Essays about: "World-system"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 61 essays containing the word World-system.

1. 16. Simulation and Analysis of Queueing System

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Yucong Zhang; [2019]
   Keywords : Queueing theory; 2. Queueing system simulation; 3. System optimization; 4. Computer systems; 5. Data analytics;

   Abstract : This thesis provides a discrete-event simulation framework that can be used to analyze  and  dimension  computing  systems.  The  simulation  framework  can define  and  parametrize  the  flexible  queueing  system.  We  use  the  simulation framework to explore the data collected from the real-world system. READ MORE

3. 17. The banking of education for sustainable development : A critical discourse analysis of the World Bank’s education policy from a modern/colonial world system perspective

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Sera Cecilia Hejlskov; [2019]
   Keywords : Coloniality; education; sustainable development; modernity; hegemonic culture; subaltern theory; critical discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Throughout colonial history, education has been used actively in an attempt to assimilate subaltern cultures into the colonizers’ realm. This study looks at the relationship between education of children in developing countries as a tool within sustainable development in relation to the colonial past and modern day coloniality. READ MORE

4. 18. International Anarchy & the American Leviathan : A study in the moral and empirical applications of Hobbes’ concept of anarchy to American Foreign policy

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik

   Author : Nathalie Martinsdotter; Elias Johansson; [2019]
   Keywords : Thomas Hobbes; American Foreign Policy; Political Thought; International Relations; Realism; National Security Strategy; International Morality; Anarchy; Donald Trump; Barack Obama;

   Abstract : The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been identified as the reason for a large shift in American foreign policy towards a doctrine closer to that of political realism. This claim has led us to examine if this transformation could be detected and described if we analyzed and compared Trump’s foreign policy doctrine with his predecessor, Barack Obama, through the lens Thomas Hobbes, whose ideas are at the core of the three modern schools of political realism. READ MORE

5. 19. Defying Human Security : The Commodification of Migrants in Contemporary Libya

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle

   Author : Gabriela Giannattasio Nobres; [2019]
   Keywords : Migrants; Migration; Libya; Africa; New Wars; World-System; Human Security; Commodification; Migrants Rights; Parallel Economy;

   Abstract : The world-system today promotes inequalities between and within states through the maintenance and strengthening of uneven and hierarchical global relations established by colonialism. The reinforcement of colonial structures has unfolded into neocolonial relations in the post-colonial world, explaining the underdevelopment and marginalization of former colonies in the world-system today, and why many African countries largely experience internal instability on several fronts, revealing how individuals from these states tend to experience some sort of human insecurity. READ MORE

6. 20. Nationalization of electricity and oil in core and periphery: Norway versus Mexico

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

   Author : Johannes Wilm; [2019]
   Keywords : Norway; Mexico; nationalization; history; politics; water; oil; petrol; energy; natural resources;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to find the historical differences of nationalization in a peripheral and in a central country. I will look at and compare the development and the processes of nationalization of the petroleum and hydropower industries in Mexico and Norway and how these differed from a world system perspective. READ MORE