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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"power struggle"”.
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THE GREAT POWER STRUGGLE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION AND ITS EFFECTS ON SRI LANKA
… it with the challenge of balancing regional powers—India and China. As a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, Sri Lanka has historically pursued a non-aligned foreign policy, which proved beneficial during the Cold War and post-Cold War. However, in the current era of great power …
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All for One, but Not One for All: The Knowledge/Power Struggle and Its Effect on Teacher Autonomy
… assessment serves to squelch equity and enforce power structures of bureaucracy through superseding the state curriculum in English-Language Arts. A mixed methods study was created to measure differences in teachers' attitudes regarding their perceived freedom of pedagogical practice within …
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The power struggle between Americans and Creoles in the first half of the nineteenth century and its influence on the architecture of New Orleans
… two immigrant groups on the previously existing power structures in economics, politics, and society of the city. While the refugees from Saint Domingue more or less assimilated into the city, and in doing so, achieved power over the native Creoles, primarily in the area of social sophistication, …
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Gorbachev, the Generals and the "Turn to the Right"
… foreign policy conservatives are involved in a power struggle. The conservatives, the generals, have gained influence and are now in a position to slow down but not derail the new thinking diplomacy. The Turn to the Right signals an end to the dramatic breakthrough diplomacy of 1989 and 1990 but …
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Exploring the impact of trade union power struggles on the employment relationship in the South African mining sector
… employees at a mine in Marikana on the effect of power struggles between trade unions and the influence thereof on the employment relationship. The majority of the research focused on the two key unions in the mining industry namely, The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and The Association of …
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"A Soft Lad the Like of You": Complex Father-Son Relationships in Three "Millennial" Irish Texts
… means for developing a discourse on the power struggle that is colonialism.</p>
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The Question of Ijtihad
… study will show that this question arose from a power struggle between modernists and traditionalists regarding who had the power to interpret and make rulings for the Muslim community. It will further show how traditionalists are trying to maintain their power in order to preserve traditional …
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The Dynamics of Border Disputes in State Making: The Fragile Borderlands in the Northern Region between Nigeria and Benin Republic in West Africa
… borders were arbitrarily drawn by the European powers. The post-independence African leaders agreed to maintain the inherited arbitrary partitions as discarding them would open doors for more crisis between African states. However, sixty years after independence, border disputes continued to …
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Constructing the Navajo Capital: Landscape, Power, and Representation at Window Rock
… of Window Rock was intended to obscure the power struggle between Collier's OIA, the newly-formed Navajo Tribal Council, and Dine living throughout the reservation, as well as the manner in which many Dine resisted spatial control."
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One thing I love: A novel and, Balance in creation: A novelist's view of the psychology of inspiration, an accompanying essay
… and Anna attend pregnancy yoga class, have a power struggle over turning the computer room into the nursery, and fend off interference from Jake's parents, who are 20, 000 km, but only a phone call, away. Jake returns to work shortly after baby Max is born, and a growing lack of understanding …
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Reimagination of Turkey: The Emergence and Challenges of Post-Kemalist Nation-State Identity (2001-2011)
… in the world. To reveal the process of domestic power struggle in maintaining and transforming Turkey’s Kemalist identity, the study takes Ruth Wodak’s Discourse-Historical Approach in a search of different discourses on Turkish national identity and foreign policy in Turkish media from 2001 to …
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Ethical Elitism: A Burkean Analysis of the Rhetorical Construction of a Moral Persona in the First Term of President George W. Bush
… reveal that Bush‟s rhetoric frames the ethical struggle as being between himself and an elite/powerful few others. The majority of Americans are thus stripped of their agent status and the corresponding ability to act and left to feel the effects of a “moral” decision that is made in their …
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Ghost in the shell : econometric forecast of Singapore's office market and where is architect in financial time
… current milieu where role play in the system of power are essential to success was problematized; In the era when social and financial "cloud participation" has given rise to ebay, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia, what does work, live and play mean in this current environment where indulgence and …
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She must be quiet: a historical case study of how women created spiritualist education at the Chesterfield Spiritualist college
… in, what some have concluded as a patriarchal power struggle. Regardless, women have kept Camp Chesterfield and the Chesterfield Spiritualist College afloat. Who those women are/were, and their contributions are documented in the following pages.
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Marginalization of Fezzan Region in Libya
… of living in Libya, Fezzan remains a pawn of the power struggle of internal and external actors, and Fezzan plays a role in the prevalence of crime, corruption, and terrorism. Recommendations emphasize the need to cultivate Libyan governmental self-sufficiency, a balanced constitution representing …
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The Cold War and decolonization in British Guiana: The Anglo-American intervention and Guianese nationalist politics
… of the world led to a complex shift in global power structures and considerable conflict. From 1953 to 1966 nationalist leaders in British Guiana struggled to achieve independence from Great Britain and fought to establish their position in the future government of Guyana. Colonialism, however, …
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American grail: Contemporary federal budget reform
… reforms provide context from which to view the power struggle between the executive and legislative branches of government; the tension of separate institutions sharing power. This research also offers insight into the extent that the U.S. separation of powers structure interferes with the …
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Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour Party and foreign affairs 1955-63
… policy formulation; internal divisions and the power struggle between Left and Right. In addition, it also considers how the structure of the Labour Party benefited the leadership during this turbulent period. The conclusions revise Gaitskell's reputation as a figure of unyielding principle, and …
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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
… They have been exploring the concept of soft power to attract and persuade others to serve the region's interests. This research delves into the concept of soft power in Kyrgyzstan, a small republic caught in the crossfire of the 'New Great Game' among major powers. Despite its size, …
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