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Deforge, Quentin. "La fabrique transnationale du politique : Une sociologie historique du champ réformateur de la "gouvernance" (1961-2019)." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2019PSLED016.
Researches from different social science disciplines have brought to light the transnationalization of politics in southern countries, ie the participation of international actors in areas such as, for example, the organization and observation of elections. Based on these researches, in an approach of historical sociology, this thesis shows how international "experts", under the label of "governance", have managed to impose themselves in the national political spaces to carry out activities considered as pertaining to the internal affairs of states (elections, parliaments, constitutions, etc.). Based on a survey made of the study of archives, observations, and interviews among the three poles that structure this form of transnational public action (UN, World Bank, USAID), we look more specifically at the processes by which these activities led to the production and mobilization of government knowledge. In contrast to an approach that would focus on "democracy promotion", we show that this legal, administrative, economic and political knowledge, all mark different frontiers between "administration" and "politics". Taking an interest in professional and academic struggles as to the uses of this knowledge then makes it possible to show how the same object of transnational public action (for example parliaments) is the subject of different and sometimes quite opposite problematization. During the first period studied, from 1961 to 1989, these activities remain limited and confined to distinct social spaces. But from 1989, the collapse of the Soviet bloc, ending diplomatic competition towards “third world” countries, opens the possibility of carrying out large-scale activities aimed at reforming state institutions and gathers these social spaces. A transnational field of "governance" reforms then emerges between more stabilized transnational social spaces, such as human rights, development, and international economic cooperation. The rapid increase in funding in the 1990s has led this field of reforms to differentiate itself into sectors ("electoral assistance", "parliamentary strengthening", "public financial management", etc.) within which the professionals of the various organizations collaborate, despite different professional and disciplinary habitus that oppose them on the object and form of interventions. These different activities of "governance" are institutionalized internationally and are imposed within national spaces on a fuzzy border between "administration" and "politics". The thesis then shows how it is a logic of professionalization that brings "experts" from different sectors to produce knowledge, norms and models of public action with universal vocation, to reaffirm permanently their authority in the field of reforms as in national spaces. The thesis shows, finally, how this form of public action which consists in sending international "experts" within the States is devalued by the arrival in the years 2010 of activities based on organizations local non-governmental organizations that conduct campaigns for the "transparency" of state institutions
Maire, Sarah. "Science et politique des "soft skills" de l'éducation à l'emploi : sociologie d'un nouveau motif cognitif international." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAG049.
This doctoral thesis studies the relationships between science and policy through the emergence of the new concept of “soft skills”. Examining how this cognitive motive is built and disseminated at a global level over the last decade, this research shows the essential roles played by experts and international organizations, as well as by entrepreneurs and private networks. These circulations lead to a gradual convergence of actors upon a shared reasoning in the field of education and employment policies. Conducted in France, the second part of the research shows how these dynamics fit in the context of public policies’ reconfigurations. New frames emerge, tightly linked to the growing influence of new actors coming from the fields of philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. Nested in the promotion of human capital and the knowledge economy, justified by the European strategy of lifelong learning and social investment, and by corporate social responsibility claimed by companies, soft skills are growingly promoted. This leads to a gradual hybridization of policies and their actors, studied in the last part of the research which based upon study cases of educational programs
Mangin, Maïlys. "La conversion de l'AIEA à la lutte contre la prolifération nucléaire : une internationalisation tactique des jeux gouvernementaux nord-américains, d'Atoms for peace aux sanctions contre les « Atomic ayatollahs »." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lille (2022-....), 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022ULILD024.
This thesis analyzes the transformations of the IAEA's (International Atomic Energy Agency) nuclear non-proliferation missions and the uses to which they are put, from its creation during the Cold War to the Iranian nuclear crisis. It exposes the social foundations of a process of politicization of the IAEA, characterized by the intensification and conflictualization of exchanges of blows between the social actors and sectors that mobilize the institutional resources of this IO. Drawing on a variety of interviews and archives, the thesis sheds light on the constraints that this politicization context exerts on the perceptions and practices of actors both inside and outside the IAEA's institutional boundaries. The thesis first traces how the bipolar system, and then its collapse, influenced the way in which North American foreign policy actors addressed the problem of nuclear proliferation, and structured the ways in which the IAEA was mobilized in this respect. After having been a by-product of the United States' civilian nuclear export policy, the IAEA's non-proliferation activities were called into question as part of US struggles to restructure post-Cold War foreign policy in the Middle East. This thesis then analyzes how this politicization process, as a logic of situation, structures the way in which the IAEA's expertise is produced and mobilized in the context of the Iranian dossier. It shows that the IAEA's investigation in Iran, from 2003 onwards, is as much an autonomous technical process as a fuel for the competition to define (un)acceptable Iranian nuclear activities. In this respect, this thesis proposes an alternative to “circulatory” sociology, substituting the study of import-export logics between national spaces with that of tactical interdependence between social spaces with no geographical proximity. Going beyond the opposition between instrumental uses and legitimizing virtues of IOs, this approach helps to renew the analysis of the strategic uses of IOs and their effects
Rioufreyt, Thibaut. "La traduction du néo-travaillisme britannique dans la gauche socialiste française (1997-2008)." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO20049.
My research stands at the meeting point of sociology of intellectuals and expertise, works on the Socialist party and studies on reception. I investigate the mechanisms through which political discourse and ideas circulate both on a national scale and in intellectual and political spaces. I focus on how the British « Third Way » was translated within the French socialist circle between 1997 and 2008. My thesis works as a contribution to the sociology of political and ideological discourse : referring to M. Foucault's theoretical tools, it is based on an « archeology » of texts produced by the translators. It also relies on discourse analysis through an ecological analysis of their social conditions of production, circulation and translation, taking also into account the social characteristics of the agents and the spaces in which they socialize. This investigation underlines how the New Labour model is used and spread in relationship with the translators' position within the diverse fields they belong to (that is to say, political field, intellectual field, state expertise field) but also within the hybrid network they form at the meeting point of these various fields. However, in order to resist the temptation to reduce discourse to simple reflections or expressive material, the translation of the New Labourism has also to be understood as an attempt to incorporate a foreign reference to help problematizing and redefining the ideology of contemporary socialism, given the problems it has been confronted with. My research is not strictly a transnational or comparative approach : the references to Great Britain work here as a way to better understand the socio-discursive logics at work in the French Socialist circle. Therefore, the references to the « Third Way » or to Tony Blair's figure are made explicit to reveal larger reconfigurations, as the mutation of the relationship between scientists and politicians, the desintellectualization of politics within the Socialist Party or the ideological shifting attitude of the French Left towards liberalism during the 1990's
Wane, Abdoulaye. "Risque, danger de sinistre et sinistre dans un programme international pour le développement : enjeux stratégiques et intérêts spécifiques autour d'un projet de réforme institutionnelle au Sénégal." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0098.
We want, in this Ph. D dissertation, to give rise to the process of social construction of the risk in the international co-operation for development. Our approach consists, while going from the analysis of the World Bank as an institution (social category, culture, speech, approach, management of intercultural) towards the operation (the project "Trade reform and competitiveness" on the ground), progressively to draw up a cartography of the "locations" of production of the danger of loss which influence in the project. The loss, it is the mechanism by which the project tends towards a disconnection of its objectives in relation to the field reality. The cartography of the risk is based on two aspects of the production of the danger of loss. Initially, there are two "departures of fires" which combined lead to the loss. On a side there is the problem of the management of intercultural within a mixed team and other there are the reactions to the perceived risk/with the feeling of danger
Field, Mark. "The transparency of expertise in EU policy-making." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2015. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-transparency-of-expertise-in-eu-policymaking(d63183de-bb09-4dd6-be7b-67748e61d715).html.
Varriale, Simone. "Cosmopolitan expertise : music, media and cultural identities in Italy." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63883/.
Nobes, Gavin. "The development of social expertise : an investigation of children's conceptions of authority and rules." Thesis, University of Bath, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332847.
Cudennec, Arnaud. "Market categories, expertise, and evaluation of organizations." Thesis, Jouy-en Josas, HEC, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHEC0004.
This dissertation examines how categories — groupings that are built upon social and cognitive similarities — affect the evaluation of organizations in markets. Research shows that market audiences are likely to penalize organizations that combine multiple categories. Questioning the past studies' underlying assumptions, my work contextualizes this demand of categorical purity by studying the role of (i) category nesting, that is the hierarchical disposition of categories, (ii) audience members’ heterogeneity in expertise and modes of categorization (the way individuals group entities together), and (iii) the differences of categorical valence. Using experimental tests (Chapter 1), longitudinal data on venture capital deals worldwide from 1994 to 2017 (Chapter 2) as well as theoretical developments (Chapter 3), this dissertation provides evidence of conditions under which categorically atypical organizations are better appraised than categorically pure organizations in markets. This work offers contribution to organization theory and economic sociology by speaking to research on market categories, experts’ evaluations and optimal distinctiveness
Alaniemi, J. (Jenni). "Not a perbetuum mobile:leadership logic and support systems of expertise in global virtual organizations." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201505211548.
Cuevas, Garcia Carlos Adrian. "Sense-making and self-making in interdisciplinarity : an analysis of dilemmatic discourses of expertise." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33552/.
Duan, Tinghua. "CEOs with international experience under weak institutions." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29641.
De, Pryck Kari. "Expertise under controversy : the case of the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC)." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018IEPP0037/document.
In the last decades, international expertise has been essential to put global environmental problems on the international agenda. These assessments are often contested, especially on issues where facts and values are profoundly entangled. This thesis investigates the case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), one of the most authoritative, albeit contested expert organisation. It is more generally interested in how these organisations construct and maintain their authority, drawing on insights from Science and Technology Studies and sociological approaches to international organisations. A central argument is that, partly as a result of the controversial universe in which it has evolved, the IPCC has grown into an international bureaucracy. The thesis identifies four institutional arrangements on which the organisation has relied to maintain its authority. First, it has strived for a balanced representation of all nations, and in particular between developed and developing countries. Second, it has put in place governing mechanisms that allow governments to play a central role in the assessment process, encouraging the ‘ownership’ of its conclusions. Third, it has increasingly proceduralised the assessment, to formalise the role of its different parts and protect the organisation against criticism. Four, it has been more attentive to the management of the information displayed about its work. These arrangements are regularly renegotiated in the context of new challenges and controversies. Beyond the IPCC, they provide relevant lenses to observe the intertwining of political and epistemic authority at the international level
Ladienė, Gina. "Atestacija socialinių darbuotojų kvalifikacijos kėlimo procese." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100621_084944-02353.
Social Work in Lithuania is the new support for human occupation, which helps to restore relations between the state and society when a person is unable to do so. The social worker's client may be any member of the public who fell into the difficult life situations. Social workers practice's success due to their professional competence - the knowledge, skills and values as a whole. It is important that professional competence is developed so that social workers actively participate in continuous learning process. Formally, the social workers' skills are valued at the time of certification. Social workers must continually upgrade their professional skills and participate in the certification reports produced every five years. The object of research - social workers in the training process. The subject - social worker certification training process. Purpose of the survey - to reveal how social workers assess the certification training process. Objectives: 1) To describe the social workers' training process, legal, theoretical and practical aspects of business. 2) To investigate the social competence of staff development needs and participation in training process. Research methods: • the analysis of scientific literature; • the analysis of legislation and other documents; • questionnaire; • the statistical analysis of data. The study based on quantitative methodology. For study instrument theoretical analyses was made. The study surveyed 102 social workers from various... [to full text]
Pulkki-Brännström, Anni-Maria Katariina. "International diffusion of new technology." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3188/.
Cardenas, Christopher. "Implementing Decision-based Learning in a Peruvian University." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8406.
Clark, Rob. "Integration, mobility, and development International trade and organization networks, 1980--2000 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274262.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 3171. Adviser: Arthur S. Alderson. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 15, 2008).
Brechbiel, Julia. "Pathways Linking Clinician Demographics to Mental Health Diagnostic Accuracy: An International Perspective." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5120.
Plata-Stenger, Véronique. "Une voie sociale pour le développement : le Bureau international du travail et les débuts de la coopération technique (1919-1949)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100049.
Based mainly on the exploitation of the ILO archives, this thesis analyzes the emergence of development discourses and practices at the international level between 1919 and 1949. This offers the opportunity to challenge several important presumptions of development historians with regard to the chronology of development and its ideological origins. This thesis focuses on the practical aspects of this emerging international technical cooperation. It analyzes in particular the technical assistance missions organized by the International Labour Office until the implementation of the United Nations’ Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance created in 1949, which was the first multilateral program of international development after World War II. This thesis pays special attention to the situations where ILO expertise played a role and to the international experts and ILO officials involved in the dissemination of technical knowledge. This thesis opens some new perspectives on the problem of international development from a social point of view
Marianno, Bradley D. "Communities of Innovation: Composition, Climate, and Process Variables in Group Innovation." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3770.
Törnquist-Chesnier, Marie. "Expertise et éthique dans la fabrication du droit international public : la contribution des organisations non gouvernementales : trois cas d'étude." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004IEPP0030.
Pal, Maia. "The politics of extraterritoriality : a historical sociology of public international law." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45248/.
Pereyra, Lic Diego. "International networks and the institutionalisation of sociology in Argentina (1940-1963)." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536481.
Wild, Nigel Robert. "Ethical procurement strategies for international aid non-government organisations." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2012. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/11988/.
Freitas, Cristina Almeida de. "Segurança, poder e expertise: O papel das think tanks norte-americanas na Governamentalidade da ordem internacional pós-89." Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2011. http://www.adm.ufba.br/sites/default/files/publicacao/arquivo/cristina_almeida.pdf.
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A temática da segurança tem ganhado cada vez mais importância no cenário global diante dos crescentes desafios abarcados pelas transformações econômicas, políticas, ambientais, humanitárias e culturais contemporâneas. Estes desafios contribuíram para alimentar o debate em torno de uma concepção mais ampla de segurança internacional, tensionando perspectivas mais tradicionais das relações internacionais juntamente com novas abordagens que priorizam os indivíduos como centro da análise e ampliam os estudos de segurança para áreas até então desconsideradas pelo viés mais estrutural e geopolítico. Paralelo a essa tensão, encontram-se os Estados Unidos e seu posicionamento na ordem internacional pós-1989, que apresentou e apresenta, por meio de sua estratégia de segurança nacional, uma política externa que tem fortes impactos no cenário internacional, destacando a contínua relevância deste país para o mundo em constante transformação. De modo a colocar essas diversas questões em diálogo, tanto no que diz respeito às muitas dimensões da segurança internacional como a posição dos Estados Unidos para uma arquitetura mundial (tendo em mente que sua posição é efeito de um aparato complexo que envolve não somente os EUA, mas sua interação com os demais atores no cenário global), este trabalho resgata a concepção foucaultiana de governamentalidade, extrapolando este conceito para a esfera internacional através das análises das relações entre saber/poder e discurso. A governamentalidade é definida por Michel Foucault como o “conjunto constituído pelas instituições, procedimentos, análises e reflexões, cálculos e táticas que permitem exercer esta forma bastante específica e complexa de poder, que tem por alvo a população, por forma principal de saber a economia política e por instrumentos técnicos essenciais os dispositivos de segurança”, tendo como fundamento de sua existência um regime de verdade que consiste basicamente no livre mercado. A ideia de governamentalidade da ordem internacional consiste essencialmente na percepção de que o regime de verdade em torno dos mercados aponta para uma série de práticas organizadas, as quais podem ser provenientes da ação de um ou mais atores internacionais, individualmente ou em conjunto, tendo como objeto de atuação as populações e repercutindo internacionalmente. Os Estados Unidos se encontram no cerne da discussão uma vez que suas estratégias de segurança internacional refletem uma razão de Estado que tem no regime liberal sua premissa maior, constituindo dispositivos de segurança em defesa de uma ordem internacional liberal. Esta relação não é construída unicamente pelo governo norte-americano, mas conta com o suporte de importantes atores de política externa nos Estados Unidos, as think tanks, organizações de pesquisa e advocacy promotoras e propagadoras de ideias. Estas possuem um importante papel na governamentalidade da ordem internacional não apenas pela influência que exercem junto ao governo na formulação de estratégias políticas e à opinião pública norte-americana, mas também porque compartilham do regime de verdade defendido pelo Estado norte-americano. Este trabalho traz o exemplo de três importantes think tanks norte-americanas (The Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations e American Enterprise Institute) a fim de mostrar o papel que elas desempenharam na governamentalidade da ordem internacional pós-1989, tendo como foco o próprio campo da segurança internacional.
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Coey, Christopher. "International academics in English higher education : practising and capturing mobile 2013 careers." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2013. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/17813/.
Buquiran, Eleuterio Salvador. "Factors affecting members' retention in Toastmasters International." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3622733.
Toastmasters International (TI) is a well-known worldwide association focused on communication skills and leadership development. TI clubs are designed to build confidence in public speaking. Despite the benefits that members gain from joining Toastmasters clubs, the organization is concerned with the factors that affect members' retention in TI.
This mixed-methods study of TI clubs in Southern California included member surveys completed at club meetings, interviews with club leaders, and the researcher's extensive field notes. A stratified purposeful sampling method was used to ensure that the sample size included each club category and quota of the target population of TI club members and leaders. One hundred twelve members completed the members' survey, representing a 56% response rate of the paid members in the clubs surveyed. Twelve club leaders participated in long semi-structured interviews.
The findings revealed that members join TI for self-improvement and development in speaking: the purpose of the TI curriculum. The surveys revealed that 45% of the members join TI to improve communication skills and advance their career. Fifty-six percent indicated that constant participation and attendance at TI meetings helped them to overcome their fear of public speaking. Fifty-seven percent of the members stated that they continue their membership with TI to alleviate their fear of public speaking, improve their communication, and participate in speech contests.
The survey indicated that 64% of the members enjoyed activities that allowed them to speak during the club meetings. Thirty-nine percent of the members surveyed were able to achieve their competent communicator (CC) and competent leader (CL) awards. Another 39% of the members were also in progress of completing these awards.
The convenience and location of the club was important for members in terms of their attendance. Members attended meetings when there were enough parking spaces, the club was centrally located and accessible to public transportation, and the club was comfortable as well as conducive for club meetings. It is recommended that TI develop facilities requirements to meet the needs of members and encourage them to remain in the club.
Sundback, Nick. "International Relations or International Sanitations? Exploring Student Perceptions of Intro to IR Course Content." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/120.
Schild, Ingrid. "The politics of international collaboration in Polar research." Doctoral thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-42850.
Kovacs, Zoltan Balazs. "International labour standards, codes of conduct and multinational enterprises." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32809.
In Part I, I will focus upon the political and economic relationship between States and MNEs. I will also discuss the tensions this relationship creates. In the second part, I focus on the issue of child labour and different kinds of approaches countries take.
Before dealing with international efforts to create a universal code, I examine two internal codes.
Part III addresses two main issues. First, the question how human rights and MNEs relate to each other is dealt with. Then the issue of international legal responsibility will be elaborated.
Finally, the thesis concludes that public opinion and shame may be the key to successfully address the issue of child labour.
Tomescu, Irina. "Abandoned Children and International Adoption: An Analysis of Unintended Consequences of Institutional Arrangements in Romania, 1990-2001." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392805477.
Gumbrell-McCormick, Rebecca Anne. "The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions : structure, ideology and capacity to act." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/56529/.
Turton, Helen Louise. "The sociology of a diverse discipline : international relations, American dominance and pluralism." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13868.
Bahri, Hassen. "Pour en finir avec la dépolitisation : le développement international et son discours face aux pratiques locales du pouvoir." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36435.
Bosley, Christopher C. "A grand unified theory of world politics| The stability imperative and reifying imagined communities in a global society." Thesis, Georgetown University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10240576.
The emerging global structure is wrought with tension. The contemporary international system, marshaled by the communications-and-information revolution and characterized by dense interaction capacities among transnational actors, can be conceived as a global society wherein a common normative framework guides and constrains state behavior. Its intersection with revisionist rising powers harboring intentions to mold that framework to reflect their own preferences risks an ambiguous standard of behavior, confusion, and a clash of norms that threatens to transform the cohesion that underpins accord in the global society into chaos. As the state upon whose values and principles the existing international system is based upon, it is the responsibility of the United States to ensure the stability and viability of that system and – as far as other states are expected to conform to the normative standards thereof – its ability to accommodate the development of the states within it. The United States has traditionally promoted the democratic peace as the key stabilizing mechanism in the international system. While fully institutionalized democracies may be more stable and less aggressive than other forms of government, however, emerging democracies tend to be extraordinarily violent as self-rule precipitates secessionist wars, pathological homogenization, and ethnic cleansing as “the people” are defined and those excluded are sorted out. In regions beset by the legacies of colonialism and multi-ethnic empires, wherein state boundaries were arbitrarily drawn to aggregate and divide a complex mosaic of social identity groups, the results are national cascades fueling pervasive identity-driven conflict in a struggle to reify into the primary organizing structure of modernity: the nation-state.
Obinna, Denise N. "American Deportation and the `Non-Criminal’ Criminals." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437579909.
Ebrahim, Arwa. "The effectiveness of the implementation of international women's conventions in Muslims : Bahrain as a case study." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2016. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/6555/.
Aunio, Anna-Liisa. "Changing the climate: international environmental institutions, non-governmental organizations and mobilization in a post-Kyoto world." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40695.
Dans cette étude, je définie et évalue l’institutionnalisation d’organisations non-gouvernementales (ONG) sous des politiques transnationales en examinant la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques (CCNUCC) et sa relation avec l’accréditation d’ONG, de 1991 à 2007. Je combine observation participante, entrevues et analyse des réseaux dans le but d’évaluer l’institutionnalisation comme faisant partie d’une politique multi-niveaux, dans laquelle les ONG interagissent avec les états et les institutions internationaux, à l’échelle locale et internationale. Intégrée dans cette analyse est l’étude du Réseau action climatique (RAC) au Canada et aux États-Unis, suivant la ratification du Canada et la non-ratification des États-Unis du protocole de Kyoto.En évaluant les dynamiques intra et inter-organisationelles des ONGs dans les négociations du CCNUCC, je démontre que les coalitions transnationales seraient une des premières façons pour les ONG de s’institutionnaliser dans les politiques transnationales. En évaluant la construction des identités de l’initié et du profane à l’intérieur d’une coalition transnationale (RAC), je démontre que les initiés promeuvent leurs identités en effectuant du « travail émotif » de la mobilisation autour de la Conférence sur les changements climatiques de Montréal, Canada, en 2005. La promotion de leurs rôles, ainsi que leurs relations entre elles, ont redéfini les frontières entre politiques institutionnalisées et politiques contentieuses. Finalement, je démontre comment l’institutionnalisation du RAC sous le CCNUCC s’est détériorée au Canada, après la ratification du Canada au protocole de Kyoto, en servant de coalition cohésive et an s’impliquant dans les politiques institutionnalisées. Aux États-Unis, par ailleurs, les organisations du RAC se sont tournées vers des relations avec des non-initiés du RAC et se sont engagées dans$
Hellawell, Sarah. "Feminism, pacifism and internationalism : the Women's International League, 1915-1935." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2017. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36129/.
Abbott, Keith. "Seeking the enlightened self : a sociological study of popular teachings about spiritual enlightenment." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9070.
Deery, Phyllis Anne 1967. "The indigenous international diplomacy of Indian Territory." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278023.
Gregory, Amber Michelle. "Negotiating Muslim Womanhood: The Adaptation Strategies of International Students at Two American Public Colleges." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5229.
Yoshioka, Takeko. "National crime prevention strategies for Japan: Implications of scientific knowledge and international guidelines." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27091.
Pullen, Carrie A. "A phenomenological study of families who participate in long term independent international travel| The family gap year." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3713885.
Moustakas (1994) emphasizes that phenomenological study arises from the experiences and passions of the researcher that in turn focus and drive the research. This researcher’s own experiences include a 9-month trip around the world with my family that led me to conduct this study exploring the phenomenon of the family gap year. Existing research focuses on the traditional gap year taken by a young person in between graduation from high school and beginning college. This study seeks to add to that knowledge by exploring the related, but also unique, experience of families who take an extended time period off from career and formal school in order to participate together in a multi-continent international trip. The study addresses why families may decide to take such a trip, what they hope to gain from such an experience and whether or not the trip actually met those expectations. It is also attempts to establish whether or not any changes in family members were identified by participants and believed to be attributable to the experience of the family gap year. Findings from this study indicate that the families examined chose this experience because of a desire to travel and see the world with their children. Subjects agreed that the experience met or exceeded expectations in that it provided a unique opportunity to learn about other peoples and cultures and also provided concentrated time to be together and grow closer as a family. Subjects also however referred to less desirable aspects of the trip related to the maintenance required to keep the family on the road, such as travel planning and laundry. Finally many of the participants in the study referenced learning and personal growth in family members that they attributed to the experience of the family gap year. Together these findings represent an early effort to establish an understanding of the phenomenon of the family gap year.
Gilliland, Maria Deborah. "Great expectations : exploring the hopes and experiences of international business students in the United Kingdom." Thesis, Keele University, 2016. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2391/.
Cruz, Christine S. "Use of technologies for American expatriate training." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1542256.
This study examined the use of technology-based training and development within expatriate populations after the 2008 global recession. A quantitative survey design was used to collect data. The study results were shared with a live, face-to-face group forum of training and development practitioners. A total of 46 participants answered the survey. Findings related to participant demographic data as well as their perceptions regarding the impacts of the 2008 recession, training timing and topics, and training methods were reported. The study findings indicated that the 2008 global recession did not have a strong impact on these participants. They also tended to receive training after they arrived onsite. Technology-based training was not viewed as highly effective by expatriates. Rather, it is traditional instructor-led classroom training that best prepared American expatriates for their work assignment abroad, second to blended learning of classroom and technology training.
Beerli, Monique J. "Saving the saviors : an international political sociology of the professionalization of humanitarian security." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017IEPP0033.
In recent years, a dominant discourse has emerged asserting that humanitarian work has become a dangerous profession. In response to growing insecurity in the field, humanitarian organizations have developed new security policies to better protect humanitarian staff and infrastructures. Drawing from Andrew Abbott’s historical sociology of professions and Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory of power, this thesis proposes an international political sociology of the professionalization of humanitarian security. To address the shortcomings of normative-functionalist explanations and poststructuralist critiques of humanitarian security, this thesis examines the conditions of possibility fostering the emergence of a microcosm of humanitarian security professionals. As a consequence of this transformation in the division of humanitarian labor, humanitarian organizations now classify some of world’s neediest populations as beyond the limits of reasonable sacrifice. In the production of this exclusion, humanitarian actors reconstruct “populations in need” as “dangerous populations.” By weighing the cost of the loss of a “humanitarian life” against the potential value of saving the lives of needy others, humanitarian actors contribute to the intensification of global divides in their quest for a common humanity. In sum, the imposition of security as a humanitarian logic of practice is analyzed as a driving force of the inversion of the humanitarian imperative to save lives and act in defense of a shared humanity. Contributing to debates on humanitarian security, this thesis also advances the study of international organizations, security, and transnational power elites
Rizk, Stephanie Carissa. "Service Sector Growth and Income Inequalities: A Longitudinal Analysis from an International Sample." NCSU, 2003. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05092003-124333/.
Young, Tardif Kristin J. "Global Citizen Leader| Successful Maine Leaders Engaging in International Trade and Global Assignments." Thesis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3716783.
This study was in partnership with the Maine International Trade Center. The Maine International Trade Center was formed to help Maine businesses develop trade internationally and successfully network with international businesses, and connect with governmental and business professionals globally. Maine’s leaders have added resources to the Maine International Trade Center, feeling that it is crucial to Maine’s economic recovery. Maine’s International Trade Center and the Maine Legislature commissioned an extensive research study in 2013. The outcome from this study was the need for further research on global competencies, citizenship and leadership.
The global economies are more connected than any other time in history, consequently so is business. Businesses are competing globally; cost and performance pressures are relentless. Our societies are changing, some having more, and some having less. This study researched the phenomenon of the global citizen leader, and what the cognitive, metacognitive, attitudes and behaviors are for successful executive level business professionals, who are engaged in international trade and global assignments. By studying the dimensions of cultural intelligence, social responsibility, global competence and global civic engagement rich schemas of the complex construct of a global citizen leader came from the experience and stories of thirteen Maine leaders.
Lampridi, Athina. "Egypt’s National Interest. A ‘Sociology of Power’ Analysis." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117451.
The importance of Egypt in the Arab world and its particular features triggered our interest on the Egyptian case and raised many questions: How the respective regimes of Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak managed to remain on power? Was Egypt one man’s stooge? Why Egyptians remained docile for so many years? Why opposition forces are seen incapable of challenging the authoritarian rule? Is Muslim Brotherhood a real opposition force? Why and how Cairo remains Washington’s closest ally? The ‘third Egyptian revolution’ put an end Mubarak’s authoritarian rule. Inspired by the Tunisian revolt, Egyptians took to the streets with the slogan: “Tunisia is not better than Egypt”, and after 18 days of massive protests Egyptians managed the unthinkable: oust their rais. These recent developments added more questions: What are the factors that permitted Mubarak’s fall? Did the ‘days of anger’ put an end to the authoritarianism? Which are the democratic forces of the actual Egypt? And finally, is the democratic transition attainable? In order to give answers to these questions we are going to develop a theoretical framework –the Sociology of power-, which is going to be applied on the Egyptian case in a long period starting from the Free Officers’ revolution in 1952 up to the beginning of the ‘third Egyptian revolution’. The present work is divided into ten sections in addition to the theoretical one each one representing a separate chapter. The demarcation line of the case study is drawn by significant historic events of the Egyptian modern history, from 1952 until 2010. This chronological division, which represents only one of the possible choices to structure the research, was introduced so as to facilitate our work and also the task of the readers. In each chapter, the main interests of the principal elites are examined. In the internal level, after identifying the principal agents and the power resources that each one of them controls, we try to furnish explanations of the different coalitions and rivalries formed inside the Egyptian scene. This task, offers all the necessary information in order to comprehend the policies adopted, whether those are national, regional or international. In the international field, our main focus is to relate these policies, product of the interest of the primary elites to the interests of the foreign elites. As Egypt forms part of the periphery relying heavily on central powers, the power capabilities of the Egyptian elites are strongly related to their relations with foreign-international elites. Therefore, the Egyptian elites, usually deprived of the necessary power to control extra national power resources, are obliged to exploit the international conjuncture so as to further their aims.