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Intergovernmentalism and supranationality in European Union integration

The beginning of the European Union was with the coalition of six nations (namely France, Germany, Italia, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg) who entered into a treaty back in the year 1951 to determine the ECU Coal and Steel Community.

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Training needs analysis practices in Saudi Arabian private firms

Training needs analysis (TNA) is defined by Mabey and Salman (1995:158) as a "process of collecting data which allows an organization to identify and compare its actual level with its desired level of performance." The authors also indicate that this performance could be interpreted as meaning the…

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Capital requirements and credit risk behavior in Arab African International Bank

The research will mainly dwell on the capital requirements and risk behavior of banks, more in particular the credit risk. The purpose of this research is to identify and analyze the relationship between capital requirements and the risk behavior of banks in Egypt

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Mulvey's theory of the male gaze and film criticism

When Mulvey (1975) wrote about the psychological importance of the male gaze, most women would have recognized in her description of the dynamics of phallocentrism and the male observation of women their own experiences.

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C. Vann Woodward's Strange Career thesis on Jim Crow segregation

Evaluating the impact of Reconstruction social policy on blacks is more controversial due to the issue of segregation. Until the publication of C.

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Neo-liberal institutionalism and the role of nonstate actors in international relations

In the late 1970s, new approaches emerged concerning international relations. Although the constituents of the new approaches appear in numerous literatures, several political scholars combined the themes in the various literatures to develop a competitor to realism, which later led to the…

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Terrorist attacks and exogenous shocks on U.S. economic indicators

Even as the world continues to struggle with the terrible shock from the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, one principle lesson has already become clear: disrupting our economic system is a fundamental objective of terrorists.

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Reducing divorce rates through improved couples communication skills

Divorce has become popular throughout the many years it has existed and divorce rates continue to increase. More than a million people a year get a divorce (Tucker-Ladd 35). Young couples are more commonly known to get a divorce, than those who have been married for two or three years (35).

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Learning disabilities in adults: definitions, manifestations, and literacy services

It has been estimated (Adult with Learning Disabilities) 1 that 50-80% of the students in Adult Basic Education and literacy programs are affected by learning disabilities (LD).

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William Buckley, William Rusher, and the rise of American conservatism

conservative intellectual movement, but also the role of William Buckley and William Rusher in the blossoming of the youth conservative movement

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