Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by title
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The 2011-2012 Russian protests and the precedents of protest in post-Soviet Eurasia
Published 2012-01-01This study places the 2011-2012 Russian protests within the framework of Eurasian mass-civil mobilisation. Researchers have examined the shared and divergent properties of these events, commonly labelled „colour revolutions.‟ ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Addressing the Impacts of Red Meat Consumption: Lessons from Australia’s Tobacco Control Regime
Published 2019-01-07In spite of the negative impacts red meat consumption is having on public health and the environment, the issue is largely absent from environmental politics literature. This thesis will address this gap by considering ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Alien Agendas: A Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories Across Western States
Published 2019-01-07Conspiracy theories have been a topic of interest among academic and non-academic literature for decades. As of recently, the political implications of public conspiracism has begun to be taken seriously. Political science ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Altruism or Orientalism? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Australian representations of RAMSI
Published 2022-01-28The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) was Australian-led and largely Australian-funded, taking place over a 14-year window from 24 July 2003 to 30 June 2017. A mere few months beforehand, former Foreign ...Open AccessThesis -
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 -
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 -
Australian Financial Governance: The Power of The Australian Financial Industry Over Public Policy-Making In The Lead-Up To The Global Financial Crisis
Published 2012-01-01The recent Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has once again highlighted the significance of finance and the financial industry to modern economies, the societies they affect and the ability of governments to make autonomous ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
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 -
“Beyond Politics”? A Post-political Discourse Analysis of Extinction Rebellion
Published 2022-01-27Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a social movement committed to non-violent civil disobedience to persuade governments to act on climate change. As part of this aim, it approaches climate change as a non-partisan and unifying ...Open AccessThesis -
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, 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 -
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 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, 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 -
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 -
Coastal Communities and the Currents of Vulnerability: A novel approach to Australian sea level rise adaptation research
Published 2020-01-14Sea levels are rising at an unprecedented rate. Using a novel approach in Australian sea level rise (SLR) adaptation research, this Honours thesis uses three case studies in New South Wales - Botany Bay, Lake Macquarie and ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Cocaine crackdowns and criminal violence
Published 2019-01-07In the last decade, Colombia has seen improvement in the levels of violence and the stability of the state as a result of targeting illicit narcotics traffickers. In the same period, Mexico has seen an increase in violence ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Comparative Nationalism: Imperial Legacies and the Strength of Nationalism: The Case of China and India since the 1990s
Published 2012-01-01Since the 1990s, there have been strong displays of nationalism in China, while in India the once dominant ‘secular’ nationalism has been challenged by a fragmentation of national identity along ethno--‐religious lines. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Conservatism of Australian Foreign Policy: Australia, China, the United States, and the Hegemonic Crisis
Published 2024-02-28This thesis analyses the impact of historical and structural forces on the Australia-China relationship since 2011. After a steady period of deepening ties since the 1970s, largely driven by economic complementarities, ...Open AccessThesis -
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