The Rise Of The Global South, The Imf And The Future Of Law And Development, 2016 University of Wollongong
The Rise Of The Global South, The Imf And The Future Of Law And Development, Gabriel Garcia
Dr Gabriel Garcia
Experiencing And Responding To Private Competition: The Importance Of Subjectivity And Intermediate Outcomes, 2016 University of Pennsylvania
Experiencing And Responding To Private Competition: The Importance Of Subjectivity And Intermediate Outcomes, Priyadarshani Joshi
The South African Elderly: Neglect, Social Contribution And The Hiv/Aids Epidemic, 2016 Graduate Center, City University of New York
The South African Elderly: Neglect, Social Contribution And The Hiv/Aids Epidemic, Alessia Frisoli
All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects (2014-Present)
With a slowing fertility rate and an increasing longevity, the world population is aging. Both developed and developing countries have seen their elderly become more numerous with an increasing burden on their financial, medical and social system. Many scholars have suggested immediate change of policies to contain the predicted crisis that will affect the health care and the pension schemes in the next decades. However, few have investigated the positive role that the seniors play contributing to society, beyond the complications caused to the economy and welfare system. This thesis will support the argument that the elderly, if appropriately cared ...
Legitimacy Of Taiwan’S Trade Negotiations With China: Demystifying Political Challenges, 2016 Singapore Management University
Legitimacy Of Taiwan’S Trade Negotiations With China: Demystifying Political Challenges, Hsieh, Pasha L.
Research Collection School Of Law
The article analyzes Taiwan’s legitimacy debate over trade negotiations with China. The theoretical concept of legitimacy is used to assess Taiwan’s cross-straits negotiation mechanism and trade agreements. This article argues that Taiwan’s current legal framework governing congressional supervision of cross-straits agreements falls short of procedural legitimacy and performance legitimacy. By explaining the constitutional design for Taiwan’s “white glove” mechanism, the article explores the initial procedural legitimacy deficit. As cross-straits negotiations involve increasingly substantive obligations, the legitimacy of bilateral agreements has changed fundamentally. The massive protest in the Sunflower Movement due to the Services Trade Agreement reinforced ...
Legitimacy Of Taiwan's Trade Negotiations With China: Demystifying Political Challenges, 2016 Singapore Management University
Legitimacy Of Taiwan's Trade Negotiations With China: Demystifying Political Challenges, Pasha L. Hsieh
Pasha L. Hsieh
National Security Implications Of Water Insecurity, 2016 Fordham University
National Security Implications Of Water Insecurity, Miranda Elizabeth Morton
Prior to the Syrian uprising that began in March 2011, the country experienced an acute, multiyear drought, likely induced by climate change, which wrecked havoc on the agricultural sector, destroying the livelihoods of nearly a quarter of the population. Challenges associated with water use and availability played a direct role in exacerbating drought-like conditions and in deteriorating Syrian economic conditions. Urbanization from internally displaced farmers, coupled with rising food prices and a depressed economy, ripened conditions for social unrest and mobilization. The historical economic and agriculture policies in effect since Hafez al-Assad’s reign, current President Bashar al-Assad’s father ...
Preferential Trade Agreements And Quality Of Government In Sub-Saharan Africa, 2016 University of Southern Mississippi
Preferential Trade Agreements And Quality Of Government In Sub-Saharan Africa, Sharon Camara
Objectives. Sub-Saharan African (SSA) nations have made concerted attempts at economic integration and openness with use of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) beginning in the latter half of the 1990s. These changes could result in increases in trade and growth. The World Bank’s Good Governance indicators are designed to assess the quality of institutions in a given country. The objective is to assess the impact of PTAs and Good Governance indicators on trade in SSA nations. Methods. Data on trade y was generated based on exports defined by the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Direction of Trade statistics, and both ...
Political Ideology In Contemporary Cuba, 2016 Florida International University
Political Ideology In Contemporary Cuba, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University
Cuban Research Institute Events
This flyer promotes a lecture series by Alexis Jardines, a distinguished scholar in residence at FIU. From March 9 to May 9 he will present a series of lectures on the ideological context for a future Cuban transition to democracy. This event is sponsored by the FIU Cuban Research Institute.
Fascism Revisited Or Millennial Eurosceptic Populism? Analysis And Rationale For A New Political Movement In The 21st Century, 2016 University of Southern Mississippi
Fascism Revisited Or Millennial Eurosceptic Populism? Analysis And Rationale For A New Political Movement In The 21st Century, Prebble Q. Ramswell
Euroscepticism has steadily increased since the late 1990s, culminating in the emergence and success of numerous Eurosceptic and anti-establishment parties at the national and international level. Though often considered fascist and extremist, these groups have successfully achieved recognition and mainstream support as their once non-traditional ideas have become the norm. It is argued that these groups are a new class of social movement organization, a modern-day manifestation of fascism to be called Millennial Eurosceptic Populism. What conditions have allowed for these groups to emerge and attain such levels of success? Analysis utilizing fsQCA will test variables from McAdam’s Political ...
Sustaining Economic Growth And The Infrastructure Investment System: Analysis For Underdeveloped Nations, 2016 University of Southern Mississippi
Sustaining Economic Growth And The Infrastructure Investment System: Analysis For Underdeveloped Nations, Bruce R. Lotarski
The idea of infrastructure investment brings a variety of economic considerations, development factors, and policy making. This dissertation analyzes the direct effects of investments in infrastructure on sustaining economic growth for underdeveloped countries. Numerous countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia are evaluated to see if increased trade with the potential and effects of infrastructure investments will increase GDP and sustain growth (Barro 1998, Romer 1998, UNCTAD 2002, Barro 2003, Paus 2005, the World Bank 2012, Carew 2014). Investments in a nation’s basic infrastructures such as road networks, communication systems, institutional infrastructures, and literacy directly affect a nation’s ...
Remittances As Contributor To Risk Management And Poverty Reduction In Grenada, 2016 University of Southern Mississippi
Remittances As Contributor To Risk Management And Poverty Reduction In Grenada, Dianne Jntl Rosemary Forte
A Small Island Development States (SIDS) viewpoint is underrepresented in the existing migration literature. That perspective is necessary because SIDS geography creates a unique set of social and economic circumstances that predisposes small states to high vulnerability to external shocks from environmental events and influences emigration decision making. Like other SIDS, Grenada is characterized by small land mass, small population, limited opportunities for productive labor, and limited resources to efficiently support all the requirements of modern institutions. This has resulted in high levels of emigration and a pattern of circularity as Grenadian households make rational decisions to manage risk and ...
Choral Theatre, 2016 University of Southern Mississippi
Choral Theatre, Albert Joseph Wolfe Jr.
Jamaica gained its independence from Great Britain in 1962, after some 300 years of colonization. Prior to Independence, the standard arts education curriculum was decidedly British and Western European. That which was labeled Caribbean or Jamaican “folk” by the British was deemed inferior and was not taught, demonstrated, or performed in formal settings. Thus, generations of Jamaicans never observed or imagined a Caribbean aesthetic in the visual and performing arts. Instead, pre-Independence Jamaicans were taught British and Western European music and performed it the “British” way.
Today, Jamaicans boast a number of artistic developments that are instantly recognized across the ...
Elsewhere, 2016 East Tennessee State University
Elsewhere, Amber Law
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The photographer discusses the work in Elsewhere, her Master of Fine Arts exhibition held at East Tennessee State University in the Reece Museum, located in Johnson City, Tennessee. The exhibition is displayed from March 1 through March 31, 2016 and consists of 17 color photographs and 3 videos representing a body of work that visually communicates the photographer’s interest in transient lifestyles.
The influence and research regarding the concept is communicated by a focus on artists, literature and art historical knowledge that pertain to Law’s work. The artists included are Rineke Dijkstra, Jocelyn Lee, Lise Sarfati, Stephen Shore ...
Traditions And Proficiency Abroad - Spain (Tapas) Program: A High School Study Abroad Program For District 128, 2016 SIT Graduate Institute
Traditions And Proficiency Abroad - Spain (Tapas) Program: A High School Study Abroad Program For District 128, Michaela Kendzior
As colleges begin to internationalize campuses and global competencies continue to become a demand in the workforce, secondary schools should also aim to internationalize the curriculum and offer international education opportunities to their students. In an effort to do this, I have created the Traditions And Proficiency Abroad - Spain (TAPAS) Program for Community High School District 128 in Illinois. The TAPAS program is a 20-day summer intensive cultural and language immersion program created to maximize learning potential in D128 students. While the program’s focus is on Spanish language and culture education, the orientation and instructional activities have been designed ...
Un Objeto De Deseo, 2016 Clark University
Un Objeto De Deseo, Clara J. O'Rourke
Scholarly Undergraduate Research Journal at Clark
This article evaluates and compares the ways in which women are dehumanized and limited to the role of "objects of desire". The concept of the male gaze is used to depict how women are objectified in La invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco, including it's cinematic interpretation by Emilio Maillé. Ultimately, all authors and directors sexualize female characters by limiting them in passive roles, depicting them as exotic objects in the eyes on the audience, the characters in the stories, and through narration and cinematography. This objectification reinforces passive female roles and ...
Rape And Sexual Violence: Questionable Inevitability And Moral Responsibility In Armed Conflict, 2016 Clark University, University of Pittsburgh
Rape And Sexual Violence: Questionable Inevitability And Moral Responsibility In Armed Conflict, Katherine W. Bogen
Scholarly Undergraduate Research Journal at Clark
Wartime sexual violence is a critical human rights issue that usurps the autonomy of its victims as well as their physical and psychological safety. It occurs in both ethnic and non-ethnic wars, across geographic regions, against both men and women, and regardless of the “official” position of commanders, states, and armed groups on the use of rape as tactic of war. This problem is current, pervasive, and global in spite of the status of wartime sexual violence perpetration as a crime against humanity and the capacity of the international criminal court to indict offenders. Though some scholars have argued that ...
Geopolitics Of The 2016 Australian Defense White Paper And Its Predecessors, 2016 Purdue University
Geopolitics Of The 2016 Australian Defense White Paper And Its Predecessors, Bert Chapman
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
Australia released the newest edition of its Defense White Paper, describing Canberra’s current and emerging national security priorities, on February 25, 2016. This continues a tradition of issuing defense white papers since 1976. This work will examine and analyze the contents of this document as well as previous Australian defense white papers, scholarly literature, and political statements assessing their geopolitical significance. It will also examine public input into Australian defense white papers and the emerging role of social media in this public involvement. It concludes by evaluating whether Australia has the political will and economic resources necessary to fulfill ...
Bosnia: Doomed To Failure Or A Rising Hope?, 2016 Ursinus College
Bosnia: Doomed To Failure Or A Rising Hope?, Caitlin V. Moore
Politics Honors Papers
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that suffers from a lack of a national identity as it has three main ethnic groups, Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, who are all fighting for power. After the Bosnian war, which lasted from 1992-1995 and involved genocide that was committed against the Bosniaks, the ethnic divisions were further entrenched. These divisions were not helped by the provisions of the Dayton Peace Accords, which was the peace settlement that brought an end to the war. Dayton created an ethnocracy within Bosnia that places more importance on ethnic groups than national identity. In order to see ...
One Man's Reaction To Nato Expansion, 2016 Ursinus College
One Man's Reaction To Nato Expansion, Jamie M. Putnam
International Relations Honors Papers
Using the policy of NATO expansion and the events of the Ukraine crisis, this paper examines President Vladimir Putin’s impact on Russian foreign policy and analyzes the extent to which his personality and personal interests have shaped Russia’s actions. In doing so, it seems that Russia as an actor on the international stage cannot be understood without considering Putin’s role in creating what Russia is today.
A Place To Call Home: The Acceptance And Denial Of Burmese Refugees, 2016 University of San Francisco
A Place To Call Home: The Acceptance And Denial Of Burmese Refugees, Alexandra Craig
Creative Activity and Research Day - CARD
For more than 25 years Burma has been experiencing a refugee crisis due to the military government’s excessive human rights violations. The argument for not accepting refugees often prioritizes the economic troubles that a country can face when taking care of refugees. Meanwhile, those who prioritize humanitarianism often appeal to human morals and argue that refugees should be accepted wherever they need to in order to be safe. This project ultimately focuses on whether Burmese refugees should be accepted into the surrounding countries or if countries should be able to deny refuge within their borders.