Mario Arulthas
Transnationalism and the Tamils – Eelam Tamil politics in the post-LTTE context
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Department of Politics and International Studies
Research Students in the Politics Department
Hinni Aarninsalo
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Jens Augspurger
The Politics of Spiritual Tourism: Kinship Romanticism and Correspondence with Imagined Homeland (Working title)
- Email: jens_augspurger@soas.ac.uk
Christian Jean Bachheimer
"Unpacking Patterns & Concepts of hedging strategies in Indonesia, Asean with the wider Asia Pacific Powers
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Gabrielle Bayle
National self-perception and international aid conditionality: A case study of Ethiopia
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Leda Betti
Making Cars, Remaking People: the Italian State and the Rescaling of Class Relations in the Fiat-Chrysler Case
- Email: 131342@soas.ac.uk
Mehdi Beyad
A Claim to Space: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry as Geopolitical Imaginary in Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran
- Email: mb121@soas.ac.uk
Taylor Kenzie Borowetz
"Building postcolonial narratives of emancipation: Envisioning “struggle” as a constructive process"
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Taylor Borowetz
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Nick Branson
Extraversion strategies and aid negotiations: How African hybrid regimes manage donor demands
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Jung Chun Chang
National Identity construction in Taiwan's political advertising
- Email: 654696@soas.ac.uk
Chi Yeung Chiu
Party interactions between Hong Kong and Taiwan in post-handover years
- Email: 617915@soas.ac.uk
Johann Chacko
Denominational Diversity and Religious Populism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Email: 576441@soas.ac.uk
Adrian Chiu
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Irem Cihan
Catherine Craven
Locating Politics in the Global: A Practice-Based Analysis of Tamil Diaspora Engagement
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Morgane Dussud
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Ashraf El-Taher
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Guy Robert Eyre
Walking the Boundaries: Paths to Islamic Politics in Morocco
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Alaya Forte
New forms of political inclusion or mere tokenism? Reading political representation from a gender and minority perspective in British and French government (working title)
- Email: af23@soas.ac.uk
Sena Galazzi Lian
Saving' Myanmar One Day at a Time: the Everyday Lives of NGO Workers in Yangon (Working title)
- Email: Sena_Galazzi@soas.ac.uk
Matthew Beck Gordon
‘Making Somaliland: Sovereignty and the Social Covenant, 1991- 2019’
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Maia Holtermann Entwistle
“Petro-Culture: Cultural Infrastructure and Liberal Power in the Arab Gulf States”
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Ching-Yu Huang
An In-Depth Study in Taiwan's Gender Mainstreaming in the Legislative Politics
- Email: 633317@soas.ac.uk
Kahee Jo
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Paul Kaletsch
The Recent Aftermath of "Unsuccessful" Contemporary East Asian Urban Student Protests?
- Email: 634248@soas.ac.uk
Mesrob Kassemdjian
Hezbollah and Hamas: A chequered alliance
- Email: mk133@soas.ac.uk
Anna E. Kensicki
Space, Time and Narrative: Mapping Mediated, Experiential and Imaginary Constructs
- Email: 645179@soas.ac.uk
Sirada Khemanitthathai
Emigration State in Transition: Myanmar and the utilisation of emigration as a foreign policy instrument
- Email: 644246@soas.ac.uk
Dwi Kiswanto
Centre-Periphery Relations: Politics and Informalities in Indonesia's Intergovernmental Budget Allocation
Arkmore Kori
Parliamentary Committees and Good Governance in Africa: A Comparative Study of Kenya and Zimbabwe
- Email: ak143@soas.ac.uk
Leon Nelson Kunz
Thesis title: Deliberative Democracy in Social Movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
- Email: l_kunz@soas.ac.uk
Kilhee Kwak
The Transformation and Continuation of South Korean Foreign Policy towards Japan 1965-2015
- Email: 644902@soas.ac.uk
Tommy Chung Yin Kwan
Fail to Re-connect: The Alienated Relationship Between Democratic Progressive Party and the Sunflower Movement
- Email: cy_kwan@soas.ac.uk
Richard Lamb
Geoeconomics and State-Firm Dynamics in China
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Nazam Laila
Digital Labour Inequality in the Age of Industry 4.0: A Neo-colonial Perspective from Bangladesh
- Email: nazam_laila@soas.ac.uk
Iris Lim
Experiencing the Digital Governance Immigration: a Qualitative Comparison of London and Seoul
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Pia Ljungman
Making Money: Remodelling Europe The causes and consequences of the European sovereign debt crisis narrative
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Kuukuwa Manful
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Glenn Lauren (Glennie) Moore
- Email: gm41@soas.ac.uk
Irem Cihan Muter
Cultural Persuasion, Power and Foreign Policy: South Korea and Turkey
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Munalula Ngenda
State and Society in Zambia: 1990 - 2010
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Muna Ngenda
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Ibrahim Nyei
Decentralisation reforms and the implications for power and authority relations in a centralised unitary state. A study of decentralisation reforms in Liberia
- Email: ibrahim_nyei@soas.ac.uk
Oluwapelumi Obisesan
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Thanos Petouris
Revolutionary Politics in Aden and the Protectorates of South Arabia under British Colonial Rule (1937–67)
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Noemí Pérez Vásquez
Breaking the silence: women’s access to transitional justice
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Salman Rafi
Intra-Ethnic Fragmentation and the Politics of De-centralising Constitutional Change in Pakistan: A Comparative Study
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Joshua Rigg
The Engaging Politics of Refusal: Transition and Resistance in Tunisia since the Arab Uprisings
- Email: jr56@soas.ac.uk
Malaika I. Robinson
The US-China Trade War and the Politics of Rhetoric
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Barbara Schenkel
Women's Citizenship in Jordan
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Elke Selter
The International Politics of Heritage and their Impact on Conflict Transformation (working title)
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Mohammad Ali Shabani
Shi’a Brothers, Shi’a Rivals; Competition and Cooperation between Iran and Post-Saddam Iraq
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Dani Solomon
The role of development in the production and contestation of international order
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Suraj Telange
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Daniel Thumpston
Legitimacy in China’s foreign policy: Reception of the "Belt and Road Initiative" in the European Union, 2013-2020 (working title)
- Email: dt45@soas.ac.uk
Daniel Songjun Yu
The Status of Ideology in Post-Cold War China-North Korea Relations
Shenghua Zhang
Populism, Representational Crisis, and Party Organisational Development in Thailand: The Persistence of Pro-Thaksin Parties since 2001
- Email: sz26@soas.ac.uk
Hang Zhou
Bring African Bureaucracies back in: Negotiations and Implementation of Chinese Development Engagement in Uganda
- Email: hang_zhou@soas.ac.uk
Hang Zhou
The politics of transformation: everyday negotiations in Uganda's roads sector
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