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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Political Geography"”.
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The political geography of annexation--Roanoke, Virginia
… opposition to annexation. An historical and political geographic methodology, which focused on Guelke's idealism, was used to analyze the role of the two principal actors, city and county officials as public personae, whose actions on the four issues constituted the scenario for the city's …
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The Political Geography of Regional Diplomacy in the Russian Federation
This thesis investigates the political geography of regional diplomacy in the Russian Federation. The international activities of regions, often referred to as paradiplomacy, has a contested history since the formation of the Russian state in 1991. During a period of decentralised power and …
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The political geography of a Palestinian state: Main problems of implementation
1 PDF file (vii, 101 pages)
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Residential Constraints and the Political Geography of the Populist Radical Right
… effects of growing international economic and political integration. To explain this puzzle, I articulate a theory of residential constraints as a key driver of PRR support. I hypothesize that when citizens’ means of reacting to local conditions or “voting with their feet” are blocked, they are …
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The push and pull of war: the political geography of rebel behavior during wartime
The bulk of work on civil conflict seeks to explain variation across civil wars rather than within them. This has led to a better understanding as to why civil wars erupt in some countries, whereas others remain relatively peaceful over a prolonged period of time. What is lacking, however, is a …
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Supranational systems and cross-national online communication in Wallonia and Quebec
… how parties can benefit from the interconnected political geography that exists in the EU. In order to do this, this study compares the Facebook communication tactics of the EU example of Wallonia (Belgium) to a similar, non-EU example of Quebec (Canada). These two regions have many similarities …
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Lefebvrean analyses of the South Africa-Botswana international border and borderlands
… and borderlands are geographically organized political spaces which are primary objects of geographical research. This cluster of geographic border spaces embody the territorial dimensions of Lefebvre's scholarship which are critically under advanced and not readily appropriated in political …
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Empire Displaced: Ottoman-Habsburg Forced Migration and the Near Eastern Crisis, 1875-1878
… 1878, which ended the violence, reconfigured the political geography of the Balkans, making the former Ottoman provinces of Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia independent; giving a sweeping autonomy to Bulgaria, and handing over to Austria-Hungary the administration of a nominally Ottoman Bosnia and …
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The security-identity nexus in Euro-Atlantic integration: rethinking multi-scalar governance
… to understandings of the state and governance in political geography and its cognate disciplines of international relations and anthropology. The first essay examines the practices of governance in the European Union’s process of security and defense integration. The second essay investigates how …
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Reforming the state from within: public servants and knowledge transfer in post-2008 Ecuador
… thesis makes contributions to the field(s) of political geography and anthropology of the state, as well as intervening in debate on state reform in Latin America and beyond. It foregrounds the everyday experience of working in the state, rather than measuring public servants’ accounts and …
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a City and Nation Branding Tool: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Image of International Opinion Leaders
… of Beijing and China. Drawing from urban geography, political geography, international relations, and marketing theory, the study explores how mega-events contribute to the construction of national identity and global image. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research combines qualitative …
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Entangled Humanitarianism: The Shifting Ethical Landscape of Refugee Resettlement in Missoula, Montana
… this dissertation are grounded in feminist political geography, critical refugee studies, and critical humanitarianism. Overall, this dissertation contributes to our understandings of the governance structures, boundaries, and forms of care that define and constrain refugee resettlement, and …
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Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action
… significant level of social discomfort about the political and economic system of the country. The central objective of this dissertation is to analyze how motivations, achievements, and failures of these movements have a dialectical relationship with the spatial features, specifically with the …
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Making Hui: The minoritisation, performance and place of Islam in contemporary Beijing
In today's geopolitical climate, when the West's gaze is fixed on radical Islam, the U.S.led “Global War on Terror” is used to control Muslims everywhere. Set in this context, this research examines how the Chinese State co-created the ethnicity and place of the Hui, China's largest Islamic …
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Negotiating the state at its margins: Colonial authority in Condominium Darfur 1916-1956
… state had to engage with many of the same political dynamics as its predecessors. The thesis also shows that Darfuris contracted with colonial authority on the grounds of local chieftaincy and boundary disputes. Rather than simply enforcing state authority, officials were often drawn into …
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Geographical perspectives on international cooperation and conflict
… and 2) the escalation of territorial disputes. Political geographers have emphasized the need to look at political issues using key concepts developed in geography. In this dissertation the concepts of context and scale are applied to revisit existing studies. First, the support to the U.S. in …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… markers, and what limitations social democratic political organisations face when appealing to them. The underlying processes affecting class realignment of the working-class, understood as the reshuffling of partisan loyalties characterising classes at certain periods and places, are addressed …
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Art, Ideology, and Politics at El Achiotal: A Late Preclassic Frontier Site in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala
… regional setting of the Late Preclassic Period political geography and argue that it functioned as a frontier center between the Central Karstic Uplands and the wetland and riverine system to the west.</p><p>My results indicate that El Achiotal was settled during the transition from the Middle …
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