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Africa has always been presented as a unique case in international relations theory. The imbalances inherited from colonization and the various challenges African nations faced following their independence coupled with weak institutional capability contributed to make the region…

The thesis examines the policy and practice of literary translation into German during the Nazi regime. It is shown that translation survived, albeit in a constrained form, throughout the period and that heavy official intervention was itself grounded in contradictory attitudes …

The factor determinants of industry and investment location patterns in transition economies can be expected to differ from those frequently observed in developed countries. Historically, centrally planned economies have suffered from inefficient industrial policies that are gen…

This thesis discusses how the military, economic, and humanitarian priorities of US foreign policy in South Korea evolved over the nearly twenty-year leadership of Park Chung-hee, whose admittedly authoritarian leadership enabled the economic reform that transformed South Korea …

Late Mito school is known as a Neo-Confucian nativist school active in the nineteenth century in Japan. The Mito school is mainly known for its proto-nationalistic and proto-Shinto writings, that inspired anti-foreign movements in the second half of the nineteenth century. Many …

This dissertation explores the ways in which Plautus’s comedies, inherently translated works, negotiate foreign characters and foreignness within their hybrid theatrical and extra-theatrical spaces. This project is part of a larger discourse on the tension between Greek, Roman, …