The aim of this thesis is to examine the nature of Russian foreign policy towards Iraq in the post-Soviet era. This thesis argues that the Russian foreign policy towards Iraq in the post-Soviet era has been primarily determined by Russia&rsquo / s self-interests which are mainly defined in economic terms. The thesis follows the realist approach to international relations. It also emphasizes the importane of economic factors in foreign policy making process. The thesis consists of five chapters: In Chapter 1, the thesis is introduced. Chapter 2 explains the Soviet-Iraqi relations from a historical perspective. This is followed by Chapter 3 where Russian foreign policy towards Iraq under Boris Yeltsin is examined. Next, Chapter 4 discusses the Russian foreign policy towards Iraq under Vladimir Putin. Then, Chapter 5 assesses the economic factors, socio-political factors and international factors affecting Russian foreign policy makers in the post-Soviet era. The last chapter concludes the thesis.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 298-312). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Binghamton University, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 241-250).

Part of Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1931. / Published also without thesis note, under title: The interests of young men; the discovery and meaning of interests in program building. Bibliography: leaves 167-169.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-196). Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1993. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-67).

Constructivist accounts of the EU’s emergence as a security actor typically focus on changing conceptions of the Union’s role within a European context, at both national and EU levels. But few studies have analysed how significant Others in the international system understand the EU’s evolving role, which is assumed to play an important role in EU identity construction. This thesis analyses the nature of the US elite’s discourse on the EU, assessing the relative influence of factors - internal and external to the elite - in shaping its evaluations of EU security action. The study adopts a discursive institutionalist approach exploring how differing ideas about the EU are expressed and modifying this framework to examine how agents purposefully shape discourse in line with their preferences. By adapting the framework to focus on competing elite sub-groups, the project seeks to analyse discursive attempts at institutional change in greater detail. The study employed a qualitative content analysis of more than 100 texts produced by an ideologically and institutionally representative group of American foreign policy analysts and officials, in two cases: common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and counter terrorism cooperation. Public and classified official texts in the public domain were analysed to compare coordinative and communicative discourse. The findings indicate that ideological cleavages are mirrored in distinct narrative accounts of EU, which cross cut the Union’s differing security policy competence levels. While perceptions of European disunity and weakness dominated both conservative and liberal accounts, conservative analysts continued to portray EU security integration as threatening to US interests, a theme which has declined in importance in mainstream official discourse since the early 2000s. Empirically, the thesis provides a rich analysis of discourse on the EU in a context with significance both for scholars and policymakers concerned with external perceptions of the EU as a security actor. It provides a novel assessment of how American officials’ assessments of the EU differ in public and in private. By analysing the discursive tactics of influential elite sub-groups, it reveals an arena for competing accounts of the EU in which the Union’s differing policy competences are overshadowed by the elite’s ideological cleavages.

Submitted by Gabriela Ibara Tenório (gabrielaitenorio@gmail.com) on 2018-09-19T21:09:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Final - Final com ficha.pdf: 779316 bytes, checksum: 8f6d7e6e6bbae2b06014ac0c5d5a677e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Satie Tagara (satie@marilia.unesp.br) on 2018-09-20T16:53:40Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 tenorio_gi_me_mar.pdf: 779316 bytes, checksum: 8f6d7e6e6bbae2b06014ac0c5d5a677e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-20T16:53:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tenorio_gi_me_mar.pdf: 779316 bytes, checksum: 8f6d7e6e6bbae2b06014ac0c5d5a677e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O multilateralismo e a constituição de organizações internacionais são fenômenos ligados à construção de uma ordem internacional, na qual se impera a busca pela elaboração de regras de convivência entre as nações. Os fenômenos surgem e se desenvolvem de forma praticamente conjunta, mais especificamente no final século XIX: portanto os dois fenômenos estão intimamente ligados um ao outro. Dessa forma, esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal realizar um breve resgate histórico do conceito de multilateralismo e das organizações internacionais, através de autores de referência, a fim de entender as dificuldades de implementação desses princípios que deveriam permear o sistema segundo essa lógica. Nas conclusões apontaremos que as dificuldades de implementação do multilateralismo estão ligadas principalmente com as imprevisibilidades, incertezas e desconfianças entre os países. / Multilateralism and the constitution of international organizations are phenomena related to the construction of an international order, in which the search for the elaboration of rules of coexistence between nations is imperative. The phenomena arise and develop in a practically joint way, more specifically in the late nineteenth century: therefore the two phenomena are closely linked to one another. Thus, this dissertation has as main objective to make a brief historical rescue of the concept of multilateralism and international organizations, through reference authors, in order to understand the difficulties of implementing these principles that should permeate the system according to this logic. In the conclusions we will point out that the difficulties of implementing multilateralism are mainly related to the unpredictability, uncertainty and distrust between countries.

Submitted by Franciele Moreira (francielemoreyra@gmail.com) on 2018-10-01T13:37:31Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Tatiana Cristina Cardoso - 2018.pdf: 2244201 bytes, checksum: b535418aa6ab1df564591f3737ce6013 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2018-10-01T14:53:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Tatiana Cristina Cardoso - 2018.pdf: 2244201 bytes, checksum: b535418aa6ab1df564591f3737ce6013 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-01T14:53:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Tatiana Cristina Cardoso - 2018.pdf: 2244201 bytes, checksum: b535418aa6ab1df564591f3737ce6013 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-06 / This research defends the idea that the social forces determined ideologically the cinematographic production of the United States of America, during the emergence of the cinema until the period of its consolidation, collaborating for the propagation of Americanism as a way of life. As a methodology, was used the film analysis of It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), to observe what kind of American way of life the cinema of classic narrative structure would be insert in its production, with the intention of spreading the american way of life without breaking the moral rules already established by the codes of censorship imposed at the time and that until now, in contemporary times, are in force. US culture, politics, and economics were discussed in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, periods selected for their relevance in the making of myths and turning points in American history; Americanism as a way of life; Fordism; and Hollywood cinema, for being the one of the pioneering mass media that collaborated with the forms of Americanization not only within the US but throughout the world. / Esta pesquisa defende a ideia de que forças sociais determinaram ideologicamente a produção cinematográfica dos Estados Unidos da América (EUA), durante o surgimento do cinema até o período de sua consolidação, colaborando para a propagação do americanismo como modo de vida. A metodologia utilizada foi a análise fílmica de A Felicidade Não Se Compra (1946), para se observar que tipo de modo de vida norte- americana o cinema de estrutura narrativa clássica inseria em sua produção, com o intuito de difundir o american way of life, sem quebrar as regras de moral já estabelecidos pelos códigos de censura impostos na época e que até hoje, na contemporaneidade, vigoram. Foram discutidos ainda cultura, política e economia dos EUA nos anos 1930, 1940 e 1950, períodos selecionados pela sua relevância na fabricação de mitos e momentos decisivos na história norte-americana; americanismo como modo de vida; fordismo; e o cinema hollywoodiano, por ser o um dos meios de comunicação de massa pioneiros que colaborou com as formas de americanização não só dentro dos EUA, mas por todo o mundo.

Essa dissertação tem como objetivo analisar os contos da escritora Dorothy Parker em diálogo com seus poemas, tendo em vista a modernidade com a qual construiu suas histórias e o papel do humor em sua criação. Ao analisar as obras dessa autora de grande destaque nos Estados Unidos da América do Norte, nos anos 1930, veremos como o humor se transforma numa importante ferramenta que se relaciona com a construção do feminino e com a questão social da mulher, a fim de desestabilizar e transformar o status quo. O estudo, com o apoio teórico de Vladimir Propp e de Henri Bergson, intenciona demonstrar que, embora Dorothy Parker possa ser considerada uma escritora datada, seu senso satírico continua atual e reflete claramente o contexto no qual as mulheres estavam inseridas. / The aim of this study is to analyse Dorothy Parker´s short stories in dialogue with her poems in order to show the modernity of her writings and the function played by humour. Analysing the works of the great american writer in the thirties, we see how humour is used as a tool in the construction of the feminine and the social role of women, with the purpose of destabilizing and making a change in the status quo. The theoretical framework based on Vladimir Propp and Henri Bergson helps to demonstrate that in spite of Dorothy Parker´s work being considered dated by some, the satiric sense that emerges from her writings is still present in our times and reveals the context in which those women were inserted.