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Aboriginality, existing aboriginal rights and state accommodation in Canada
(2008-07-11)ABORIGINALITY, EXISTING ABORIGINAL RIGHTS AND STATE ACCOMMODATION IN CANADA: ABSTRACT The central focus of this dissertation is the relationship between aboriginality, aboriginal rights and state accommodation in Canada. ... -
Accommodating Muslim Minorities in Secular Societies: Public Education in England, Scotland, Ontario, and Quebec
(2016-10-07)Abstract This thesis examines one of the most sensitive challenges facing contemporary democracies: the accommodation of Muslim minorities in public institutions and services. It focuses on the field of education, and on ... -
Advocacy Under Authoritarianism: Transnational Networks in China
(2011-08-09)The standard theoretical account of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) is one of principled non-state actors remaking world politics by upsetting conventional notions of power in the international system. Relying on ... -
All Talk and No Action: International Norms and the Democratic Republic of Congo
(2009-09-18)In the decade from 1998 to 2008, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was witness to one of the most brutal violent conflicts in recent history. Crimes against humanity and large-scale violations of human rights occurred ... -
American Military Contractors and the Neoliberal Way of War
(2013-10-03)American Military Contractors and the Neoliberal Way of War explores the historical patterns of modern military contracting and its place in the political economy of American war. During the post-September 11 wars, contractors ... -
Australia’s Strategic Culture: An investigation of the concept of strategic culture and its application to the Australian case
(2011-09-15)The notion that each state in the international system approaches matters of war and peace somewhat differently because they each possess a unique strategic culture is not a new or obscure one – but it nevertheless remains ... -
Autocratization of Parliamentary Democracies: the Case of Hungary and Macedonia
In the last decade, the democratic failure that appeared in parliamentary democracies in parts of post-communist Europe defies earlier expectations about democratic consolidation in that region. This doctoral dissertation ... -
Beyond the Ethnonational Divide: Identity Politics and Women in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine
(2009-01-26)"Beyond the Ethnonational Divide: Identity Politics and Women in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine" is a comparative analysis of the conflict resolution processes and peace-building strategies employed in Northern ... -
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 ... -
Challenging the Civic Nation
(2012-11-27)This thesis is a critical examination of civic nationalism that focuses on the disconnect between nationalist ideology and the social bases of nationhood, and the implications that this disconnect has for the feasibility ... -
Constructing Democratic Space: Inclusion, Efficacy, and Protest in Deliberative Democratic Theory
(2008-12-01)This dissertation looks at the challenges that deliberative democratic theory encounters when it tries to offer a rich account of inclusion yet refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of external protest. While sympathetic ... -
Cross-Movement Coalitions and Sexuality Politics: How activists resist political homophobias in East Africa
Sexuality is part of what structures politics. States rely on reproduction to replicate their populations. How sexuality is regulated is political, and it should be considered in political science literature. In recent ... -
Deepening democracy and cultural context in the Republic of Mali, 1992-2002
(2007-10-11)This thesis challenges the view that the Republic of Mali is a model of democratization in Africa with the aim of opening the conceptual framework of democratic citizenship inherent in the democratization discourse to ... -
Devolution and Recentralization in the Canadian Immigration System: Theory, Causes, and Impacts
(2014-10-22)Despite being an area of constitutionally concurrent responsibility, immigration policy was almost completely dominated by the federal government for much of Canada's history. This changed initially in Quebec, where after ... -
Entrenched and (Un)spoken: Neoliberalism and Canadian Microfinance
(2014-09-23)This dissertation focuses on microfinance in the Canadian context. While heavily documented in regions of the global South, information on microfinance within Canada is limited. Two interconnected research objectives are ... -
Ethnic Affinity Voting in Canada
(2015-01-08)As immigration transforms the electorates of contemporary democracies, the political activity of newcomers will have increasingly powerful effects on political life. This thesis examines one important dimension of this ... -
Europe in Hard Times: Institutional Reconfiguration in the European Union since the 2008 Great Recession
The 2008 Great Recession was the trigger for the first real stress test of the European Monetary Union. The eurozone and the European Union were faced with a succession of three crises: financial, banking, and sovereign ... -
From Revelation to Revolution: Muhammad’s Deployment of Strategic Social Construction in Transforming the Ideational Structure of the Arabian Political System - 570 AD
(2015-02-17)There has been relatively little study of system change among scholars of international relations. Several academics have referred to the subject as the “evaded dimension” of IR. The reasons for the omission are complex ... -
A Genealogy of Contemporary Indianness: A Foucauldian Analysis of Identity and Society in Anti-Colonization Politics
This dissertation examines the discursive construction of Indigenous identity under the conditions of colonization on Turtle Island. I investigate how the colonial discourse on Indianness discursively produced Indigenous ...