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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 ... -
Profiling Municipal Decision Agendas: A Pilot Study of Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-24)Canadian local governments have been consistently described as having a relatively limited role in policymaking. It has been argued in the local government literature that municipalities abide by the mandate imposed by ... -
Progress or the Status Quo? Systems-thinking and Targeted Practice in Development
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-14)The policy space in which development happens spans the globe and innumerable contexts depending on the geographical, cultural, or normative scope of the intervention. Taking the complexity of the policy space, the agents ... -
Protest for New Protocols: What the Debate on the Duty to Consult Says about the State of Indigenous-settler Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Indigenous-settler relationships in Canada are grounded in constitutional obligations. When actors dispute the terms of Indigenous-settler relationships, these actors are seeking to change the nature and scope of existing ... -
Representations of Violent Women in Popular Culture and World Politics: The Mothers, Monsters, Whores, and Penitents of Young Adult Fantasy
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-21)As young adult fiction has surged in popularity over the past decade, a popular new sub-genre has emerged. These novels feature high-fantasy stories with young female heroines who are fighters, assassins, spies, and rebel ... -
The Single-Member Plurality and Mixed-Member Proportional Electoral Systems: Different Concepts of an Election
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The thesis is an analysis of the different concepts of an election reflected in the single-member plurality (SMP) electoral system and the mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system. These different concepts reflect ... -
Standards for the control of algorithmic bias in the Canadian administrative context
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-30)Governments around the world use machine learning in automated decision-making systems for a broad range of functions, including the administration and delivery of healthcare services, education, housing benefits; for ... -
Stuck Watching the Skies: What Alien Invasion Films can tell us about Challenges to Hegemonic Authority
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)This project analyzes two sets of alien invasion films to understand lay opinions on hegemonic authority. It defines hegemonic authority along two major lines: neo-Gramscian hegemony and hegemonic stability theory. The ... -
A Study of Middle Power Diplomacy : as a Strategy of Leadership and Influence
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-08)The main goal of this research is to clarify the concept of “middle power” and to employ the idea to understand the diplomatic strategies that allow so called secondary powers, which are countries without substantial ... -
Understanding Socio-Political Impact of Urbanization in Tehran
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-30)Urbanization is a growing concern around the world, but perhaps the threat of unruly urbanization is nowhere as great as it is in the Middle East. While there is a growing body of literature focusing on the environmental ... -
Veterans and military masculinity in popular romance fiction
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Although popular culture has become an important area of study in international relations, few scholars so far have turned their attention to popular romance fiction, despite its popularity among readers. Through an analysis ... -
A Vicious Cycle: An Examination of How the Feedback Loop Between Coup-proofing and Regime Insecurity Helped Facilitate the Rise of Pro-Government Militias in the Syrian Conflict
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-16)This thesis explores the emergence of pro-government militias (PGMs) within the context of the post-2011 intrastate conflict in Syria. It investigates the factors that contributed to the breakdown of Syria’s armed forces ... -
Was Bretton Woods Working for the Common Good? Mexico's Advocacy to Consider the Human Implications of the International Monetary and Financial Systems at the Bretton Woods Conference
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-01)This research develops a critical reframing that locates Mexico’s articulation for a fairer, more inclusive, and more sustainable approach to the international economic system at the Bretton Woods Conference. This summit ... -
Western European Arms Export and Asylum Immigration: A Connection? On the Determinants of Asylum Immigration to Western Europe
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-25)My contribution is focused to a modest framework creation for asylum-immigration theory. By means of arms-export data from 17 Western European countries, tested against inflow of asylum seekers to these countries, covering ...