Current PhD candidates
Aflah Al-Harrasi
The role of sociocultural dynamics in the rise and the fall of Oman’s Imamate (1913–1959)
Sumaiya Alwahaibi
The New State-Society Relations: The Dynamics of Gendered Politics in Oman
Omotola Amusan
Evaluating China’s geo-economic strategy
Rachel Billington
Identity, affect and recognition online: Finding belonging in virtual publics. A study of young New Zealanders
Elle Dibrova
You don’t belong here: othering of LGBT+ people as a part of hegemonic national identity in contemporary Russia
Danella Glass
Rival Transnational Normative Networks and their influence on Sexual and Reproductive Normative Institutionalisation and Habitualisation in Uganda
Mhd Hosam Hafez
The interactional political aspects of the Syrian crisis
Onat Isik
To what extent strategic culture affected Putin's conservative turn
Joshua James
Why do queer people support far-right political movements?
Eeva Kilk
How have ICTs fostered the democratization process in Eastern Europe: Case studies of Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus
Kina Kunz
Decision-making in Japan and South Korea: The rise of China
Geoffrey Miller
New Zealand's relations with the Gulf since 9/11
Hizkia Respatiadi
Explaining Indonesia’s Food Trade Policy: The Tension between Free Trade and Self-Sufficiency
Michael Swanson
The Opposition in New Zealand's Political System
Okan Tan
Turkey’s “state of exception”: Constitutional Politics in the Era of Populism
Jessica Valisa
Pro-Russian Discourse of the Italian Far-Right Online. A Case Study of the Reception of Authoritarian State-Led Strategic Narratives
Heloise Vertadier
The future of the law and governance for space settlements
Ryan Webb
Still prevailing in the post-cold war era? Clausewitz's Trinity of War in modern times and the conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
Kulani Wijayabahu
Agency and Asymmetry: Belt Road Initiative and China’s relations with Malaysia, Myanmar and Sri Lanka
Dmitry Zavialov
Modes of Argument in International Politics
Current MA students
Morgan Edwards
Political Economy
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) graduates
2022
Carmen Fulco
Change Capacity and the Organised Islāmiyyūn: A comparative Case of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and al-Nahda's Organisational Dynamics in the Post-Uprisings Period (2011–2020)
Peter Grace
The Intel Intellectuals. How social scientists helped legitimise the Central Intelligence Agency. 1950–1953
William Marti
American foreign policy power in the post-cold war era: The experience of the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations
Phuong H Vu
Authoritarian audience costs, protests and signalling resolve
2020
Annisa Sidi – Thesis recognised by the Division of Humanities as being of exceptional quality
Unity and diversity: National identity and multiculturalism in Indonesia 2020
László Szöllősi-Cira
Normative Foreign Policy – The Kiwi Way: To What Extent Has New Zealand Been Acting as Norm Entrepreneur in the Areas of Nuclear Free Policy and Promoting Free Trade? 2020
Paul Winter
Atomic reactions: How and why states respond to nuclear proliferation
2019
Can Cinar
Debt and default from a post-Keynesian perspective: a historical case study of the Argentine puzzle
2018
Olumuyiwa Amao
From Freetown to Kinshasa: Reassessing Nigeria and South Africa’s Foreign Policy Behaviour and Conflict Intervention Roles in Africa
Carolijn van Noort
The Strategic Narratives of the BRICS: A Coherent Story?
2017
Darryn Russell
Contemporary Rangatiratanga: Do Treaty settlements enable rangatira to exercise rangatiratanga?
Nilay Baycar
Democratisation Progress in Turkey Under the Justice and Development Party 2002 to 2014
Luca J Uberti – Thesis recognised by the Division of Humanities as being of exceptional quality
Good Governance, Corruption and Growth: A Political Economy of Post-Socialist Industrial Transformation in Albania and Kosovo, 1998–2015
Nutthathirataa Withitwinyuchon (Jib)
The Trials of Rivalry: Sino-Japanese Relations since the 1910s
Tim Ferner
Making Government Accountable: The Case of Whistle-Blowing in the United States Department of Defense
Eduardo Abou Ltaif
The Development of Consociational Politics in Lebanon 1825–2015
2016
Ashley Murchison
Aim for the heart? A study of New Zealand voters’ responses to emotional appeals in televised political advertising
2015
Laura Southgate
ASEAN and the Sovereignty Principle: Explaining the Dynamics of Resistance to Sovereignty Violation
Tadashi Iwami
Japan’s Identity in International Society: Constructing Identity as a ‘Peacebuilding State’
Anthony Deos
Digital Diplomacy & Social Capital: Analysing Relational Components of Trust in US & Israeli Online Social Networks
2014
Huseyn Aliyev
The Soviet Legacy and Post‐Communist Civil Society in the Caucasus
2013
Maria Pozza
The International Law and Policy of Outer Space: A New Perspective on Arms Control
Penelope Hayes
The Fifth Labour Government’s Growth and Innovation Framework 1999–2006: A Critical Analysis and Evaluation
2012
Joe Burton
NATO after the Cold War: explaining the durability of the Atlantic Alliance in a new global context
Leon Goldsmith
The Politics of Sectarian Insecurity: Alawite 'Asabiyya and the Rise and Decline of the Asad Dynasty of Syria
Onur Oktem
Water Politics and Political Culture: Turkey's Compatibility with the European Union
Reuben Steff
Deterrence, global security and the long road to the deployment of the Bush administration’s missile defence system
Glen Hazelton
Regime Transition and Foreign Policy: The Case of Russia's Approach to Central Asia (1991–2008)
Master of Arts (MA) graduates
2020
Joshua Ferrer
The Effects of Proportional Representation on Election Lawmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand (with Law)
Joshua James
Understanding the ‘Pink’ vote in Aotearoa (with Gender Studies)
2019
2018
Rebecca Logan
United In Diversity? Immigration and Opposition to European Integration
Sam McChesney
Eclipse of Courage: Technical Reason and the Limits of Self-Affirming Bravery
Ruby O’Connor
The Role of Ideological Conflict within the Australian Asylum Seeker Debate: A Critical Analysis
2017
John Bailey
The balance of vulnerability and the distribution of fear in East Asia
Joerg Bendt
The Post-Politics of the 2014 New Zealand General Election: A Symptomatic Discourse Analysis
2016
Stevie Jepson
Reclaiming utopia and the political imagination: Revisiting Firestone’s dialectics of sex
Amee Parker
Democratic Theory and Democratic Education: A New Zealand Case Study
Matthew Stansfield
Justifying RAMSI: Geopolitical reasoning, security and New Zealand’s involvement in the Solomon Islands conflict
2015
Ben Loughrey-Webb
The Welfare Reforms of the Fourth (1990-99) and Fifth (2008–14) National Governments: A Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Sandeep Singh
The Role of Identity in India’s Expanding Naval Power
2014
Juana Diesing
Social Media: a solution to declining youth engagement in politics?
Amy Lewis
A fractured identity, a fractured democracy: the national facet of Ukraine’s transition
Nicolas Pirsoul
The Mapuche Struggle for/of Recognition, Identity and Self-Determination in Chile
2013
David Cooper
Rating Equity in New Zealand’s Local Government
2012
Christopher Ford (with History)
High on Aspiration, Low on Implementation: The development and implementation of the New Zealand Disability Strategy
Albert Green
Chipped Jade: Political problems of the Dunedin Town Belt 1900–2010
Elizabeth Soal
The Global Financial Crisis and the Problem of Unemployment: A Regulationist Approach
