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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"balance of power"”.
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Balance of power, adjustment, and violence within marital relationships
… egalitarian groups based on each spouse's report of perceived level of influence relative to their partner. The mean levels of marital adjustment and marital violence were compared among the three groups. The hypotheses proposed that the power balance groups would differ in their reports of …
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power
… will artificial intelligence affect the US-China balance of power? While a nascent literature debates whether AI may upend strategic stability or revolutionize the nature of warfare, existing discussions suffer from both imprecise conceptualization and scarce data. In three essays, this …
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The War Powers Resolution: Reassessing the Constitutional Balance of Power
This thesis is an analysis of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the impact it held on the role of Congress and the President in entering war. More specifically, this thesis takes a look at President Richard M. Nixon’s influence on the 93rd Congress’s decision to pass the War Powers Resolution …
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The Impact of Oil Production and Consumption on the Balance of Power
- My research examines how states can exercise power through oil. What kind of balancing strategies they use to maintain or improve their power. I use quantitative data and the case studies of USA, Japan and USSR/Russia to research the question. - The novelty of my research is enhanced by the …
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From balance of power to regional collectivism : China and Asia-Pacific economic cooperation
… to examine whether the People's Republic of China will work together with the other Asia-Pacific countries in a multilateral framework. The argument that this thesis has made is that, driven mainly by both internal and external factors, there is a tendency for China to do so. The Chinese …
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Marriage, Inheritance, and the Balance of Power in Twelfth-Century England and France
This project attempts to chart the importance of the social institutions of marriage and inheritance in giving rise to political change in England and France during the period 1100-1215. It benefits from the study of diverse primary sources that include chronicle histories, legal and financial …
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Institutional Variation, Balance of Power and Agenda Control: Evidence from the Argentine Subnational Legislatures
This research investigates how patterns of legislative competition (i.e. partisan fragmentation and the majority/plurality party) are likely to affect the effect of rules and practices that govern the legislative process. These different patterns of legislative competition, I argue, will have an …
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Balance of Power: Designing operational practices for balancing electricity markets with growing penetrations of renewable energy
Massive deployments of solar and wind generation mean that power systems worldwide are beginning to experience high penetrations of variable renewable energy. Given the challenges and opportunities posed by these resources to the effective and efficient balancing of supply and demand in power …
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The Role of Foreign Intervention in the Balance of Power System of the Greater Middle East: The Case of Iraq
Az 1990-es évek folyamán csökkent a nagy polgárháborúk száma, a fegyveres konfliktusok előfordulásának ez a javuló tendenciája azonban az elmúlt évtizedben megfordult, és területi koncentrálódást is mutat. A Közel-Kelet régóta a háborús térségek közé tartozik, a régióban azonban talán a központi …
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Power growth and decay and conflict behavior in dyadic rivalries: A dynamic model
… relationship between two competing nations' power levels and their conflictual behavior toward one another. A formal model is developed by drawing on the balance of power and power transition literatures. The model, a system of differential equations, is then analyzed in order to answer …
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Competition and cooperation on the Nile River: a contemporary analysis of Ethiopian - Egyptian relations
… seen unprecedented economic growth as a result of its efforts to eradicate poverty through sustainable development. Ethiopia's recent construction of the 6,000 MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam along the Blue Nile, a major tributary to the transboundary Nile River, supports these efforts. …
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Study of change of power balance in mobile telecom value chain
… industry, which changes rapidly, is one of the best examples for the study of the balance of power in the value chain. Three dynamic factors are keys that can change the balance of power in the mobile operator's industry: sociopolitical factors, technological factors, and alliance …
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Globalization: Cultural Impacts and Implications into the Twenty-First Century
This Master's thesis consisted of three parts: Historiography: Globalization: Cultural Impacts and the Shifting Balance of Power Original Research: Homogenizing Global Culture Professional Development Seminar: PowerPoint Presentation: The Global Classroom
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Constitutionalizing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the New Millenium
With the emergence of recent democracies, scholars engaged in a polemic debate about whether economic, social, and cultural rights should be included in national constitutions. Because economic, social, and cultural rights appeared to require significant political decision-making directly related …
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Constitutionalizing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the New Millenium
With the emergence of recent democracies, scholars engaged in a polemic debate about whether economic, social, and cultural rights should be included in national constitutions. Because economic, social, and cultural rights appeared to require significant political decision-making directly related …
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From Trusteeship to Containment: American Involvement in Vietnam 1945-1950
… scholarship and reflection from diverse segments of American society. The Vietnamese war for independence and the dynamics and nature of American intervention have been approached from the perspectives of many different disciplines and from all points on the political continuum. The majority of …
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Running to win: The utility of the ticket-splitter theory in presidential elections
Theory suggests that ticket-splitters often are the balance of power in elections, and constitute at least one-fourth of the American electorate. Ticket-splitting is not, however, motivated by party identification. Instead the voter's evaluation of the candidate, pertinent issues, and party …
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Acoustic chase : designing an interactive audio environment to stimulate human body movement
… generating its acoustic stimuli on the basis of tracked body movement. In this environment, different states of human and machine action are understood as a balance of power that moves back and forth between the apparatus and the human being. This system is based on spatial sounds that are …
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Ο ΔΥΤΙΚΟΣ ΠΑΡΑΓΟΝΤΑΣ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ: Η ΠΕΡΙΠΤΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΕΣΟΓΕΙΑΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΣΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΚΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ, 1981-1988
… COUNTRIES AND THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION (IN TERMS OF BOTH THE BILATERAL RELATIONS AND THE STRATEGIC CONSIDERATION OF THE REGION). THE CHARACTER OF BOTH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF GREECE AND ITS POLITICAL-MILITARY RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES WAS CRUCIAL FOR THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF …
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