Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Prostitution, Pornography and Islamic Law
Published 2007-12-19ABSTRACT This thesis examines how increasing conservatism in Indonesia has affected Indonesian women. In order to avoid presenting them as passive victims of a conservative Islam ideology, the thesis examines women’s NGO ...Open AccessThesis -
Second-Strike Nuclear Forces and Neorealist Theory: Unit-Level Challenge or Balance-of-Power Politics as Usual?
Published 2007-12-19ABSTRACT: What are the implications of second-strike nuclear forces for neorealism? The end of the Cold War yielded a unipolar structure of international politics defined by the military, economic, and political preponderance ...Open AccessThesis -
Presidential Encores: International Entrepreneurship in Health Policy
Published 2007-12-19ABSTRACT Ex-Presidents Carter and Clinton are forging new paths for post-presidential activities. With their respective action-oriented public policy institutions, the Carter Center and the Clinton Foundation, they have ...Open AccessThesis -
Anatomy of State Failure
Published 2007-12-19Abstract In the 1990s, failed states emerged as a pernicious threat to both regional security and the wellbeing of millions of people worldwide. While this phenomenon has been welldocumented, explaining why and how states ...Open AccessThesis -
Old Traditions new Perspectives
Published 2007-12-14This thesis looks at the discord between asymmetric warfare and just war theory. Specifically, it looks at the place of just war theory in political science, and the competing theories that analyse war. Consequently, it ...Open AccessThesis