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Strategies for Managing Regional Conflicts: Ethiopia’s Foreign Policy in 1991-2018
(2020-01-27)Regional rivalries have been a major source of insecurity in the Horn of Africa, and have contributed to inter-state wars, civil wars and state partitions. This thesis examines Ethiopia’s rivalry management strategies under ... -
Economic Diversification and Development in Resource-dependent Economies: Lessons from Chile and Malaysia
(2020-02-22)This thesis investigates the role of the state in promoting economic diversification in countries that are over-reliant on the extraction of non-renewable resources. The objective of this thesis is particularly timely given ... -
Nearer to the People: The Interaction Between Decentralisation and the Political Economy in Uganda
(2020-07-18)Abstract Christine van Hooft Nearer to the people: The interaction between decentralisation and the political economy in Uganda Since the introduction of decentralisation in Uganda in the late 1980s, the number of districts ... -
Sowing the Seeds of Soviet Decline: Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Carter Administration: 1977-1981
(2020-03-01)This dissertation endeavours to demonstrate that Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Carter administration in which he served helped to end the Cold War. It examines Brzezinski’s career prior to the Carter years and looks at the ...
