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Transnational NGOs: A US Perspective
<p>This study examines how leaders of transnational NGOs (TNGOs) across the United States understand transnational activism and the roles their organizations play in world affairs. Three roles are identified: alleviation, realization and environmentalism. Analysis suggests that scholarship in …
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Transnational Political Participation Among Diasporic Migrants
… Sending and receiving states overtly encourage transnational practices when they allow migrants to maintain homeland citizenship regardless of their citizenship status in their receiving communities. Yet, we know little about migrants' ability to enact their citizenship and their propensity to …
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Biomedical robots. Application to transnational medicine
Esta tesis trata sobre el análisis y diseño de robots biomédicos y su aplicación a la medicina traslacional. Se define un robot biomédico como el conjunto de técnicas provenientes de la matemática aplicada, estadística y ciencias de la computación capaces de analizar datos biomédicos de …
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Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency
… groups with bases in neighboring states (transnational sanctuaries) are relatively more difficult to defeat than comparable groups without such bases. Insurgents with transnational sanctuaries benefit from relative protection from attack by counterinsurgents, they may recruit, train, and …
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Claude McKay and the transnational novel
… author Claude McKay (1889-1948) as a coherent transnational trilogy which dramatises the semi-autobiographical complexities of diasporic exile and return in the period of the 1920s and 1930s. Chapter One explores McKay’s urban North American novel, Home to Harlem (1928). I suggest that we need …
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Advocacy Under Authoritarianism: Transnational Networks in China
The standard theoretical account of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) is one of principled non-state actors remaking world politics by upsetting conventional notions of power in the international system. Relying on persuasion and framing instead of disruption and protest, these global networks …
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Transnational Organized Crime and the Drug Business
… international drug business?; What are the major transnational organized crime groups involved in the international drug business?; What is the nature of the drug problem as it relates to organized crime internationally?; What international cooperative law enforcement efforts currently exist to …
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Transnational Migration and Political Exile in Laos
… their impoverishment. Those with experiences of transnational migration have consequently encountered a new time and space, generating unique desires and discontents. Those who remained in Laos have shaped their desires and discontents on the structures, policies, and reforms pursued by the …
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Transnational Dynamics of Civil War Peace Processes
… armed conflict and the role that the transnational linkages, which rebel groups form with various state and non-state actors, play during different stages of peace processes. The thesis explains how rebel groups’ transnational linkages affect the probability of peace settlements and …
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Transnational technologies of gender and mediated intimacy
… capturing both Spain/UK national specifities and transnational patterns.
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Bong Joon-Ho’s Transnational Challenge To Eurocentrism
… explores the impact of global media flow of transnational cinema, foregrounding its potential to convey broader (but more effective) social and ecological political messages through its wider reach to audiences. Each film selected highlights a specific aspect of transnational cinema – …
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Transnational religion in Greek American political advocacy.
Contemporary studies of transnationalism are challenging scholarship on the political advocacy of ethnic groups by examining a broader range of connections that shape immigrant identity and engagement with the political systems of host countries. One of these connections is the role religion has in …
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Transnationalizing Families: Race, Multiculturalism and Transnational Adoption
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Performing samba: Aesthetics, transnational modernisms, and race
… and other forms of Black music are produced in transnational networks and increasingly consumed through mass media, but music meaning continues to be negotiated locally and collectively. Commodified music is given life through embodied acts of music making. This dissertation focuses on the …
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Evidence and Sustenance in Transnational Indigenous Literatures
… the ways in which Indigenous sovereignty and transnational solidarity is established in literature. This thesis demonstrates that Indigenous demand for land redress is inseparable from claims to literary sovereignty. I theorise a paradox of evidence—between the state’s erasure of Indigeneity …
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Critical Cartographies of Transnational Infrastructure-led Urbanization
This thesis is a manifesto that traverses the binaries of land and sea to mediate between the preconceived notions of boundary and territoriality. The contextual landscape of this mediation is within the littoral territory of Gwadar, in the southern coastal region of Baluchistan, in Pakistan. This …
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Transnational Network of Autocrats. Study of Democratic Erosion
… the extent to which these strategies reflect transnational patterns. Through a comparative analysis of Hungary under Viktor Orbán and the United States during Trump’s second term, the research identifies a pattern of democratic decline that is neither abrupt nor isolated, but rather gradual …
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Transnational satellites in Asia & the globalisation of television
The advent of transnational satellite television in the early 1990s caught Asian governments,broadcasters, advertisers and consumers unawares. Its popularity spurred a vigorous debate among the intelligentsia of Asia which centred on issues of the globalisation of culture in general and of …
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A Multidimensional Model for Transnational Computing Education Programs
As transnational education is becoming firmly embedded as a part of the distance education landscape, governments and universities are calling for meaningful research on transnational education. This study involved the development and validation of a model for effective transnational education …
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Women's Studies Worldwide: Cartographies of Transnational Academic Feminism
… and geographic locations, this study draws on transnational feminist theory and higher education research to argue for a more broadly situated understanding of academic feminism. Chapter One describes the creation of a digital map featuring more than nine hundred women’s studies degree programs …
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