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Showing 1 to 20 of 533 for “"Political Studies"”.
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Approaches to the problems of political risk in foreign direct investment
… challenges multinational enterprises face from political risk when making and operating foreign direct investments. The thesis considers political risk and a wide variety of approaches to its analysis and provides insight into the process of foreign direct investment, the nature of the political …
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Rape as a tool of war: a critical study
… and approaches including Anthropological Studies, Feminist Studies and Historical Studies. The analysis also includes Political Studies and its various sub-disciplines, case studies of African conflicts and more specifically studies of the Rwandan conflict, together with the civil war of …
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Organ Trade in India - The Grey Area
Master Thesis Abstract Institute of Political Studies Faculty of Social Sciences Charles University in Prague Author: Pavithra Ramesh Supervisor: Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. E-mail: Pavithra.ramesh14@gmail.co m E-mail: janusz.salamon@univ- oxford.com Phone: +420774960096 Phone: +420731816202 …
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The administration of a university with particular reference to the University of Cape Town
[pg 168 missing] There have been schools of learning in many parts of the world dating back to ancient times: in the fifth century before the birth of Christ the first University that we have knowledge of flourished as Nisibis in Asia Minor; in Ancient Greece Plato also instructed his little group …
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‘Imagining' the Rohingya: Navigating Identity, Memory, and Visibility Examining different methods of documenting Rohingya identities, experiences, and lives.
On the 25th of August 2017, the Myanmar military, Tatmadaw, launched a systematic orchestration of what the UN described as a ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing' of the stateless minority group, the Rohingya residing in the Northern Rakhine region of Myanmar. Since August 2017, more than 700 000 …
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Maritime Piracy as a Challenge to Maritime Governance: A Critical Analysis of Counter Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
… an important region economically, socially, and politically. Since 2011, a substantial amount of time, research, human and financial resources have been dedicated towards this region, specifically, towards eradicating the threat of maritime piracy. Incidences of maritime piracy in the Gulf of …
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The comfort women: A study exploring the nuances of the movement
The term ‘comfort women' refers to victims who were abducted and forced into a system of sex trafficking that started as early as the 1930s until the end of World War II. The system was sanctioned by the Japanese government which saw its Imperial Army abducting an estimated 200,000 women and girls …
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The effects of agencification on the capacity of the federal inland revenue service in Nigeria
… the adoption of autonomy which is reducing the political control of specialized public institutions will solve corporate and administrative problems and the same time drive efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery to the public. Autonomy of revenue agencies have been at the forefront of …
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Political Marginalisation and Political Violence in the Niger Delta
… of civilians to participate in, and justify political violence in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. The dominant literature in this area tends to highlight political, economic and identity marginalisation as the causal factors behind political violence. However, there remains a lack of clarity in …
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Promoting Gender Equality in the Classroom: A Comparison between Methodologies used by Equal Education and the Department of Basic Education
This thesis compares how the South African Government, specifically the Department of Basic Education and the NGO Equal Education to see how these organizations work to promote gender equality. The study will contribute to a systematic comparison of approaches between the Department of Basic …
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The Everlasting Plague of Settler Colonialism in South Africa: An Autoethnographic Study on the Settler Logic of Eliminations? Assimilative Projects and its Impact Upon Understandings of Identity and the Self
Eyewitness testimonies are integral pieces of evidence in criminal justice investigations. This is because justified conviction and appropriate sentencing can flow from eyewitness testimony. However, research has demonstrated that eyewitness testimony is often unreliable, even more so, the …
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Exit, voice, and loyalty: an analysis of African states' behaviour in relation to the international criminal court
African states have been divided in their relations with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Despite these divisions, the literature on this relationship has focused on withdrawal behaviour to the neglect of other types of behaviour, such as support for the ICC. Consequently, it is unable to …
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Of all people, by all people, for all people? Perceptions of economic inequality and democracy in Africa
… reducing support for democracy and discouraging political participation. However, these findings have largely been described for cases in the global North. Little evidence is available for cases in Africa. This reflects an important omission in the literature. Africa – as a region – is …
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"The Government Believes That History Unfolds as History Unfolds" In what ways have consecutive Dutch governments sought to address Dutch violence during Indonesia's independence war of 1945-1949? A study into the approaches applied by Dutch governments over the course of almost seventy years
Since the end of the twentieth century, more and more countries have been confronted with how to deal with injustice from the past. Current governments are increasingly asked requested to assume accountability for crimes committed by their predecessors. Due to the growth of human rights, the …
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Reclaiming histories: The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals
Produced with the intent to link the consciousness of the classified coloured Simonites to the needs presented by their physical surroundings, this study presents a poststructuralist critique of the post-apartheid culture of race. It invokes the Simonites' production of a living, inclusive and …
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Political violence, fear, and democracy: how violence shapes democracy in Mozambique
… How does living in a violent context influence political participation, political behavior, and attitudes about democracy? Since the end of the Cold War, intrastate violence has increased across developing democracies. This growing violence has occurred in parallel with the proliferation of …
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Colonial world-making in future technological landscapes: a qualitative comparative case study of the Sophia the Robot and Miquela Projects
… the risk of missing the ways in which private political and economic interests shape future technological imagining. From Jeff Bezos floating space coloniesto Mark Zuckerberg's reality bending ‘metaverse', private companies envision futures that will be far better than present society. However, …
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An analysis of the challenges to the implementation of the revitalised agreement on the resolution of conflict in South Sudan from 2018 to 2022
… order, peace, and freedom after many years of political unrest and conflict. The most recent and promising agreement, the Revitalised Agreement on Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS), signed in September 2018, has seen the implementation of some aspects of the peace deal. However, …
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Factors affecting parliament's performance of budgetary oversight in Botswana
… formal powers of parliament as well as political party dynamics. The study further assesses the extent to which the parliament of Botswana has effectively performed its budgetary oversight role as a result of its improved or weakened experience with the selected factors associated with …
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Young and the urban in Addis Ababa: towards a popular history of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, c. 1950s-1974
… social and cultural formation of subjects, the political formativeness of cultural phenomena, and explicitly political protest.
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