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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"hegemon"”.
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A Dél-afrikai Köztársaság: regionális hegemón = The Republic of South Africa: a regional hegemon
Jelen értekezés célja a Dél-afrikai Köztársaságot elhelyezni regionális kontextusban és megvizsgálni, hogyan alakult át pozíciója gyakorlatilag politikailag és gazdaságilag egyaránt elszigetelt országból regionális afrikai hatalommá az 1994-es rendszerváltást követően. A disszertáció során azt …
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Wounded Hegemon: The 2003 Iraq War and George W. Bush's Grand Strategy of Primacy
… War occurred largely as a result of American hegemony combined with the effects of the September 11 terror attacks on the George W. Bush administration. American hegemony set broad parameters for US foreign policy behaviour while September 11 served as the proximate cause. The terror attacks …
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Able and Willing? does the USA's action during the 2008 crisis conform to hegemonic stability theory?
… the United States of America has conformed to hegemonic stability theory and whether it contunes to do so. The theory predicts that the hegemon will establish multilateral institutions serving its own interest but at the same time sacrificing resources to maintain them. I survey and establish …
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Exchange Rates, Capital Controls and the Hegemon's Dilemma
… and trade wars. Chapter 4, entitled The Hegemon’s Dilemma, is single-authored. I show that by keeping dollars scarce in international markets, the U.S. –the hegemon– earns monopoly rents when borrowing in dollar debt and investing in foreign-currency assets. However, in equilibrium, these …
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Neorealistinės ir neoliberalistinės perspektyvos aiškinant tarptautinį klimato kaitos problemos sprendimo režimą /
… firstly, that United States of America is the hegemon of international system; such position was especially revealed at the beginning of the last decade of XX century, when Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended. These events coincided with the first attempts to form an international …
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Partners in Peace and War: Theories of Alliance Formation and the Prospects of a Russia-China Alliance Explored
… transiting to a multipolar system with a clear hegemon.</p>
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The Rise of Regional Hegemons: Assessing Implications for the International System through a Neo-realist Perspective
… that correlate with becoming a rising regional hegemon, a feature of a multi-polar system. The multi-polar international system that we see emerging is contrary to Kenneth Waltz's assertion that a multi-polar international system is unstable, and a bi-polar international system is preferred. New …
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Iran; A Nuclear Super Power? Understanding Nuclear Ambitions
… see Iran as a military equal and even a regional hegemon, offering the prestige and distance from the major powers that Iran desires in order to govern as it pleases."
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The affects of warfare upon trade : economic growth in a war-torn world, Northern Europe 1000-1700 by Vincent John Kindfuller.
… and why Europe was able to become the economic hegemon of the world between the 18th and 20th centuries. One of these theories is the competition argument, which argues that competition between the fractured states of Europe created the impetus for technological and institutional innovation …
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Colonialism in contention: the 1874 and 1898 Siming gongsuo riots in Qing China
… empire not as an invincible and all-powerful hegemon but as a constantly expanding entity replete with anxiety and vulnerability. Lastly, the present study also attempts to contribute to the growing body of scholarship on examining Chinese history from an international perspective.
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The value of human rights on the open market: Liberal economic policies and the achievement of personal integrity rights.
… addition, investment which originates from the hegemon is especially likely to increase a state's respect for personal integrity rights. Conversely, IMF funding is likely to provoke protests from people in recipient countries, which often leads to increased repression by the state. To the extent …
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Factors influencing China's behaviour in the South China Sea
… are usually established by the initiative of a hegemon and its supporters, and that the rules and norms of institutions generally reflect the distribution of power among their members. This dissertation illustrates the way in which realist thinking (involving consideration of survival, balance …
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BRICS Currency and Dollar Hegemony: Passing of the Torch?
… concerning the United States’ viability as a hegemon emerge, questions about how new powers may come to prominence circle (Rapayane, 2020). The BRICS bloc -- consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, respectively -- is a collection of regional powers in the developing world …
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Which Way for Catalan and Galician?
… their own futures and resist the Spanish hegemon is valid. Nationalistic fervor and a sense of empowerment in these two regions continue to rise concomitantly with the increasing number of Catalan and Galician speakers. Current census data show positive gains in the number of Catalan and …
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King of Kings: Human Rights Rhetoric and Regional Security in the Shah's Iran, 1968-1978
… in 1969 to put Iran on the road to regional hegemony. The Shah pursued a variety of security goals aimed at positioning Iran as the hegemon of the Persian Gulf and leader of the littoral Indian Ocean nations. He also embarked on a rhetorical campaign to reinforce the legitimacy of the Pahlavi …
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Which Way for Catalan and Galician?
… their own futures and resist the Spanish hegemon is valid. Nationalistic fervor and a sense of empowerment in these two regions continue to rise concomitantly with the increasing number of Catalan and Galician speakers. Current census data show positive gains in the number of Catalan and …
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King of Kings: Human Rights Rhetoric and Regional Security in the Shah's Iran, 1968-1978
… in 1969 to put Iran on the road to regional hegemony. The Shah pursued a variety of security goals aimed at positioning Iran as the hegemon of the Persian Gulf and leader of the littoral Indian Ocean nations. He also embarked on a rhetorical campaign to reinforce the legitimacy of the Pahlavi …
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The Origins of British-American Cooperation in Foreign Affairs 1897-1920
… trap’, which predicts conflict between a waning hegemon and a rising one. The argument here, by contrast, is that U.S. cooperation with Britain and its empire in foreign affairs, after the U.S. entered World War One in April 1917, was constructed with great effort and uneven success. This …
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Regional supremacy or coalition? evaluating South Africa’s regional integration efforts within the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
… the study seeks to unearth its perceived hegemonic role through drawing insights from its foreign policy towards southern Africa post-1994. Utilizing both primary and secondary data, the study examines the prevailing assertions of South Africa as a hegemonic state of southern Africa since …
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