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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"sovereign state"”.
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The Sovereign State as Political Community: A Revisiting of the Post-Structuralist Critique of the Neorealist State
… to and assertion of the primacy of the sovereign state within international relations theory has resulted in a discourse which theorizes and examines only those issues and conflicts of international politics which can be made to fit neatly within the prism of the neorealist discourse. As …
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Reinventing geopolitical codes in the post-Cold War world with special reference to international terrorism
… thesis examines the condition of the Westphalian sovereign state in the post-Cold War world. Focusing primarily on the events of September 11th 2001 and their aftermath, the research questions the sustainability of the state as conceived by (neo)realists in the context of new regional and global …
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An overview of the nationality and citizenship laws of Zambia
It is generally recognised that every sovereign State is competent to decide which persons are,or qualify to be ,its members.One form of such membership is citizenship or nationality.At times , one's citizenship of a particular State may be in issue.This has been the case in Zambia where …
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The Eurasian Agenda: The International Relations of Kyrgyzstan
… Union and the emergence of the newly independent states in Central Asia are among the most important historical events of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. As one of these newly independent and sovereign state, Kyrgyzstan found itself in the sphere of the geopolitical rivalry among the Great Powers, …
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War in the name of principles and values : NATO's intervention in Kosovo and its consequences for international stability
… intervention in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, justified by humanitarian concerns and without support from the UN Security Council. Some policy-makers celebrated what they saw as the creation of a precedent based on humanitarian rationale as opposed to traditional adherence to …
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A study of the proposals to divide the state of California from 1860 to 1952
… of these diversities, California is a single, sovereign state.</p><p>Within the state, however, there are two obvious sections: Northern and Southern California.<sup>1</sup> They are separated, theoretically, by the Tehachapi mountain range, which runs east and west, on a line with the city of …
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The protection of human rights in Africa
… of his being a human being. This implies that a state should allow a certain measure of individual liberty- Although the idea of human rights has become accepted in the international community, the observance of human rights varies from place to place. On the attainment of independence most of …
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The Gentile Opposition in the Wasatch Region: A Study in Religious and Social Conflict (1862-1890)
<p>The career of the Sovereign State of Utah, of necessity a story of religious and social conflict, has aroused many apologists (Mormon in the main) but has yet to find one adequate historian. Before a balanced picture of the Mormon state can be presented, there is need of many special studies. …
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Sacral Citizenship: Philosophies of the City from Plato to Augustine
… receiving of rights and protection from the sovereign state. I conclude instead that ancient citizenship was primarily by birth, was first to do with religious rather than political participation and included women and children. Aristotle’s purely political picture of civic origins and of …
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On death ground : why weak states resist great powers explaining coercion failure in asymmetric interstate conflict
… or using limited force to convince weak states to comply with their demands. While coercive strategies have succeeded in just over half of asymmetric crises since World War I, there remain a number of cases in which weak states have chosen to resist. With their tremendous military …
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Non-State Actors, Terrorism and the United Nations: A Critical Analysis through Three Case Studies Examining the United Nations' Effectiveness in Addressing the Threat Imposed by Violent Non-State Actors
… of security threats carried out by violent non-state actors. The United Nations, through the strategies of collective security and sovereign equality, aspires to have its member states prevent war through the peaceful settlement of disputes. This thesis argues that, by examining the legal norms …
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Criminalising Marital Rape in Botswana: The Need for Legal Reform
… women’s human rights. Further, even though a sovereign state, Botswana has ratified international human rights instruments and is therefore bound by its international obligations to prevent, eradicate and punish any form of violence that violates human rights. Furthermore, other than what …
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Anglophone Chinese modernity,1860-1910
… trade agreements with China, Secretary of State John Hay enunciated the first “Open Door Policy.” It proposed to keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis and declared U.S. support for a non-colonized and independent China. Despite Hay’s best effort, China struggled to …
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Certain Problems of International Law with Reference to China
… in their relations with one another. As a sovereign state in the community of nations, China is entitled to be treated as the juristic equal of the other member states. Owing to her administrative and military weakness, however, China's jurisdictional rights have been frequently curtailed …
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The post office and state formation in modern China, 1896-1949
… to the formation of the modern Chinese state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular, this is a study of how the nineteenth and twentieth century internal and external crises in China began a process in which the Post Office played an instrumental role in …
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De la crisis financiera global a la crisis de la Covid-19: la respuesta de la regulación macroprudencial en el marco de la Unión Bancaria.
… Union, the GFC subsequently went on to become a sovereign debt crisis, which led to the creation of the Banking Union (BU) in 2012. This geographically encompasses the countries of the Eurozone, and others which have joined voluntarily. This thesis also focuses on this sphere, whose …