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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 ... -
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 ... -
Multi-level Governance Revisited. Comparing the Strategies of Interest Representation of Legislative Regions in EU Environmental Policy-Making
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)Since the 1980s, regions have taken a strong interest in EU policy-making and increasingly demanded representation in the process. This has given rise to the concept of multi-level governance (MLG) ... -
An examination of the ideological perspectives on the citizen's income debate
(The University of Edinburgh, 1996)Though it is not at the centre of political attention, Citizen's Income (CI) receives the kind of widespread ideological support which most other proposals in the areas of labour market and social security reform do not. ... -
The nerves of government: electronic networking and social control in the information society
(The University of Edinburgh, 2002)Informatisation was introduced as a functional parameter in social and political research in 1978 (Nora & Minc 1978). Today, nearly a quarter of a century later, popular and academic political debates in the West ... -
Examination of the Scottish rating system and its application in local government finance
(The University of Edinburgh, 1956)To meet the altered conditions of social and local government services over many centuries, the rating system in Scotland has been the subject of gradual evolution and the changes in it have been practical measures to ... -
The ideological uses of the past
(The University of Edinburgh, 1984)The thesis is divided into four parts. Each part deals with one aspect of ideological thought. -
The Free South Africa Movement and United States policy in South Africa: an analysis of the effect of domestic pressure on foreign policy behaviour
(The University of Edinburgh, 1991)The focus of this study is the triumph of the Free South Africa Movement (FSAM) over the Reagan administration’s Southern Africa policy - “constructive engagement”. The central question this study provides answers to is: ... -
Secrecy and absence in the residue of post-9/11 covert counter-terrorism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)This thesis examines how secrecy and absence shape the representation of covert counter-terrorism in the public sphere. Contemporary covert practices, from missile strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles to special forces ... -
Panels and politics: Bandes Dessinées and referendums in Quebec, 1970 – 2013
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)This thesis consists of a semiotic and socio-‐political exploration of Québécois bande dessinée (BDQ) and Quebec Nationalism since 1970. It uses BDQ as a lens through which to analyse key moments in the history of Quebec’s ...
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