Essays about: "Despotism"

Found 2 essays containing the word Despotism.

1. 1. A History of Rule by Divine Law among Semitic Cultures

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

   Author : Karl Bjur; [2020]
   Keywords : History; Islam; Arabic; Judaism; Hammurabi; Akkadian; State; Divine law; Sharia; Halakha; Aksum; Ethiopia; Empire; Didascalia; Theocracy; Theonomocracy; Semitic; Israelite; Al-Māturīdī; Al-Māwardī; Religious History; Middle-east; Africa; Kitāb al-Tawḥīd; Māturīdīya; Rulership; Oriental; Despotism; Absolutism; Cultural Darwinism; Comparative oriental studies; Cross-cultural study; Orientalism; Large-scale History; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : This is a comparative study of several widespread and canonical texts from the lowlands of the Middle East and North Africa, with regard to historically reoccurring interconnected traits of ideal state structure among cultures, where Semitic languages have been main languages of communication from the 18th century BC to the modern day. The study is of reoccurring ideals of state structure with defined limits and causes for its existence across several Semitic speaking cultures. READ MORE

3. 2. An Institution of Benevolent Despotism? An Examination of the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Helena Paulsson; [2011]
   Keywords : ethnic constitution.; consociationalism; Dayton agreement; Bosnia; High Representative; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Kriget i Bosnien och Hercegovina tog slut för 15 år sedan. Daytonavtalet reglerar villkoren för fredsbyggandet i landet. Annex 4 i Daytonavtalet består av Bosniens konstitution. Konstitutionen innefattar flera aspekter av maktdelning mellan de tre konstituerande folken, bosniaker, kroater och serber. READ MORE