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The Paradoxes in Taiwan's "Two-Level Game" Concerning Cross-Strait Relations
(University of Canterbury. School of Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Political Science, 2011)
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 ...
Power, Peace and Community: Hans Morgenthau’s Engagement With the Idea of a World State
(University of Canterbury. School of Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Political Science, 2012)
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, Christian Resistance and Ethics in Nazi Germany What is the Significance of Bonhoeffer?
(University of Canterbury. History, 2014)
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 ...
The Māori Land March of 1975: The Crossroads of Modern New Zealand
(2014)
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 ...
Jane Crow White Women’s Complicity and the Domestic Battlefront During the Civil Rights Era.
(University of Canterbury. History, 2014)
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 ...
Saved Through Bearing Children:An Exploration into how Pregnancy and Childbirth was Represented and Experienced in Late Medieval and Early Modern England.
(University of Canterbury. History, 2014)
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 ...
Allophonic imitation within and across word positions
(University of Canterbury. Linguistics, 2015)
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: A Trend-Setting Art Professional in New Zealand 1959-1980
(University of Canterbury. Art History, 2015)
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 ...
Film Tourism (Not) in Taiwan : A Study on Film Tourism in Taiwan
(University of Canterbury. Global, Cultural and Language StudiesUniversity of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, 2015)
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 ...
The influence of local culture on the ideology of Samoan journalism
(University of Canterbury. School of Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Media and Communication and Journalism, 2013)
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 ...