Between 1940 and 1945, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. There have, however, only been a small number of scholarly studies of SOE’s activities, and no specific examination of its involvement in occupied …
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This thesis focuses on several fictional and non-fictional political discourses that seek to expose authoritarian oppressive practices committed---in the name of God, culture, and/or national welfare---against all individuals, especially women. Through analyzing Siddiqi Barmak's…
While governance has traditionally been the realm of states, new "Emerging Political Complexes," as Mark Duffield calls them, incorporate networks of public and private actors. These networks of governance come in two competing ideal types: a) strategic-commercial complexes, sha…
The two main theoretical approaches to explaining the demand for international reserves holdings are the buffer stock approach and the monetary approach. The buffer stock approach assumes optimizating behavior of central banks. They determine the level of reserves by equating th…
As the price of oil has risen, the effect of resource wealth on countries around the world has become increasingly important. Previous studies have shown that countries dependent on oil exports tend to be less democratic and more prone to civil unrest, but have not clarified wha…
Researchers have calculated the relationship between human capital development and economic output by various means of econometric modeling and by use of numerous indicators under the context of an assortment of human capital theory. This study was conducted to identify new inte…
The purpose of this researcher is to examine the differences and similarities in expectations among three groups of parents. No such studies have been conducted using the identified populations. There are no studies in Norway especially on the Kurds, and no researcher focuses pr…
This thesis examines the determinants of success and failure in cases of autonomous deterrence by middle powers threatened with attack by much stronger states, and the impact of external constraints upon deterrence strategy choice under such asymmetric conditions. It addresses b…
This study examines the impact of oil price shocks on output fluctuations of several oil-exporting economies. In most studies of business cycles, the role of oil price is ignored; the few studies that use oil price as one of the variables in the system focus on modeling oil-impo…
This dissertation is a colonial discourse analysis of the construction of Sápmi (Sámiland) as colonized territory and the Sámi as colonized subjects, and an exploration of some oppositional responses to that construction. Beginning with classical representations of the wildernes…