Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Military, Inc. Private Military Companies And State-Centrism In International Relations.
Published 2012-01-01This study sheds light on the relationship between military privatisation and state-centrism in international relations. The growth of the private military industry has led many to consider the operational implications of ...Open AccessThesis -
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 -
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 -
Organised Crime and State Sovereignty - The conflict between the Mexican state and drug cartels 2006-2011
Published 2011-01-01Since December 2006, the government of Mexico has been embroiled in a battle against numerous criminal organisations seeking to control territory and assure continued flow of revenue through the production and trafficking ...Open AccessThesis -
Illicit Narcotic Economies and State Fragmentation: Colombia and Afghanistan
Published 2011-01-01This thesis argues that the illicit narcotics economy in Afghanistan and Colombia is the central force fragmenting state power through two main processes of internal regression and external attack. Internal regression ...Open AccessThesis