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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"imperium"”.
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The Imperium Americana Paradigm: Reshaping the International System
The United States is currently the world’s primary power. In the post-Cold War era it failed to make use of this power to enhance its preponderant international position, instead investing it in two Cold war institutions, the United Nations and NATO, to maintain the status quo. Emerging threats …
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Contra Imperium : Biblical foundations of an anti-imperial theology.
The current financial crisis, and the controversy surrounding equality legislation and conservative Christians, merits serious theological consideration. The anti-imperial interpretation of the New Testament is a relatively new discipline with roots in the slightly older tradition of liberation …
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Bonsai imperium : plant capitalism in the U.S. and Japan, 1853-1924
… argue for bonsai's imbrication within a "botanic imperium," this thesis examines the relationship of bonsai to changing understandings of Japanese landscapes in both countries, and maps the relationship of the botany, geography, and agricultural science to shifts in horticultural practices and …
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Mare Imperium: the Evolution of Freedom of the Seas Discourse in U.S. Foreign Policy
This dissertation conducts a genealogy of freedom of the seas discourse in United States foreign policy in order to problematize the contemporary representation lying at the heart of American political-military strategy in the Western Pacific. This project aims to accomplish two goals. First, this …
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The Sanctity of the State under Frederick Barbarossa (1152 - 1190): Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium
… how scholars gradually came to consider sacrum imperium, the phrase from which the title Holy Roman Empire evolved, as the motto of Frederick and Rainald’s imperial ideology. In the postwar period the translation of the bodies of the Three Kings from Milan to Cologne in 1164 by Rainald of …
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Chronographia and Imperium: continuing the chronicle tradition of Eusebius-Jerome and Sigebert of Gembloux in twelfth-century Normandy
… framed by the succession of the political order (imperium). Whereas earlier scholars attributed the twelfth-century success of Sigebert’s chronicle to its chronological precision rather than its political ideas, this thesis shows that the Eusebius-Jeromian tradition, as transmitted to …
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Das Schmunzeln im Spiegel (kolonialer) Erinnerung:parodierte nationale Selbstbilder in Christian Krachts Imperium und Daniel Kehlmanns Die Vermessung der Welt
Christian Kracht in his 2012 novel Imperium und Daniel Kehlmann in his 2005 bestselling novel Measuring the World explore facets of German identity against the backdrop of aspects of German colonial history. In my thesis, I argue that with their satirical representations of the German Self in the …
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A New Perspective on the Early Roman Dictatorship, 501-300 B.C.
… of the evidence for the nature of dictatorial imperium and the relationship between consuls and dictators in the period 501-300 BC. Originally, dictators functioned as ad hoc magistrates, were equipped with standard consular imperium, and, above all, were intended to supplement consuls. …
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The Social Benefits of Wilderness
… – sexism, homophobia, etc. In particular, “the imperium” is a way of thinking and acting which encourages us to practice a heavy-handed form of standardization; it encourages us to ignore particularity. These habits and institutions – the imperium – are a result of, and reinforced by, our …
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The Social Benefits of Wilderness
… – sexism, homophobia, etc. In particular, “the imperium” is a way of thinking and acting which encourages us to practice a heavy-handed form of standardization; it encourages us to ignore particularity. These habits and institutions – the imperium – are a result of, and reinforced by, our …
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A “Medieval” Myth for a “Modern” Empire Britain under the Shadow of Arthur (1461–1612)
… which was intertwined with the claim of <em>imperium</em>. On the other hand, the myth also reinforced the assertion of possession over other peoples’ lands, including the whole of Britain, Ireland, and even different spaces in the north Atlantic. The Arthurian myth intertwined these two …
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The aboriginal rights of the New Zealand Maori at common law
… The thesis is based upon the distinction between imperium (a right of government) and dominium (rights of private ownership) and is divided into three Parts. The first Part looks at the principles governing the Crown's erection of an imperium over non-Christian societies. Part II looks at the …
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Státní imunita na prahu 21. století: Soumrak nebo renesance?
… a sice rovnosti států - par in parem non habet imperium. Státní imunita je tak projevem státní suverenity a ostatní státy prokazují respekt suverenitě druhých států tím, že dopřávají před svými soudy druhým státům imunitu. Právo státních imunit je dynamickou oblastí mezinárodního práva …
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Aspetti di vita quotidiana, religiosa, militare e civile in Britannia e lungo il Vallo di Adriano
… manifestation of the sunset of the idea of an imperium sine fine. Then the thesis passes to examine, in subsequent chapters, first the religious theme in its peculiar indigenous component and in the cultural practices triggered by the process of Romanization, secondly the question whether is …
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La naissance de la science politique moderne dans la Methodus de Jean Bodin : l'héritage de Budé et de Connan, du droit à la politique
… it is his famous theory of sovereignty (summum imperium) that, by defining the coercive power delegated to the magistrates of Parlements, allows them to realize this transition. We propose that his "method" of reading the history enables him to materialize the political science, which …
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Untersuchungen zur Politik des Cn. Pompeius Magnus in den Jahren 54 bis 49 v. Chr.
… ihm sein fünfjähriges außerordentliches Imperium den Zugriff auf die erforderlichen Machtmittel: Pompeius beabsichtigte durch das kontinuierliche Erbringen von Leistungen als der Patron Roms anerkannt zu werden. Durch Agieren über loyale Magistrate, geschicktes Ausnutzen monarchischer …
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The Spirit and the Letter of Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique
… Hegel and all that he ostensibly stood for: the imperium of reason, systematicity, ‘absolute idealism,’ and the end of art. And yet, this opposition notwithstanding, it is frequently claimed that literary theory cannot escape Hegel, and rests upon a number of concepts and ways of thinking that …
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El derecho de acceso a la Información Nacional y supranacional. los casos de España y Panamá y el difícil equilibrio entre la Open Data y la salvaguarda de la seguridad.
… y respetar a su vez el par in parem non habet imperium que obedece al principio de igualdad soberana, entre estos lo que genera entonces el interés de establecer hasta qué punto el Estado puede y tiene la legitimidad de brindar confidencialidad a los datos sobre determinadas informaciones de …
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