• ‘(Non-)Intervention is always for someone and for some purpose’: a critical theory analysis on the principle of non-interference within ASEAN

  Lengeling, Isabelle (2020)

  Despite its centrality for the organisation, the approach of ASEAN member states towards the Principle of Non-Interference has not been consistent ever since the foundation in 1967. So far, the existing scholarship has not ...
• Why do countries develop harm reduction programs?: a mixed methods approach

  Brozdowski, Jonathan (2020)

  This thesis investigates why and how countries develop drug harm reduction programs today. Though they began as a controversial set of ideas challenging global drug policy’s dominant interdiction model, they have evolved ...
• Impact of the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative on adolescent pregnancy in Costa Rica: new evidence on multisectoral interventions

  Sánchez, Isabel (2020)

  To address the high rates of adolescent pregnancy and reduce its difficult consequences on young mothers and their children, the Costa Rican government (with the support of IDB) implemented in 2013 the Salud Mesoamerica ...
• Responding to a global pandemic: a comparative analysis of New Zealand, Taiwan and the United Kingdom

  Dini, Giovanni (2020)

  The ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic has proven that most States were unprepared and complacent in the face of the imminent epidemic threat that epidemiologists had long warned of. The COVID-19 pandemic confounded the ...
• Innovative claims-making and media diffusion: the case of Mexico City’s anti-monuments

  Burger, Lona Marie Lauridsen (2020)

  Since 2015, seven large metal structures, termed ‘anti-monuments’ (antimonumentos), have been placed by various civil society actors in Mexico City. Each commemorates a distinct grievance linked to claims of state culpability ...
• Exploring the effects of foreign partisan election intervention on corruption

  Reimal, Emily (2020)

  Foreign partisan election intervention is a persistent tactic that may become increasingly prevalent as technological advancements and the growth of social media facilitate new low-cost, yet effective mechanisms for ...
• Exploring persistent policy practices: Germany’s dispersal policy and the accommodation of asylum seekers

  Pascucci, Hannah (2019)

  This dissertation analyzes the apparent tension between the German dispersal policy practice and the allocation and accommodation of asylum seekers. Within the context of the 2015 ‘summer of welcome’, Germany received the ...
• Estimating the effect of (mobile)banking coverage on installed off-grid solar photovoltaic capacities in countries of sub-Saharan Africa

  Bähr, Tobias (2019)

  Affordable access to electricity has long been found to be a key lever for social and economic development. Over 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) still lacked such in 2016. Given the pertaining issues in grid ...
• Micro-level motivations of combatants in inter communal conflicts: a look into the case of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh

  Williams, Andréanne (2019)

  The micro-level determinants of fighting is a growing research topic. However, little research has been done on the reasons why people take part in communal violence, which I define as violence between non-state groups ...
• Causes of ethnic unrest in China: the cases of Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia

  Domingo Bartolí, Marta (2019)

  By analyzing the cases of Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia, three Autonomous Regions of the People’s Republic of China, this dissertation attempts to answer the following question: When do states’ ethnic assimilation ...
• Increasing freedoms in Sao Paulo : promoting development through decentralization and participation

  Jacon, Caio Cesar Paccola (2018)

  Decentralization and participation have been advocated by international organizations as a means for achieving development. They would do so my approximating government and citizens, allowing the latter to decide on matters ...
• Contemporary populism in India : assessing the Bharatiya Janata party’s ideological features

  Ammassari, Sofia (2018)

  This paper analyses the ideology of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the aim of characterizing populism in contemporary India. In fact, while the great majority of the research on the topic has pointed its attention ...
• Gender-specific migration patterns in the context of political and economic upheaval : the case of Tunisia

  Pober, Vera (2018)

  The aim of this paper is to understand the progressive feminization of migratory flows from Tunisia to Europe over the period 2010-2017. The observed increase in female migration took place in the context of economic crises ...
• Machine learning for public policy making : how to use data-driven predictive modeling for the social good

  Steuer, Fabian (2018)

  Machine learning gives computers the ability to learn from data without being explicitly programmed. Due to its excellent prediction abilities, it has recently gained traction in economics, statistics and social sciences. ...
• Rapid buses, rapid opinions : a frame analysis of the media coverage surrounding bus rapid transit (BRT) systems in Bogotá, Colombia and Jakarta, Indonesia

  Jance IV, Benjamin (2018)

  Bus rapid transit (BRT) systems are a popular form of urban transportation that can reduce congestion, are cost-efficient, can mitigate climate change via its high capacity busloads, and increase road efficiency (King, ...
• Child marriage amongst Syrian refugees : a rational response?

  Tasker, Rosemary (2018)

  This paper provides a comparative analysis of regional and country level Refugee Response Plans for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey between 2015-2018 to analyse the extent to which the they address the key ...
• Yes we fear : an issue saliency analysis of the impact of terrorist attacks on electoral campaigning rhetoric in Europe

  De Marchi, Anna (2018)

  Since 2014, the European continent has suffered a great number of terrorist attacks carried out by ISIL, jihadist movements and Islamic lone wolves. The rise of Islamic terrorism has affected various levels of society, ...
• Ungoverned spaces : why some Jihadist groups engage in public service delivery more than others

  Nizzero, Maria (2018)

  Since the Peace of Westphalia, states have been the primary actors in the international arena, having been granted legitimacy by internal and external sovereignty. In the contemporary age, however, state's sovereignty has ...

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