Essays about: "national unity"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 51 essays containing the words national unity.

  1. 16. STRUGGLES BETWEEN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN IDENTITY: THE PEACE CONUNDRUM, THE ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, THE EAST VERSUS THE WEST AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Michelle Marie Soukup; [2020]
    Keywords : conflict; religious freedom; freedom of the media; national identity; Ukraine; Russia; international organizations;

    Abstract : The Russian-Ukrainian tensions have recently sparked greater debates on an international scale, particularly since the Russian attack on Ukrainian independence in 2014. For the purpose of being able to contribute to these, my thesis explores the underlying problems causing this most recent conflict in the modern history. READ MORE

  3. 17. Latvian Language Policy : Unifying or Polarizing? Reconstructing the Political Debate on Language Reform in the Latvian Education System

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling

    Author : Samuel Holm; [2020]
    Keywords : Latvia; language policy; nationalism; imagined community; national unity;

    Abstract : Languages are not just systems for communication, they are also often a marker of ethnic and/or national identity and sometimes a politically contentious issue. A country where this is the case is Latvia, which has a large Russian-speaking population. During the Soviet occupation of Latvia, Russian became the dominant language in public life. READ MORE

  4. 18. Cross-border Unity or Fragmentation of the Kurds - A Qualitative Content Analysis on the KRG’s and the PYD’s Views on National Identity and Statehood

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Maral Afsharian; [2020]
    Keywords : Kurds; KRG; PYD; Statehood; Independence; National Identity; Kurdistan. Kurder; statsskap; självständighet; nationell identitet; Kurdistan.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Med en befolkning på cirka 30 miljoner människor är kurderna den fjärde största etniska gruppen i Mellanöstern. Trots detta har kurderna inte sin egen självständiga stat vilket gör dem till en minoritetsgrupp i Turkiet, Irak, Iran och Syrien. READ MORE

  5. 19. The national and the international influences on the drafting of the South African Bill of Rights : A study on the South African transitional legal culture.

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Afrikanska studier

    Author : Claudia Cazzetta; [2020]
    Keywords : South Africa; legal culture; Bill of Rights; Constitution; constitutional influences.;

    Abstract : The South African democratic transition in the 1990s represents one of the clearest cases of practical implementation of constitutional engineering. The process was aimed to the creation of the principle of national unity in the fundamental text first, hoping it would be mirrored consequently by a popular sentiment. READ MORE

  6. 20. Narrating Independence - A Narrative Analysis of Contemporary Estonian and Latvian Narratives about Independence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Per Brishammar; [2020]
    Keywords : Estonia; Latvia; Historical Consciousness; Historical Narratives; Independence; European Studies; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In 2018, several European nations celebrated their centennial anniversaries of independence. Two of them, Estonia and Latvia, had never been independent before 1918, and for these nations, the events surrounding independence therefore have a special meaning. READ MORE