Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
Parables Of Mass Atrocity: A Comparative Analysis Of The Nigerian And Liberian
Published 2012-01-01In the aftermath of conflict, the demand for societies to acknowledge the existence and impact of political violence has instigated creative policy developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Truth and ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Harm of a Label: The effect of Party Affiliation upon Criminal Sentencing in the United States
Published 2012-01-01This thesis examines why sentencing disparity between partisan elected and non-partisan elected judiciaries exists. I contend that partisan elected judiciaries produce harsher sentences. The theoretical reasoning provided, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Identity and Interests: Understanding the Meltdown in Israeli-Turkish Relations 2002-2012
Published 2012-01-01The recent deterioration of the strong bilateral alliance between Israel and Turkey has significant affects on the balance of power within the Middle East. As such, it is important that scholars determine why this meltdown ...Open AccessThesis, Honours