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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Separatism"”.
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U.S. foreign policy and Iraqi Kurdish separatism
… how U.S. policy has responded to Iraqi Kurdish separatism from the post World War II period until the present. By examining U.S. foreign policy towards Iraqi Kurds, it is possible to trace the evolution of U.S. policy’s response to Iraqi Kurdish separatism from the post World War II period until …
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The Legacy of Civil War Repression on Galician Separatism
This thesis examines the relationship between Nationalist (or Francoist) repression in Galicia during the Spanish Civil War and modern support for Galician independence from Spain. ndent paragraph. This aims to contribute to a burgeoning research into legacies of political repression. By using a …
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Surviving separatism : persistent divisions among South African university students
Bibliography: leaves 173-185.
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MILITANT SEPARATISM IN WESTERN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, 1965—1975
… their shared ideology, which it terms ‘militant separatism.’ Militant separatism coalesced at a time when these states were experiencing economic growth, quality of living was generally on the rise, and supranational institutions codified more rights than ever before. Such conditions induced, …
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Politics of nationalism, federalism, and separatism: The case of Balochistan in Pakistan
… Baloch nation/nationalism and the politics of separatism. Since its inception, Pakistan adopted federalism as a system of government to manage a new country consisting of various ethno-national and linguistics groups. The purpose was to acknowledge diversity but discourage separatism. However, …
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Separatism in South Asia: The politics of ethnic conflict and regional security
Ethnicity has come to be recognized as an important, and in some cases a dominant factor in the search for regional peace and security. This dissertation examines the linkages in South Asia among ethnic conflict, the state and regional security. Our analysis of the Sikhs in the Indian province of …
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Muslim separatism: the moros in Southern Philippines and the Malays in Southern Thailand
… that attempts to solve the problems of ethnic separatism through either socio-economic programmes or military action are doomed to failure. During the course of this study it is clear that there are both similarities and differences between the Moro and Malay separatist struggles. But the basic …
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Muslim separatism: the moros in Southern Philippines and the Malays in Southern Thailand
… that attempts to solve the problems of ethnic separatism through either socio-economic programmes or military action are doomed to failure. During the course of this study it is clear that there are both similarities and differences between the Moro and Malay separatist struggles. But the basic …
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These Bodies Were Born to Die': Separatism and Medicine in a Fundamentalist Mormon Community
This dissertation examines religious separatism within a polygamy-practicing Fundamentalist Mormon community called "the Group." Based on almost two years of ethnographic fieldwork, it specifically explores how adherents understand, construct, and negotiate their often-ambiguous position within the …
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The Shaping of a Pilgrim: A Discussion of the English and Continental Religious Literature Influencing Separatism and the Pilgrims
Francis Cooke, an ancestor of mine, was one of that small band of struggling and straggling "saincts," better known as Separatists, who came t o America on the Mayflower in 1620. Presumably Cooke was one of the original Scrooby congregation which was motivated and led by William Brewster, ruling …
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Oligopoly, regional development and the political economy of separatism, with a case study of the United Kingdom and Scotland
… to increase our understanding of the causes of separatism. The inspiration for this topic comes from the fact that separatist conflicts can become extremely destructive, and thus a better understanding of why they emerge may help us prevent much human suffering by pointing to ways in which …
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The War on Terror and the War of Terror: Revealing the post-transformation separatism Kremlin, Radical Salafism and Post-Soviet Dagestan on a Road from the Peace to the Violence
… insurgence. In comparison with the Chechen separatism of the early 90s, it uncovers the roots and the real face of the "new wave" of insurgency which flooded Dagestan and started to...
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THE RETURN OF THE RADICAL RIGHT IN SPAIN
… contributing factors of immigration and Catalan separatism to determine if and how these two factors contributed to the rise of a Spanish radical right-wing party after the end of the Franco dictatorship. On examination of Spanish public opinion regarding immigration and mainstream political …
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Framing Analysis of Kosovo Independence
… and Russia feared that the event would engender separatism on their own territories, while the U.S., Germany, France, Italy, and UK regarded it as a democratic step. This thesis uses the framing theory to content analyze newspaper articles in seven languages (N=191) that appeared between November …
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Contemporary democratic separatist movements: The politics of new state creation by referendum
… chapter introduces the concept of democratic separatism, describes its process, compares it to other mechanisms for new state creation, and investigates the history of the phenomenon. It finds that, outside of decolonization and post-communist federal disintegration, the achievement of …
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The Mormon Colonies of Northern Mexico: A History, 1885-1912
… Mormonism while displaying a kind of cultural separatism on one level, was, at another level, in close harmony with American notions of economic and political expansionism. The study of the character of the colonists' thought and culture, provides explanation for the difficulties imposed on …
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The influence of fundamentalism on evangelicalism in South Africa with special reference to the role of Plymouth Brethrenism amongst the Cape coloured population
… literalist hermeneutics, ecclesiastical separatism, and their lay- based governance structure.
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Territories of belonging: Citizenship and everyday practices of the state in Bodoland
… an ethnically diverse region with a history of separatism, armed militant struggle, and violence between different ethnic groups. My understanding of citizenship is developed in the backdrop of Assam’s contemporary exercise of updating its own National Register of Citizens, a process designed to …
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George Herbert and Aristocratic Identity
… for threats to the commonwealth---war, religious separatism, social disorder, and court corruption---and on how several poems portray God as a responsible, benevolent country aristocrat---in effect, the ideal commonwealth man."
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