Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by publication year
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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, Honours -
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, Honours -
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, Honours -
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, Honours -
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, Honours -
Filling the Void: Hizbullah's State Building in Lebanon
Published 2007-12-21Abstract Hizbullah is a militarised sub-state group that challenges Lebanon's authority by establishing a parallel power-structure within the state. This thesis argues that the failure of the Lebanese government to provide ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Gathering Storm: Structuring More Successful Responses to Disasters
Published 2007-12-21Abstract The period between 1992 and 2005 was turbulent for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Failed responses to Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina resulted in academics questioning the efficacy of FEMA’s structure ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Women and Work in Contemporary Japan: Deconstructing the "Crisis" of the Gender Order
Published 2007-12-21ABSTRACT The 1990s saw important developments in the employment practices of Japanese women as necessitated by economic recession. Japanese women are increasingly postponing their traditional roles of wife and mother in ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
"Dangerously Radical?" - Explaining the position of the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan in Post Taliban Afghanistan
Published 2007-12-21ABSTRACT The Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan is an organisation that provides a fascinating insight into understandings of gender, national identity and universal human rights. In its construction of a ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Gendering the Agenda - Discursive Constructions of Gender within the Security Council’s ‘Women, Peace and Security’ Agenda
Published 2010-01-01In 2000, the adoption of Security Council resolution 1325 on the issue of ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS) heralded the Council’s adoption of a new gender-sensitive approach to security. While an extensive literature has ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
BP in Papua: A chance for development or the return of the resource curse?
Published 2010-01-01This study focuses on explaining the absence of violent conflict, a symptom associated with the „resource curse‟, in resource extraction projects in volatile and resource dependent regions. An institutionalist approach is ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Seas of Change - The Effects of China's Naval Modernisation on Southeast Asia.
Published 2011-01-01China‘s naval modernisation and assertiveness in the South China Seas (SCS) is causing major concerns for Southeast Asia. While substantial scholarship documents how Southeast Asian states have employed a ‗hedging‘ strategy, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Contemporary Russian Identity and the Soviet Union: Continuity and Confrontation
Published 2011-01-01Over the two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian society has continued to rely upon Soviet history for national pride and identification. Critics have voiced concerns over this reliance, arguing that the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Bush Level Bureaucrats - National Parks Rangers’ Use of Discretion in Implementing Wild Dog Policy
Published 2011-01-01Wild Dog policy in New South Wales is controversial. There is a clear conflict between wild dog control methods as specified by the policy, and the need to conserve the rapidly diminishing numbers of dingoes in Australian ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Politics of Nostalgia and Its Discontents: An Intensive Case Study of the Tea Party Social Movement in the United States of America
Published 2011-01-01The focus of the thesis is an intensive case study of the processes accompanying the mobilisation and growth of the social movement known as the Tea Party in the United States of America. The thesis is grounded in an ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Identity Politics - A Case Study of Afghanistan
Published 2011-01-01Identity politics is a complex concept. However, it is rarely studied in the context of weak non-Western states. This study seeks to study identity politics in Afghanistan with a focus on ethnic and sectarian identities. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Citizenship Status and Pressure Group Action
Published 2011-01-01This thesis investigates the intersection between citizenship status and pressure group action. It asks a two-pronged question. First, does variation in citizenship status (to be citizen or noncitizen) produce variation ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
American Knowledge and Ignorance In Comparative Perspective
Published 2011-01-01How does foreign affairs knowledge in America compare cross-nationally? Are Americans really as ignorant as commentators and scholars suggest? Despite the interest in the topic, there are surprisingly few serious works of ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Riots in Lyon and Oldham: A comparative study
Published 2011-01-01In recent years both Britain and France have witnessed riots by ethnic minority youth. This thesis will conduct a comparative study into the riots which broke out in Oldham in 2001 and Lyon in 2005. This is guided by two ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
China’s Rule of Law is Australia’s Business
Published 2011-01-01The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of China’s rule of law, in the context of commercial corruption, on the Australia-China business relationship. This paper involves the analysis of three separate ...Open AccessThesis, Honours