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Showing 1 to 20 of 189 for “"rulers"”.
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Savage rulers: state-sponsored mass killing during civil war
… affects the behavior or strategies of embattled rulers and some factors that produce strong civilian support for rebels explain and predict the occurrence of the government’s extensive civilian killings.
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Rulers, Rhetoric, and Ray-Guns: A Post Colonial Look at 90's Alien Invasion Media
<p>This thesis opens discussion on American alien invasion films of the 90s as a self-critique, a reaction to being an imperial power at the end of the Cold War. The alien menace in these films is not the "other" but rather the U.S. itself being the colonizer or conqueror looking to expand its …
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Rulers and the Wolf: Archbishop Wulfstan, Anglo-Saxon Kings, and the Problems of His Present
<p>Until now, Wulfstan, Archbishop of Yorks relationship to and view of Anglo-Saxon kingship has never been comprehensively examined. The lack of attention this topic has received is a glaring omission in Wulfstan scholarship. Wulfstan worked under two kings, \xc6thelred and Cnut, and he had an …
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Social Security under Decentralized Authoritarianism: Politics of The Public Pension Program in China
… product of democracy. Why do authoritarian rulers provide welfare programs to the people? How do authoritarian rulers promote welfare development under decentralized authoritarianism? This dissertation investigates these theoretical puzzles through a detailed study of the urban pension …
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Frankish-Muslim Diplomatic Relations and the Shared Minority Discourse in the Eastern Mediterranean, 517-692 AH/1123-1293 AD
… frameworks that guided Christian and Muslim rulers in their policies towards minorities. It then surveys how these rulers involved minorities in their negotiations, upholding or challenging these frameworks, from the earliest Christian-Muslim encounters in the first/seventh century to the …
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Correlates of political alignment: Jumping off the balancing bandwagon
… The dissertation emphasizes the interests of rulers, particularly in their need to obtain support on issues of high salience to them. The desire for future reciprocation lies at the heart of these alignment decisions. First, leaders consistently reciprocate positive and negative alignments, …
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Princes, diwans and merchants : education and reform in colonial India
… why they promoted modern education. I argue that rulers of Indian states adapted to the colonial environment quite effectively. Instead of a break from the past, traditional ideas of rajadharma (duties of a king) evolved and made room for reformist social and economic policies. This dissertation …
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Essays in political economy
… of entrenchment and encroachment of rulers. It studies the strategic interaction between competition and ratchet effect incentives in a coalition-formation game of incomplete information. Rulers require the support of a subset of politically powerful groups to remain in power. These …
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Shadows of Empire: The Mughal and British Colonial Heritage of Lahore
… themselves to the Indians as almost indigenous rulers and logical heirs to the great Mughals.</p> <p>Lahore’s monuments are reminders of the roles various rulers have played in the city’s history. They represent Pakistan’s equally important Mughal and British legacies. Pakistanis readily …
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Representing national identity within urban landscapes: Chinese settler rule, shifting Taiwanese identity, and post-settler Taipei City
… an outside regime. However, the settler rulers in Taiwan regarded the settled land as their homeland. To secure their supremacy, the settler rulers had to strongly control the political, cultural, and economic interests of the ‘native’ population. Democratisation can be a key factor …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΩΝ ΝΗΣΙΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΝΟΤΙΟΥ ΙΟΝΙΟΥ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΣΑΡΤΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΜΗΤΕΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΕΦΑΛΛΗΝΙΑΣ ΣΤΟ ΠΡΙΓΚΗΠΑΤΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΧΑΙΑΣ ΜΕΧΡΙ ΤΟΘΑΝΑΤΟ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΡΟΛΟΥ Α' ΤΟΚΚΟΥ (1325-1429)
… THE PATERNAL DOMAIN. THE STRUGGLE OF THE PETTY RULERS OF THE STATES ADJACENT TO AETOLAKARNANIA (TOCCO, ALBANIANS, CATALANS) IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE DOMAIN OF NIKEPHOROS II, AFTER HIS DEATH (1359), IS ALSO DESCRIBED.NEXT ARE EXAMINED THE RELATIONS OF THE TOCCO WITH THE WEST, ESPECIALLY WITH …
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Land tenure and agrarian social structure in Ethiopia, 1636-1900
… the economic and social relationship between rulers and ruled that defined political culture in premodern Ethiopia. As a norm rim derived from confiscated peasant property and it mediated or exposed the social dependence of the zéga class on the ruling class. Rim together with zéga emphasize …
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Capturing the soul : encounters between Berlin missionaries and Tshivenda-speakers in the late nineteenth century
… and physical bases of the power of local rulers, the ancestors and medico-religious practitioners. I then go on to look at missionary discourse about the power of local rulers and society over, and the inscription of power on, the African body. I conclude the thesis with an extended case …
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El origen del bien y el mal visto desde la estética valleinclaniana de La Lámpara Maravillosa y los personajes de Tirano Banderas
… elements founded specific characteristics on rulers and tyrants. Mythical and historical figures of Mexican society, share the same behavior founded in Tirano Bnaderas, where the sordid events match the grotesque reality changing the Mexican course of history and its rulers forever.
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The impact of history and institutions on economic development
… with areas which were ruled by local Indian rulers under indirect colonial control. Controlling for potential selection bias in British annexation policy, I find that British-ruled areas have significantly lower levels of public goods in the post-colonial period. These differences were …
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Redefining the "Ideal Qatari Woman" in the 21st Century: The Role of Qatari Women in Nation Building and Branding
… feminism. With particular attention to Qatari rulers’ anxieties surrounding a growing migrant population, the gaze of a Western audience, and regional and domestic pressures, I argue that the Qatari state is constructing and recruiting an educated and socioeconomically privileged class of …
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When Men Cry: Male Demonstrations of Grief in Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and Sir Orfeo
… than being criticized as weak or effeminate rulers, all three of these sorrowful kings are honored by the poets and by their subjects. The mourning of the rulers is shown to be a clear portrayal of their commitment and care for their people and kingdoms. In response to the grief of the kings, …
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NATIONAL SELF AND NARRATIVE OF IDENTITY: CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM IN MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE AND FILM
… for modernization. Later, the despotic Pahlavi rulers (1925-79) sought to modernize the country but stifled the democratic evolution of polity and employed the pre-Islamic Persian heritage to strengthen monarchy. Hence, the Persian fiction writers such as Hidayat, Shahani, Danishwar dissociated …
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A comparative study of Urraca of León-Castilla (d. 1126), Melisende of Jerusalem (d. 1161), and Empress Matilda of England (d. 1167) as royal heiresses
… a comparative study of royal heiresses as rulers in their own right does not exist. The few studies that focus on royal heiresses examine individual royal women or are region-specific studies. However, by studying royal heiresses comparatively, greater insight can be gained regarding the …
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