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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"territorial disputes"”.
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Beaches of the future: analyzing territorial disputes in South America
Territorial and border disputes have long been a foundation for conflicts in the international arena, but in Latin America, gaps in literature still remain. Analyzing cases in this region can equip the international community to understand sources of conflict, formulate improved foreign policy with …
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Rethinking Chinese Territorial Disputes: How the Value of Contested Land Shapes Territorial Policies
… strategy to change the status quo of one territorial dispute? And when this does happen, why do states ultimately use military force rather than concessions, or vice versa? This dissertation answers these questions by examining four major Chinese territorial disputes - Chinese-Russian and …
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Never -Ending Conflicts? Transfers, Partitions, and Unifications as Potential Solutions for Territorial Disputes
Historically, territorial dispute has been the single most contentious issue over which states fight. This project investigates the related questions of whether and under what circumstances an alteration of international borders---that is a territorial change that takes the form of a state-to-state …
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Intractable territorial disputes: Concessions, salience, and the political gain of domestic opposition factions
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Geographical perspectives on international cooperation and conflict
… voting patterns and 2) the escalation of territorial disputes. Political geographers have emphasized the need to look at political issues using key concepts developed in geography. In this dissertation the concepts of context and scale are applied to revisit existing studies. First, the …
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Trade in Shadow ASEAN-China Trade Relations amidst South China Sea Conflicts
… (Mearsheimer, 2001; Waltz, 1979). Unresolved territorial disputes, from this perspective, should generate uncertainty and ultimately suppress trade. Liberal and institutionalist traditions, by contrast, suggest economic interdependence can restrain conflict (Keohane, 1989; Moravcsik, 1997). It …
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Calculating bully : explaining Chinese coercion
Since 1990, China has used coercion for territorial disputes, foreign arms sales to Taiwan, and foreign leaders' meetings with the Dalai Lama, despite adverse implications for its international image. China is also curiously selective in the timing, target, and tools of coercion: most cases of …
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Architecture for a territorial dispute resolution system : a systems approach
… ransom. Most of these conflicts take the form of territorial disputes that are often protracted and sap the energies out of the nation states. Kashmir, Sudan, Israel-Palestine and Sri-Lanka today are embroiled in a bitter dispute embittered by relentless bloodshed and deep-rooted animosity carried …
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The Troubles: Northern Ireland's Quest For Peace
… intractable and enduring political, culture, and territorial disputes in Europe. The purpose of this thesis is to explain to the reader why. Furthermore, the thesis examines the evolution of American policy towards the province since 1968. The discussion begins by examining the various political …
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Bold Leader or Bully? Interpreting Chinese Regional Maritime Behavior
… disputed claims issue. Ultimately, the ongoing territorial disputes between China and its maritime neighbors were used as a case environment for exploring how smaller states perceive and react to the actions of great and/or aspiring powers. The case demonstrates that small states sometimes …
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An analysis of the international court of justice advisory opinion on the occupation of the Palestinian territory by Israel
… has been exposed to ethnic, religious and territorial disputes involving Israel and Arab Nations including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Jordan. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been fuelled by the West including Britain and the United States of America. This is evident in the British …
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The role of male-male aggressive signals in reproductive isolation between two hybridizing warblers
… songs thought to function primarily in male-male territorial disputes). My results demonstrate that patterns of hybridization are associated with differences in both Type-II song structure and the ability to discriminate between conspecific and heterospecific Type-II songs, suggesting that Type-II …
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China's preference for the regional order in East Asia
… towards ASEAN and on the South China Sea territorial disputes between 1990-2019 to assess what they reflect about China's preference for the regional order. I then compare this with what the theory predicts to be China's preference for the regional order during the same time period. I show …
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Islands and Rocks: moving towards certainty on the interpretation of Article 121 of the Law of the Sea Convention?
… wording of Article 121 has resulted in various territorial disputes between nations in relation to both the interpretation and application of the Article. This dissertation seeks primarily to investigate whether the international community is moving towards certainty on the interpretation of …
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Afghanistan and transnational war: Interlocking security dilemmas and strategic challenges
… The legacy of fraught historical relations, territorial disputes, state and non-state spoilers, armed conflict, and the effects of the Indian-Pakistani nuclear deterrent taints the politico-social environment, stymieing efforts to allay entrenched suspicions. Third, advocates of a regional …
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Policing Children in Street Situations in São Paulo, Brazil: Relations of Violence and Exclusion in the City
… of tension between the two groups as it led to territorial disputes. Complementing this, concepts such as Collective/institutional identities, social relations, symbolic spaces and spatial identity, were key categories to understand the relation between individual’s subjectivity, territory, and …
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Resistance to state-driven land expropriation in northern Uganda: Counter-hegemonic imagination and the reconstruction of identity, authority, territory, and property
… to state enclosure of land for conservation, territorial disputes between local governments, and ethnic-based conflict over land access. The issues I explore intersect discussions on peasant resistance and African land regimes–institutional arrangements linking forms of public authority, …
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Behavioural interactions and reasons for aggression between Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen) and other birds in New Zealand
… (July to November). Regular observations on six territorial breeding groups and three non-breeding flocks of magpies over a year indicated that a range of bird species actively avoided foraging close to both these social groups cf. adjacent magpie-free control areas; fewer birds were also …
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Toward a “Greater Morocco”: Moroccan irredentism and Cold War territorial expansions
… thesis presents a series of case studies on the territorial expansion plans inspired by the concept of “Greater Morocco,” and irredentist ideology supported by Morocco’s ultra- nationalist politicians, notably Allal Al-Fassi, and implemented by the Moroccan government during the Cold War. The …
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Nagorno Karabakh Conflict: Problems and Possibilities for Political Resolution
… a brief introduction to the Nagorno Karabakh territorial dispute as well as a section on democratic peace literature and theory. In the main chapters, I will discuss each leg of the Kantian tripod for peace and the problems and possibilities in achieving each of these individual requirements …
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