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OPEC as a non-state actor : formation and dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1982)
-state actors within the international system. Its central hypothesis is that OPEC emerged as a collective bargaining instrument, but has become a non-state actor that impacts upon as well as serves the policies of its member-states. As a corollary it is assumed...
Pursuit of national interests through neutralism : case of India
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
/neutralism is an evolutionary concept—from certain initial general negative propositions like anti-colonialism, anti-racialism (that did not necessarily include anti-alliance postures), it came to have more positive characteristics, including willingness to solve international...
Changing perceptions of alliance relations by select Southeast Asian states, 1951 - 1972
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
The purpose of this study is to examine the thesis that in the period from 1951 through 1972, the receptivity of select Southeast Asian states towards alliance relations with the United States underwent a change because ...
The Bucareli Conference and United States-Mexican relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1966)
This dissertation attempts to explain the role of the Bucareli Conference in the contest between the United States and Mexico from 1914 to approximately 1930. It arose from an interest in the land and oil questions and ...
The poverty of place : a comparative study of five rural counties in the Missouri Ozark
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1999)
Research on nonmetro poverty indicates that it tends to be both geographically discrete and persistent over time. Low income counties have been shown to have a negative effect on the income of bordering counties, increasing ...
The railroad and warehouse commission of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
In this age of corporate business activity, a study of the legal and social relations which this form of business enterprise has borne to this State becomes of immediate interest. Such a study is of concern because the ...
The politics of land reform in South Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
Land reform in the developing countries has been of particular concern to social scientists as well as politicians and revolutionaries because of the preponderant role of agriculture in the area. Economists have paid ...
Planning as an educative process : the development of solid waste policy in the St. Louis area
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
"The central contention of this study is that environmental management policy formation is more dependent on the planning process than upon the formal plan resulting from the process. As used in this study, environmental ...
The Office of Governor of the State of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1963)
"The purpose of this study is to examine the Office of Governor in Missouri as it exists and functions at the present time, although attention will be given to its historical development. Emphasis will be placed on the ...
The Democratic Party Midterm Conference, 1974 : an assessment of utility and impact
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
""Of all the major in stitutions of American society, the parties seem to be the most resistant to reform and modernization. ...Perhaps all this is true because nobody has much cared about what happened to the parties." ...
The politics of special road districts abolishment in Missouri, 1970-1975
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
This study seeks to describe and explain the politics of dissolution of special road districts in Missouri from 1970 through 1974. It focuses on successful road district dissolutions in twenty Missouri counties during the ...
The Missouri Department of Community Affairs : a politico-administrative analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1968)
The State of Missouri established, in 1967, a high- level administrative department to deal with urban problems, one of only seven such agencies on the departmental level in state administrative structures in the United ...
Normative political community : the necessary condition for justice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1979)
In this dissertation, I develop a theory of political community through an analysis of human needs for fellowship on the one hand, and a synthesis of numerous critiques of the liberal state on the other. My thesis is that ...
Politics and ideology in the Kingdom of Callaway
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1963)
"This is a study of politics in the town of Fulton, the county of Callaway, in the state of Missouri. It is a study which, from one standpoint, is limited in its scope and focus. No attempt is made to describe and to ...