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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): Robert Bach. "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-126). Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Also available online.

李振. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Li Zhen.

This thesis focuses on liberal peace building in the DRC. The thesis takes a critical approach which emphasises local agencies and their engagements with liberal peace building. However, it seeks to bring this critique back to the institutions with which liberal peace building is preoccupied, by focusing on the hidden local that operates within these institutions. This approach seeks to give new meaning to processes of institution building without rendering institutions irrelevant as a top-down approach. Focusing on the first legislature of the Congolese Third Republic (2006-2011) this thesis provides a case study of how local agencies consume liberal democracy within the National Assembly, and make it their own. It discusses current liberal peace building practices as a process of mutual disengagement, in which both the local and liberal intervention seek to disengage from each other. Although this results in a lack of legitimacy of the peace building project both locally as well as with liberal interventions, it also creates hybrid space in which local agencies consume liberal democracy. The thesis conceptualises these local agencies as being convivial, in other words, they are enabled by people's relations. The thesis therefore focuses on MPs relations with their electorate, as well as with the executive and other MPs in their party or ruling coalition. In through these interactions local agencies consume liberal democracy – it is accepted, rejected, diverted, substituted, etc. The thesis concludes that through these practices of consumption local agencies negotiate liberal democracy. The liberal democratic framework is kept intact, but it is not enabled to function as foreseen, because local agencies are responsive to a moral matrix of the father-family. However, the liberal democratic framework itself provides new tools through which local agencies also renegotiate the unwritten rules of the moral matrix of the father-family.

<p>Regionalisation out of step - the varying growth of regional cooperation councils</p><p>Traditionally regionalisation is either seen as a bottom up movement or as state reform politics from above. From that perspective, Sweden contains both parts. The state enables regionalisation through legislation, promote it through policies and encourage it in rhetoric’s. But the formation of new regional institutions can only be done by the municipalities themselves. Without their belief in stronger and more self governed regions or their will to act and together build capacity in their region, the regionalisation is halted.</p><p>Sweden is a unitary state and there is no real tradition of strong and self governing regions. In that perspective the regional experiments during the second half of the 1990th can be seen as a rather big step. These experiments inspired other parts of Sweden and in the millennium shift, all counties was interested in forming some kind of selfgoverning regional body. In 2002, when legislation made it possible to build new political regional institutions, these new institutions were formed in seven counties. Since then, yet six counties have formed these new regional bodies. This variation raises several empirical questions. The main purpose of this study is to describe and explain the variation in growth of these new regional institutions.</p><p>The analysis follows three different perspectives. The first is a structural one and aims to investigate municipalities need for economic development as a driving force. The second is an institutional perspective where norms are supposed to promote cooperation. The third focus on promoting actors as a force behind the growth of new regional institutions. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods this thesis shows that different kinds of social norms promoting collaboration are the most important factor in explaining the variation in growth of new regional institutions. The analysis also showed that political actors play an important, both in building and maintaining coopera-tive norms, and probably also in bridging the lack of them.</p>

Regionalisation out of step - the varying growth of regional cooperation councils Traditionally regionalisation is either seen as a bottom up movement or as state reform politics from above. From that perspective, Sweden contains both parts. The state enables regionalisation through legislation, promote it through policies and encourage it in rhetoric’s. But the formation of new regional institutions can only be done by the municipalities themselves. Without their belief in stronger and more self governed regions or their will to act and together build capacity in their region, the regionalisation is halted. Sweden is a unitary state and there is no real tradition of strong and self governing regions. In that perspective the regional experiments during the second half of the 1990th can be seen as a rather big step. These experiments inspired other parts of Sweden and in the millennium shift, all counties was interested in forming some kind of selfgoverning regional body. In 2002, when legislation made it possible to build new political regional institutions, these new institutions were formed in seven counties. Since then, yet six counties have formed these new regional bodies. This variation raises several empirical questions. The main purpose of this study is to describe and explain the variation in growth of these new regional institutions. The analysis follows three different perspectives. The first is a structural one and aims to investigate municipalities need for economic development as a driving force. The second is an institutional perspective where norms are supposed to promote cooperation. The third focus on promoting actors as a force behind the growth of new regional institutions. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods this thesis shows that different kinds of social norms promoting collaboration are the most important factor in explaining the variation in growth of new regional institutions. The analysis also showed that political actors play an important, both in building and maintaining coopera-tive norms, and probably also in bridging the lack of them.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, Toronto, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-247).

Orientador: Antonio Carlos Vitte / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T08:40:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_RicardoDevides_M.pdf: 1182348 bytes, checksum: bf77cf92cbbc9b281ddd4efd2c2af890 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: A institucionalização relativamente recente da Geografia, principalmente na Alemanha, resulta de um processo contínuo e dialético de reflexão e sistematização de idéias, fruto de inúmeros avanços tecnológicos, materiais e estéticos; ligados a um contexto político-econômico marcante, iniciados mais precisamente com o advento do pensamento moderno na Europa e a consolidação do capitalismo. Algumas concepções teóricas contribuíram com diferentes processos que influenciaram de maneira diversa e complexa para a constituição do arcabouço teórico no processo de institucionalização da geografia enquanto disciplina. Para compreender as nuances deste processo marcante, mas ainda pouco estudado, a presente dissertação buscará comprovar que os trabalhos e as práticas de Oscar Peschel, Friedrich Ratzel e Alfred Hettner permitiram a consolidação de um programa e uma metodologia para os estudos geográficos, pautados pela influência do Positivismo, do Darwinismo e do Imperialismo no processo de institucionalização da Geografia na Alemanha, na passagem do séc. XIX ao séc. XX / Abstract: The relatively recent institutionalization of geography, especially in Germany, results from an ongoing, dialectical process of reflection and systematization of ideas, the result of numerous technological advances, materials and aesthetic, tied to a political and economic context marked, started more precisely with the advent of modern thinking in Europe and the consolidation of capitalism. Some theoretical concepts contributed different procedures that influenced in a diverse and complex way to form the theoretical framework in the institutionalization of geography as a discipline. To understand the nuances of this remarkable process, yet little studied, this paper will seek to prove that Oscar Peschel, and Friedrich Ratzel Alfred Hettner's work and practices allowed the consolidation of a program and a methodology for geographic studies, guided by the influence of Positivism, Darwinism and Imperialism in the process of institutionalization of geography in Germany, in the passage of nineteenth century to the twentieth century / Mestrado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Mestre em Geografia