Essays about: "imperial"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 53 essays containing the word imperial.
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21. Development of a Neutron Activation Analysis station at the Lund Ion Beam Analysis Facility
University essay from Lunds universitet/Kärnfysik; Lunds universitet/Fysiska institutionenAbstract : This report outlines the first stages of the development of the Neutron Activation Analysis station at the Lund Ion Beam Analysis Facility in the Division of Nuclear Physics, Lund University. The motivation for this project is to use the Neutron Activation Analysis detection technique for environmental monitoring around the European Spallation Source, soon to come into operation. READ MORE
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22. Thinking outside the Baltic : Swedish ambitions in Norway at the height of the Great Power Era
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this study is to examine the seldom researched Swedish geopolitical interests inNorway in the first half of the 17th century, with the brief 1658 conquest of Trondheim as itscentral event of inquiry. Through the study of privy council protocols and chancellor AxelOxenstierna’s correspondence, the study builds a case for the confluence of security, commerce, andthe concepts of nations as the influencing factors that shaped Swedish imperial foreign policy in thedecades leading up to the dramatic war of 1658, yielding a theoretical construction of the Empire’sBaltic doctrine, or the Oxenstierna doctrine, as an explanatory model for Sweden’s early modernexpansion patterns. READ MORE
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23. Chaebol Reform: Politics of Introducing Business Reforms in South Korea
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : Calls to implement corporate reforms in South Korea reached its apex with the strong public outrage at 2016 Presidential corruption scandal involving the largest business groups within the country. In 2017, the newly elected President Moon Jae In promised to achieve corporate reforms that past administrations struggled to engage with. READ MORE
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24. How have Confucian traditions and values influenced institutional power structures in Maoist ideology? : A comparative discourse analysis of ideologies enforcing authoritarianism.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This master’s thesis will thoroughly analyze the discourse that is the transformation and interaction of the Maoist ideology with the previous Confucian traditions and its importance in institutional spheres of society in contemporary China. The thesis aims to analyze correlations and causations to the aspect of the rise of Maoism from a non-Communist Chinese society highly influenced by Confucian values and traditions to a Maoist dominated Chinese cultural, social, and political landscape. READ MORE
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25. Back to the Future of a ‘Global Britain’
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global StudiesAbstract : This thesis explores the evolution of British nationalism regarding two major historical segments - industrialisation and imperialism - considering Brexit. The essay aims to reveal the true colours of Global Britain, and it is based on two dominant sections, the origins of British nationalism, as they are described by Ernest Gellner, Liah Greenfeld and Krishan Kumar, and its development into a hard Eurosceptic, right-wing populist phenomenon. READ MORE