Undergraduate Theses & Honors Theses
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/7558
2024-03-28T16:14:45Z“Russian Heroes, French Zombies”: Diplomatic Tensions Between Great Powers in the Central African Republic
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“Russian Heroes, French Zombies”: Diplomatic Tensions Between Great Powers in the Central African Republic
Wickstrand, Justin
This honors thesis examines the respective approaches of diplomatic engagement by
Russia and France in the Central African Republic (CAR). Given the present competition
between great powers on the African continent, much of the current discourse on this topic has a
tendency to view this competition as a reemergence of the Cold War struggle over the “Third
World,” specifically that which occurred in Africa. This thesis seeks to add to the present
discourse by arguing that the notion of a Cold War redux in Africa is a reductionist approach that
neglects the domestic priorities that are the veritable catalysts behind Russian and French
engagement with Africa, specifically in the Central African Republic.
The central aim of this project has been to analyze the motives and modes driving
Russian and French engagement with the nation of the Central African Republic. By beginning
with the historical background of France and the Soviet Union’s diplomatic engagement with
Africa, I contextualize their patterns of diplomatic outreach and posit that the respective foreign
policy legacies of the two powers contribute to their ability to act on the African continent today.
Following this, I analyze the contemporary modes of engagement by France and Russia in the
Central African Republic and evaluate the ways in which this has impacted their bilateral
relationships with the CAR.
By using a multimedia approach to primary source analysis in both English and French, I
have been able to evaluate a wide-range of sources that contribute to the broader understanding
of how diplomacy is being conducted on the African continent using the tools of the twenty-first
century.
80 pages
2023-06-01T00:00:00ZPublic Assistance, An Analysis as a Social Movement
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Public Assistance, An Analysis as a Social Movement
Ribbans, Eleanor C.
The story of public assistance in the United States reflects the development and growth of American thought in the fields of government, economics, political theory, and related fields, but most especially, the developments in the field of social work. The changes of theory regarding human rights that dominated social work in the various phases of its history can be seen to be based in the culture of the time. At many points social work philosophy was far more advanced than popular notions for the proper treatment of the poor, but by and large, the prevailing ideas were very much the same as the commonly accepted ideas of the functions of the government and individual responsibility. It was only slowly and often painfully that the underlying ideas in government, economics, and human rights changed and allowed the more modern theories, based on scientific investigation and social work, to take hold and become accepted in this country.
145 pages
1949-06-01T00:00:00ZThe National War Referendum
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The National War Referendum
Lowry, Philip B.
This analysis is patterned to first picture the historical background of popular participation in government in America; second, to outline the history of the war referendum in America; third, to discuss the referendum as an instrument of popular government; fourth, to scrutinize the negative arguments of the national war referendum; fifth, to seek the positive arguments of a national war amendment; sixth, to show the modifications imposed upon any conclusion because of the workings of allied concepts, namely the realisms of politics and the vicissitudes of public opinion; and lastly, to summarize a conclusion upon the basis of the foregoing facts and analyses. A chapter has been devoted to each of these phases of the issue which is the subject of an interesting and much debated controversy.
122 pages
1940-05-01T00:00:00ZRecent Movements in Oregon Towards Conservation and Development of Natural Reseources
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Recent Movements in Oregon Towards Conservation and Development of Natural Reseources
Martin, Vivian
In studying the recent movements in this state
towards conservation and development of natural resources,
I was primarily interested in determining what has been
accomplished, what methods were used, what the results are
to date, and what should be done in the future.
As a guide in organizing the scattered bits of data
now available in each of the special fields concerned, I
attempted to answer the following set of questions:
1.What is the relationship between conservation
and development?
2.Why should they be parallel in any unified plan
of action?
3.What are the causes and effects of conservation
and development economically and culturally?
4.What basic resources are available in this state?
Where?
5.Which resources are being improperly handled,
neglected, or overlooked?
6.What forces, both human and natural, are wasting
our resources?
7.What is the role of planning in the past, present,
and future of Oregon?
8.What function should general education have?
9.What agencies have been or are taking part in
both planning and active work?
10.What new methods could be practically applied?
11.What is the function of business in relation to
conservation?
96 pages
1943-05-01T00:00:00Z