Dissertations / Theses: 'Our Republic'

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Savage, James A. "Save Our Republic: Battling John Birch in California's Conservative Cradle." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/25.

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Previous accounts of the development of the New American Right have demonstrated the popularity and resonance of the ideology in Southern California. However, these studies have not shown how contention surrounded conservatism’s ascendancy even in regions where it found eager disciples. “Save Our Republic” uses one conservative Southern California community as a vehicle to better understand the foundations of a wider movement and argues the growth of conservatism was not nearly as smooth as earlier studies have suggested. Santa Barbara, California, experienced a much more contentious introduction to the same conservative elements and exemplifies the larger ideological clash that occurred nationwide during the late 1950s and early 1960s between “establishment,” moderate Republicans and the party’s right flank. In California’s cradle of conservatism, the ideology’s birth was not an easy one. Santa Barbara should have provided a bonanza of support for the John Birch Society, a staunchly anticommunist organization founded in 1958 by retired businessman Robert H.W. Welch. Instead, its presence there in the early 1960s divided the city and inspired the sort of suspicion that ultimately hobbled the group’s reputation nationally. Rather than thriving in the city, the JBS impaled itself in a series of self-inflicted wounds that only worsened the effect these characterizations had on the group’s national reputation. Disseminated to a nationwide audience by local newspaper publisher Thomas M. Storke, who declared his intention to banish the organization from the city, the events that occurred in Santa Barbara throughout 1961 alerted other cities of the potential disruption the JBS could inspire in their communities. The JBS would forever bear the battle scars it earned in Santa Barbara. “Save Our Republic” argues the events in Santa Barbara exemplify the more pronounced political battle that was occurring throughout the nation in the 1960s as conservatives grappled to determine the bounds of their ideology. The threat from the right that caused so much handwringing in the halls of conservative power had an equally unsettling effect in the city’s parlors, churches, schoolhouses and newsrooms.

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Dijkstra, Tony John. "Attitudes to the Gracchi in our sources for the late 2nd and early 1st centuries B.C." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5190.

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Žantovská, Murray Irena 1946. ""Our slav acropolis" : language and architecture in the Prague castle under Masaryk." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82940.

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The present study explores the relationship between language and architecture as symbolic systems against the background of the creation of independent Czechoslovakia at the end of World War I. It takes as its focus the Prague Castle, and the intent of the first President of Czechoslovakia, philosopher Thomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850--1937), to "democratize" the vast complex of historic structures that formed it, with the help of the Slovenian architect Joze Plecnik (1872--1957). To effect change in the charged, historically circumscribed spaces of the Castle can be viewed as a language analogy mainly in the terms of creating new relationships . Polysemy is a characteristic, sometimes dominant, feature of the transformation process.
In the hierarchy of public spaces, the Castle was meant to constitute the ultimate symbolic space not just for Prague, but for the entire nation. Memory as recollection, but also as imagination and ingegno, impelled symbolic action both verbally and architecturally. Plecnik's own "grammar of creation" sought constitutive forms in the traditions of Antiquity and ancient Egypt, in Masaryk's ideas of democratic governance as well as in the collective memory of the city. These were the informing principles that created a more layered referential field.
The invention of the tradition and symbolic identity of the Castle in the new context of republican Czechoslovakia was a complex process accompanied by competing narratives. Masaryk wished the Castle to become "a symbol of our [Czech and Slovak] national democratic ideals," and spoke of a need to "embody" the new parliament in search for an ethical existence rooted in faith and self-education, imbued with both scientific rigour and poetic making, and implemented through the everyday work by all citizens.
A unique example of another type of narrative is a body of correspondence addressed to Plecnik between 1920 and 1956 by the President's daughter, Alice Garrigue Masaryk (1879--1966), who represented her father in his role as patron and served as a conduit between him, the Castle Building Administration and Plecnik himself. A close reading of these letters explores to interrogate the role of language in both the transmission of tradition and in the actual process of architectural making and constitutes an original contribution to scholarship.

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Ystebo, Derek. "Our Sister Republic: Creating Mexico in the Minds of the American Public and the Role of the Press." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26540.

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During the Mexican War, Americans radically transformed their ideas about Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. The Mexican War offered itself up as the first of such interactions between the neighboring republics. The Mexican during the War was met largely with criticism from the American public, a criticism aided by the work of the press. While a vast majority of the presses disparaged the Mexican populace on a variety of subjects, not all papers denigrated the Mexicans as some inferior population in need of assistance from the United States in order to survive and reach a proper level of civilization. Papers such as the Catholic and abolitionist presses sought to portray the Mexican in a more positive light. Analysis of these spheres of influence of the various presses offers up a genesis of the Mexican within the American imagination.

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Bishwende, Augustin Ramazani. "EULOGY: "THESE REFUGEES, OUR BROTHERS" MSGR MUNZIHIRWA, WITNESS TO THE GOSPEL IN A CONTEXT OF WAR IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 2013. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,1213.

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Scherkenbach, Carmen. "An Assessment of Video Advocacy as an Instrument for Change. Case Study: The Our Voices Matter Campaign to Combat Sexual Violence Against Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21148.

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With the rise of new information and communication technologies, advocacy campaigns in development have experienced a resurgence of video as an instrument to enrich outreach efforts and build bridges, to empower marginalised groups and rescue the culture and heritage of indigenous people, and to reach decision-makers – and ultimately change policies and laws. The use of “humanising” elements through film, such as the oral testimonies of individuals, allows practitioners to transport the realities and conditions of specific localities to audiences otherwise unable to experience them directly. The present study examines the mechanisms through which video advocacy reaches audiences, looking specifically at trade-offs and knock-on effects among key stakeholders, based upon the case study of the Our Voices Matter advocacy film. The video features oral testimonies of local women survivors of rape from the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is employed to campaign for justice for women victims of sexual violence and to mobilise social change to alter the role of women in the region. In light of the multifaceted nature of video advocacy use in development, the study utilises a composite of three analysis techniques, employing the collection and critical examination of information both qualitative and quantitative in nature: A content analysis of the case study, examining the narrative and semiotic elements used by the film’s producers, was designed to complement interviews with stakeholders of the campaign. An international survey of women was conducted to shine light on how vulnerable groups across the world relate to the video in question and evaluate the effectiveness of video advocacy. The composite discussion reveals insights into video advocacy conception, strategy, and implementation, with particular emphasis on stakeholder mapping, while underscoring the potential for trade-offs and knock-on effects among stakeholder groups. The case study also provides a theoretical and practical basis for similar communication for development campaigns.

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Walker, Jessica Lorraine. "Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors : Thomas Jefferson and the role of English history in the building of the American nation." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0209.

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This thesis contends that Anglo-Saxon studies made a powerful contribution to Thomas Jefferson's development of public concepts of American identity and nationalism in ways that have been elided by scholars preoccupied with Jefferson's classicism. Jefferson's comprehensive survey of Anglo-Saxon grammar, language, law and emigration provided him with a precedent for revolution and helped him develop a model of American nationhood. Jefferson's detailed study of the Anglo-Saxon era set him apart from writers on both sides of the Atlantic in the period 1750-1860, and this thesis will argue that to generalize his interest as 'whig history' or a subscription to a theory of Teutonic superiority is unjustified. Chapter One considers Jefferson's educational background, his exposure to Anglo-Saxon history and the degree to which he might have been encouraged to pursue it. Previous studies of Jefferson's Anglo-Saxonism have presumed that there was a 'Gothic font' from which American Founding Fathers could drink; the detailed study of Anglo-Saxon historiography in this chapter will show otherwise. Chapter Two is concerned with a detailed examination of the collections of books relating to Anglo-Saxon history and language that Jefferson collected throughout his lifetime. If Jefferson was concerned with whig dialogues, or interested in the Saxons as a product of a passion for Tacitus we should find evidence of it here. In fact, the study of Jefferson's library in Chapter Two demonstrates that Jefferson was genuinely an expert Anglo-Saxon scholar and regarded that knowledge base as a political tool. Chapters Three and Four constitute detailed examinations of the nationalist use to which Jefferson put his understanding of early English history. Chapter Three considers the problem of shared heritage with Britain confronting the American statesman in the 1760s and 1770s and his employment of pre-Norman history in resolving this conflict. Chapter Four enlarges upon the study of American national identity, with specific reference to the linguistic debates following on the Revolution. This chapter revolves around a reconsideration of Jefferson's Anglo-Saxon Essay and his attempts to introduce this language into the education of future American statesmen. Jefferson's examination of Anglo-Saxon history, when considered in this light, seems oddly discordant with the simplistic notion of Jefferson as a founder of Teutonic superiority. Chapter Five is interested in Jefferson's impact on historical rhetoric in the nineteenth century. Thomas Jefferson used English history as an aid to separating an American nation from the British Empire and he believed that Americans could look to their Anglo-Saxon ancestors for a precedent that would justify their independence from Britain. He saw in Anglo-Saxon studies a means for appropriating those parts of English history that could underpin a national identity defined by freedom, initiative, and perhaps a racial predilection for democracy, while simultaneously rejecting Britain's authority in his present.

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Svitek, Ladislav. "Privatization in the Czech Republic during the transition years : success or failure?" Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FSvitek.pdf.

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Kavanová, Tereza. "Optimalizace systému objednávání zboží ve společnosti Ahold Czech Republic, a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-142259.

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The aim of this Master's thesis is to describe the current system of ordering goods at Ahold Czech Republic, a.s., based on the analysis of these processes determine the possibilities of optimalization ot ordering tools. The ambition of this Master's thesis is to finacially assess losses caused by out of stocks in this company.

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Hodgson, Louise Lovelace. "'Without body or form' : Res Publica and the Roman Republic." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/8506/.

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This thesis explores the crisis of political legitimacy at the end of the Roman Republic from the angle of the increasing politicisation of a key concept in the Roman political vocabulary – that of the political sphere itself, the res publica. Exactly how the ‘consensual’ political world of the classic Republic disintegrated is one of the key questions of Roman history. The politicisation of the political sphere is an important part of this crisis that has received relatively little attention to date, partly because of the difficulty involved in pinning down just what res publica meant. Since the concept of res publica is politically ubiquitous, often used emotively and in consequence very hard to define, the temptation to take it as a universally understood and relatively uncontroversial given is rarely resisted. Julius Caesar’s notorious opinion that ‘the res publica is nothing, a mere name without body or form’ (Suet. Jul. 77), however, supplies only one indication that this was not the case. From P. Scipio Nasica’s efforts to keep the res publica salva to L. Cornelius Sulla’s reconstitution of the res publica in 82–1 and Caesar’s sarcasm on the subject of its very existence, the perceived condition and needs of the res publica were a source of concern, controversy, division and self-justification throughout this period. I examine how res publica was historically understood and manipulated as a source of political legitimacy in the late Roman Republic, with implications not just for the claims of contemporary political actors but also for their (and our) understanding of what their fragmenting political sphere was and should be.

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Zadeh, Jana. "The Iranian Islamic Revolution: For better or for worse?" Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-359223.

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The thesis focuses on the Islamic Revolution of Iran by a comparative analysis of the monarchy regimes before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Although there is little doubt that the transformation of Imperial Iran to the Islamic Republic has played a vital catalyst in redrawing the "greater" Middle Eastern geopolitics ever since this thesis aims to compare the historical development of Iran during the monarchy and the effect of the revolutionary institutions brought on the Iranian society. Despite the extensive amount of resources used in this thesis being both from Iran and abroad, the author has made every effort to reduce the effects of the influences whether from the overzealous defenders of monarchy or the die-hard revolutionaries to a bare minimum and allow the facts on their own to project the picture through an objective lens. The goal of the thesis is for the objective research and comparison to try and provide a factual answer to the million-dollar question, whether the revolution was for better or for worse.

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Gulmez, Seckin Baris. "The Republican People." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607640/index.pdf.

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This study aims to examine the foreign policy orientation of the Republican People&rsquo
s Party (CHP) during 2003 and 2005. Thus, four major foreign policy issues during this period will be scrutinized. These issues are namely, Turkey&rsquo
s EU membership process, the Cyprus problem, the US-Turkey relations and the Armenian question. Taking into consideration the current development concerning these issues, this study will focus on the views and reactions of the CHP. In this respect, the main determinant factors behind the foreign policy stance of the party will be discussed. Finally, comparing the foreign policy understanding of the CHP in the past, the study will focus on the question whether the CHP of today constitutes continuation or a shift from the past CHP administrations. At the end of the study, the results of a research issued at the current CHP deputies so as to evaluate their foreign policy orientations will be revealed.

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Telepneva, Natalia. "Our sacred duty : the Soviet Union, the liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies, and the Cold War, 1961-1975." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3081/.

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In 1961, a series of uprisings exploded in Angola, Portugal’s largest colony in Africa. A struggle for the independence of all the Portuguese colonies in Africa followed, organized by the national liberation movements: the MPLA, FNLA, and UNITA in Angola, FRELIMO in Mozambique, and the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau. The wars would end in 1974, following a military coup d'état in Lisbon and the dissolution of the Portuguese dictatorship during the Carnation Revolution. This thesis explores fourteen years of anti-colonial campaigns: the people who led the liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies, the cadres these leaders encountered in Moscow, East Berlin, Prague, Sofia, and Warsaw, and the international environment they faced. It begins by looking at contacts forged between Soviet cadres and African nationalist leaders from Portuguese colonies in the late 1950s, before offering detailed analysis of why the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia offered assistance to the MPLA and the PAIGC in 1961, the same year Angola erupted into spasms of racial violence and the Soviet Union and the United States locked horns over the status of West Berlin. The subsequent chapters analyze the evolution of Soviet relations with the liberation movements during the 1960s and 1970s, the role this relationship played in shaping Soviet attitudes and policy in Africa, and the significance of Soviet bloc assistance in anti-colonial campaigns. This thesis also looks at the diplomacy of the liberation movements and their ideological and organizational transformations over fourteen years of guerrilla war. The final chapter evaluates the Soviet role in the decolonization of Portuguese Africa following the fall of the Portuguese dictatorship and investigates why the Soviets decided to intervene on behalf of the MPLA in the pivotal event of this thesis – the beginning of the civil war in Angola in 1975.

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Kouba, Cox Martina. "The approximation of EC law in the Czech Republic : transposiiton or transformation?" Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78217.

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This thesis examines the process of approximating EC law that the Czech Republic has undertaken both under the Europe Agreement and in order to fulfill one of the conditions for membership in the European Union. The thesis aims to determine whether the transposition of EC legislation has been undertaken with a view to effective implementation of the acquis communautaire and to assess what implications this process will have for the Czech Republic. To this end, three areas of law which are subject to approximation are examined, namely competition law, environmental law and company law. Accordingly, Chapter I provides a general overview of the process of approximation and the challenges it poses for the Czech Republic. The process of approximation in the field of competition law is examined in Chapter II, followed by environmental law in Chapter III. The area of company law is addressed in Chapter IV. Finally, Chapter V concludes with an analysis of the findings of the previous chapters with a discussion of the implications of approximation for the legal order of the Czech Republic.

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Dennis, David Brandon. "Coming out into socialism : the emergence of a political Schwulsein in the German Democratic Republic /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1185898260.

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Throwe, Jacob. "Not Out of the Blue: Sun Yat-sen and the ROC-PRC Paradox." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1976.

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Thesis advisor: Rebecca Nedostup
Seeing as how the leadership of both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China have claimed a sense of inheritance and legitimacy from the political philosophy of Sun Yat-sen, it seems a paradox how different the political situations are in their respective domains. It is the intent of this thesis to discern how prioritizing different elements of Sun Yat-sen's political theory resulted in divergent decisions made by the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party, which in turn help explain conditions found in the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People's Republic of China
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program
Discipline: History Honors Program
Discipline: History

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Toner, William Patrick. "Union or non-union? : contemporary employee relations strategies in the Republic of Ireland." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320410.

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Phemister, Andrew James. "'Our American Aristotle' : Henry George and the Republican tradition during the Transatlantic Irish Land War, 1877-1887." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22964.

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This thesis examines the relationship between Henry George and the Irish on both sides of the Atlantic and, detailing the ideological interaction between George’s republicanism and Irish nationalism, argues that his uneven appeal reveals the contours of the construction of Gilded Age Irish-America. The work assesses the functionality and operation, in both Ireland and the US, of Irish culture as a dynamic but discordant friction within the Anglophone world. Ireland’s unique geopolitical position and its religious constitution nurtured an agrarianism that shared its intellectual roots with American republicanism. This study details how the crisis of Irish land invigorated both traditions as an effective oppositional culture to the processes of modernity. The Land War placed Ireland at the centre of a briefly luminous political upheaval that extended far beyond its own shores and positioned the country as a site of ideological conflict at a critical juncture in the history of political thought. Irish nationalism helped to perpetuate a specific aggregation of moral and economic principles, and, in equating British imperial force with the worst depredations of capital, Irish-Americans tapped into a powerful seam in American political culture that universalised the struggle of the Irish tenant farmers. Just as many contemporaries framed Irish politics with the ideals of the American republic, this thesis argues that Irish politics during the Land War, ever more interdependent on its diaspora, is better understood in relation to American political discourse than British.

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Hurst, Steven. "Regionalism or globalism? : the Carter administration and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 1977-1979." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358893.

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Ptáčková, Veronika. "Analýza neúspěšného studia na vysokých školách ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-359242.

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The master thesis deals with failed studies at universities in the Czech Republic. The first part is focused on literary research, on explanation of theoretical terms and on statistical methods, which are subsequently applied in the analytical part. These are decision trees and logistic regression that helped to determine the influence of factors on studies without graduation. The aim of this master thesis is to find significant factors, to compile a profile of failed students and to suggest the measures which could reduce their elimination from tertiary education.

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Ibata, Bi-Dia-Ayo. "The natural gas market in the republic of Congo : to develop or not to develop?" Thesis, University of Dundee, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.510689.

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Lai, Ting-kwok, and 黎定國. "Town or country?: a review of urban policy inthe People's Republic of China, 1949-87." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949460.

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Basmaz, Özgün. "“The Rebellious Daughter of the Republic” or “The Mother of the Turks”: Reconsidering the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic Through the Politics of Halide Edip Adivar." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1218128689.

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Lai, Ting-kwok. "Town or country? : a review of urban policy in the People's Republic of China, 1949-87 /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12754602.

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Mende, Omalanga. "Les comportements d'agression envers les out-groups: le cas de l'armée zaïroise." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213423.

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Prujean, Flint. "The 2006 Fiji Coup: Engagement or Exclusion? Contrasting Reactions from New Zealand and the People’s Republic of China." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5439.

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The emergence of China as a dominant force in international politics has challenged the traditional roles states have played in regions such as the South Pacific. The 2006 Fiji coup heralded a new era of competition in the region as PRC policy response conflicted with that of existing powers such as New Zealand. China continued to engage and expand its relationship with Fiji while New Zealand attempted to isolate the interim Fijian administration. This thesis looks at how New Zealand and PRC policy towards Fiji has clashed following the 2006 coup and assesses the implications for these powers as well as the long term stability of the region. New Zealand responded to the coup by placing strict sanctions on Fiji and lobbying the Pacific Islands Forum and the Commonwealth to suspend Fiji’s membership. Meanwhile, the PRC expanded its diplomatic, military and financial ties with Fiji and provided funding for the MSG, a frequent supporter of the Fijian regime.

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Batagelj, Leon. "Competition policy in countries of Central and Eastern Europe : competition in Europe or competition for Europe." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81242.

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Competition policy is an important tool for assurance of the efficient allocation of resources in functioning market economies. Applicability of modern competition policy to situations in former planned economies, however, raises doubts because of fundamentally different states of competition in such markets. This study analyses development of competition policy in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Particular attention is given to the influence of the EU competition policy in the framework of negotiations for final membership in the EU.
This study proposes reassessment of the competition policy of the three countries in order to better tackle the economic complexities of transition to fully functioning market economies. Harmonization of competition policy of the three candidate countries for EU membership with competition policy of the EU assumes appropriateness of EU competition policy for transition situations. Contrary to this assumption, the thesis argues that competition policy in transition should be tailored closely to the needs of transition. Since harmonization of competition law is only an instrument to evaluate whether a candidate country has a functioning market economy that can be integrated in the EU Internal Market, competition policy aimed at better promoting competition should be welcomed.

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Zítková, Jindra. "Problematika vymáhání pohledávek podle právního řádu České republiky." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-77757.

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The thesis is focused on questions of natural persons' recovery of debts according to the legal order of the Czech Republic. The purpose of the thesis was to provide creditors with comprehensive information and insight into the questions of recovery of natural persons' debts according to the legal order of the Czech Republic and to draw creditor's attention to legal possibilities when recovering debts. The outcome of the thesis is creation of diagram that can help creditors to better orientation. Diagram shows separate steps creditors can undergo when recovering debts. Particular possibilities when recovering debts are outlined, practical instruction and remarks are added, economic contexts are analysed, available statistics and development trends are analysed and proposals de lege ferenda are presented.

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Prater, Wesley. "To Expand or Not Expand Medicaid? That is the Republican Governor’s Question." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu152813205087059.

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Knight, John Marcus. "Our Nation’s Future? Chinese Imaginations of the Soviet Union, 1917-1956." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu149406768131314.

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Peeling, Siobhan. ""Out of place" in the postwar city : practices, experiences and representations of displacement during the resettlement of Leningrad at the end of the blockade." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11700/.

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This thesis explores the repopulation of Leningrad following the blockade of the city during the Second World War. In the years after the lifting of the siege blockade survivors remaining in Leningrad were joined annually by hundreds of thousands of incomers. However, while the siege has recently been the subject of a number of scholarly and literary treatments, much less attention has been paid to what happened next in terms of the mass resettlement of the city. Accounts of the consequences of the blockade that touch upon the postwar population have deployed the term ‘Leningraders’ as shorthand for a cohesive community of blockade survivors, embedded in the culture and landscape of the city. Even pieces of work that have portrayed post-siege Leningrad as a ‘city of migrants’ have concentrated on the impact of the loss of the prewar population rather than on the multifarious experiences of its itinerant populations. The thesis addresses the role of widespread experiences of displacement and resettlement in structuring relationships among individuals and between citizens and the authorities in the post-siege civic environment. It examines the repopulation in the context of evolving Soviet practices of population management after the war and in terms of the intersection of population movements with the re-affirmation of a civic community in a city which had lost a vast proportion of its population, just as it gained the basis for a powerful new narrative of belonging. It demonstrates how competing visions of the desired postwar order on a national and local scale were constructed and contested in relation to displaced people who were often targeted as a potentially transgressive presence in the postwar landscape.

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Moschtaghi, Ramin S. "Die menschenrechtliche Situation sunnitischer Kurden in der Islamischen Republik Iran Probleme der Verwirklichung der Menschenrechte in einer stark religiös geprägten Rechtsordnung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Völkerrecht, iranischem Verfassungsrecht und schiitischem religiösem Recht = The @human rights situation of sunni Kurds in the Islamic Republic or Iran." [Berlin Heidelberg] Springer, 2009. http://d-nb.info/997727179/04.

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Komorowska, Kinga Agata. "Powerful or powerless regions? : regional policy-making in Poland and the Czech Republic in the light of the EU accession." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3448/.

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This thesis is about the power of the regional policy actors in two European Union countries: Poland and the Czech Republic. Aiming to answer the question of whether their regions are powerful enough to decide on the directions of their development, this thesis describes power struggles between regional policy actors at European, national and sub-national levels. A particular analytical approach is developed which takes into account the following aspects of power: legal credentials, social capital, financial potential, decision-making ability, executive capacity and political potential. Therefore, the thesis is a major contribution to the reduction of the knowledge gap in multi-level governance (MLG) theory in terms understanding of the domestic factors influencing regional engagement in EU policy-making. Moreover, in the light of the opinions that only together with other theoretical approaches may MLG offer meaningful explanations, the author places the deliberation about MLG within the framework of power, offering an innovative and coherent approach to MLG analysis. This thesis aims to answer three major questions: Are the regions in a position to drive their own development and do they have enough power to do so? How has their power to influence regional development been changing for the last few years? If the regions are powerless, who is leading the process? The Polish and Czech regions had no power in the period 2002-2006. In comparison, the 2007-2013 period has seen a major capacity enhancement; both political and decision-making power allow the Polish and Czech regions to be serious players in the domestic arena. The only major difference between Poland and the CR is the level of executive power, which has been significantly reduced in the latter country by the Cohesion Regions. Nevertheless, the governments act as gatekeepers, trying to secure their power. The EC offers major developmental resources but also encourages the regions to adjust to pre-selected objectives in order to maximise the use of financial assistance. The regions still do not have full discretion to drive their development; the EC conditionality is vast in the CEE and its impact is proportional to the EC’s unprecedented financial power. The idea that guided the methodological design was to present the regional policy-making process from different angles. The best way to achieve this was to run a quantitative Delphi Panel, supplement its findings by qualitative semi-structured interviews, and cross-check the conclusion with information available in the literature.

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Sladen, Olivia. "The foreign policy of the People's Republic of China : towards global integration or a tactical quest for super-power status?" Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6750.

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This paper assesses the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China, determining whether it is pursuing an agenda to fully integrate into the international political order, or whether its policy comprises of a tactical quest for super-power status; it concludes by making a tentative prediction as to the trajectory of China's foreign policy in the coming decades. Optimists maintain that China's formation of complex economic and political ties with regional and international countries will bring both prosperity and security in the region, claiming that China's foreign affairs will focus on the maintenance and protection of these relations, upholding the political status quo. Pessimists, conversely, assert that Beijing's policy of integration is part of a wider strategy designed to build national power to a system-contending level. To establish the nature of China's foreign policy, this paper looks at two opposing theories of international relations which describe both interpretations: Complex Interdependence (supporting the optimists' interpretation) and Realism (supporting the pessimists' interpretation). In Part One, it reviews the key theorists of the twentieth century; it concludes that the Realist principles of Robert Gilpin, and the Complex Interdependence principles of Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, represent the most reliable tenets of each theory. Thus the theoretical framework of the paper rests on the principles of these two interpretations of the Realist and Complex Interdependence theories. In Part Two of the paper, four indicators of China's foreign policy are assessed: 1. China in the World Economy; 2. China's International and Regional Relations; 3. China's National Defence; 4. China's Domestic Policy and Internal Characteristics. Each indicator is then analysed by applying the theories of Complex Interdependence and Realism to the data. The paper concludes by amalgamating the analyses of each indicator, making an overall assessment as to whether the theory of Realism or Complex Interdependence.

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Zha, Hongyan. "Local or Transnational Television Programming: Media Globalization in East Asia, with an Emphasis on Development in the People's Republic of China." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279377/.

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This study focuses on the relationship between Western transnational broadcasters and East Asian media. It analyzes 1) the processes through which Western media players are localized and 2) the impact of media globalization on local broadcasters in East Asia. Recent developments in the People's Republic of China are the primary focus in the discussion of local media.

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Lindberg, Gitte. "Welfare state regimes in East-Central Europe : Western vanity or Eastern reality : a comparative study of the Czech Republic and Hungary." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271768.

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Šimo, Peter. "Problematika přiměřeného protiplnění při výkupu akcií v právních systémech České a Slovenské republiky." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-10980.

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In the first chapter I define the concept of reasonable consideration by squeeze out on the basis of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the European Union. In the second chapter are compared basis laws which regulate the purchase of participating securities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, together with the EU legislation. The third chapter deals with the legislation for the surveys in compared countries. The fifth chapter deals with economic aspects of the determination of adequate consideration in connection with the views of experts in the field. The sixth chapter provides concrete examples of the determination of reasonable consideration in the Czech and Slovak Republic, including the major differences. The final chapter compares legislation in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and proposes ways to eliminate existing deficiencies.

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Eilola, E. (Eeli). "“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border”:an analysis of non-verbal communication of the winner of the Republican primary elections: Donald Trump." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201606102494.

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This study aimed to reveal how Donald Trump utilized verbal and non-verbal communication in one of his speeches. Multimodal Discourse Analysis is used as the method of this study, and the research material consists of transcriptions and video material. This study came to the conclusion that even though Donald Trump is able to convey desirable messages from time to time, he sometimes does not pay enough attention to the visual cues he is presenting. The results could be beneficial for future studies concerned with political speeches or Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena oli selvittää kuinka Donald Trump hyödynsi sanallista ja sanatonta viestintää yhdessä puheessaan. Metodina käytettiin multimodaalista diskurssianalyysia, ja tutkimusmateriaalina käytettiin transkriptioita ja videomateriaalia. Tutkielmassa päästiin lopputulokseen, että vaikka Donald Trump onnistuukin ajoittain välittämään halutun viestin, hän ei aina kiinnitä eleisiinsä riittävästi huomiota. Tuloksia voidaan mahdollisesti hyödyntää tulevissa tutkielmissa, jotka liittyvät joko poliittisiin puheisiin tai multimodaaliseen diskurssianalyysiin

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Prentice, David L. "Getting Out: Melvin Laird and the Origins of Vietnamization." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1226597455.

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O'Braitis, Samuel. "Military Threat or Political Tool: An Examination of Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus as a Threat to the Roman Republic from 88-63 B.C." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1230.

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This paper is an examination of how much of a military and diplomatic threat Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus truly posed to the Roman Republic during the Mithridatic Wars from 88-63 BC. This question was posed due to the seeming disconnect between how Mithridates is portrayed in primary sources compared to the results of his military encounters with the Romans. This examination was performed with the use of numerous primary sources from the time period as well as secondary, scholarly sources pertaining to the motivations and actions of both Mithridates and contemporary Roman personages. The conclusion arrived at was that Mithridates was portrayed by Roman historians as being far more imposing than he truly was, which is supported by his lack of military success against the armies of Rome in their encounters. The reasons for his are Mithridates being used as a means for political ascension within the Roman social sphere by characters such as Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey. Thus this paper examines how propaganda and political ambition can result in exaggerations and incomplete information being presented in historical accounts.

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Delpomdor, Franck. "Sedimentology, geochemistry and depositional environments of the 1175-570 Ma carbonate series, Sankuru-Mbuji-Mayi-Lomami-Lovoy and Bas-Congo basins, Democratic Republic of Congo: new insights into late Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic glacially- and/or tectonically-influenced sedimentary systems in equatorial Africa." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209486.

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The one of the most important Eras of the Earth history, i.e. Neoproterozoic (1000-542 Ma),

was an enigmatic period characterized by the development of the first stable long-lived ~1.1-

0.9 Ga Rodinia and 550-500 Ma Gondwana supercontinents, global-scale orogenic belts,

extreme climatic changes (cf. Snowball Earth Hypothesis), the development of microbial

organisms facilitating the oxidizing atmosphere and explosion of eukaryotic forms toward the

first animals in the terminal Proterozoic. This thesis presents a multidisciplinary study of two

Neoproterozoic basins, i.e. Bas-Congo and Sankuru-Mbuji-Mayi-Lomami-Lovoy, in and around the Congo Craton including sedimentology, geochemistry, diagenesis, chemostratigraphy and radiometric dating of carbonate deposits themselves.

The Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup sequence deposited in a SE-NW trending 1500 m-thick siliciclastic-carbonate intracratonic failed-rift basin, extends from the northern Katanga Province towards the centre of the Congo River Basin. The 1000 m-thick carbonate succession is related to the evolution of a marine ramp submitted to evaporation, with ‘deep’ shaly basinal and low-energy carbonate outer-ramp environments, marine biohermal midramp (MF6) and ‘very shallow’ restricted tide-dominated lagoonal inner-ramp (MF7-MF9) settings overlain by lacustrine (MF10) and sabkha (MF11) environments, periodically

submitted to a river water source with a possible freshwater-influence. The sequence stratigraphy shows that the sedimentation is cyclic in the inner ramp with plurimetric ‘thin’ peritidal cycles (± 4 m on average) recording a relative sea level of a maximum of 4 m, with fluctuations in the range of 1-4 m. The outer/mid ramp subtidal facies are also cyclic with ‘thick’ subtidal cycles characterized by an average thickness of ± 17 m, with a probable sealevel

fluctuations around 10 to 20 m. The geochemistry approach, including isotopic and major/trace and REE+Y data, allows to infer the nature of the dolomitization processes operating in each carbonate subgroup, i.e dolomitization may be attributed to evaporative reflux of groundwater or to mixing zones of freshwater lenses. The latest alteration processes occured during the uplift of the SMLL Basin. New ages, including LA-ICP-MS U-Pb laser ablation data on detrital zircon grains retrieved in the lower arenaceous-pelitic sequence (BI group), combined with carbon and strontium isotopic analyses, yielded a new depositional time frame of the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup between 1176 and 800 Ma reinforcing the formerly suggested correlation with the Roan Group in the Katanga Province.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Sturtian-Marinoan interglacial period was previously related to pre-glacial carbonate-dominated shallow marine sedimentation of the Haut-Shiloango Subgroup with stromatolitic reefs at the transition between greenhouse (warm) and icehouse (cold) climate periods, commonly marked by worldwide glacigenic diamictites and cap carbonates. This thesis highlights that these deposists record as a deepening-upward evolution from storm-influenced facies in mid- and outer-ramps to deepwater environments, with emplacement of mass flow deposits in toe-of-slope settings controlled by synsedimentary faults. In absence of diagnostic glacial features, the marinoan Upper Diamictite Formation is interpreted as a continuous sediment gravity flow deposition along carbonate platform-margin slopes, which occurred along tectonically active continental margins locally influenced by altitude glaciers, developed after a rift–drift transition. The maximum depth of the deepening-upward facies is observed in the C2a member. The

shallowing-upward facies exibit a return of distally calcareous tempestites and semi-restricted to restricted peritidal carbonates associated with shallow lagoonal subtidal and intertidal zones submitted to detrital fluxes in the upper C2b to C3b members.

The geochemistry highlights (i) the existence of a δ13C-depth gradient of shallow-water and deep-water carbonates; (ii) the carbonate systems were deposited in oxic to suboxic conditions; and (iii) all samples have uniform flat non-marine shale-normalized REE+Y distributions reflecting

continental detrital inputs in nearshore environments, or that the nearshore sediments were

reworked from ’shallow’ inner to mid-ramp settings in deep-water slope and outer-ramp

environments, during the rift-drift transition in the basin. The pre-, syn- and post-glacial

carbonate systems could record a distally short-lived regional synrift freshwater-influenced

submarine fan derived from nearshore sediments, including gravity flow structures, which are

attributed to regional tectonic processes due to a sudden deepening of the basin caused by

differential tilting and uplifting of blocks, related to the 750-670 Ma oceanic spreading of the

central-southern Macaúbas Basin.

Combining sedimentology, isotopes and trace elemental geochemistry, the thesis highlights

that the δ13C variations in the Neoproterozoic carbonates are complex to interpret, and can be

related to: (i) the existence of a δ13C-depth gradient; (ii) the exchange between isotopically

light carbon in meteoric waters and carbonate during lithification and early diagenesis; and

(iii) isotopic perturbations due to regional metamorphism. Considering the possible englaciation of the Earth (Snowball Earth hypothesis), the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup and West

Congolian Group seem reflected the intimate relationship between glaciations and tectonic

activity during the break-up of the Rodinia supercontinent, followed by the rift–drift

transition, and finally the pre-orogenic period on the passive continental margin.
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Devine, Hugh Adrian. "Collaboration or Isolation-A Comparative Study of the Inter-organisational Relationships Within the Sports Tourism Policy Arenas in Norhern Ireland and the republic of Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529466.

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Li, Jiefen. "The rule of law or rule by law? : legal reform versus the power of the party-state in the People's Republic of China, 1978-2002." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24837.

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The present research is devoted to a study of the ongoing legal reform in contemporary China with special reference to its rule of law (fazhi ROL) project. The aim of the reform is to build China into a modern state with a legal system suitable for a market economy, and the key to this reform is to get the party-state power under control. Within the current political framework, however, a socialist rule-of-law system with Chinese characteristics, which is designed to strengthen the party-state power rather than weaken it, is no other than a legalist rule by law (fazhi, the legal system) with the Party-state remaining above the law. This is the fundamental cause for the frustration and constraint for implementing the rule of law. This thesis is divided into six chapters with the first one serving as a general introduction to legal reform from the late 1970s up to 2002 and the debates about the model of the rule of law. The second chapter concentrates on China’s administrative legal regime with focus on the following three issues: administrative power, principles of administrative rule of law and the judicial control of administrative power. The following two chapters are devoted to a critical review of the abuse of administrative power by Party and government officials, based on a case study of the frequent infringement of fundamental human rights in China. Chapter five examines the problems with the Chinese judiciary under the PRC political system, with a view to exploring various reasons for its inability to prevent arbitrary action by the Party-state, to safeguard the rights and interests of the individual and enterprises, to readdress social injustice, and to resolve disputes arising from market economic activities. Chapter six echoes Chapter one in that an investigation is conducted of Chinese legal culture and tradition and their influence upon legal environment in contemporary China. Finally, a conclusion will be made on the dilemma of Chinese legal reform through a summary of problems with China’s legal reform.

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Yukselen, Hasan. "Actors In The South Caucasus: Stability Providers Or Instability Exploiters." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605385/index.pdf.

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This thesis analyses the developments in the South Caucasus region since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The disintegration brought about the decleration of independence from teh states in the region, namely Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia. However, the conflicts in the aftermath of independence drawing the region into instability brought about the question of whether the instability in the region is an end result of teh policies of regional actors in the region. Whether teh stability in the South Caucasus is directly bound to teh constructive policies of the main actors? Whether actors act as stability providers or instability exploiters in the region? Are the actors especially since 9/11 Russia and the United States while expressing intentions on regional stability, with their differing interests acts as instability exploiters? In fact, these questions stems from the dilemma of discourse and commitment.

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PLEBANI, ANDREA. "Federale, indipendente e democratica? La complessità istituzionale ed etno-politica della repubblica irachena: una prospettiva storico-politica." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1392.

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La caduta di Baghdad per mano delle forze della Coalizione nell’aprile del 2003 ha segnato un momento di cesura fortissima nella storia della moderna sintesi statuale irachena, ponendo le basi per la creazione di un “nuovo Iraq” federale, unito e democratico, chiamato a risorgere dalle ceneri di una tra le più sanguinarie dittature della storia, per dar vita ad un nuovo ordine in grado di divenire un punto di riferimento per l’intero scenario regionale. A distanza di pochi anni, però, lo iato esistente tra l’Iraq “immaginato” dai sostenitori dell’operazione Iraqi Freedom e quello emerso dopo anni di fortissima instabilità interna si è palesato in tutta la sua eccezionale profondità, mettendo in dubbio le capacità di sopravvivenza stesse dello stato iracheno e la sua coerenza intrinseca. Il presente progetto di ricerca si pone l’obiettivo di contribuire al dibattito sviluppatosi negli ultimi anni attraverso l’adozione di un approccio storico-politico volto a prendere in esame le linee di continuità e discontinuità palesatesi lungo tutto il corso della storia della moderna sintesi statuale irachena.
The fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003 has represented an exceptional turning point in the history of the modern Iraqi State. The creation of a federal, united and democratic Iraq should have marked the beginning of a new era for the Iraqi people as well as for the whole region. A few years later, widespread violence and continuous political instability seemed to have swept away the above-mentioned scenario, sparking serious doubts about the very survivability of the Iraqi state, as well as its coherence. This thesis aims to contribute to the ongoing debate adopting an historical-political approach in order to delineate the continuities and discontinuities emerged during the modern history of Iraq and to match them with the current situation on the ground.

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Robinson, Heather Lindsey. "Ours is the Kingdom of Heaven: Racial Construction of Early American Christian Identities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849673/.

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This project interrogates how religious performance, either authentic or contrived, aids in the quest for freedom for oppressed peoples; how the rhetoric of the Enlightenment era pervades literatures delivered or written by Native Americans and African Americans; and how religious modes, such as evoking scripture, performing sacrifices, or relying upon providence, assist oppressed populations in their roles as early American authors and speakers. Even though the African American and Native American populations of early America before the eighteenth century were denied access to rights and freedom, they learned to manipulate these imposed constraints--renouncing the expectation that they should be subordinate and silent--to assert their independent bodies, voices, and spiritual identities through the use of literary expression. These performative strategies, such as self-fashioning, commanding language, destabilizing republican rhetoric, or revising narrative forms, become the tools used to present three significant strands of identity: the individual person, the racialized person, and the spiritual person. As each author resists the imposed restrictions of early American ideology and the resulting expectation of inferior behavior, he/she displays abilities within literature (oral and written forms) denied him/her by the political systems of the early republican and early national eras. Specifically, they each represent themselves in three ways: first, as a unique individual with differentiated abilities, exceptionalities, and personality; second, as a person with distinct value, regardless of skin color, cultural difference, or gender; and third, as a sanctified and redeemed Christian, guaranteed agency and inheritance through the family of God. Furthermore, the use of religion and spirituality allows these authors the opportunity to function as active agents who were adapting specific verbal and physical methods of self-fashioning through particular literary strategies. Doing so demonstrates that they were not the unrefined and unfeeling individuals that early American political and social restrictions had made them--that instead they were intellectually and morally capable of making both physical and spiritual contributions to society while reciprocally deserving to possess the liberties and freedoms denied them.

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Forslund, Daniel. "Preventing or redirecting violence : A study on violence against United Nations peacekeeping operations in the presence of other third-party military operatons." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-429186.

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United nations peacekeeping is a contentious issue. What is mostly agreed on though, is thatthe brave men and women around the world risking their lives in peacekeeping missions around the world deserve the best security and protection the international community can offer. However, little research has been focused on the reasons behind violence against peacekeepers. This thesis theorizes that the presence of a third-party military operation that threatens theoperational capabilities of rebel groups has the potential to cause an increase in rebel violenceagainst a United Nations Peacekeeping operation in the same conflict. Through examiningconflict dynamics in the cases of Mali and the Central African Republic utilizing of astructured, focused comparison, the hypothesized relationship and causal explanations wereput to the test. The expectation was that in Mali, the high levels of violence would be explainedby the effectiveness of the French counterinsurgency operation in the country. In the CentralAfrican Republic, the contrary was expected. However, the hypothesis could not be confirmed. Due to some rather large caveats and limitations, the research gap could not be satisfied. Nonetheless, the study creates plenty for avenues of future research, and opportunities to learnfrom the challenges encountered.

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Shockley, Steven W. "A Match Made in Heaven or Hell: Historians Debate the Influence of Richard Wagner on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0827101-153554/restricted/shockleys100401.pdf.

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Dollar, Alena Victoria. "Made in the USA: A Reality or a Fantasy How the Republican Tax Reform Encourages Executives to Bring Back Manufacturing." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1007.

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The following thesis outlines the benefits of manufacturing in the United States because of the new Republican tax reform. House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump have been proposing large corporate tax cuts, full expensing of capital expenditures, a border adjustment tax, and repatriation of foreign cash flows. These changes will encourage more corporations to manufacture in the USA because the USA will be more globally competitive, a key focus of the Republican administration.

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Orr, Scott David. "Democratic identity the role of ethnic and regional identities in the success or failure of democracy in Eastern Europe /." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1117652333.

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