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Projecting South Korea’s Future as a Middle Power in the Arctic
Because of thinning of Arctic sea ice and economic opportunities such as access to natural resources and new shipping routes caused by climate change, the Arctic has become an area of interest not only of the Arctic states ... -
"That Stinks": News Framing of a Corruption Scandal
Whereas political scandals expose the corrupt nature of a society’s public affairs, media play a central role in publicizing a scandal and influencing public opinion. The summer 2015 garbage management scandal in Lebanon ... -
"Scotland's Future in Scotland's Hands": Identity, Memory, and Grievance in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum was a benchmark moment in the history of Scottish nationalism, resulting directly from the Scottish National Party’s landslide victory in the 2011 Scottish parliamentary elections ... -
Host land or homeland?: Civic-cultural identity and banal integration in Latvia
This dissertation challenges conventional approaches in the study of minority integration by looking at the spaces in which integration occurs, rather than at instances of conflict. It develops a framework that considers ... -
Electoral Campaigning and the Internet in Japan in the 2010s
In the late spring of 2013, Japanese politicians passed a revision to their election laws that essentially unbanned the use of the Internet in electoral campaigns. This dissertation is composed of three independent, but ... -
Interpretative Dubbing: The Voice Stars in the 1980s China
The thesis is a study of the voice actors’ reading of foreign films in the late 1970s and 1980s China. The specific group of voice actors who achieved stardom constitutes the subject of this study. By delving into the ... -
The Exodus from Iraq and the end of Christian Nation-building
After 70 years of battle against Communists, genocidal leaders, and Islamists, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has laid down the sword of righteous American interventionism in the name of liberty. The SBC’s loss of ... -
Contemporary Sanctuary in Germany: Bavaria and the Intricacies of Church Asylum
This thesis analyzes the case study of Germany and explains why there is a larger prevalence of church asylum in Bavaria than in other German states. Due to a variety of factors, this research examines how church asylum ... -
The Imagery of Migrants in the British Media and its Impact on the Brexit Vote in the Midlands.
The vote to leave the European Union by the United Kingdom was a shocking political event. Pollsters had predicted a slight edge for the Remain camp right up to the day of the referendum. After the votes had been counted ... -
The Third Sector and Refugee Governance in Jordan: Local NGO Contributions to Humanitarian Assistance
The Syrian Civil War has displaced millions of people to neighboring countries. In Jordan, the government has handled the crisis in an exclusionary way attempting to reduce its impact on the labor market by enforcing an ... -
Following The Black Square: The Cosmic, The Nostalgic & The Transformative In Russian Avant-Garde Museology
Contemporary Russian art and museology is experiencing a revival of interest in the pioneering museology of the Russian artistic and political avant-garde of the early 20th century. This revival is exemplified in the work ... -
Sovereignty, Political Economy, and Economic Development in Native American Nations
The severe and chronic lag in the empirical indicators for Native American socio-economic development has created, in the words of President Obama, “a moral call to action.” Although collective statistics indicate substantial ... -
Winning Friends and Influencing People with Guns: Understanding the Growth of China's Military Diplomacy
Beginning in roughly 2002, China’s once reclusive military commenced upon a steadily expanding program of military diplomacy activity that now includes dozens of annual engagements with scores of states involving thousands ...
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