Essays about: "Michael Mitchell"
Found 2 essays containing the words Michael Mitchell.
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1. Governing the "Enough" in a Warming World : The Discourse of Sufficiency from a Climate Governmentality Perspective
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : This thesis deals with the discourse of “sufficiency” as a response to the question of how government should be achieved in times of climate change. Sufficiency implies the critique of the imperative of economic growth and a return to a “sufficient” degree of consumption and partial subsistence in order to reach qualitative well-being. READ MORE
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2. Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Myanmar: Remarkable Trends and Multilayered Motivations
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Following the national responsibility theory in the school of international society which argues that national interest drives a state’s foreign policy, this thesis first attempts to deconstruct China’s foreign direct investment (FDI) in Myanmar since 2004 by picking apart and manipulating financial data in order to determine the resulting trends and developments. It then analyzes how Myanmar’s abundant natural resources could help alleviate China’s rising energy demands and how Chinese FDI can enhance China’s political security, reduce energy costs, diversify its imports, and mitigate mineral shortages. READ MORE
