Theses - Human, Social, and Political Science
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Whose voice prevails? Policy-making at the crossroads between security and development in EU-West African migration cooperation
This thesis adds to understanding of EU-African migration cooperation, forming an empirical study on the politics of policy-making between the EU and West African countries. It appraises the scope and limitations of EU ... -
Intra-Professional Specialist Differentiation In The UK Surgical Profession
(2020)This thesis studies specialist differentiation in the surgical profession of the United Kingdom, seeking to clarify what the combinations of factors favour or hinder it. It draws on interviews with two hundred surgeons, ... -
Values in Action: Simplicity, Completeness, and Carefulness in the Development of the Systematisations of Chemical Elements
(2020-01-27)This thesis demonstrates how three chemists – Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, Julius Lothar Meyer, and John Newlands – emphasised different values when developing their systematisations of the chemical elements in 1863-1875. ... -
Agro-Commodity Global Value Chains and Upgrading: The Case of Malaysian Palm Oil
(2019-02-23)This dissertation consists of three closely related essays on upgrading in agro-commodity value chains, which is an important issue for many developing countries that produce and export commodities in mostly unprocessed ...
