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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"transnational advocacy"”.
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How Transnational Advocacy Networks Emerge: An Empirical Investigation of a Casualty Recording Network
… relations literature explaining the emergence of transnational advocacy networks. Specifically, this research contributes to understanding TAN emergence due to a gap in institutional approaches to casualty recording in conflict and why actors join TANs. This TAN is particularly worthy of …
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The Role of the Magnitsky Transnational Advocacy Network in the Selection of Sanctions Targets
… This provision led to the generation of a transnational advocacy network dedicated to expanding targets of the Global Magnitsky program and eventually expanding further into advocating for the adoption of Magnitsky-style sanctions in other jurisdictions, as well as providing information for …
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An Exploratory Study of the Effectiveness of the CPJ in Defending Journalists and Press Freedom Ideals in Latin America: Transnational Advocacy in the International Sphere
… helps fill a significant gap in the research on transnational advocacy and its influence, and provides a foundation upon which to further explore the roles of advocacy networks in the international community.
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Worker rights protection in Mexico's Silicon Valley : confronting low-road labor practices in high-tech manufacturing through antagonistic collaboration
… NGOs. These molds include participation in transnational advocacy and the monitoring of private codes of conduct (COC). While notably CEREAL-GDL was an indirect, yet central, actor in the birth of transnational advocacy related to the global electronics industry, which consequently led to …
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Recycling citizenship: infrastructural transformation and access struggles in Dakar's solid waste management system
… their ties to global civil society actors and a transnational advocacy network as they mobilize to defend their access to waste. This study analyzes the workers’ mobilization as a citizenship struggle, given that their claims signify efforts to influence the political economy that shapes their …
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Aporias of World Politics: the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
… and its intersection with human rights and transnational advocacy through the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. I make two major arguments: first, that many people cannot be discursively represented domestically and/or internationally - that they have no space in which to …
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
… protocols, community organizing skills, and transnational advocacy competencies with traditional community knowledge to create a culturally specific training curriculum. Through the research process, community knowledge and needs will be identified, allowing for the adaptation of the CRT …
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
… protocols, community organizing skills, and transnational advocacy competencies with traditional community knowledge to create a culturally specific training curriculum. Through the research process, community knowledge and needs will be identified, allowing for the adaptation of the CRT …
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Post-transition human rights performance in Peru, Uruguay, and South Korea
… findings demonstrate the positive influence that transnational advocacy networks have in pushing the state to better its compliance with adopted norms. And additionally, this research points to the continuing impact former regime personnel and domestic political interests have over that of human …
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Why Surrender Sovereignty? Empowering Non-State Actors to Protect the Status Quo
… states and state officials. The introduction of transnational and supranational judicial mechanisms is a strategy of the strong, not the weak. Contingent on the mobilization of transnational advocacy networks, powerful states turn to sovereignty-constraining tools in response to two core …
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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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Examining the dynamic of Indonesia's transnational networks in advocating Indonesia-Israel relations
Why do some transnational actors create and engage in networks that advocate for Indonesia-Israel relations? Previous literature emphasizes that the role of transnational advocacy networks is to legitimize the interests of issues that arise in society. However, transnational actors are indirectly …
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The Influence of Human Rights Advocacy Networks on the Prosecution of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in International Criminal Courts
"This thesis explores how human rights advocacy organizations have influenced the increased prosecution of conflict-related sexual violence in international criminal courts. This thesis will use the cases of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal …
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When States ‘Come Out’: The Politics Of Visibility And The Diffusion Of Sexual Minority Rights In Europe
… or low implementation costs. Instead, specific transnational and international channels and domestic interest groups can make visible political issues that were hidden, and it is that visibility that creates the political resonance of international norms in domestic politics, and can lead to …
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The role of NGOs and sustainability standards in oil palm developments in Gabon and Cameroon
… for this commodity crop. Components of this 'transnational advocacy network' share similar values and have promoted these in a number of ways. My study finds that the 'Zero Deforestation' commitments resulting from the actions of this network have strongly affected the trajectory of …
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Power from the Grassroots : Strategies and Resilience of Cambodian Land and Environmental Activists
… documents that reflect their public advocacy messaging and action framing. These materials were analyzed using the method of qualitative content analysis and interpreted in dialogue with literature on social movements, resistance and Global South perspectives, centering participants’ …
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The new political economy of disability: transnational networks and individualised funding in the age of neoliberalism
… the thesis maps the spread of IF models through transnational networks. It highlights the ways in which networks actors themselves are embedded within, and conditioned by, global and national webs of norms, ideologies and structural constraints. The thesis finds that the variety of actors …
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Internationalisation of the National Aspirations of the Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel
… from public memoranda, to civil and legal advocacy by invoking international conventions and treaties and finally to personal diplomacy. The results show that it is not a zero sum game; it is an especially effective method in different ways and with varying degrees of success. It created an …
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Crafting citizens: material rhetoric, cultural intermediaries, and the Amazwi Abesifazane South African national quilt project
… globally, directly and indirectly, and across transnational advocacy networks. The participants of the VOW project use a range of composition technologies to represent the narratives – from needle and thread to website design and database software, depending on their position within the …