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Post-liberal agency: decolonizing politics and universities in the Canadian Arctic
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)In this thesis I theorize possibilities for post-liberal forms of political agency. Actors seeking to resist, refuse or rework liberalisms’ myths and violence are faced with a paradox. How to act against or in-spite-of ... -
Exclusion and authoritarianism in Iraq: explaining the limits of institutional design and ethnic conflict management in a divided society
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)This dissertation seeks to explain and ascertain the relationship between state institutions and ethnic conflict in Iraq. The central argument is that institutions matter, and a divided society’s early institutional setup ... -
Politics of intervention: political parties’ national roles conceptions in foreign policy narratives on military intervention in ongoing conflict - France, Germany and Libya 2011
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)This doctoral thesis asks what ideational factors underlie parties’ national role conceptions in narratives on violent conflict and crises abroad. It explores French and German parties' national role statements in the ... -
Social drivers of international relations in the Gulf: Gramsci on the case of Bahrain and Gulf Alignment 1971−1981
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)This thesis revisits the relationship between ideology and foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly that between Arab nationalism and state regional policy in the Gulf. It seeks to answer the question: What explains ... -
Interrogating need: on the role of need in matters of justice
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)Need is a concept that carries intuitive appeal in moral decision-making. As it stands, need is relatively under-theorised, given its currency not just in philosophical argumentation but in news coverage, charitable ... -
Explaining small states’ changing patterns of peacekeeping contributions through role theory: the case of Austria and Belgium
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)This doctoral project explores the ways in which European small states’ approaches to peacekeeping have been affected by the changing nature of peace missions. The central objective is to explain the choices made by small ... -
Explaining territorial demands: party competition as a driver of self-government claims in decentralised stateless nations
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)The first wave of stateless nationalist mobilisation triggered decentralisation processes in several Western European states. Political autonomy provided European stateless nations with sub-state institutions with ... -
Role of Polish cities in shaping attitudes of urban, educated youth towards European integration
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)Cities constitute important political, economic and cultural frameworks, playing a potentially crucial role in influencing the residents’ views and opinions about the world. In the context of Central Europe, there has ... -
Challenging the Republic: French Roma policy in an enlarged EU
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-30)This thesis explores the relationship between the colour-blind public philosophy of republicanism and the French state’s policies targeting the Roma. It addresses one core research question: how did political actors use ... -
Vetera Novis Augere: nationalism, neo-Thomism and historiography in Quebec and Flanders 1900-1945
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)This thesis compares and contrasts the historiography of Quebec and Flanders during the first half of the twentieth century. The main argument is that the philosophy of neo-Thomism was influential to the conceptualization ... -
Art of the possible: framing self-government in Scotland and Flanders
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)Sub-state nationalist parties mobilised and saw an increase in electoral support in the 1960s and 1970s. A heterogeneous group of parties, they are united by their claims upon the state in favour of self-government. ... -
NGO legitimation as practice: crafting political space in Tanzania
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)The traditional monopoly of politics and international relations on theorizing power, authority and legitimacy has eroded in the late modern era. The complexity of these domains has been compounded in a strongly ... -
Governance of climate change related migrations in Assam (India)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)The thesis asks two crucial questions, (a) what are the normative frameworks available for protecting the rights and status of a person migrating due to climate change related hydro-metrological changes? (b) why is there ... -
Global justice from outside-the-box
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)We live in a severely unequal world. Pressing questions are, then, what changes the global advantaged should bring about to improve the situation of the global disadvantaged, and why they should do so in the first place. ... -
Faithful advocates: faith communities and environmental activism in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)This thesis investigates local-level environmental activism in faith communities, and aims to understand what explains environmental advocacy by Christian faith communities. It asks why Christian communities are participating ... -
Influencing policy: an examination of the pre-legislative and legislative processes of the Scottish Parliament
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005)This thesis explores the pre-legislative, as well as the legislative processes of the Scottish Parliament. The Housing (Scotland) Bill is used as a single case study to map the journey of housing and homelessness policies ... -
Reframing unlawful controls: judicial impact on UK asylum and deportation policy, 1990-2012
(The University of Edinburgh, 2014)Supra -national and municipal courts are increasingly involved in determining the parameters of European states' refugee and asylum policy. Yet, little attention has been paid to how and why governments choose to comply ... -
Civil-military relations in developing nations: Ghana, Sierra Leone, Dahomey and Upper Volta
(The University of Edinburgh, 1972)We have chosen four West African states, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Dahomey and Upper Volta, in order to discuss civil-military relations in developing countries. We explore three broad areas of questioning. (l) Are there ... -
Questioned sovereignties: independence referendums and secession in a comparative perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)This thesis considers the use of independence referendums in state-creation. It investigates whether and how an independence referendum affects secessionist dynamics, and may increase or decrease the likelihood of ... -
Agents and institutions: Donald Dewar and the politics of devolution
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)The creation of the Scottish Parliament was a major change in UK politics and the empirical research presented in this thesis makes a significant contribution to knowledge by revealing new evidence about some of the key ...
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