Essays about: "world-system analysis"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 35 essays containing the words world-system analysis.
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11. Simulation and Analysis of Queueing System
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : This thesis provides a discrete-event simulation framework that can be used to analyze and dimension computing systems. The simulation framework can define and parametrize the flexible queueing system. We use the simulation framework to explore the data collected from the real-world system. READ MORE
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12. The banking of education for sustainable development : A critical discourse analysis of the World Bank’s education policy from a modern/colonial world system perspective
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Throughout colonial history, education has been used actively in an attempt to assimilate subaltern cultures into the colonizers’ realm. This study looks at the relationship between education of children in developing countries as a tool within sustainable development in relation to the colonial past and modern day coloniality. READ MORE
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13. International Anarchy & the American Leviathan : A study in the moral and empirical applications of Hobbes’ concept of anarchy to American Foreign policy
University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politikAbstract : The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been identified as the reason for a large shift in American foreign policy towards a doctrine closer to that of political realism. This claim has led us to examine if this transformation could be detected and described if we analyzed and compared Trump’s foreign policy doctrine with his predecessor, Barack Obama, through the lens Thomas Hobbes, whose ideas are at the core of the three modern schools of political realism. READ MORE
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14. Defying Human Security : The Commodification of Migrants in Contemporary Libya
University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälleAbstract : The world-system today promotes inequalities between and within states through the maintenance and strengthening of uneven and hierarchical global relations established by colonialism. The reinforcement of colonial structures has unfolded into neocolonial relations in the post-colonial world, explaining the underdevelopment and marginalization of former colonies in the world-system today, and why many African countries largely experience internal instability on several fronts, revealing how individuals from these states tend to experience some sort of human insecurity. READ MORE
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15. South-South Cooperation : A case study of Ethiopia’s political and economic relations with China and Turkey
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : As the world system and the global political economy is under constant transformation, there is an increasing need for further research. Shifting from a North-South polarity towards a South-South-East relationship, the situation on the African continent is gaining more and more attention. READ MORE
