Sökning: "centre-periphery relations"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden centre-periphery relations.
1. What’s in a Line? : Making Sovereignty through Border Policy
Sammanfattning : The role of borders as dividers between states and markers of territorial sovereignty is central to modern statehood. Whereas the voluntary opening of a state border could therefore appear puzzling, this thesis argues that state sovereignty can be manifested either when states allow borders to become more open or more closed. LÄS MER
2. The Bias of the World : Theories of Unequal Exchange in History
Sammanfattning : This is a history of theories and theorists of unequal exchange. Starting with mercantilists and Richard Cantillon's theory based on land values, it briefly covers the early Classical economists and Gerald Fitzhugh. LÄS MER
3. Contacts and Trade at Late Bronze Age Hazor : Aspects of Intercultural Relationships and Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean
Sammanfattning : Hazor’s role in an international Late Bronze Age context has long been indicated but never thoroughly investigated. This role, I believe, was more crucial than previously stressed. LÄS MER
4. Kommunindelning och demokrati : Om sammanläggning och delning av kommuner i Sverige
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the territorial dimension of democracy by studying the division of Swedish municipalities. It consists of two parts focusing on two types of changes to the division of municipalities: amalgamation and secession.The consequences of a series of amalgamation reforms are the starting point for the first part. LÄS MER
5. The Power to do Good : Post-Revolution, NGO Society, and the Emergence of NGO-Elites in Contemporary Nicaragua
Sammanfattning : This thesis critically examines the world of NGOs in contemporary Nicaragua, and suggests connections between the current development 'boom' and the emergence of a materially privileged local development elite, which by means of its cultural and economic capital are in a position to exiercise considerable power in relation to other less powerful strata of the population. It is based on fieldwork conducted in Ocotal, Nicaragua, from June 2000 to April 2003. LÄS MER