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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"power vacuum"”.
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No Half Measures Power Vacuums and Military Occupations
… relationship between military occupations and power vacuums. Specifically, it seeks to understand why some military occupations result in power vacuums while others do not. Pundits and policymakers have written extensively about the possibilities that the end of US occupations might yield …
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Calendars and the Cosmic Race: Popular Art and the Negotiation of National Identity, Idigeneity, and Gender in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
… various political figures sought to fill the power vacuum left by the ousting of Porfirio Díaz. As a result, many of these political figures co-opted the revolution, transforming it in la Revolución. In so doing, they re-wrote the recent past through various forms of media including calendar …
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The effects of elite-led power sharing on postconflict urban reconstruction: consociationalism and the Mostar case
… democracy is a system of elite-led, power-sharing government commonly instituted in countries following ethnic conflicts. The benefits and costs of consociational government are well-documented at the national scale, but less so at the municipal level (even though divided cities have …
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The Dragon in the Backyard: Chinese Strategy in Latin America
… U.S. influence from Latin America has created a power vacuum that is being filled by the Chinese and the strategic ramifications this will have on the security of the United States. In order for the United States to maintain its position as the world’s only superpower it must prevent the rise of …
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Canada First Is Inevitable: Analyzing Youth-Oriented Far-Right Propaganda on TikTok
… of its figureheads has created somewhat of a power vacuum, allowing for a new generation of far-right influencers to take over. The Groyper movement, led by 23-year-old Nicholas J. Fuentes, could in this sense be described as one of the successors of the alt-right. The Groypers are youth-led …
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Things fall apart : the disintegration of empire and the causes of war
… and collapse, the metropole withdraws its power from its peripheral territories and newly independent successor states emerge. This new situation gives rise to several problems: a power vacuum develops forcing successor states to provide for their own security and leading them and other …
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Communicative freedom in a digital democracy: political and economic resistance to freedom of speech and the rise of digital activism in South Africa
… a legitimate response to impunitive exercises of power. The dissertation offers a Corpus Linguistics analysis of the Protection of State Information Bill (2010), Protection of Personal Information Bill (2009) and the Promotion of Access to Information Act (2013) to suggest that, in the nexus …
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Shock Waves in Gas and Plasma in Strong Magnetic Fields
… a 50 TW ultrafast laser and a 1-MA pulsed-power generator to produce and diagnose laser-driven shocks propagating through gas and plasma in externally applied megagauss magnetic fields, a strong field regime not tested before. Experiments were performed at the Nevada Terawatt Facility(NTF). …
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Development administration: the role of bureaucracy in national integration in Nigeria
… under a new democratic government which came to power in 1979. A successful approach to unite the diverse ethnic groups in Nigeria has been the most important problem faced by the ruling elites. The political elite of the First Republic (1960-1966) utilized tribal sentiments to foster and …
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HUSHGAH ADIISH THE BADLANDS LODGE: A HIDATSA CULTURAL HUB ON THE UPPER-MISSOURI RIVER IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
… populations of all three groups and created a power vacuum in the Upper-Missouri region. Forced from their villages on the Knife River complex, the Mandan and Hidatsa migrated north along the Missouri where they were later joined by the Arikara for mutual defense against the Lakota and Dakota …
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Hierarchy and the Self in the Trilogy of C. S. Lewis
… and finally himself, to Nature in return for power. Especially in <em>The Abolition of Man</em> and the trilogy, Lewis traces the apocalyptic end of Man's mechanical, manipulative view of Nature and of himself.</p> <p>At the end of <em>The Abolition of Man, </em>Lewis asks for a new science …