Graduate Student Theses
Previous graduate theses
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MA Theses
Name |
Defence Date |
Supervisor |
Committee |
Thesis Title |
| Ajadi, Ifeoluwatari (Tari) A. | Aug. 2018 | Katherine Fierlbeck | Elizabeth McGibbon (Adjunct); Robert Huish (IDS) | What gets counted gets done:听 A policy analysis of the barriers and opportunities for provincial govenments to collect disaggregted race-based health data |
| Andrews, Ben D. | Aug. 2020 | Scott Pruysers | Kiran Banerjee; Louise Carbert | Does Democracy Die in Darkness? An Examination of the Relationship Between Local Newspaper Health and Municipal Politics. |
| Belanger, Jean-Francois | Apr. 2012 | David Black | Brian Bow | Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age:听 Towards a BMD Paradigm. |
| Belrose, Tegan | Apr. 2020 | Ruben Zaiotti | Katherine Fierlbeck; Jennifer Baechler | The Insecurities of Security: Dealing with Gender-based Violence in Peacekeeping Operations. |
| Bisset, Benjamin | Oct. 2014 | Louise Carbert | Jennifer Smith; Robert Finbow | Unintegrated' Province? Examining the Extent of Spatial Cleavages in Public Opinion in Nova Scotia. |
| Bradley, Jessica | Apr. 2019 | Anders Hayden | 听 | Ecological Modernization and Canada鈥檚 energy debate: Reconciling economic, environmental, and political agendas? |
| Bray, Francesca | Dec. 2021 | Leah Sarson | Heather Smith; Sara Seck | Inuit Agency in the Anthropocene. |
| Carter, Meghan | Nov. 2015 | Louise Carbert | Robert Finbow; Kristin Good | Maintaining the narrative: A content analysis of the impact of political disclosure on Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador's political culture. |
| Cockram, Louise | Mar. 2014 | Louise Carbert | Jennifer Smith; Robert Finbow | Grievance before supply" Omnibus Budget Implementation Legistlation as a Case when Party Discipline Damages Parliamentary Democracy. |
| Coombes, Kendra | Mar. 2013 | Margaret Denike | David Black | The Politics of End-Of-Life-Care: Active Euthanasia. |
| Craft, Alice E. | Aug. 2022 | Kiran Banerjee | David Black; Ruben Zaiotti | Hospitality or Hostility? The Detention of Irregular Arrivals in Canada as Explained by the Hostile Environment Framework. |
| Curtis, Chad | Dec. 2015 | Frank Harvey | Ruben Zaiotti; Dave Black | Canada's defence procurement crisis: why failure is the norm. |
| Diepeveen, Benjamin P. | Aug. 2013 | Katherine. Fierlbeck | Robert Finbow; Anders Hayden | Persistent Power? The Weakening of the Medical Profession's Control over Knowledge in Canada. |
| Elgayar, Mohamed | Dec. 2018 | Brian Bow | Frank Harvey; Ann Griffiths | The Next Cold War: Are the United States and China undergoing a power transition through Proxy Wars? |
| English, Petra Emmaline Lyra | Mar. 2016 | David Black | Brian Bow; Ruben Zaiotti | The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria:听 Assessing Compliance from Global Health Donors. |
| Fertsman, Erik | Oct. 2020 | Ruben Zaiotti | Robert Finbow; David Black | Theorizing Stable Relationships Between the European Union and Ukraine:听 A Comparative Study. |
| Fitkowski, Joseph | Aug. 2023 | Ruben Zaiotti | Scott Pruysers; Robert Finbow | Messianism in the Heart of Europe: Analysing Poland's Law and Justice Party, Narratives of Identity, and the European Union. |
| Gong, Xinyu | Aug. 2021 | Brian Bow | Ruban Zaiotti; Leah Sarson | 5G and China-US Relations: Competition and Intervention. |
| Goodridge, Kirt | Aug. 2017 | Louise Carbert | Robert Finbow; Lori Turnbull | Youth Engagement and Get-Out-The-Vote Organizations:听 Are they a Viable Solution to the Problem of Youth Engagment. |
| Guzina, Filip | Apr. 2022 | Katherine Fierlbeck | Alexa Dodge; Elizabeth McGibbon | How The Framing of Supervised Injection Sites Can Hinder implementation. |
| Harper, Katie | Aug. 2013 | J.C. Boucher | David Black; J. Bannister | An Examination of the Determinants of Quebec's Paradiplomatic Actions. |
| Hunt, Liam | Aug. 2017 | Louise Carbert | David Black; Lori Turnbull | The Moral Authority:听 A Theory of Plitical Character. |
| Lees, Austin | Aug. 2023 | Scott Pruysers | Jim Bickerton; Louise Carbert | Redrawing Democracy: Exploring the Modern Landscape of the Electoral Boundaries Revolution in the Maritimes. |
| MacEachern, Drew P L. | Aug. 2023 | Brian Bow; Nissim Mannathukkaren | Scott Pruysers; Ruben Zaiotti | Everything in Moderation?: A QCA Analysis of Foreign Policy Moderation in Left-wing Political Parties Examining Domestic and International Factors. |
| MacKenzie, Amy | Aug. 2019 | Ruben Zaiotti | David Black; Gardiner-Barber; Robert Finbow (Chair) | Missing in Europe: a critical analysis of the European Union's policies regarding unaccompanied minors. |
| MacLennan, Tricia Sarita-Marie | Dec. 2015 | Peter Arthur | David Black; Kristin Good | Sowing the seeds of insecurity: The impacts of agricultural biotechnology in Canada and India. |
| Mason, Emily | Dec. 2020 | Louise Carbert | Scott Pruysers; Robert Finbow | Establishing Effective Representation and Protected Districts for Anglophones in Brome-Missisquoi. |
| McFadgen, Rebecca | Aug. 2013 | Anders. Hayden | Peter听 Arthur;听 H. Epstein | Beyond the Duty to Consult: Comparing Environmental Justice in Three Aboriginal Communities in Canada. |
| Mykula, Ksenia | Aug. 2020 | Ruben Zaiotti | Ruben Ziaotti; Jean-Francois Savard; Scott Pruysers | Tweeting Reactions: An Analysis of Twitter Responses to the Kerch Strait Naval Clash between Russia and Ukraine. |
| Noledan, Elaheh | Oct. 2014 | David Black | Samar El-Masri; Ann Griffiths | Causes of the Iranian 1979 Revolution and the Egyptian 2011 Revolution:听 A Comparative Study. |
| Northam, Katelyn | Mar. 2014 | Louise Carbert | David Cameron; Robert Finbow | The Challenge of Youth Engagement in Local Government:听 Exploring the Use of Youth Advisory Councils in Amherst and Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
| O'Brien, Katheleen | Jul. 2017 | Katherine Fierlbeck | Dennis Stairs; Ruben Zaiotti | A Duty to Serve, A Duty to Provide:听 A Comparative Analysis of Mental Health Delivery in the Armed Forces of Canada, U.K. and U.S. |
| Ofosu-Atuahene, Benjamin | Aug. 2021 | David Black | Peter听 Arthur;听 Robert Finbow | Private Security Actors in Africa: The Case of Niger Delta & North-Eastern Nigeria in West Africa. |
| Pearsons, Graeme | Aug. 2021 | Peter Arthur | David Black; Ruben Zaiotti | China鈥檚 Role in African Integration.听 |
| Phin, Nicholas | Aug. 2018 | Kristin Good; Ruben Zaiotti | Lori Turnbull; Robert Finbow | Immigration Discourse in Cities: Examining the Effects of Local Immigration Partnerships in Richmond and Surrey. |
| Power, Kinnar | Aug. 2018 | Katherine Fierlbeck | Florian Bail; Louise Carbert | Idle, Able-bodied and underserving: The persistence of undesert in Western political thought. |
| Rafuse, Kristian | Aug. 2014 | Margaret Denike | Ruben Zaiotti; Susan Dodd; Katherine Fierlbeck | Conspicuous Sexuality:听 Bourdieu's Affective Phenomenology and the Normative Origns of Homophobic Violence. |
| Ripley, Alexander | Mar. 2016 | Brian Bow | David Black; Ruben Zaiotti | Regionalism and Economic Crisis:听 The Cases of ASEAN and Mercosur, 2008-2010. |
| Robinson (nee Luddington), Callee Francis | May-18 | Robert Finbow | Lori Turnbull; Marcella Firmini | From Policy to Practice:听 Evaluating Consultation Policy in Nova Scotia. |
| Robinson, Emily | Aug. 2014 | Brian Bow | Ruben Zaiotti; Frank Harvey | An Integrated Neoclassical Realist and constructivist Approach to the Study of Canadian Foreign Policy:听 Canada's Response to the 2011 Intervention in Libya. |
| Robinson, Rhys | Aug. 2021 | Brian Bow | David Black; Ruben Zaiotti | Maqbarat Al-Atrak: Saudi Arabia鈥檚 Intervention in Yemen. |
| Shaw, Savanna J. | Mar. 2023 | Robert Finbow | Scott Pruysers; Louise Carbert | An Exploration of African American Trump Voters Post-Conflict States. |
| Smith, Jennifer | Aug. 2016 | Ruben Zaiotti | Robert Finbow; Ann Griffiths | Explaining the New Influence of Ukrainian Civil Society. |
| St-Jacques, Catherine | Aug. 2019 | Anders Hayden | Ann Griffiths; David Black | On Thin Ice: Canada鈥檚 Arctic Policy and Environmental Security. |
| Taodzera, Shingirai | Aug. 2015 | Peter Arthur | David Black; Robert Finbow | Incorporating Indigenous Structures of Governance in the Management of Extractive Natural Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of South Africa's Royal Bafokeng. |
| Therrien, Laurence | Apr. 2012 | Margaret Denike | Frank Harvey; David Black | Humanitarian Miliatary Interventions in the decade 1990-2000: Remodeling the Concepts of Impartiality and Political Independence. |
| Vergos, Catherine | Dec. 2011 | Margaret Denike | Philip Zachernuk; Ruben Zaiotti; Frank Harvey | Between Rhetoric and Reality:听 A Psychosocial Examination of Rwanda's National Unity and Reconciliation Policy. |
| Walsh, Allyssa | Apr. 2022 | Leah Sarson | David Black; Kristi Kenyon | Lost in Translation: The Impact of International Institution鈥檚 Gender Norm Diffusion Practices on Post-Conflict States. |
| Wilson, Emma | Mar. 2015 | Katherine Fierlbeck | Louise Carbert; Kristen Good | Towards Accountability in Democratic Network Governance. |
| Yuzdepski, Davis | Aug. 2019 | Lori Turnbull | Katherine Fierlbeck; Louise Carbert; Kristin Good | A Virtual Inevitability: Reconceptualising the Interet Voting Debate with Evidence from Canada and Abroad. |
PHD Theses
Name |
听 | Defence Date
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Supervisor |
Committee |
Thesis Title |
| Abdulhamid, Nafisa | 听 | Aug. 2021 | David Black | Peter Arthur; Ruben Zaiotti | Protecting Civilians in Armed Conflict: The Case of the African Union Mission in Somalia. |
| Ajadi, Ifeoluwatari | 听 | Apr. 2023 | Kristin Good | Kiran Banerjee; Ingrid Waldron | Power in Presence: Understanding Black-led Coalitions and Policy Change in Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
| Beitelman, David | 听 | Jun. 2018 | Brian Bow | David Black; Frank Harvey | Strategic Turst: Re-thining U.S.-China Military Relations |
| Clark, Sean | 听 | Oct. 2011 | Brian Bow | David Black; Frank Harvey | To Whom go the Spoils?:听 Explaining 4,000 years of battlefield victory & defeat. |
| Cleveland, Tristin | 听 | Apr. 2023 | Kristin Good | Scott Pruysers; Joseli Macedo | Urban Intercurrence: The Struggle to Build Walkable Downtowns in Car-Dependent Suburbia. |
| Dunphy, Sarah | 听 | Nov. 2013 | David Black | Gil Winham; Peter Arthur | 180: Developing Countries' 新加坡六合彩开奖直播-Face in the Uruguay Round. |
| Firmini, Marcella | 听 | Mar. 2015 | Katherine Fierlbeck | Jennifer Smith; Kristin Good | Republican elements of the just society:听 Classical republicanism in the political thought of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. |
| Graham, Glenn | 听 | Feb. 2016 | Robert Finbow | Lori Turnbull; Jim Bickerton | Regionalism on the Celtic Fringe:听 How Peripheral Communities Resist, Negotiate, and Accommodate Political and Economic Integration. |
| Hoque, Sabrina | 听 | Nov. 2016 | Brian Bow | David Black; Peter Arthur | The 'Casual Tree': A Comprehensive Analysis of the Relationship between UNDP Expenditures and Quality of Governance in Developing Countries. |
| Lerhe, Eric | 听 | Aug. 2012 | Dan Middlemiss/Frank Harvey | Brian Bow; Ruben Zaiotti | Canada-US Military Interoperability:听 At What Cost Sovereignty. |
| Manning, Susan | 听 | Apr. 2021 | David Black and Deborah Stienstra | Anders Hayden | Centring Community: New Pathways in Resource Ectraction Policy Processes. |
| McDonough, David | 听 | Nov. 2011 | Frank Harvey | David Black; Frank Harvey | Ambivalent Ally:听 Culture, Cybernetics, and the Evolution of Canadian Grand Strategy. |
| Meadows, David | 听 | Aug. 2012 | Brian Bow | Finn Laursen; David Black | The Effects of Political-Cultural on Divergent Patterns of Post-Soviet Political Economic Transformation:听 A Comparison of the Experiences of Latvia and Belarus Since 1991. |
| Mitton, John | 听 | Dec. 2018 | Frank Harvey | David Black; Ruben Zaiotti | Rivalry Intervention: Why International Rivals Intervene in Civil Conflicts. |
| Morgan, David | 听 | Jan. 2015 | David Black | Ruben Zaiotti; John Cameron | The Humanitarians:听 Understanding the Crisis of the Humanitarian Field. |
| Suarez, Carla | 听 | Dec. 2017 | David Black | Christina Clark-Kazak;听 Peter Arthur | Living in "No-Peace-No War": Fluctuating Governance Among Armed Actors in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| Tsamenyi, Elikem | 听 | Aug. 2021 | David Black | Peter Arthur; Brian Bow | African Peace, Security and Conflict Management: An African international society approach. |
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