Name
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Defended
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Thesis Title
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Thesis Supervisor
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| Biqi Yan |
September 2024 |
Facing the Artillery of Free Trade: How Japan and China Responded to US Trade Pressure |
Jeremy Paltiel |
| Yili Zhou |
September 2024 |
Headbanging on the Open Door: heavy metal music, globalization, and politics in contemporary China |
Jeremy Paltiel |
| Kiernan McClelland |
September 2024 |
Third Place in the Space Race: Securitizing Rhetoric, the Logic of Threat, and the Securitization of the Canadian Civil Space Program |
Elinor Sloan |
| Deo Mwapinga |
September 2024 |
The Politics of Citizenship as a Durable Solution for Refugees in Tanzania: A Comparative Case Study of Naturalization of the Rwandese Refugees (1980-1995) and Burundian Refugees (2008-2023) |
James Milner |
| Lindsay Robinson |
July 2024 |
Empowering Teenage Girls to Save the Planet? Idealized Girlhood, Green Girl Power, and the ‘Girling of Climate Change’ |
Fiona Robinson |
| Alisson Levesque |
April 2024 |
Personalized Politics as a Communication Strategy: Exploring the Effect of Meso-Level Variables on Online Partisan Communications in Canada |
William Cross |
| James Patriquin |
March 2024 |
The Technologies of Global Governance: Money, Finance, and Power in the Era of Digital Currency |
Randall Germain |
| Godfrey Nkongolo |
January 2024 |
Citizens’ Empowerment through NGOs and their Participation in Local Governance in Tanzania |
Shireen Hassim |
| William Little |
January 2024 |
Reason, Hierarchy, and Political Stability in the English Enlightenment |
Marc Hanvelt |
| Taylor Green |
September 2023 |
Technological Modernity: A Study of Hegel and Heidegger on the Mastery of Nature |
Waller R. Newell |
| Louise Cockram |
August 2023 |
A Process, not just an Event: MP Orientation and Representational Styles and Focus in Canada and the UK |
Jonathan Malloy |
| Wenjing Gao |
May 2023 |
Encountering the BRI: India’s Pride and Prejudice? |
Jeremy Paltiel |
| Amanda Shankland |
April 2023 |
Cultivating Community: A Discursive Study of Environmental Water Policy in Farming Communities in the Murray-Darling Basin |
Peter Andrée |
| Akaysha Humniski |
September 2022 |
Gender Equality Mythologized? Depoliticization, Discourse, and Policymaking in a Post-Crisis European Union |
Achim Hurrelmann |
| Robin Currie-Wood |
September 2022 |
Re-Examining the Distribution of Decision-Making Power Within Canadian Political Parties |
William Cross |
| Victoria Tait |
May 2022 |
Backtalk: Implementing United National Security Council Rsoluation 1325 in the Canadian Armed Forces |
Melissa Haussman |
| Ethan Gao |
April 2022 |
The dialectic of logos and eros: Plato’s display of rhetoric in the Phaedrus and the Symposium |
Geoffrey Kellow |
| Barbra Chimhandamba |
January 2022 |
Celebrity Humanitarianism, Philanthropy and the Politics of Development in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Fiona Robinson |
| Blake Barkley |
January 2022 |
Revisiting the Politics of Asylum in Africa: Explaining Kenya’s Sub-National Policy Variation |
James Milner |
| Robin Varma |
November 2021 |
Ruling Bodies: On Coercion in the Statecraft of Plato |
Waller Newell |
| Federman Rodriguez |
September 2021 |
Why Different Powers Behave Similarly: A Neoclassical Realist Approach to American and Canadian Engagements in Afghanistan (2001-2014) |
Brian Schmidt |
| Rumbidzai Chimhanda |
September 2021 |
Diasporic Experiences of Everyday Multiculturalism: Navigating Race and Space Through African Women’s Beauty Practices |
Gopika Solanki |
| Gabrielle Sutherland |
September 2021 |
Pathways from the Semi-Periphery: The Cases of Japan (1853-1905) and Tonga (1770-1900) in the Modern World System |
Randall Germain |
| Noah Schwartz |
March 2021 |
Quick Draw History – the NRA, the Politics of Memory & the Great Gun Debate |
Mira Sucharov |
| Adazeh Momeni |
June 2021 |
The Role of Khatami’s Belief System in Changing Iranian Foreign Policy from 1997 to 2005 |
Farhang Rajaee |
| Wesley Petite |
January 2021 |
Resident Inclusion in the Age of Participation: A Study of Toronto’s Participatory Budgeting Pilot Project 2015-2017 |
Randall Germain |
| Lena Saleh |
December 2020 |
The Politics of Arab Pop: Arab Pop Music, Popular Culture, and Gender Norms in Lebanon |
Mira Sucharov |
| Stephen Smith |
October 2020 |
World Order with Chinese Characteristics |
Jeremy Paltiel |
| Sacha Ghandeharian |
August 2020 |
Navigating the Void: Subjectivity and Contemporary Critical Theory |
Fiona Robinson |
| Maggie FitzGerald |
August 2020 |
Pluriversality and Care: Rethinking Global Ethics |
Fiona Robinson |
| Dunja Apostolov-Dimitrijevic |
July 2020 |
Mapping the Global Balkans: The Governmentalities and Practices of Emerging Economy and EU Encounters in Serbia |
Hans-Martin Jaeger |
| Steven Orr |
April 2020 |
As the Planet Lost Its Orbit: The Myth of the Death of Political Philosophy |
Marc Hanvelt |
| Patrick Clark |
November 2019 |
Campesino Organizations and Public Policies in Ecuador: From Neoliberal to PostNeoliberal Rural Development, 2006-2016 |
Laura Macdonald |
| Viktoriya Thomson |
December 2018 |
From the Orange Revolution to Euromaidan? Political Culture of Ukrainian Society from 2004 to 2014 |
Andrea Chandler |
| Anna Gora |
October 2018 |
Irish Citizens and the Media During the Euro Crisis: An Inter-Arena Approach to Studying the Politicization of the EU |
Achim Hurrelmann |
| Tyler Chamberlain |
May 2018 |
Clarifying the Conflict Between Modern Science and Natural Right |
Waller Newell |
| Josée Bolduc |
April 2018 |
Disclosing the Tacit Identity in Majority Cultures |
Farhang Rajaee |
| Said Yaqub Ibrahimi |
March 2018 |
State Fragility and International Security: The Rise of Salafi-Jihadi Groups in a World of Fragile States |
Elinor Sloan |
| Megan Pickup |
January 2018 |
An emerging, post-neoliberal power: The practice of Brazilian South-South Cooperation in Haiti |
Laura Macdonald |
| Janice Freamo |
December 2017 |
Google, Grandfathers and God(s): Nietzsche and Plato on Ancestral Authority |
Tom Darby |
| Matthew Thompson |
December 2017 |
Maintaining Party Unity: Analyzing the Conservative Party of Canada’s Integration of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties |
William Cross |
| Jeffrey Collins |
December 2017 |
Executive (In) Decision? Explaining Delays in Canada’s Defence Procurement System, 2006-2015 |
Elinor Sloan |
| Christopher Miller |
November 2017 |
Testing the boundaries of employer-driven agricultural migration: privatization and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, 2002-2011 |
Christina Gabriel |
| Eric Van Rythoven |
September 2017 |
The Fragility of Fear: the Contentious Politics of Emotion and Security in Canada |
Mira Sucharov |
| Michael Spacek |
September 2017 |
Mao in the Land of Nehru: State and Insurgent Space in India’s Hinterlands |
Gopika Solanki |
| Ajay Parasram |
March 2017 |
Becoming the State: Territorializing Ceylon, 1815-1848 |
Hans-Martin Jaeger |
| Ugur Yildiz |
March 2017 |
Tracing Asylum Journeys: Transnational Refugee Mobility to Canada via Turkey |
William Walters |
| Chantal Clement |
January 2017 |
The new governance of sustainable food systems: Shared insight from four rural communities in Canada and the EU |
Peter Andree |
| Daryl Kator |
January 2017 |
On the Kinship of Shakespeare and Plato |
Waller Newell |
| Jack MacLennan |
September 2016 |
From Protection to Policing: Military Air Power and the Governance of Humanitarian Crises, 1992-2011 |
Hans-Martin Jaeger |
| Emmet Collins |
August 2016 |
Why can’t we be friends? Informal Relations, Public Policy, and Federalism in Canada |
Jonathan Malloy
Raffaele Iacovino |
| Stephanie Redden |
August 2016 |
The ‘Feminization’ of the Everyday: Examining the Gendered Nature of Worker Resistance within the Transnational Call Center Industry |
Fiona Robinson
Christina Gabriel |
| Julia Calvert |
July 2016 |
Reclaiming Domestic Agency: International Investment Agreements and the Defence of Policy Space in Latin America |
Laura Macdonald |
| Colin Cordner |
July 2016 |
A Tale of Two Republics: Plato and Michael Polanyi on Science, Faith, and the Study of Man |
Tom Darby |
| Alan Stephenson |
April 2016 |
Canadian National Security Culture: Explaining Post 9/11 Canadian National Security Policy Outcomes |
Elinor Sloan |
| Michael To |
April 2016 |
China’s Quest for a Modern Constitutional Polity |
Tom Darby |
| Andrea Wagner |
March 2016 |
Errors of Commission: EU Accession and the struggle against corruption in Romania |
Jeremy Paltiel |
| Ayşegül Ergül |
February 2016 |
Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age |
Tom Darby |
| Dorian Kroqi |
January 2016 |
The President of the European Council and the quest for an EU democracy |
Achim Hurrelmann |
| David Perry |
October 2015 |
Purchasing Power: Explaining Variation in the Canadian Armed Forces’ use of Contracted Services |
Elinor Sloan |
| Tim Fowler |
September 2015 |
Fighting Back After the Neoliberal Assault: Class Formation, Class Politics, and the Canadian Autoworkers |
Christina Gabriel
Rianne Mahon |
| Scott Pruysers |
September 2015 |
Two Political Worlds?: Reconsidering Vertical Party Integration in Canada: Evidence From Ontario |
William Cross |
| David Matijasevich |
September 2015 |
Agonism and Antagonism: Past and Future Possibilities of Radical Democracy |
Achim Hurrelmann |
| Horia Nedelcu |
September 2015 |
Anti-Establishment Radical Parties in 21st Century Europe |
Joan DeBardeleben |
| Lesley Copeland |
May 2015 |
Pearl Harbor and American Intelligence Culture: Cultural Symbols in American Intelligence Discourse Communities, Meta-Theoretical Lenses and Multi-Perspective Approaches |
Mira Sucharov |
| Gustavo Morales Vega |
May 2015 |
Neoliberal Modernity Crisis in Latin America at the Twenty First Century: Social Cleavages, National Challenges and Hemispheric Revisionism |
Cristina Rojas |
| Hamed Mousavi |
April 2015 |
A Cultural Approach to Foreign Policy Analysis: The Role of Political Ideologies in Shaping Israeli Policy Toward the Peace Process |
Mira Sucharov |
| Nicolette O’Connor |
March 2015 |
Military Adaptation and Civil-Military Unity of Effort: A Historical Institutional Analysis of the American, British and Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan, 2001-2011 |
Elinor Sloan |
