Browsing by Supervisor "Simpson, Alan"
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The modern state and economic leadership: Canada, New Zealand and Australia’s trade and investment relations with Japan 1985-1998
(The University of Waikato, 1999)Governments around the world are preoccupied with the confusing, uncertain and often chaotic influences of an expanding free market economy, increased globalization, major attempts to deregulate national regulatory systems, ... -
Individualism and the public good: a case study in childhood immunisation
(The University of Waikato, 2000)The election of the Fourth Labour Government in July 1984 marked a turning point in New Zealand’s political economic history, ushering in the rise of the individualism which was fundamental to the prevailing philosophy of ... -
Islamism and Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East and North Africa
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This thesis analyses the impact of Islamism in the Middle East and North Africa. In the name of Islam, Islamist groups have embarked upon a path of violence and terrorism. The primary objective of the thesis is to critically ... -
Indonesia’s quest for peace and stability in South East Asia: a study of informal diplomacy in the second half of the Soeharto era (1985-1998)
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This study examines Indonesia’s use of informal diplomacy between 1985-1998, to further its interests for peace and stability in Southeast Asia. This study argues that the adoption of informal diplomacy was in response to ... -
Faith, politics and reconciliation: the Roman Catholic Church, New Zealand Maori and indigenous Australians
(The University of Waikato, 2003)The Roman Catholic Church claims from Jesus Christ a mission to teach consistently religious ideals in accordance with its understanding of God’s constant truth. These ideals include the belief that human creation in the ... -
In pursuit of development: Casinos and local government in Northern Thailand
(The University of Waikato, 2005)This thesis takes as it starting point the Government of Thailand Ninth National Economic and Social Development Plan (2002-2006). Among many provisions and proposals the Plan gives special emphasis to encouraging local ... -
Part of the problem and part of the solution? Non-state armed groups and humanitarian norms in Burma/Myanmar
(University of Waikato, 2016)Civil wars involving non-state armed groups in Burma have been driven by a complex mix of historical socio-political grievances and economic factors. The central government and its armed forces have conducted counterinsurgency ... -
A New Form of Authoritarianism? Rethinking Military Politics in Post-1999 Nigeria
(University of Waikato, 2015)Despite the vast research that has been done on the Nigerian military, virtually all of these studies have failed to critically examine the accepted role of the military in the democratising phase. This is important because ... -
Coping with Vulnerability: State Resilience to Armed Conflict in Guinea
(University of Waikato, 2014)The aim of this study is to explain why peace has prevailed in Guinea despite the presence of unfavourable conditions. Guinea exhibits many of the major risk factors commonly associated with the onset of civil war and/or ... -
The politics of local government and development in Sri Lanka: An analysis of the contribution of non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
(University of Waikato, 2014)Sri Lanka has inherited a unitary state structure and a highly centralised approach to government administration. Since independence in 1948, various proposals to restructure government, including decentralising powers to ... -
Transnational education and education sovereignty the Indonesia-US education relationship case study
(University of Waikato, 2014)This thesis examines the extent to which the educational sovereignty of a less developed state can be sustained when it considerably expands its involvement with transnational education. The thesis focuses on the case of ... -
International Climate Change Governance: Issues of Democracy, Institutions and the Media
(University of Waikato, 2014)The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was established in 1992 to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The ... -
Military Regimes, Political Power and Human Rights Violations in Postcolonial Algeria
(University of Waikato, 2014)Following Algeria’s bloody war of independence, a new, revolutionary military establishment gradually formed out of several largely independent revolutionary units, stationed mostly on Algeria’s borders. It soon expanded ... -
Decentralisation and Policy Implementation: Thai Development Plans and Subdistrict Administrative Organisation (SAO) in Chiang Rai
(University of Waikato, 2011)Moves to decentralise the government‘s administrative system has been one of the most important development issues in Thailand over the past two decades. These moves are seen most clearly in the establishment of the ... -
The Defence of Ethnic Identity in Malaysia
(University of Waikato, 2010)The changing dynamics of interstate conflict in the post-Cold War environment led scholars to debate the relevance of established security theory. While traditionalists maintained that the state-centric theory should retain ... -
A kind of democracy: Political domination in the problematic development
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis proposes to answer the question of how despite Cambodia having an election in 1993 in which the Cambodian people elected a government that adopted a constitution based on democratic principles, one party, the ... -
Blurring the Lines? International Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organisations and the Military use of Aid and Development in Afghanistan
(The University of Waikato, 2010)This thesis explores the theory that International Humanitarian Non-governmental Organisations (IHNGOs) have increasingly become part of the world-ordering security agenda of developed western states since the end of the ... -
Not a Fair Go: A History and Analysis of Social Credit's Struggle for Success in New Zealand's Electoral System
(The University of Waikato, 2010)This thesis is an examination of the main issues Social Credit contended with while trying to succeed in New Zealand politics. Its historical and political analysis is in the context of the electoral system. The first ...
