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Ontological Security and Status-Seeking: Thailand's Proactive Behaviours during the Second World War
(2018-11-24)The puzzle that drives this study is why Thailand pursued a proactive foreign policy towards greater powers during the Second World War. The main literature on Thai foreign policy-making generally suggests that Thailand ... -
The Politics of Bread: State Power, Food Subsidies and Neoliberalization in Hashemite Jordan
(2018-07-20)This dissertation examines the bread subsidy in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It scrutinizes the socio-political conflicts that surround this policy, the spatial practices that subsume it and the ways in which it is ... -
Politics of Parity: Gendering the Tunisian Second Republic, 2011-2014
(2018-11-24)POLITICS OF PARITY: GENDERING THE TUNISIAN SECOND REPUBLIC, 2011-2014 Zoe Petkanas This dissertation explores the role of female political actors in the gendered rebuilding of Tunisia’s post-Ben Ali political infrastructure ... -
The Politics of Stigmatization: Poland as a ‘Latecomer’ in the European Union
(2018-07-20)The accession into NATO and the EU, from the perspective of the new Central and Eastern European members, symbolized their ‘return to Europe’. However, as the former outsiders have become insiders, they have become subjected ...
