Government and International Relations: Recent submissions
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Ministerial Advisers: How Ministers Shape Their Conduct – A Study of Ministers and Advisers in the Rudd Government
Published 2012Ministerial advisers have become part of the standard advisory arrangements in Westminster governments, yet there is disagreement about their roles and behaviour. In Australia, some academic work has considered their ...Open AccessThesis -
The Banality of Arcadia
Published 2012-01-01Flags are highly valued – flown at sporting events, in war and even placed on the moon – but, nevertheless, are under-researched as symbolic devices. This thesis employs and extends Michael Billig’s Banal Nationalism theory ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Foundation and Composition of Egypt's Role in the Arab World
Published 2012-01-01The choice of topic “The Foundation and Composition of Egypt’s Role in the Arab World” is not purely out of interest. It rises out of the abundance of literature and discourse that places Egypt at the centre of the Arab ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
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, Honours -
Taiwan’s Changing Economic Policymaking towards China:
Published 2012-01-01The central question this thesis seeks to answer is: why has there been a change in Taiwan’s economic policymaking towards China since the 1990s. The study looks at this changing relationship through the lenses of two ...Open AccessThesis, Honours