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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"geopolitics"”.
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Oil, Geopolitics, and Economic Growth in Azerbaijan
The Republic of Azerbaijan, like most newly independent states, must establish its own goals and policies. One of the primary goals of Azerbaijan is achieving economic growth. Experts estimate that the Azeri sector of the Caspian Sea contains approximately three billion barrels of proven oil …
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Geopolitics, Borders, and Federalism: Challenges for Post-War Iraq
<p>The fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I enabled the victorious Western powers to implement the Sykes-Picot Treaty and reshape the geopolitical structure of the Middle East. The imposition of arbitrary borders on the Middle East region, specifically the state of Iraq, would lead …
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THE THIRD WORLD WOMEN’S ALLIANCE: HISTORY, GEOPOLITICS, AND FORM
… for scholarship in rhetorical historiography, geopolitics, and multimodal/multigenre composition. In order to put past and present into concrete conversation, the Introduction establishes the research questions that guide this larger project: How did the TWWA invoke and circulate histories and …
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Geopolitics of Digital Literacies: Accounting for Myths and Realities
<p>This dissertation interrogates the global material consequences of the rhetorics of digital literacies in the One-Third World. Building on the work of literacy studies and computers and writing scholarship, I define and critique "the digital literacy myth"-a public discourse wherein digital …
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Geopolitics, State-Formation and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario
This dissertation challenges the prevailing periodization of Quebec and Ontario’s economic development in Canadian historiography by contrasting the specificity of capitalist social relations with the non-capitalist forms of social reproduction belonging to French Canadian peasants and Upper …
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Reproducing ‘geopolitics’ – national identity representations of foreign affairs in Moldova
Breaking away from the positivist trend dominating the literature on Moldova’s foreign relations, this thesis analyses the means through which national identity discourses impact on Moldovan societal representation of foreign policy. It contends that national identity perpetuates a Cold War …
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Strange(r) Maps: The cosmopolitan geopolitics of Sri Lankan tourism
… of colonial mapping practices on contemporary geopolitics. Specifically, I investigate Sri Lankan tourist maps as subversive examples of the politics of vision implicated within the historical formation of island-space under colonial mapping practices (i.e. Portuguese, Dutch, and British), and …
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A postcolonial approach to Nepal's geopolitics, hydro-politics, and border-politics
… actor. The empirical focus is on key areas of geopolitics, hydro-politics and border-politics. The thesis identifies and highlights power asymmetry, representation, and resistance within a neo-colonial context that marks Nepal’s relations with China and India. The thesis makes an original …
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Between State and Body: Religious Geopolitics, Cultivation and the Falun Gong
… forms of the Chinese Party-State’s religious geopolitics, its repression of the Falun Gong, and FLG followers’ self-cultivation and strategies of resistance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PhD begins with a discussion of the Party-State’s strategies of sovereignty and …
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Young People at Europe's Margins: An Intimate Geopolitics of the Future
… a starting point for understanding the making of geopolitics, this thesis develops an “intimate geopolitics of the future” to make sense of how the intimate sphere, replete with acts and moments that may appear small or not particularly meaningful through conventional geopolitical imaginaries are, …
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Feminist counter-geopolitics: knowledges, practices, and spaces of activism in Iranian diasporas
… I draw upon the concept of feminist counter-geopolitics, discussing what knowledges, practices, and spaces constitute them. By focusing on feminist activist experiences as the focal point of analysis, the dissertation questions the lack of attention to activism in diaspora in critical, …
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Energy transition in the Euro-Mediterranean area between geopolitics, sustainability and economics
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Fault Lines: Ideology, Pragmatism, and Geopolitics in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran was founded upon revolutionary interpretation of Shi’a Islam. This ideology, first articulated and implemented by Ayatollah Ruhullah al-Musavi Khomeini, served as the animating force behind much of Iran’s behavior in the 1980s. With Khomeini’s death in 1989, Iran was …
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The Foundations of Aleksandr Dugin's Geopolitics: Montage Fascism and Eurasianism as Blowback
… of Aleksandr Dugin's <em>The Foundations of Geopolitics</em>, of which I have translated important sections into English and these are included as an appendix. Despite the importance of <em>Foundations of Geopolitics</em> to Russian strategic thought there has not been a translated edition …
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A Shield in the Sky: The Vertical Geopolitics of Transcontinental Air Defense
Traditional military descriptions of conflict tend to focus on the movement of soldiers and armies across battlefields. When the airplane emerged, it forced military theorists to contend with a new, vertical, dimension of conflict. In America, the United States Air Force assumed an important role …
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The intersection of geopolitics and technological innovations: implications for the Central-European region
… technological innovations shaping contemporary geopolitics, through their impact on the economy, society, and international relations, with special focus on Hungary and the Central European region. It explores how modern geopolitical theories have evolved over the years and what leading scholars …
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The geopolitics of hurricane knowledge: Power, vulnerability, and transboundary science in the Caribbean
… to shape contemporary vulnerabilities and geopolitics. This research employs mixed methods, combining elite interviews, archival analysis, participant observation, and quantitative analysis of a United States disaster recovery funding dataset obtained through a Freedom of Information Act …
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