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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Political relations"”.
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Ireland and Spain, 1939-55: Cultural, Economic and Political Relations from Neutrality in the Second World War to Joint Membership of the United Nations
… this thesis is to investigate and understand the relationship between Ireland and Spain from 1939 to 1955 by researching the cultural, economic and political ties that existed between both nations. The research is based on primary sources examined in the diplomatic archives of Dublin and Madrid as …
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ΤΑ ΧΕΡΣΑΙΑ ΣΥΝΟΡΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ
… SAME TIME, ACCORDING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLITICAL RELATIONS OF THE BORDERING COUNTRIES. THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOOD NEIGHBOURINGRELATIONS AND THE PEACEFUL SOLUTION OF THE BOUNDARY DISPUTES AND INCIDENTS ARESTEADY AIMS IN THE EXTERNAL POLICY OF THE STATES. THE LAND BOARDERS OF GREECE WERE …
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Anglo-Iberian Relations 1150-1280: A Diplomatic History
This thesis examines the political relations between England and the Iberian Peninsula, from the accession of Henry II of England to the death of Alfonso X of León-Castile, an episode in diplomatic history that remains largely unexplored. This period, spanning over a century and a half, was …
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NGOs Advocating for the South in the United States Congress: Changing the Rules of the Global Game
… and to reinforce existing North-South power relationships. Northern NGOs acted implicitly as representatives of the citizens of the South, thereby unwittingly helping to reproduce and institutionalize certain North-South power differentials. Ultimately, the campaign that was the most …
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Cross-strait economic ties, Taiwan's domestic politics, and China-Taiwan relations, 1990 - 2008
This dissertation examines the relationship between economic interdependence and peace, an important research topic in the field of international relations, by conducting a case study of China-Taiwan relations. The key question addressed in the dissertation is whether and how the growth of …
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Audiovisual Translation, Ideology and Politics: A Case Study of the Effects of Franco-American Relations on Hollywood Film Translation
… worldwide; thus, the cultural, ideological and political embeddedness of its dubbed products warrants analysis within a Translation Studies framework. Situated within the context of Franco-American political relations of 2003, when the two nations disagreed over the Iraq invasion, this case …
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WE SUBDUED THE BODY BUT NOT THE COURAGE': POPULAR LITERATURE, SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY, AND CEREMONIAL RITES OF POWER DURING THE DUTCH REVOLT, 1550-1598'
… creates a comprehensive analysis of the religio-political relations and social change in the Low Countries. My work draws upon the premises that appeared most consistently in the literature and images circulated during the Dutch Revolt: strategy and communication, sovereignty and …
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"Her panting heart beat measures of consent": Women's Sexual Agency in Eliza Haywood's Fiction
… critical, contemporary discussions about power relations and consent in both social and legal constructs. Her texts resist the boundary between the private domain of interpersonal relationships and the public domain of political relations. Rather, her fiction engages in a wide-reaching discourse …
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IDENTITIES, PROXIMITY, AND MOBILIZATION IN INDIAN SLUM NEIGHBORHOODS
<p>Urbanization in the global south has made the relationship between ethnic proximity and politics increasingly important. The literature mainly studies either the social or the political effects of proximity, without distinguishing between them or exploring their relationship to one another. I …
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On Virtual Becoming and Belonging: Visualizing the Performativity of Sudanese Cultural Identity and Resistance
A contested history with turbulent political narratives has played a leading role in the formation of Sudanese identity. It is situated firmly in a romanticized past as it is in a troubled present. For the diaspora, social media platforms function as spaces for the continuous formation and …
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New Zealand defence policy under Labour
… Most attention has been focused on the state of political relations between the ANZUS powers. It is however, impossible to make a fully informed judgement about the merits of the Government's present defence policy of developing closer relations with Australia in the context of what it claims is …
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New Zealand defence policy under Labour
… Most attention has been focused on the state of political relations between the ANZUS powers. It is however, impossible to make a fully informed judgement about the merits of the Government's present defence policy of developing closer relations with Australia in the context of what it claims is …
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"Highland Farmers and the ""Modernizing"" State in Ethiopia: Conjunctures and Disjunctures"
… and two-pronged look of the cultural and political relations between indigenous social institutions and practices of highland farmers in Warra Himanu, South Wallo Administrative Zone, and successive regime forms of the ""modernizing"" state in Ethiopia. With regard to farmers in Warra …
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Liberalizing Democracy: Property, Citizenship, and the Constrained Promise of Self-Governing Houseless Communities
… fully protected due to how property rights and relations are prioritized in the liberal model of propertied-citizenship. For, the dialectical relationship between property and citizenship, which liberal-democracy is premised upon, leave the houseless in a peculiar bind. And that is, while …
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The early historic landscape of Strathearn: the archaeology of a Pictish kingdom
This study concerns the social and political organization of the early medieval kingdom of Fortiu which occupied present day Strathearn in eastern Scotland. Archaeological and historical sources are used to examine the develoent of the administrative structure at the root of the Medieval state of …
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Frequent or freakish? Framing bushfires in the context of climate change
… their general tendencies, social, cultural and political relations, and persuasive effects. Qualitative framing analysis is used to identify key shifts and frame adaptations influencing public perceptions about solving bushfire risks and dealing with climate change. Multimodal analysis provides …
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Constructing Historical Realism : International Relations as Comparative History
… Realism as a new approach to International Relations. Drawing on recent theoretical developments in International Relations and Historical Sociology it is argued, first, that a distinction between constitutive and causal theory is necessary and, second, that this distinction makes …
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Socially inherited memory, gender and the public sphere in Poland
… rather than disjuncture in terms of social and political relations. Yet such theories fail to explain the nature of and the reasons for this continuity in terms of gender relations in the public sphere. The thesis suggests that the clue to understanding the nature of the gendered transformation …
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Rethinking Urban Risk And Adaptation: The Politics Of Vulnerability In Informal Urban Settlements
… as vulnerable to climate-related risks. Their political-legal status is known to influence their vulnerability, but the linkages between state governance and vulnerability in this setting remain under-researched. In particular, as more urban governments develop climate risk assessments, …
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The politics of cultural diversity : a survey in the liberal-communitarian debate
… self; (ii) their accounts of the foundations of political morality: and (iii) their suggestions for the politics of cultural diversity.Apart from the Introduction and the Conclusion, the thesis consists of two main parts: Part I contains an introduction to the communitarian critique of modernity …
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