This paper develops a model of cross-Strait relations in terms of a series of four paradoxes. The first is that China’s aggressiveness in initiating the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1995-96 set off a series of contretemps between ...

It is commonly argued that Realist international relations theory is thoroughly statist and provides no hope or scope for the transformation of politics on a global scale. In Politics Among Nations, however, Hans Morgenthau ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a well known individual because of his behaviour during Nazi Germany (1933-1945), but what are the reasons for his fame? Was he really that unique? this paper aims to determine who has celebrated ...

This research essay examines the mainstream media representation of the 1975 Māori Land March in order to explore a time of change in New Zealand’s race relations. The 1970s is considered the beginning of New Zealand’s ...

The American Civil Rights Movement redresses one of the great injustices in American history: the racial inequality faced by African‐Americans. However, the dominant understanding of the challenge to racial injustice is ...

Pregnancy and childbirth is a biologically and socially constructed event which shaped the lives of the majority of English women between 1400 and 1700. While older historical accounts have focused on the progress made ...

This dissertation investigates imitation in speech, which is the general tendency shown by a speaker to become more similar to another speaker in the way they speak. Many of us have experienced this while talking to someone ...

Barbara Brooke was an early New Zealand arts professional. Born in Belfast, Canterbury, in 1925, Brooke became an important advocate for contemporary New Zealand art and its developing professionalism in Christchurch ...

This is a report of findings during my six-month research conducted in Taiwan from December 2014, thanks to the generous support of the Taiwan Fellowship scheme. This report studies one specific aspect of the extended ...

Much research implicitly suggests that journalism values arise from culturally removed organizational structures and shared occupational training. Further, few studies examine the perspective of journalism from both audiences ...