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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"world system"”.
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Ottoman Empire's role in the emergence of the "European" world system
<p>In this study I will be focusing on classical world system theory. I will discuss the revisions that are done to the system and how these revisions opened up possibilities to include the Ottoman Empire in the world system. The categories that were created by Immanuel Wallerstein to depict the …
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CRACKING THE WORLD SYSTEM: MEDIATING PUBLIC PEDAGOGIES FROM THE “WORLD REVOLUTION” OF 1848
<p>This project adopts the framework of World Systems Analysis [WSA], formulated by global sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, to take the entire world system as the unit of analysis. Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire, the seminal theorist of critical pedagogy, this project couples WSA with the …
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State-business relations and economic transition in the modern world-system: a comparative study of South Africa and Zimbabwe
This thesis examines state-business relations (SBRs) in semi-peripheral South Africa and peripheral Zimbabwe following each country’s transition to majority rule. This study offers an explanation for why SBRs are likely to either consolidate or fracture in post-transition communities over time …
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Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500-1900
… in the constitution of the colonial-capitalist world system from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. World systems and postcolonial approaches to colonial expansion have often reduced questions of theology to a discursive feature of producing difference through the binary frame of …
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The Contextual Effect of Dependency on Economic Growth and Sectoral Inequality: A Cross-National Study Toward an Integration of Internal and External Factors in Third World Development
… underdevelopment highlighted by the dependency/world-system theory. These internal causes could be integrated into quantitative studies as contextual effects to clarify the current confusion in cross-national findings. This study considers four internal causal factors argued by contending …
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Semi-Peripheral Realism: Nation and Form on the Borders of Europe
… crucial function within the global capitalist system, the semi-periphery has received relatively little critical attention within the burgeoning field of world literature. As a transitional space between the core and the periphery, the semi-periphery is particularly sensitive to the economic, …
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The Military, Economy and the State: A New International System Analysis
… I outline a theoretical justification for a new world systems analysis in order to understand economic development and underdevelopment, and stratification systems that emerge within nation states because of their global social location. I present my detailed case for amending Wallerstein's …
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Social Ecography : International trade, network analysis, and an Emmanuelian conceptualization of ecological unequal exchange
… network analysis, ecological economics and the world-system perspective can be combined into an ecographic framework that can yield new insights into the underlying structure of the world-economy as well as its surrounding world-ecology. In particular, the thesis focuses on the structural theory …
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Internationalism and Anglophone Literatures, 1900-1950
… cultures to the social processes of the world-system. It is especially attentive to the antagonistic procedures of the world-system and the literary-political projects which seek to confront these procedures. The further interests of the thesis lie in modernism, the poetics and politics …
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Seeing Beyond Service - Redefining the Problem of Water and Sanitation Service Delivery in Resource-Limited Settings to Enable Effective Solutions
… two different social theories (modernization and world system). Understanding that barriers to effectiveness are rooted in global structures that tend to present at local levels helps redefine the problem leading to comprehensive policies and practices. The guiding research questions included an …
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Decentralized control of linear switched systems with receding horizon
… controller is further tested with a real-world system comprised of two HoTDeC hovercrafts.
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Great Conversations: Systems, Complexity, and Epic Encyclopedic Narratives in Contemporary American Fiction 1960-2007
… interprets its knowledge." The development of system paradigms in the sciences and humanities have shown that the complexity of the modern world-system preclude any such move towards totality. From this ideological shift in contemporary American culture, it follows that recent encyclopedic …
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State-society exchange in modern Sahelian Africa: Cultural representation, political mobilization, and state rule (Senegal, Mauritania, Chad, Sudan).
… complements, corrects, or specifies dependency/world-system and structural marxist explanations of peripheral political dynamics. This dissertation offers such a perspective as it seeks to explain variations in state-society exchange among four comparably dependent modern nations of the Sahelian …
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Subband Stitching for D-Band Measurements
… increasingly demanding electrical communication systems with higher data rates and lower latency. To satisfy these needs, researchers are exploring the feasibility of lesser used high-frequency bands for the deployment of future systems. As part of this research, channel measurement campaigns are …
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From Colonialism to Neo-colonialism: The British Politics of Nationalist Violence in Cyprus
… geopolitical conflicts in the contemporary world is the Cyprus Problem. This conflict is directly tied to the impact of former colonial powers on newly independent postcolonial states. This thesis analyzes the relationship between nationalist violence, British colonial and neo-colonial …
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A systematic analysis of defenses against code reuse attacks
In this thesis, we developed a systematic model of the code reuse attack space where facts about attacks and defenses were represented as propositional statements in boolean logic and the possibility of deploying malware was a satisfiability instance. We use the model to analyze the space in two …
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The Water to Which We Belong: Aqua nullius and Frames of Wara in a Black Oceania
… in Oceania under modernity’s colonial-capitalist world system. Recognising that these logics and their consequences are necessary to the functioning of modernity, it asserts that Hau’ofa’s call to a new Oceania has embedded within it a call to end the world of modernity, of colonial-capitalism, a …
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Peer-to-peer network modeling for adversarial proactive cyber defenses
… version of Chord. Our experiments with this system start to investigate the effectiveness of peer-to-peer networks as defenders as well as elucidate the issues of integrating coevolutionary algorithms in a real-world system.
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A Sensitivity Analysis of Scheduling Changes on Flight Training Resource Utilization Using Discrete Event Simulation
… to determine if the Flight Training Department system was sensitive to changes in the resources available to students in Flight Training Device (FTD) course modules. Historical data from the Flight Training Department was used to build the model. As no significant difference was found between …
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Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
… of 1084. Each novel narrates a moment in the world revolution of 1968, and through that moment, unfolds themes of revolution, terrorism, and the variety of aftermaths such events called forth within the larger geopolitical landscape. In comparing the particular locales of Newark, New Jersey, …
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