Theories of mind in international relations: why individuals' inferences about states' motives vary 由 Solimena, PM

“...However, despite its centrality, empirical research on the communication of motives has long lagged behind theoretical scholarship, and fundamental questions about the microfoundations of motives remain: how do individuals infer a state’s motives from its actions, and why do individuals’ inferences dynamically vary, sometimes converging, other times diverging, in response to a state’s signal? ...”

Modern Tibetan literature and the inescapable nation 由 Jabb, L, Jabb, L, Lama Jabb

“...<p>Existing scholarship on modern Tibetan writing takes the 1980s as its point of “birth” and presents this period as marking a “rupture” with traditional forms of literature. ...”

Contextualising the contrafacta of trouvere song 由 Quinlan, M

“...<p>Scholarship on medieval contrafacture has long been engaged in the Kontrafakturjagd, the hunt for songs whose textual and structural similarities suggest they might also share melodies. ...”

When David takes over Goliath: emerging market firms, M&amp;A; strategy, and post-acquisition integration 由 Szepan, M

“...In the area of China business studies, this thesis challenges widely held notions of Chinese state-owned enterprise executives and finds that managerial behaviour at these firms can be characterized as largely rational. Extant management scholarship focuses on the efficiency maximizing function of firm-internal markets. ...”

Liberal democracy, competition, and the institutional limits of markets 由 Agmon, S

“...In recent decades, a shared fear of market expansionism has developed into a vast normative literature, the ‘Moral Limits of Markets’. This body of scholarship introduced new normative questions about markets and brought to the fore markets that have been hitherto underexplored....”

A combined heart rate and movement sensor: proof of concept and preliminary testing study. 由 Rennie, K, Rowsell, T, Jebb, SA, Holburn, D, Wareham, N

“...KLR holds an MRC PhD scholarship....”

Shocks, the state, and support under electoral authoritarianism 由 Tertytchnaya, K

“...Bringing new data and evidence from individual-level surveys to bear on the debate of how non-democratic governments manage public opinion, the thesis makes an original contribution to scholarship on authoritarian vulnerability and resilience....”

Taming the dragon: rural land takings law in modern China 由 Peng, C

“...Since these have been the paramount features of the Chinese land regime for over half a century and are unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, most of the reform recommendations made in the existing scholarship are either irrelevant or unfeasible. However, this is not to say that no change is possible. ...”

Untimely forms: late modernism, war, essayistic form 由 Topalović, D

“...My thesis makes an intervention in the ongoing revival of essay scholarship by showing how essayistic form offered a rich repertoire of technical resources in the service of writers anxious to confront the violence of the Second World War—whether anticipated, lived, or remembered—without resorting to the descriptive capabilities of fiction alone. ...”

A landscape of conflict? Rural fortifications in the Argolid (400 – 146 BC) 由 Blomley, AM

“...The introductory <strong>chapter 1</strong> discusses the study’s chronological framework, geographical scope, aims and structure, as well as the history of the scholarship on this subject.</p> <br> <p>Chapters 2–4 “set the scene” for the analysis of fortified sites in the Argolid. ...”

Images of the built landscape in the later Roman world 由 Simon, J

“...While the extent of the empire may be determined from both the extensive body of literary evidence from the Roman world, and also from the physi- cal remains of great public works stretching from Britain to Arabia, the processes by which the Romans were able to apprehend larger spaces remain infrequently studied in modern scholarship. It is often assumed that Roman spatial awareness came from cartographic representations and that the imperial Roman administration must have possessed detailed scale maps of both individual regions and of the empire as a whole....”

Moving deserts: stories of mobilities and resilience from Turkana County, a Kenyan desertscape 由 Semplici, G

“...Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the local meanings of resilience across these dimensions and contrast them with outsiders’ interpretations emerging from policy documents, development interventions and scholarship.</p> <p>The empirical analysis reveals the fundamental role of mobility in the lived experiences of Turkana herders. ...”

Paperscapes: navigating books in Early Modern England 由 Wilson, G

“...<em>Paperscapes: Navigating Books in Early Modern England</em> fuses literary scholarship, bibliography, and book history to engage with the affordances of paper as textual substrate and material form....”

Cognitive linguistics and the demonology of Luke’s gospel 由 Perry, K

“...</p> <p>Chapters 1 and 2 respectively outline past scholarship on NT demonology (especially Lukan demonology) and the cognitive linguistic fields of conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual blending theory (particularly their increasing use in biblical studies). ...”

Doing what, by whom, for whom and how?: an essay on interests, modes, methods and other dynamics in “Theology” and/or “Religious Studies” 由 Weller, PG

“...Within such a transformation, if socio-political contextuality and positionality are embraced and embedded as necessary (but not exhaustive or exclusive) for both critical and constructive scholarship in “Theology” and “Religious Studies”, then an “engaged” approach to the study of religion might prove able to facilitate a fruitful “shared borderland” between the “hinterland territories” claimed by these otherwise often broadly differential modes of study....”

‘Medici ‘cross roads’: the intersection of warfare and politics in the Tyrrhenian Sea and Duke Cosimo I’s path towards the Order of Santo Stefano (1544-1563)’ 由 Tzavaras, A

“...<p>Recent scholarship has emphasized the socio-economic aspects of the Medici crusading Order of Santo Stefano – especially regarding its establishment and early history (c. 1562-1621). ...”

The shifting sands of evidence: a socio-legal enquiry into the development of medical guidelines 由 Jansen, FJ

“...Contrary to existing scholarship, this thesis argues that evidence merely informs the understanding of members of guideline groups while a range of economic, cultural, institutional, and political factors, that together form cognitive frames, provide the driving force behind the development of guidelines. ...”

Innovative scripts and spellings in Roman Egypt: investigations into script conventions, domains, shift, and obsolescence as evidenced by hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old C... 由 Love, EOD

“...By analogy to language death in speech communities, current scholarship on script obsolescence in Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, and Egypt is appraised, and by problematising generalised synoptic narratives of obsolescence, the phenomenon of domain-by-domain language and script shift is then compared directly to that of domain-by-domain obsolescence of the scripts of the Egyptian writing system. ...”

Moving beyond centre-periphery science: Towards an ecology of knowledge 由 Marginson, S, Xu, X

“...Non-English language work and endogenous knowledges are excluded. Scholarship on global science does not effectively address these issues. ...”

Violence and dystopia 由 Cojocaru, D, Cojocaru Daniel

“...In conclusion it will become evident that Girard’s theory forms an indispensable analytical tool uncovering the pivotal themes of imitation and scapegoating in the discussed narratives: themes largely ignored in current scholarship on dystopia and secondary literature on the focussed authors....”