating private investment contracts in Africa: case study on Malawi
… terms and conditions that are against their national interest, which in the cases of these contracts are their social and economic development goals. The conclusion of EDAs by countries that want to further their economic development is not reflected in the terms they agree to. Thus the …
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Policy directions in international lending : the case of the Inter-American Development Bank and Costa Rica
… became apparent that a focus purely within the national boundaries of Costa Rica would not be sufficient to elucidate the impact of the Bank's projects on the social, political and economic structure of the country. The impact of foreign aid within Costa Rica could only be understood by …
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The Unwed Father-Unworthy? The position of the natural father in South Africa following the Constitutional Court decision in Fraser v Children's Court Pretoria North
… and their extra-marital children. The widespread national interest peaked recently in 1997 in the delivery of the sensationalised Fraser judgement by the South African Constitutional Court. Through the declaration of this judgement, the Court broke new ground in pronouncing decisively not only on …
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Assessing news coverage of the South African Legislative laws
… by journalists which they consider doing such as national interest. In this geo-political context of South Africa, the engagement of media in covering the issue of legislative laws places an important area of study. It is the media that reports events, responses, criticisms etc. in relation to the …
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Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) attempts to break the Airbus-Boeing duopoly, will it succeed? : an industry analysis framework applied
… of an aerospace industry is deemed as national interest. However, the firm faces a high barrier of entry derived from the advantages the incumbent companies have in terms of their learning and experience curves, which allow them to effectively conduct research and development and …
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Compliance with EU Law: Why Do Some Member States Infringe EU Law More Than Others?
… states are in the EU because the EU serves their national interest over collective ones. Finally, these results suggest new hypothesis. Member states that have a high level of public discontent with the EU are unlikely to tolerate the political costs of implementing EU legislation.
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A Global Conceptualization of Giftedness: A Ciomparison of US and Indian Gifted Education Programs
… system and culminating in the landmark National Policy on Education of 1986 that sparked national interest in promoting a unique gifted education program, Indian efforts toward gifted education will also be investigated. By comparing and contrasting both country’s efforts, this study …
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A Catalyst for the Development of Human Rights: German Internment Practices in the First World War,1914-1929
This thesis is a transnational study of the military actions and responses related to prisoners of war in World War I. Building on the works human rights scholars, I explore the how the collective rights afforded to prisoners of war under the 1906 Geneva Convention and 1907 Hague Convention served …
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The Presidency Effect
… where necessary, unilaterally sacrifice its own national interest, to achieve agreement in the Council, in effect biasing the incumbent in favor of further European integration. This study uses "hard case"-evidence from United Kingdom (UK) Council Presidencies to test the predictions of this …
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Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668
… expansion rose to the level of a general national interest and that many early seventeenth-century texts index the complexities and tensions of this development. As a small but very organized group of merchants, peers, and MPs mobilized the military and financial technologies of …
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The Search for Continental Security: The Development of the North American Air Defence System, 1949 to 1956
… policy on air defence best served the Canadian national interest held by the Cabinet, the Department of External Affairs, the RCAF and the Other Government Departments (OGDs), namely Transport, Defence Production and Northern Affairs. For the Cabinet and External Affairs, their approach to air …
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Las raíces de la ira: Fernando Garcia’s Tone Poem & Chilean Politics in Music Culture
… Within the urgency for political reform, a national interest in Chilean folk heritage came to define how Chilean music represented issues of the working classes. As Salvador Allende established his associations with the resulting Nueva Cancion music, musicians faced the same social …
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in National Periodicals: 1991-2000
… Saints experienced a greater volume of national periodical attention than ever before in its history. This thesis surveys what was written about the Church in national magazines during that time and provides analysis of the effect of those writings on the Church's public image. National …
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Future naval ship procurement : a case study of the Navy's next-generation destroyer
… capabilities it needs to execute the nation's national security. Several factors influence the cost growth of weapons procurement programs. Intentionally low estimates can help convince Congress to commit to programs that are actually very expensive. Bureaucratic politics can cause the Navy to …
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE TAIWAN NAVY MINEHUNTER PROCUREMENT FRAUD CASE
… defense shipbuilding goal and damaged the national interest. In this thesis, a three-part matrix was created to describe the alleged incidents of Taiwan Ministry of National Defense (MND), First Bank, and Ching-Fu’s fraudulent loan activities. The alleged incidents detailed in the …
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