Thesis--Münster, 1975. / At head of title: Geschichte. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-253).

Thesis (M.A. in International Security and Civil-Military Relations)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2002. / Thesis advisor(s): Steve Garrett, Tjarck Roessler. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-70). Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Donald Abenheim, Edwin R. Micewski. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

The aim of this thesis is to compile a glossary of technical terms relevant to stock exchange mergers and alliances. Since technical communication can only be described meaningfully in the context of technical information, technical knowledge, and terminology, judgmental analysis will be applied to the literature on stock exchange mergers and alliances to identify management theories that are able to explain stock exchange mergers and alliances. One aim is to find out which general theories on mergers and alliances have a high explanatory value for stock exchange cooperation. In the first part of the thesis, the stock exchange world is examined. First a general overview of the theory of corporate growth is given next the changes in the environment of stock exchanges are examined. In the analytical part, fourteen general management theories are applied to stock exchange cooperation. The criteria used to identify the explanatory value of the different theories are the critical success factors of stock exchanges identified in the first part of the thesis. A point system is introduced in order to make the results of the analysis of the different theories more comparable. The final part of the paper consists of an English-German glossary containing the relevant technical terms of stock exchange mergers and alliances. (author's abstract)

This thesis critically analyses the procurement rules of international organisations or agencies performing collaborative defence procurement in the European Union (EU). In collaborative defence procurement, States agree to procure equipment or services for their armed forces in common, thereby sharing development costs and looking for economies of scale. The management of collaborative defence procurement programmes is often entrusted to an international organisation or agency acting on behalf of the participating States. After setting out the political, economic and legal context of collaborative defence procurement in the EU, we analyse the applicability of domestic and EU law to international organisations, in particular public procurement law in the field of defence. The conclusion of this first part is that, whilst domestic and EU law apply in general terms to international organisations or agencies, this is subject to the substantive provisions of the relevant laws and to international law, such as the privileges and immunities of the organisations. Specifically, international organisations or agencies in the EU most likely would not have to comply with domestic procurement law or with the EU public procurement directives, but they would still have to comply with the procurement principles flowing from the EU Treaties, except if non-EU Member States control their decision-making. We then move on to an analysis of the procurement rules of three international organisations or agencies performing collaborative defence procurement in the EU: the Joint Organisation for Armaments Cooperation (OCCAR), the NATO Maintenance and Supply Organisation (NAMSO) and the European Defence Agency (EDA). For these organisations we analyse to what extent their procurement rules should comply with EU law, to what extent they are an efficient set of rules, and what measures could be taken to remedy any detrimental issue or incoherence identified. We conclude with recommendations aiming to improve the applicable law.

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The research question this thesis asks is what accounts for the intra state variation of mosque building projects in Western Europe, using as case studies Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Two mosque projects are considered in each case study state and two theories are proposed and tested: resources mobilization theory and opportunity structure theory.

Note: / The following pages represent an attempt at what I might call, with some hesitation, 'applied theology'. In them I endeavour to describe the development during a specific period of European history, of a phenomenon which has been, especially in the last fifteen years or so, a topic of intense theological discussion. That phenomenon is secularism. Now, the concept 'secularism', as it is understood nowadays, played no part in the theological discussions of the years we shall consider. The closest term was 'atheism', which we, from our perspective, in consideration of the secular theism of the French Revolution, for example, can see to have a rather different meaning. What I attempt to do here, then, is to write, not quite an essay in historical theology, since there is no theology of secularism in the period at issue; nor quite an essay in Church history, since, in a secularized society, the Church appears merely as one social institution amongst others; but an historical essay on the development of certain social attitudes which to-day pose a genuine theological problem.[...]