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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"region-building"”.
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Region-Building in the Arab Middle East
This thesis explores the theory and practice of region-building in the Arab Middle East. Despite strong aspirations for a cohesive regional order, the Arab Middle East has been one of the least successful regions to achieve positive forms of consistent cooperation. Rather than attributing this …
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The Rise of a Technoscientific Third Pole: Environmental Data Practices in High Mountain Asia
… and Tibetan Plateau (“High Mountain Asia”). A region with a dearth of in-situ environmental data and opaque, fragmented governance, remote sensing data plays a key role in uncovering the region’s environmental concerns. These range from disasters such as flooding and earthquakes that have …
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Reordering the Region and Regionalising Higher Education
… Road has the potential to reshape much of the region’s commerce, politics and culture. While extensive analysis concentrates on the political and economic aspects of the initiative, to date there is little knowledge on how higher education (HE) as a policy area, and a cultural infrastructure, …
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ArctiC-EUrope relations: A case-study of inter-regional co-construction and its geopolitical impacts
… position – both inside and outside the Arctic region – raises crucial questions about how we understand regions and their institutions as geopolitical actors. It was therefore necessary to complicate the main Eurocentric narrative of a political entity (the EU) engaging in a geographical area …
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Between Scotland and Norway: connected cultures and intercultural encounters after 1700
… a shared, transnational Nordic/Northern cultural region after 1700. <br/><br/>The main aim of the research contained in this thesis was to establish how transnational cultural regions are created and maintained between Scotland and Norway after 1700. Using micro-historical case studies, the …
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The community and the problems of rural society
… developments in declining European rural regions through local residents and communities instigating innovative initiatives. It frames these issues within the conceptualisation of “social innovation”, which encapsulates notions such as empowerment and emancipation by means of innovations …
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NORTH BY NORTHEAST: TOWARDS AN ASIAN-ARCTIC REGION
… the Arctic is pressuring the Arctic Council, the region’s preeminent multilateral organization, to reconsider how it cooperates with states traditionally perceived as non-Arctic. The seafaring states of China, Japan, and Korea have commercial interests in the Arctic involving shipping, …
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The geographical data science of population flows
… Ireland, aims to create a geography through regionalization which is better suited to the geography of commuting and to apply such functional fit regions to spatial interaction modelling to better understand and evaluate regional and local commuter patterns with respect to key demographic …
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Analysis of Lossless-Adjustable One-Ports: Experimental Testing, Modelling and Optimal Control
… the control variable stays in the non-saturated region. Building from this, a candidate law for a clipped-optimal control on an infinite horizon is proposed that can be applied practically. The clipped-optimal control law is then compared in simulation against the corresponding clipped-optimal …
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Dynamics and impacts of toxic Alexandrium catenella blooms in the Pacific Arctic
Recent warming in the Pacific Arctic region is facilitating the emergence of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in polar waters, posing a significant threat to northern communities and ecosystems. Of particular concern is the dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella, a cystforming species that produces a …
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Firearm Adoption in the Societies of the Lower Zambezi, 1600-1888
… almost from their very inception, with many regions in North Africa as well as a select few coastal areas in West, Central and East Africa either accessing or being in contact with guns from as early as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. However, this contact was generally restricted to …
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Transnational Sub-regional Cooperation in Practice: Dynamics of Micro-regionalism and Micro-regionalisation in the East Asia Pacific
… the dynamic development of transnational sub-regional cooperation in the East Asia Pacific and its relation to the East Asian integration process. It is generally agreed that regional integration has become an irresistible global trend. Nevertheless, while regionalism has succeeded in …
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A Cultural Political Economy account of Higher Education in Mercosur
… Sector (SEM) to explain the role of HE in region-building over time. Mercosur is a regional organisation launched in 1991 among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay. Venezuela became a full member in 2012, and Bolivia is in process to acquire full membership. The research aims to shed new …
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In the era of normative power Europe
Are some of the world's smallest state regions, like the Caribbean, able to punch above their weight in international affairs, thus overcoming limitations of acutely small size? This is the first of two questions that the dissertation addresses, by investigating how and under what conditions the …