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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Neorealism"”.
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A critical analysis of neorealism and writing the screenplay, Mid-Sized City (Waco).
… historical and theoretical background to Italian neorealism and its influences specifically in global cinema and modern American independent cinema. It will also consist of a screenplay for a short film inspired by neorealist practices. Following this, a detailed script analysis will examine a …
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Prospective Balance: Loss Aversion and Consistency in International Relations
… and conflict. The theory argues against neorealism in which the distribution of power in the international system purports to explain the phenomenon of interest. Balance theory is a manifestation of non-additivity, while attitudinal consistency is a manifestation of non-linearity. …
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A dynamic two-level theory of state implosion: The cases of Lebanon, Algeria, and Yugoslavia
… little attention to state implosion. Realism, neorealism, neoliberal institutionalism, and constructivism posit the existence and stability of states, but do not offer a theory of state formation, preservation or implosion. They assume what has to be demonstrated.
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The Emergence and Development of Digital Film-Making in Iran
… culture of Iran and the presence of Iranian neorealism film-makers, we face the emergence of a new kind of film-making which has certain international effects in world cinema. These film-makers have found a new method to approach reality and represent it in their films. On the other hand, …
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U.S. Relationships with Iran, Israel, and Pakistan: A Realist Explanation
… when compared to the four competing theories of neorealism, liberalism, neoliberal institutionalism, and constructivism. Each case study is examined and evaluated in full detail. Particular emphasis is allotted to variables such as foreign aid, interventionism, sanctions, geography, and political …
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L'imperialismo, come la lebbra, si cura con la morte": intesecting narratives in Ennio Flaiano's Tempo di uccidere
… of post-war Italy, then dominated by the age of neorealism. With Tempo di uccidere, Flaiano chooses to counter the largely nationally inward, materialist gaze of his contemporary authors by shifting the focus to a socio-political and cultural environment ghat would have proved largely foreign to …
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U.S. in the Unipolar Moment: Analysis of George W. Bush Middle East Foreign Policy
… the context of international relations theories neorealism, neoliberalism, and neoconservatism, U.S. policy is broken down into three policy priorities: stability, security, and democracy promotion and measured for each state for each year of the administration. Line graphs illustrate the changes …
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From normalization of relations to war: United States-Libya relations 2001-2011
… relations. This study uses theoretical (neorealism, liberal internationalism and neo-Gramscian analysis) and qualitative research methods in order to investigate the rationale for the U.S. government’s decision to support the 2011 international military intervention in the Libyan …
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BEHIND THE ART HOUSE: The Evolution of Art-House Distribution after World War II and the Rise of the Selling of Films as High Culture
… numerous sources. After World War II, Italian neorealism exploded on the American cultural scene, creating the first significant wave of art-houses, which led leading independent movie houses to adopt art-film policies in response to industry changes, and brought the attention of major critics …
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Asymmetric Strategies and Asymmetric Threats: A Structural-realist Critique of Drone Strikes in Pakistan, 2004-2014
… strikes necessitates the continued evolution of neorealism as an IR theory.
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Tracing the Development of East African Community on Peace and Security
… from the top-down/state-centric approaches (neorealism/neoliberalism/constructivism/etc.) or as vernacular security--bottom-up. Both of these approaches are inadequate in that they still a) prioritize the state/relate to the state/central authority, b) are Eurocentric (based on/dominated by …
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Mimesis: Figure di realismo e postrealismo dantesco nell’opera di Pier Paolo Pasolini
… sulla nuova ‘questione della lingua’, sul Neorealismo e sul Neosperimentalismo negli anni ’50. Infine, esamino quella fase pasoliniana di ‘postrealismo dantesco’, nella quale l’autore mette in discussione la poetica della mimesis ritrovando piuttosto nell’allegoria e nella visione gli …
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Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”
… modernism in Britain to the emergence of neorealism in post-war Italian cinema to examine what carries over from one movement to the next, namely a preoccupation with the individual who becomes increasingly isolated from themselves and society as a result of the limiting conditions of …
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Evaluating competing theoretical perspectives on cooperation: the case study of Asean in the post-cold war era
… be better explained by liberal theory than by neorealism - namely that states will be motivated for cooperating not exclusively because of a common enemy, but because they have reduced their commitment to war as an instrument of policy. The case-study of the Association of Southeast Asian …
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The Impact of Oil Production and Consumption on the Balance of Power
… incorporates both systemic stimuli (such as neorealism) when analysing a policy response, but it incorporates other variables such as leader perception, strategic culture, etc. as well in order to have a better explanatory power. - The case of oil and balance of power is more optimal if it …
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The Effect of Regional Security Environments on State Attitudes Regarding the Use of Force and International Law: A Quantitative Analysis Utilizing International Positions on Operation Iraqi Freedom
The US-led war to oust the regime of Saddam Hussein elicited a wide range of responses among liberal states, from active diplomatic opposition in the prelude to war to actual combat support once hostilities commenced. These divergent responses, in part, reflected different perceptions of the …
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Royce and Perry on Idealism and Realism
This thesis is primarily an attempt to reconstruct the debate between Josiah Royce and Ralph Barton Perry concerning the viability of both the realist and idealist positions. Secondarily, I will show that this debate is a crucial part of an adequate understanding of the changes that took place in …
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The Sovereign State as Political Community: A Revisiting of the Post-Structuralist Critique of the Neorealist State
The continued commitment to and assertion of the primacy of the sovereign state within international relations theory has resulted in a discourse which theorizes and examines only those issues and conflicts of international politics which can be made to fit neatly within the prism of the neorealist …
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Relative Gewinne als Kooperationshindernis in den Internationalen Beziehungen
… Theoriediskussion zwischen Vertretern des Neorealismus und Neoliberalismus, doch hat die Debatte um die Relevanz relativer Gewinne kein allgemein akzeptiertes Ergebnis erbracht. Unter Verwendung eines spieltheoretischen Instrumentariums werden daher die verbreitetsten theoretischen …
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Imagens literárias do Alentejo em Manuel da Fonseca: Planície, Aldeia Nova e Seara de Vento
“Imagens Literárias do Alentejo em Manuel da Fonseca: Planície, Aldeia Nova e Seara de Vento” assume-se como um trabalho de investigação subordinado ao estudo imagológico da região do Alentejo em Manuel da Fonseca. A fim de se constituir um corpus de análise credível e diversificado, foram …
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