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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Postcolonial States"”.
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Confronting Founding Injustices: Reconstructive Constitutional Adjudication and Constitutional Legitimacy in Postcolonial States
<p>Why do some postcolonial constitutions achieve higher constitutional legitimacy than others? Across the Global South, constitutions have proliferated while legitimacy remains uneven and contested. Existing scholarship explains variation in constitutional legitimacy in postcolonial states through …
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Re-politicizing State Sovereignty in Global Governance: A Political Economy of Transparency in the Oil Sectors of Gabon and Ghana
… sectors. The dissertation asks why some African states have complied with the EITI requirements, while others have not. I focus on the primary cases of Ghana and Gabon, two key illustrations of oil-rich African countries that have, in respective order, complied with, and failed to comply with, …
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From Colonialism to Neo-colonialism: The British Politics of Nationalist Violence in Cyprus
… of former colonial powers on newly independent postcolonial states. This thesis analyzes the relationship between nationalist violence, British colonial and neo-colonial policies, and Cyprus' geostrategic location within the imperialist world system. By contextualizing the Cyprus Conflict into …
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The business of solidarity: Socialist Yugoslavia and development aid in non-aligned Africa (1954-1991)
… its economic relations with a host of emerging postcolonial states as part of its socialist internationalist ideology and need of new markets for its developing economy. In juxtaposing the universalist ideology of socialist internationalism with the demands of national postwar development, I …
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The Malayan Dilemma: Race, Power and State Formation in Malaya
… race with a new lease of life in defining the postcolonial state. Although this study focuses only on Malaya, it offers a framework that is instructive not only for future studies of race and state formation, but also for interrogating other postcolonial states that have inherited the colonial …
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Rivers without a Territory: Indus Waters Treaty, 1960 and the Erasure of Kashmir
… of 20th century self-determination focus on the postcolonial state navigating a biased global order, I address an important gap in scholarship by centring forgotten peoples within these states whose ambitions for statehood outlasted formal decolonisation. By analysing contested ‘natural …
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“Wars are won by men not weapons”: the invention of a militarised British settler identity in the Eastern Cape c. 1910–1965
… town of Grahamstown. In the nationalisms of the postcolonial states, independent countries possessed museums in their capitals. These institutions constituted an essential part of national heritage, were crucial for the advancement of education, and operated as a means through which the ‘imagined …