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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"World politics"”.
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Dependence, independence, and interdependence in world politics
We implement techniques of graph theory to international trade in order to empirically inspect the international system of trade. Examining macro and submacro levels of the international system of trade from 1962-2003, we find the presence of a Scale-Free Network with a Multiscalar Hierarchy. Such …
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Anti-Americanism, World Politics, and German-U.S. Relations
This study examines German-U.S. relations during the George W. Bush administration. It utilizes Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane's theoretical framework of anti-Americanism to examine German perceptions of U.S. foreign policy. Katzenstein and Keohane distinguish four distinctive types of …
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Aporias of World Politics: the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
This dissertation explores political representation and its intersection with human rights and transnational advocacy through the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. I make two major arguments: first, that many people cannot be discursively represented domestically and/or …
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The Anatomy of Shi'i Shrine Cities: Pivots in World Politics
… enduring importance of Shi'i shrine cities in world politics. Shrines are important sites of religious identity that are often analysed from a single perspective of conflict, clerical authority, or collective identity in the literature. This thesis overcomes this gap in various ways. It argues …
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The Anatomy of Shi'i Shrine Cities: Pivots in World Politics
… enduring importance of Shi'i shrine cities in world politics. Shrines are important sites of religious identity that are often analysed from a single perspective of conflict, clerical authority, or collective identity in the literature. This thesis overcomes this gap in various ways. It argues …
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State personhood and world politics: a personology of the South African state
… alike. A malady of the human brain, the World Health Organization (WHO) defines “schizophrenia” as “a severe mental disorder, characterized by profound disruptions in thinking, affecting language, perception, and the sense of self [that] can impair functioning through the loss of an …
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Weaving the Tapestry of Life: The United Nations and Global Governmentality
… constructing the UN as a peculiar subject in world politics, and how this construction is linked to the cognitive structures in which global governance is imagined. These problems are best comprehensible in a post-structuralist framework, where structures of knowledge and discourses are …
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'Look for the truth and tell it': politics and Harold Pinter
… Pinter had been most passionately engaged with world politics as a citizen; as an artist he has often sought to reflect this political engagement through his representation of the relationship between an oppressive totalitarian state and the dissenting individual. In interviews he claims that he …
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'THE LOCAL' IN THE HUMANITARIAN PSYCHE: HOW EMOTIONS OF HUMANITARIAN WORKERS MEDIATE THE EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF PARTICIPATION
… differently meaningful to different actors in world politics. Yet, current research on emotions in IR lack analytical theorizing of what emotions are and how they mediate practices in world politics. I fill this gap through an investigation of humanitarian practices: how do the emotions of …
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Female Agency in Religious Disassembly of Culture: Where Do Women Fit In?
… Mohanty emphasize the role of so-called "third world women" in world politics and feminism. </p>
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The Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: A Theory of Moral Discourse and International Norms
… normative restrictions on military violence in world politics are an outgrowth of Western liberal modernity. Indeed, humanitarian norms such as the Geneva Conventions are comparatively recent in world politics, and many political scientists claim that they are a manifestation of new norms of …
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Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art
… of aesthetic Modernism. Fry, in his pre-World War I and interwar writings and teachings on art, and Bell, in seminal texts such as <em>Art</em> (1914), have been branded by art historiography as the prime movers in a Formalist, teleological narrative of Modern art still prevalent in …
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The global politics of illicit-drug control
… The undeniable growth of interdependence in the world in the last half-century has caused a rethink of the traditional Realist approach to international relations. Neorealists were principally responsible for introducing the concept of an international regime as a means of revamping the power …
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Mobilisation of support for the Palestinian cause : A comparative study of political change at the communal, regional and global levels
Those who study world politics are divided between the traditional Realist paradigm, which depicts an international political system dominated by states involved in a 'power struggle' in pursuit of their 'national interest', and an emergent approach that includes in the analysis a wider range of …
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A rhetorical criticism of the campaign speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson
… and dramatic emergence as an important factor in world politics was due in part to his unique oratory. Dynamic in style and content, his speeches commanded the rapt attention of the American people for three intense months during which he delivered over two hundred and fifty. Of interest and …
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Foreign aid, trade and development: analysis of the past, prospects for the future
… scholars call for shifting the paradigm of world politics from power to a more economicoriented policy of "Cooperative Capitalism." They call to base US foreign policy on a system of "Global Partnership." In that vein this study argues that future aid policy should be reshaped and carried …
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The Military of Guatemala and Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Autopoietic Social Systems
… could lead to a better understanding of Third World politics.
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A brief history of Formosa
… the Island of Formosa, few people throughout the world knew about that island of the China coast. Once Formosa became the seat of the Nationalist Government of China that little island has been much in headlines everywhere. Indeed, Formosa is of major importance in world politics and international …
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