Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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The President as a Perception-setting agent: Presidential Rhetoric, the Russian State and Identity, and the Search for Political Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Russia.
Published 2012-01-01Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 the state that has emerged, the Russian Federation, has been engulfed in a search for a legitimate and valuable identity and role for the state. This search was given new life in ...Open AccessThesis -
The Case of Egypt (1981-2011)
Published 2012-01-01The 2011 Egyptian revolution ousted President Hosni Mubarak after nearly thirty years in power. An agency centred approach dominated the discourse that followed the revolution. This dissertation contends that this ...Open AccessThesis -
Power/Knowledge in Discourses of Climate Justice
Published 2012-01-01Rawlsian political philosophers and theorists approach climate justice using ideal theories of the fair distribution of climate change burdens, and the rights to be protected in the face of those burdens. Other theorists ...Open AccessThesis -
Fear, Itself The Threat Constructions Of Tea Party Candidates In The 2010 Republican Primaries
Published 2012-01-01This study explores the role that a faith-driven discourse has played in the electoral success of the Tea Party movement. The popularity of the Tea Party movement among conservative Protestant populations has led researchers ...Open AccessThesis