Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 ...Thesis, Honours -
‘Equal Participation of All’: A study of environmental justice and vulnerability in the Resilient Melbourne and Resilient Sydney Strategies
Published 2019-01-07‘Resilient Melbourne’ (RM) and ‘Resilient Sydney’ (RS) are City Resilience Strategies (100RC, 2017) developed to prepare cities for climate change impacts and other ‘shocks’ and ‘stresses’. Through an environmental justice ...Thesis, Honours -
The Facebook Formula: An experimental study into which electioneering strategies used over Facebook are most effective at influencing the Australian youth vote.
Published 2019-01-07Facebook is rapidly changing Australia’s political media landscape. Young voters’ growing reliance on Facebook for the consumption of political news has corresponded with politicians’ increasingly prudent use of social ...Thesis, 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 ...Thesis, Honours -
Unresolved Sovereignty: The Origins of European Union Crisis, 1950 – 1953
Published 2019-01-07The dissertation identifies and analyses the origins of the present crises afflicting the European Union. It examines the Schuman Plan Conference of 1950-51 and the European Coal and Steel Community that provided the ...Thesis, Honours