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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"external threat"”.
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The internal politics of external threat
… in response to different kinds of international threat. In explaining the domestic politics of external threat, I seek to answer why states choose escalate conflicts over some issues and not others, against rivals at certain times and not others, and choose to abuse human rights during some …
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Transatlantic relations -- are alliances a function of an external threat?
… States: Will the presence, or absence, of an external threat to the countries involved be the deciding factor in their willingness to cooperate in security alliances? It is a significant question, and investigating it provides a better understanding of future uses of alliances and their role …
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The strategic use of external threat in the shaping of Russian domestic and foreign policies
… of Putin’s behavior, which lies in utilizing external threat as a main instrument for both domestic and foreign policies. Clearly, there is some kind of strategy involved which is very difficult for the West to understand. This thesis examines this strategy and whether it is a viable plan for …
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Two Tales of a Region: Japan, the Philippines, and the Economic Theory of Alliances
… maintenance when paired with the perception of external threat. A critical case comparison was used to test this hypothesis using the cases of Japan and the Philippines. The analysis supported the hypothesis. A state's economic condition, coupled with perception of external threat, affects its …
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AN OCCUPATION WITH DEMOCRATIZATION: A MARGINAL VALUE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE CONSOLIDATION OF IMPOSED DEMOCRATIC REGIMES
… in these cases as a function of international threat dynamics and the relationship between the occupiers and the occupied regime. The dissertation tests the Marginal Value Model and its corresponding hypotheses against four case studies: post-WWI Germany, post-WWII Germany, Japan and Korea. The …
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White privilege in the face of COVID-19 threat.
… posits that evidence of White Privilege poses a threat to White individuals' self- regard, motivating defensive responding. However, existing literature explores this phenomenon as a unitary source of threat, without consideration of external conditions that might affect how White individuals …
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Evolving Threat Narratives: The Case of China's Transition from Foe to Friend during Rapprochement
… to better understand the nature of American threat narratives, how narratives evolve, what drives the change, and finally, what it all means for perceptions of threat to the US. The purpose of this study is to understand the implications of bias on evolving threat narratives and threat …
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Insurgency, Secession and Encroachment: Contemporary National Security in the Republic of the Philippines
… by the U.S. military base closures in 1992, the threat posed by an increasingly aggressive and expansionist People's Republic of China has caused the Philippine government to reconsider its military relations with the United States. Recurrent economic troubles have likewise revived the communist …
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Precursor to conflict: the cultural re-coding of Serbia
… to the destructive strategies adopted by a threatened status-quo elite for political survival. Specifically, the source of this tragedy can be traced to the post-Tito struggle for power in the face of political and economic reform; with primary responsibility for the deterioration falling …
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Minor Powers Confronting Major Powers: A Comparative Examination of the Conditions Facilitating Decisions to go to War
… result in conflict. Second, domestic crisis, not external threat, tends to be of primary concern to minor powers. Third, minor powers enter a war to win based on very modest expectations. Fourth, minor powers of autocratic regime type can also misperceive the situation through anomalous beliefs. …
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A Critical Analysis of Information Security Awareness in Legal Services
… to defend the organisation from internal and external threat agents, but they face difficulties in addressing the multitude of threat vectors as well as conflicts between the organisation’s culture, business processes, and the emergence of ‘shadow I.T.’ services procured by non-I.T. staff. …
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Vulnerability analysis of electricity distribution networks with large-penetrations of PEVs and DERs
… Stackelberg security game involving an attacker (external threat agent) and the defender (network operator). First, the attacker targets a subset of the insecure DER or PEV nodes, and strategically manipulates their set-points by attacking the DER/PEV controller logic at the nodes. Next, the …
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A Reconsideration of the influence of John Wycliffe, Wycliffism, Lollardy and Hussitism, upon 15th Century Scotland
… that far<br/>from being considered as an external threat it may be seen to have developed<br/>domestically and taken upon itself issues peculiar to Scotland.<br/>Comment will be made examining the claim that Scotland was regarded as a<br/>haven for Wycliffite thought. International …
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Content and end-state-based alteration in the practice of political violence since the end of cold war: the difference between the terrorism of the cold war and the terrorism of al Qaeda: the rise of the "transcendental terrorist"
… of the Iron Curtain and on the ways in which threat perceptions were managed and influenced national policies concerning security. Fundamentally, the effect can be summarised as follows: Internally: National governments secured the law and order and domestic stability of their state system …
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Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East under the AKP (2002-2013): A Neoclassical Realist Account
… how are domestic developments linked to external developments? Is there evidence of revisionism or ideological incentives in TFP? Answering such questions also allows for inferences on long-standing questions about TFP to be made. For example: is Turkey turning away from its traditional …
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The persistent metaphor : gender in the representations of the Cairene house by Edward W. Lane and Hassan Fathy
… internal colonialism in turn uses the fact of external threat to legitimize and perpetuate itself." Caught in the politics of identity, the representations of the Cairene house affirmed the secluded existence of woman in the society.
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The dynamics of a colonial process: A comparative study of Ukraine(1648-1730) and Bulozi (1864-1911)
… two countries was set in motion by internal and external contradictions affecting both the colonisers and the colonised.But emphasizing on the colonised countries themselves, the study shows that the internal contradictions in the colonies that led to revolutions to overthrow alien rule set forth …
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The dynamics of a colonial process: A comparative study of Ukraine(1648-1730) and Bulozi (1864-1911)
… two countries was set in motion by internal and external contradictions affecting both the colonisers and the colonised.But emphasizing on the colonised countries themselves, the study shows that the internal contradictions in the colonies that led to revolutions to overthrow alien rule set forth …
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Stress in British Army personnel
… deploying in defence of their country against an external threat. It was therefore considered important to establish if there were any effects on psychological well-being based on an individual's evaluation of the deployment situation. This research was conducted in two phases: Study 1 which is a …
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Violence, (dis) Loyalties And The English Subject-Citizen, 1569 - 1588
… it through domestic conformity, and from external threat. In a society unfettered by choices, or diversity, meeting either of these goals might be more easily realized. In an early modern world of pluralities marked by ethnic variety, microchristianities, and diversity of governments where …
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