Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 ...Open AccessThesis -
A very English Brexit: A comparative analysis of the immigration debate in the news media of the four UK nations
Published 2019-01-07This thesis compares the immigration discourses in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland during Britain’s EU referendum. It has been speculated that immigration was influential in the decision to leave the European ...Open AccessThesis -
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 -
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 -
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