Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 271 for “"Western Europe"”.
-
Security of nuclear fuel supplies to Western Europe
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1979.
-
Migration, nativism, and party system change in Western Europe
This project explains the growth of the West European Radical Right in the late-1980s and early-1990s, using that explanation to model the growth of small, programmatically-focused ("niche") parties in previously stable party systems. I find that a key mechanism of niche party growth is the …
-
MILITANT SEPARATISM IN WESTERN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, 1965—1975
From 1965 to 1975 members of ethnic minorities scattered across Spain, France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Canada engaged in violent separatist campaigns. This thesis identifies these separatist groups and their leading thinkers, demonstrates the existence of a transnational …
-
Whodunnit? Grave-robbery in early medieval northern and western Europe
… early medieval grave reopening in northern and western Europe. It investigates in detail an intensive outbreak of grave-robbery in 6th-7th century Kent. This is closely related to the same phenomenon in Merovingia: an example of the import of not only material goods but also a distinctive …
-
Anti-Americanism: an exploration of a contested concept in Western Europe
… or methodologically flawed. Focusing on Western Europe, we argue that anti-Americanism is a public opinion phenomenon, and present a definition of anti-Americanism based on social psychology, and demonstrate how cognitive psychological processes shape anti-Americanism. We outline several …
-
Minimization of hazardous waste in Western Europe : policy implementation and harmonization
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
-
The Politics of Security: Syrian Refugees in the Middle East and Western Europe
… coincided with the attempts to reach a European solution between 2011-2015 and the September 4, 2015 decision where Chancellor Merkel decided to keep the country's borders open to hundreds of thousands of refugees stranded in Austria. Modest securitization (2016-Present) stimulated legal …
-
THE OCCUPATIONAL INTEGRATION OF MIGRANTS IN WESTERN EUROPE. THE ROLE OF GENDER AND INSTITUTIONS
… and migration across 17 developed countries (16 Western European countries and the US). The analysis proceeds in two ways. First, a descriptive analysis is conducted in order to analyse migrant and ethnicity penalties with respect to natives based on the association with the dominant regimes …
-
Decline and Fall? The Institutional History of Post-Imperial Western Europe, AD 400-800
… to ninth centuries, the Roman Empire gave way in western Europe to several kingdoms initially founded by so-called 'barbarian' tribes. This thesis is a thematic assessment of the evolutionary trends that shaped this period. It respects and integrates the highly interconnected nature of these …
-
Do Muslims make the difference: explaining variation on mosque building policies in Western Europe
… state variation of mosque building projects in Western Europe, using as case studies Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Two mosque projects are considered in each case study state and two theories are proposed and tested: resources mobilization theory and opportunity structure theory.
-
Multi-level elections in Western Europe: determinants of voting and the role of salience.
… 1995 and 2008 are included, drawn from ten Western European countries: Belgium, England, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. For each country, the same sub-national geographical units are used for all election types, allowing the direct comparison of …
-
A ‘FROG HYPNOTIZED BY A SNAKE’? WESTERN EUROPE AND THE POLISH MOVEMENT SOLIDARNOŚĆ, 1980–1989
The story of Solidarność’s relationship with Western Europe is far richer, and far more paradoxical, than the familiar tale of a heroic movement championed by the democratic West. Behind the iconic images of resistance and support lies a landscape shaped by enthusiasm and fear, solidarity and …
-
Teaching and Learning the Italian Vernacular in Sixteenth-Century Western Europe: Pedagogy, Texts, and Practices
… was taught and learned in sixteenth-century Western Europe. During this period, numerous grammars, textbooks, and dictionaries on the Italian vernacular were published. While previous scholarship has primarily focused on the linguistic content of these works, with only a few studies …
-
Civil Conflict in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Spain, Italy, and Britain, 1968--2001
This study has implications for how violence, identity, and ideas of sovereignty and political order converge and, importantly, shape the actions of challenger groups and target states.
-
Stringed musical instruments : artefacts in the archaeology of Western Europe 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200.
This dissertation takes a broad European view of stringed musical instruments as artefacts in the archaeology of later Prehistory and the early Hiddle Ages. It reports on recent finds of new data during the investigation of archaeological collections both in Britain and on the Continent, and it …
-
Topographic reconstructions of the Variscan Belt of Western Europe through the study of fossil hydrothermal systems
… of paleoaltimetry for the Variscan Belt of Western Europe that integrates late-Carboniferous hydrogen isotope ratios of meteoric water in the internal zones in the Armorican Massif (AM) and the French Massif Central (FMC) with age-equivalent precipitation records in the foreland Bourbon …
Page 1 of 14