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Genocide Spotting: Between Recognition and Prosecution
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-03)This thesis delves into the challenges of identifying and proving genocide in a court of law, using Bosnia as a case study. Genocide, considered one of the most atrocious human rights violations, involves the deliberate ... -
The Global Fight Against HIV/AIDS: Has the United Nations Successfully Securitized HIV/AIDS?
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-05)HIV/AIDS is an urgent health issue in many areas of the world, particularly in Africa. In addition to reaching pandemic status, HIV/AIDS is also being elevated to the level of a security threat. While this is occurring ... -
Globalising the classical foundations of IPE thought*
(Contexto Internacional, 2015-06-09)Current efforts to teach and research the historical foundations of IPE thought in classical political economy in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries centre largely on European and American thinkers. If a more extensive ... -
Governing International Securities Markets: IOSCO and the Politics of International Securities Market Standards
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-26)What explains the creation and strengthening of international securities market standards through the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)? This thesis addresses this question by analyzing the ... -
Healthy Competition: Federalism and Environmental Impact Assessment in Canada - 1985-1995
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The effect of federalism on the development of public policy is a widely debated topic. In terms of environmental policy, this issue assumes greater importance because of the lack of clarity in the constitutional division ... -
Hobbes' foundation for peace and property
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)I defend Hobbes’ foundation for peace and property. His foundation for peace and property is his major argument for why society’s moral order (i.e. collection of rules of interaction) should be based on the principles of ... -
India and the Neglected Development Dimensions of Bretton Woods
(2015-07-18)This paper helps correct two common misconceptions about the origins of the Bretton Woods institutions. The first is that the negotiations were primarily an Anglo-American affair in which developing countries had little ... -
The Limits of Incrementalism: The G20, the FSB, and the International Regulatory Agenda
(De Gruyter, 2012-01)At their very first summit in Washington in November 2008, the G20 leaders placed the reform of international financial regulation at the core of their agenda. The issue has retained a central place in discussions and ... -
Local Governments and Policy Responses:The Case of Shifang Protest
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Most research on Chinese protests’ outcomes focuses on aspects such as the strength, resources, and strategy choices of these protests. Although studies on Chinese contentious politics have taken great consideration of the ... -
Manifesting Belief in Canadian Law: What is 'Freedom of Conscience'?
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-19)Of all the freedoms articulated within the Canadian Charter, the least defined continues to be freedom of conscience. Discussions of this freedom within the secondary literature have been relatively superficial, and, to ... -
The Micro Processes of International Norm Diffusion: The Case of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-08)The Geneva Conventions of the late 19th century began the pursuit of enshrining necessary human security and human rights standards in international law. Through continuous learning, international actors have expanded the ... -
National Interests and International Consensus: The Case for a Human Rights Approach to Canadian Foreign Policy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)The inclusion of human rights in Canadian foreign policy is typically rationalized as corresponding to the fundamental Canadian value of respect for human rights; however, Canada’s limited appeals to human rights, couched ... -
NATO’s Out of Area Norm from Suez to Afghanistan
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)The Atlantic community shares more than just dependable expectations of peaceful change. Its members also share a reflexive political community they sense is worth preserving and a view that their security is intertwined. ... -
The NDP and the Third Party Curse in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-05)This thesis evaluates the position of the NDP as Canada’s third party in federal electoral politics. It analyzes three external factors, the electoral system, the party finance system and the effects of voter behaviour and ... -
Nordic Interventions in African Sustainable Water Development: Addressing Participation Deficits as a Primary Success Factor
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-29)Aligning with the beginning of a new sustainable development paradigm in 2000 and the introduction of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, the international community has developed more collaborative ... -
Paradiplomatic policing and relocating Canadian foreign policy
(Sage, 2014-03-12)Even though they claim to recognize that the boundaries between domestic and international security have eroded, scholars of Canadian paradiplomacy have tended to ignore the security-oriented paradiplomatic activities ... -
Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Foundations, Developments, and Limits
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-15)A lack of historical perspective sustained the widespread view that participatory initiatives in Brazil represented a marked rupture from traditional forms of political engagement to radically new democratic practices. ... -
THE POLITICS OF CANADIAN AID TO THE COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN
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Politics of Fear: Unitary Bias of a Federal Design in Nepal
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)This thesis explores the reasons that have led the framers of the constitution to centralize powers in the federal government of Nepal, despite claims for accommodation by its minority groups. It contends that the centralized ... -
Privatizing Security, Securitizing Policing: The Case of the G20 in Toronto, Canada
(Wiley, 2014-06)Allegations of police brutality, unlawful detention, and other breaches of civil liberties during the G20 in Toronto in June 2010 provide an important case through which to understand the changing nature of security and ...