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Islam and International Relations
… thesis deals mainly with the role of Islam in international relations, which is based on the Qur'an (the revealed book) and the Sunnah (prophetic tradition). The study has used the analytical approach and the interdisciplinary approach to examine and investigate Islamic international relations …
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The Eurasian Agenda: The International Relations of Kyrgyzstan
… agenda. In this thesis, I examine in detail the international relations of Kyrgyzstan with all its neighboring states, but focus extensively on Russia. I analyze the relation between Kyrgyzstan and Russia in the framework of the ideology of Eurasianism. As a counterpoint to the Russian influence, …
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Constructing Historical Realism : International Relations as Comparative History
… develop Historical Realism as a new approach to International Relations. Drawing on recent theoretical developments in International Relations and Historical Sociology it is argued, first, that a distinction between constitutive and causal theory is necessary and, second, that this distinction …
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Attitude Change in an Introductory International Relations Class
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Why Women? Gender Mainstreaming in Undergraduate International Relations Discourse
Over the last 30 years, feminist international relations (IR) and gendered approaches to foreign policy and security have been gaining attention in both the academy and in government. However, the systems and institutions that exist in our country are strategically designed to maintain patriarchy …
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Prospective Balance: Loss Aversion and Consistency in International Relations
… in which the distribution of power in the international system purports to explain the phenomenon of interest. Balance theory is a manifestation of non-additivity, while attitudinal consistency is a manifestation of non-linearity. Balanced and imbalanced configurations comprise balance …
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Prestige and the Restraint of Power in International Relations
Scholars of international politics have long linked states’ quest for prestige with assertions of national power: diplomatic saber-rattling, scrambles for colonies, arms races, and outright war. This thesis charts a sharply divergent, previously neglected, path to international prestige—foreign …
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Defying boundaries : the challenge of transnational religion to international relations.
… intent to evaluate the ways in which the primary International Relations paradigms analyze, incorporate, or disregard religion, particularly its transnational manifestations. It is my contention that transnational religion is a potent actor in the international community, whose potential for …
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Afrikan contribution to international relations theory: an Afrocentric philosophical enquiry
The academic field of IR has been haunted by its Westerncentric philosophical founding masters. This has consequently led almost the overall (if not the entire) literature, of this particular academic discipline, to have become a typical platform wherein the Eurocentric driven masternarratives have …
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National images in international relations: Putin’s Russia and the West
… this problem by exploring the evolution of international images of the Russian Federation in the ‘West’ in the years of Vladimir Putin’s presidency (2000-2008) and by examining attempts by the Russian authorities to improve them with the help of foreign propaganda. Russian political elites …
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A Survey of International Relations in the Colorado Public Schools
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Selfhood, Historical Consciousness, and the State in International Relations Theory
… work seeks to examine the role of the state in international relations. While international relations treat states as institutions endowed with agency, they lack any means of explaining how the state can gain agency, autonomy, and rationality.</p> <p>My dissertation seeks to reorient the …
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Islam and International Relations: Towards an Alternative Conception of Universality
… dissertation develops an Islamic Theory of International Relations (ITIR) based on modifying the classic Islamic categories of <em>Dar al Harb and Dar al Salaam</em>. The main purpose of this dissertation is to use categories of Islamic political thought not derived from Western …
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The Terministic Filter of Security: Realism, Feminism and International Relations Theory
… publics within the academic discipline of international relations. It studies the rhetoric feminist international relations theorists and contrasts their view security with that of realist and neo-realist interpretations of international affairs. This study claims to open up the possibility …
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One man's wickedness : malignant narcissism and major blunders in international relations
… leaders tend to commit major blunders in international relations. Examples include Saddam, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Nasser. Seventeen hypotheses are presented on malignant narcissism, exploring its relationships to cognition, domestic political systems, and blunders in …
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Power and International Relations Theory; Why the 'Debate About Empire' Matters?
… usefully mean in the context of contemporary international relations. I start by investigating how power is understood in relation to the role of shared understandings. Mainstream or "Rationalist" scholars of IR have argued that shared norms and principles are epiphenomenal, existing only to …
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