Essays about: "orthodoxy"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the word orthodoxy.

1. 6. International development paradigms and Human Rights : coexistence or interrelationship?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Florencia Fernández; [2010]
   Keywords : Sen; economic growth; human development; Nussbaum; capabilities; capability approach; mänskliga rättigheter; human rights; development theory; utvecklingsteorier; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Development in the sense that we currently use the term has existed since the post-war period and its orthodoxy has changed significantly in the course of time. With economic growth as a first objective, development suffered a crisis in the 1980/1990’s, in view of the lack of concrete results and the increase in poverty at a world level. READ MORE

3. 7. Eastern Orthodoxy and European Unioun;A Clash of Norms (An Orthodox Approach)

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

   Author : Alina Manuela Burlacu; [2009]
   Keywords : East European Orthodoxy; Religion; Integration; European Union; Western values; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Religion is a subject of controversial importance in the field of international relations. Even though Europe has Christian roots, and European Union concept was based on Christian Democracy, the genuine Christian values are not of great importance for the EU integration. READ MORE

4. 8. 'New Europeans' for the 'New European Economy' : Citizenship Discourses and the Lisbon Agenda

   University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Sandy Hager; [2006]
   Keywords : European citizenship; Lisbon Agenda; EU transnational business; European Commission; critical theory; cultural political economy; neo-Gramscian IPE; discourse analysis; embedded neo-liberalism; neo-liberal communitarianism;

   Abstract : Combining insights from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and neo-Gramscian IPE theory, this paper puts forth a cultural political economy (CPE) perspective to analyse the discursive articulation of ‘European subjects’ in the context of the EU’s Lisbon Agenda modernisation strategy. It is suggested here that the transformation proposed in Lisbon to the new economic imaginary of the knowledge based economy (KBE), depends on ‘new subjects’ and thus new discursive constructions of identities to reflect the new economic and social formations it envisions. READ MORE