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Results for "departments_tesim:"Department of Political Science""
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Spring 2012
Islamophobic rhetoric used by popular media: such as television, newspapers and blogs, has heightened the fear of Islam to levels that have contributed to the US and Canada beginning to institute anti-Shari’a legislation. The financial backers of this rhetoric realise that fear has a strong...
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Fall 2012
Societal security, as opposed to physical security, is the primary driver of contemporary international relations. The American nation is bound together, not by ethnic ties, but by values, which have evolved from the US’s historical roots in Western, Protestant society. The ‘special relationship’...
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Opening the Black Box: An Examination of Structural Realist and Neoclassical Realist Explanations of Foreign Policy
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Structural realist and neoclassical realist theories each seek to explain international relations at different levels of analysis. Using the British strategy of appeasement in the 1930s as a case study, this thesis will evaluate how both theories explain British strategy. Structural realism will...
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Palestinian civil society and the struggle for self-determination: the impact of donor agendas
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This thesis explores the ways in which international donors have attempted to shape and control civil society organizations in the occupied Palestinian territories. It employs Foucault's concepts of power/knowledge and disciplinary power to investigate and theorize the power-relations that govern...