Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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The Boat as a Prop in Election Theatrics: Constructing Maritime Asylum Seekers as a ‘Problem’
Published 2011-01-01This article is concerned with the way Maritime Asylum Seekers (MAS) were constructed as a problem and negatively framed during the 2010 Australian Federal Election. It draws upon a comparative study of the representations ...Open AccessThesis -
Organised Crime and State Sovereignty - The conflict between the Mexican state and drug cartels 2006-2011
Published 2011-01-01Since December 2006, the government of Mexico has been embroiled in a battle against numerous criminal organisations seeking to control territory and assure continued flow of revenue through the production and trafficking ...Open AccessThesis -
The Debate on Excess Capacity, Issues of Competition and Time
Published 2011-10-17There has been a great deal of soul-‐searching in the economic community over the past few years. Economists of varying stripes have begun to question the academic and business paradigm which is the orthodox approach to ...Open AccessThesis -
Illicit Narcotic Economies and State Fragmentation: Colombia and Afghanistan
Published 2011-01-01This thesis argues that the illicit narcotics economy in Afghanistan and Colombia is the central force fragmenting state power through two main processes of internal regression and external attack. Internal regression ...Open AccessThesis -
Lifting the Shroud: Government, Investment Banks and Power in Post Financial Crisis United Kingdom - A critical deconstruction of the relationship between government and investment banks in the United Kingdom post global financial crisis (2007 – 2011)
Published 2011-01-01The late 2000s Global Financial Crisis swept the advanced world and spilled into the developing, creating chaos in its wake. At the crux of the crisis were the high-risk activities of investment banks in the developed world ...Open AccessThesis