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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"geopolitical context"”.
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The geopolitical context of NATO's role in the Middle East
… and charts the evolution of NATO in this context. NATO's evolving Middle East role is examined in two phases: that preceding 9/11 and following 1995, and that following 9/11, up to 2006. The dissertation also examines NATO's role with regard to two pressing Middle Eastern crises, Iraq and …
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Recovering Territory: The Thick Geopolitics of Demining in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina and Wartime Ukraine
… is not only a technical matter, but also a geopolitical one. Landmines pose a violent threat to human and non-human life alike, and have enduring material effects on territories and ecologies. They defy the spatio-temporal limits of battlespaces, and entrench the territorial logic of wars by …
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Project Apollo, Cold War diplomacy and the American framing of global interdependence
… While existing scholarship has gestured to this geopolitical context, it has tended to examine activity that takes place on American or lunar soil. This dissertation argues that the geopolitical context was not simply a backdrop but instead the main theater of Project Apollo. By embedding this …
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The geographical construction of national identity and state interests by a weak nation-state: the dynamic geopolitical codes and stable geopolitical visions of North Korea, 1948-2010
This study is a textual analysis of North Korea’s geopolitical discourses. Through the analysis of North Korea’s geopolitical visions and codes, this study provides a theoretical framework to explicate weak nation-states’ foreign and security policies beyond overly power-centered perspectives. In …
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Čínsko-litevská politická roztržka
… both domestic political factors and the broader geopolitical context. Particular attention is paid to the phenomenon of values diplomacy and the changing perception of Chinese influence. The work thus contributes to a deeper understanding of the dynamics of relations between smaller European …
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Gibeon Revisited: An Integrated Approach to a Bioarchaeological Collection
… The second principal framework lies in the geopolitical context of the excavation at Gibeon and what can a study of the human remains can draw from and contribute to the archaeology of Israel and Palestine. Through this framework, I discuss how interpretations of the past, such as the site …
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Borders and Objects: Representing the Geopolitical in New World Art Histories, 1990-2010
… in a wider social, political and indeed global context. While their individual approaches are many and varied it is important to identify commonalities between them so as to highlight unifying approaches across such diversity. The dissertation begins with literature review of the key concepts I …
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Fishing for Food and Fodder: The Transnational Environmental History of Humboldt Current Fisheries in Peru and Chile since 1945
… and oceanic oscillations within a changing geopolitical context.</p>
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Framing the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of Media Narratives in Bangladesh and the United States
… or ideology, this work explores how the national context influences framing across global North and South outlets. Drawing on framing and comparative media systems theory, propaganda models, and protest paradigms, the research explores differences in dominant frames, message themes, source …
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Interpretations of the Politics of Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series
… of the Politics of Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series Throughout this thesis project I examine the geopolitical context(s) of the photographs featured in Martha Rosler's …
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Ferrous futures : scenario planning for global steel
… that we as designers operate within a larger geopolitical context. While there are many disciplines involved in the global steel industry, architecture is still culpable. At 56%, the built environment is the single largest consumer of steel. In imagining these scenarios, we reconstruct our …
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Transnational Women’s Organizing in Colonial Tunisia (1929 – 1963)
… Muslim population. Both faced a rapidly changing geopolitical context, confronting the rise of fascism and the hardening of Cold War borders respectively. And each strategically used the affordances of the WILPF and the WIDF both to localize global campaigns for disarmament and democracy, and to …
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Teacher Autonomy in Turkish Lower Secondary Schools, in Relation to English Language Teaching: A Mixed Methods Study
… of roles and responsibilities within their work contexts. Therefore, we need to extend our scrutiny of language teachers’ exercise of autonomy to encompass not only their teaching practice in the classroom but also their wider organizational roles. Adopting just such a broader approach, this …
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Femininities Reimagined: Gender Politics in Contemporary British Moving Image Art
… also come under question. In response to this context, this dissertation addresses two central questions: first, can politically driven moving image practices perform countercultural criticism even as they are integrated into institutional settings and discourses? Second, can feminist theory …
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Rusijos karo prieš Ukrainą patyrimas Šalčininkų rajone: etniškumas ir tarptautinė dinamika /
… This presents a paradox, apparent in today’s geopolitical context, where Lithuania and Poland oppose Russia’s war on Ukraine. This thesis aims to answer the question of how the residents of the district experience the war in Ukraine? Perception of Šalčininkai district often evokes mistrust in …
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The Role of Kazakhstan in the Eurasian Economic Union Development Process: Discussing Eurasianism through the Kazakhstani External Policy Prism
… encounters growing challenges in determining its geopolitical alignment. It also attempts to investigate how Kazakhstan has emerged as the driving force behind the formation of the EEU, the origination of this idea, and the motivations behind Kazakhstan's pursuit of its foreign policy. The …