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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"small state"”.
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Caribbean-China Relations: Foreign Policy and Small State Economic Adjustment
… recent years the relationship between Caribbean states and China has intensified. This dissertation argues that the Caribbean's increased engagement with China is an important component of their economic adjustment strategy that was necessitated after changes in the orientation of the …
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Navigating great power competition: The Maldives as a democratising small state
… systematically constrains democratisation in small states when geo-strategic interests intersect with domestic political processes. Using the Maldives as a case study, it demonstrates that democratic consolidation is constrained by mechanisms employed by great powers, such as economic …
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Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy since Independence: A Small State From Order Taker to Order Maker (1991-2021)
The role of small states in international relations has been thought of as one of deference to great powers. In this view, great powers can create, maintain, and dictate behaviour, while small states must follow their lead. Small states are considered weak, vulnerable, lacking in power, and …
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A postcolonial approach to Nepal's geopolitics, hydro-politics, and border-politics
… the case of Nepal’s relationship as a small state vis-à-vis its much larger neighbours India and China, I contend that a postcolonial approach allows us to reveal hitherto marginalised relational dimensions and recognise the agency of Nepal as an international actor. The empirical focus …
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Evaluating theories of liberal hegemony and small states in U.S.-Jordanian relations since 2000
… current international system, and Jordan, as a small state, is undeniably huge, it is claimed that the relations between the two countries are rather power relations, especially during the unprecedented era of U.S. power and unilateralism during President G.W. Bush’s two terms. This thesis, …
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Efficient Explicit -State Model Checking for Programs With Dynamically Allocated Data
… improves the exploration time for the smaller programs from 0.88x to 126.80x (with median 5.60x) in JPF and from 0.58x to 4.16x (with median 2.23x) in BOX, while taking from 0.46x to 11.50x (with median 1.48x) less memory in JPF and from 0.18x to 2.71x (with median 1.18x) memory in BOX. …
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Bold Leader or Bully? Interpreting Chinese Regional Maritime Behavior
… China’s behavior as “bullying” (as China’s smaller and less powerful neighbors view it) is accurate, and whether any definitive conclusions can be drawn concerning the assertive nature of China’s conduct. Moreover, given how China’s neighbors perceive Chinese maritime policy, this thesis …
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Lietuvos saugumo strategija po 2022 metų: visuotinės gynybos link? /
… this question, the paper drew on theories of small state security strategies. The diversity of these theories allowed to discuss the choices a small state can make in terms of its defence approach. They were useful in revealing which factors were crucial in Lithuania’s strategic choice to opt …
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Growing together: exploring the politics of knowing and conserving (bio) diversity in a small conservancy in Cape Town
… dissertation is based on research conducted at a small state-managed conservancy called the Edith Stephens Nature Reserve (ESNR) situated in the low-lying flatlands of the Cape Town metropolis. By tracing some of the complex and varied ways in which different ways of knowing and valuing urban …
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The Development of Vietnam's Naval Power since 1986
… lawship–warship continuum—illustrates how a small state integrates military, constabulary, and civilian instruments into a coherent maritime posture. Together, these forces extend Vietnam’s defensive culture seaward, enabling calibrated responses to gray-zone coercion while sustaining …
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Small states and the undercurrents of compliance with international law: The case of Namibia
This study examines small states’ compliance with international law, with a specific focus on Namibia. The study is based on the questions whether small states rigorously adhere to international law and whether they are different from large powerful states and what are the consequences for small …
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Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action
… not revolutionary, criticized the neoliberal small state, demanding effective provision of social rights and more territorial autonomy; (2) these movements appealed to a place-based identity connected to natural elements, and their collective action reframed such identity, leading to social …
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The age of interactivity: An historical analysis of public discourses on interactivity in Ireland 1995 - 2009.
… of influential international discourses within a small state. The content analysis draws a detailed quantitative picture of how and where interactivity arises in news coverage while the discourse analysis examines qualitative aspects of the dominant, overlapping and conflicting discourses around …
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Delaware’s Multidisciplinary Teams for the Investigation of Child Abuse: Communities of Practice?
… was based on a nonprobability sample in one small state. Benefits of my study include the production of useful knowledge about the lived experiences of MDT members in Delaware and the applicability of the CoP theory in understanding mandated collaborations.</p>
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A tecnologia do Processo Judicial Eletrônico do Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da Paraíba na perspectiva arquivística
… gives the TRT 13th national highlight to the small state of Paraiba, lifting the cutting edge in technology because it was the first in Brazil Labour Court who sued their actions originating electronically. Thus, from the implementation of Electronic Court, legal procedures such as …
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Transonic flutter prediction and aeroelastic tailoring for next-generation transport aircraft
… utter prediction is developed, which is based on small unsteady disturbances about a known steady flow solution. The states of the model are the circulation and doublet perturbations, and their evolution equation coefficients are calibrated using off-line unsteady two-dimensional flow simulations. …
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Constructing a Spatial Imaginary: The Formation and Re-presentation of Monte Carlo as a Vacation-Leisure Paradise, 1854-1950
… disgruntled populace overburdened with taxes and state monopolies. European contemporaries perceived the small state as a premodern, peripheral backwater and as a minor stop on the Grand Tour. Within a few short decades, perceptions of Monaco and its newly-founded city, Monte Carlo, changed so …
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Dynamic Discrete Choice Estimation using Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Online Food Markets
… computationally challenging, especially as state spaces expand, limiting their application to large-scale consumer datasets. This thesis develops Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based estimation methods to improve the speed and scalability of DDC estimation. The second chapter establishes a …
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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 …
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