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Implanting of an Ideology: Television, Politics, and the Making of the Hindu Right in Contemporary India
Similar to developments in many parts of the world, in India, right-wing Hindu nationalists have appeared as a powerful group, shaping the ideological discourse and successfully capturing state power under Prime Minister ... -
Tracking Transnational Terrorist Resourcing Nodes and Networks
(Florida State University College of Law, 2019)In light of persistent terrorist attacks in Europe and elsewhere, the study of terrorist resourcing and financing has attracted renewed attention. How are terrorists’ networks financed? Who raises the financial “resources,” ... -
Political Demography as an Indicator of the Future of Security
(Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2020)Throughout history, the ebb and flow of populations—through natural growth, epidemics, and migration—has been linked to the rise and fall of empires, to conquests and revolutions, rebellion, civil war, and the rise and ... -
New Opportunities in Common Security and Defence Policy: Joining PESCO
(European Studies Association Australia and New Zealand, 2019)Responding to concerns about burden-sharing and aiming to improve internal defence cooperation, act more quickly and harness resource synergies, the European Union (EU) initiated the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) ... -
Governing Urban Flooding in Global Capitalism: The Relational International Political Economy and Environment of Climate Resilience in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Dhaka, Bangladesh
This dissertation examines climate resilience policies as a form of flood control in two cities: Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Dhaka, Bangladesh. I situate my examination of resilience within the subnational, national and ... -
Big Fish in a Big Pond: How Governments, Companies, and International Stakeholders Influence Corporate Social Responsibility
The international mining sector is constantly scrutinized because of its impact on social and environment issues. Stakeholders interested in improving the social conduct of mining companies have looked towards the development ... -
The Art of War Games: The Political Effects of Military Exercises in Europe, 1975-2018
Military exercises represented a noteworthy facet of Cold War security competition in Europe and, although the Cold War is over, the renewed proliferation of exercises has contributed to the increasingly strained relationship ... -
Tribunals, Trials, and Tribulations: The Impact of Administrative Law on Religious Freedom in the Supreme Court of Canada
Since the introduction of the Charter in 1982, the interactions between law and politics have become an increasingly important consideration in Canadian political science. The literature has focused primarily on how the ... -
Are Her Boots on the Ground? Women’s Deployment on NATO-led Operations
While women’s representation in many western military forces is increasing, the composition of troop contributions to NATO-led operations is not following suit, despite policy commitments acknowledging the importance of ... -
Central Party Authority and Constituency Campaign Discipline in Canadian Federal Elections
Canadian political parties are known for their centralized power and strong party discipline (Godbout 2020; Marland 2020; Savoie 1999; 2019). However, there are conflicting expectations for how these tendencies are reflected ... -
The enhanced Forward Presence: innovating NATO's deployment model for collective defence
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Handing Over The Keys: Intergenerational Legacies of Carceral Policy in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
The impacts of criminalisation and imprisonment are felt throughout generations. Indigenous communities experience confinement on a hyper scale in countries that continue to grapple with colonial legacies, including Canada, ... -
Institutional Feedback and Coalition Politics: The Case of School Choice Policies in Advanced Democracies
This dissertation seeks to identify the political forces that have driven the shift towards school choice in advanced democracies and to explain the variation in policy outcomes observable in these countries. To do so, it ... -
Neoliberal Pressures, Neoliberal Responses: The Strategic Utilization of Gender in the Canadian Settlement Sector and Implications for Immigrant Women’s Service Organizations
This dissertation examines the effects of neoliberalism within immigrant women’s service organizations and the delivery of gender-specific programs in the Canadian settlement sector. The influence of neoliberalism within ... -
The Polysemy of Security Community-Building: Toward a “People-Centered” Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?
(Oxford University Press, 2020-06-17)This article contributes to ongoing debates on security community-building in international relations (IR) by focusing on the productive role of discursive contestation in this process. It builds on recent work associated ... -
THE MAKING OF MINORITY POLICIES IN NATIONALIZING STATES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ESTONIA AND ISRAEL
Why do nationalizing states, committed to preferential treatment of the dominant nation within the state, vary in their treatment of ethnic minorities? Why do some nationalizing states choose to simultaneously provide a ... -
Political Obligation and Collective Self-determination: An Associative Account
This thesis is concerned with the special duties and group rights that the citizens of a state may have. It develops an associative account that relates the idea of associative duty to both political obligation and collective ... -
Ruling Islamists’ Approaches to Minorities in Sudan and Turkey
Ruling Islamists’ interactions with ethnic minorities have been largely understudied and undertheorized. This research study examines ruling Islamists’ treatment of minorities, asking two questions. The first question is ... -
The Island on the Hill: A Kingdonian Analysis of Congressional Decision-Making on the Puerto Rican Question
The two-fold purpose of the thesis is to: (1) advance a theoretical contribution to the study of congressional agenda-setting, and (2) add to the literature on Puerto Rican status politics. In the field of public policy, ... -
Business, Security and Human Rights: Governance Insights from Canadian Transnational Mining Firms in Ghana and South Africa
Over the last two decades, we have seen the proliferation of nonstate actors such as transnational corporations (TNCs) on the global stage. Despite evidence pointing to the socio-economic contributions of TNCs, there have ...
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