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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"major powers"”.
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Minor Powers Confronting Major Powers: A Comparative Examination of the Conditions Facilitating Decisions to go to War
… of varying degrees of influence and capability. Major powers have immense resources at their disposal, while minor powers are often constrained in terms of structure and material. Thus, for minor powers, engaging in conventional wars against much larger and more powerful states is potentially …
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The politics of regional peace operations in West Africa : the relations among ECOWAS, the UN and major powers
Includes bibliographical references.
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From warmongers to peacebuilders: major power managerial coordination and the transformation of international relations, 1715-2001
This project is an evaluation of the role major power managerial coordination played in the transformation of the international system from a war-inducing to a peace-inducing system. In pursuit of this goal I develop the concept of the regime of major power managerial coordination and argue that it …
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Two Tales of a Region: Japan, the Philippines, and the Economic Theory of Alliances
… looking at the alliance maintenance of the non-major powers in Asia, and how they react to two contesting great powers that provide different incentives. The hypothesis of this paper is that the economic condition of a state affects with whom these non-major powers strengthen their relationship …
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The Politics of Foreign Military Basing
… anomalies in a world of sovereign states. Why do major powers station their finite military forces to protect other countries and how does the distribution of these bases relate to a country’s grand strategy? Why do host-nations give up their sovereignty and allow foreign forces, capable of …
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The Questions of Compliance With the NPT Regime and Complex Multilateral Nuclear Negotiations: A Comparative Analysis of North Korea and Iran As Defector States
… institutionalized by the NPT has been the major force behind this remarkable achievement. Yet, there have been increasing concerns about the erosion of the NPT regime due to noncompliance with the treaty's fundamental nonproliferation obligations by some 'states of concern,' seeking to …
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Local Elites, Empires, and Responses to the Rise of Islam in the Roman-Sasanian Northern Frontier Region, 640-726
… of evolving local attitudes towards the major powers and their place in local political discourse. Chapter 1 surveys the local social and administrative geography in late antiquity and considers the legacies of Roman-Sasanian warfare. Chapter 2 re-examines the political history of the …
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Hegemonic conflict in the Caspian region: Accumulation by dispossession and the spatial fix
… and military activities of three major powers, the United States, China and Russia, in the Caspian region, comprising the nation states of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The activities of …
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Partners in Peace and War: Theories of Alliance Formation and the Prospects of a Russia-China Alliance Explored
… the thesis looks at their application for two major powers that have a checkered history with each other, Russia and China, and determines the reasons for a potential alliance between them. Additionally, since this proposed alliance has implications for the United States, an overview of …
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Iran; A Nuclear Super Power? Understanding Nuclear Ambitions
… seek independence from the dominance of outside powers. In that regard, the acquisition of a nuclear weapon capacity would offer a symbol of power and independence from today's international community that distrusts Iran's unpredictable political atmosphere. According to the thinking of Iran's …
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The Consequences of Annexation on Financial Markets
… the three prominent cases of annexation by major powers over the past twenty years. This lends itself to three case studies: Crimea, Kashmir and Hong Kong. We will be selecting these three cases, since those were three that involved annexation by a major power over the past twenty years. …
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Engines of autonomy: regional organizations leading Latin America’s struggle for emancipation
… of Latin American countries vis-à-vis the major powers of the international system, and the region’s limited bargaining power in the international system.” To fill the gaps, I will study the U.S. and Latin American international relations and dynamics of states within South America …
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Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent Conflict
… states, proximate ethno-political groups and major powers. This project examines the problem of violent secessionist conflict and addresses an important debate at the intersection of comparative and international politics about the conditions under which secession is a peaceful solution to …
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The strategy & politics of expansionism: United States foreign policy toward Cuba and the Philippines in 1898
… is a relevant and timeless pursuit, as the major powers can impact economies, societies, and lives around the world. Be it war, trade, or other assertions of interests abroad, such activities affect the global political landscape significantly. Important questions raised in the current …
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Disputed Borderlands: Entangled Territories between the Spanish and British Empires in Colonial Central America, 1700-1787
… America as a borderland disputed by three major powers: the British, Spanish and the Miskito. Interactions between these three powers had a major impact on the region’s development but were focused in three key areas. These areas, and the focus of the thesis, are the Mosquito Coast, Costa …
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Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination Of Crime, Modernity And The New Woman In Early French And American Crime Films In The Us During The 1910s
… as a product of modernity in the cultures of two major powers in the global economy and global film industry, France and the US, and it aims to understand the greater implications that the female detective and female criminal represented in terms of the possibilities and limitations of women's …
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News Framing: A Comparison Of The New York Times And The People's Daily Coverage Of Sino-U.S. Spy Plane Collision Of April 1, 2001
… the United States and China faced their first major incident of the 21st century when a U.S. spy plane accidentally collided with a Chinese fighter plane. The dialogue that followed between the two countries, as well as the tenor of the incident as reported in the international press, provide …
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Comparative analysis of the UK, Russian, and Turkish soft power in the education sector of the Kyrgyz Republic from 2000 to 2021
… exchanges, and humanitarian cooperation. Major players like the USA, China, and Turkey are now involved in this rivalry. However, scholars and policymakers recognize the need for a shift in diplomatic approaches and international relations in light of the changing political landscape in …
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From the Humanitarian Impact Initiative to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: A Novel Approach to Nuclear Disarmament
… and in defiance of nuclear-armed states and major powers. Its advocates bypassed the standstill in existing disarmament frameworks such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the Conference on Disarmament (CD) and succeeded in changing the discourse around nuclear …
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Confessional Politics and Religious Identity in the Early Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire
… depended upon cooperation between the major powers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In sum, the Jesuit missions to the Ottoman world lay bare the existence of intersecting processes of religious solidification, empire-building, and global interconnectedness that …
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