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Simulations for the Discipline Specific and Professional Education of Foreign Policy Graduates
(University of Wollongong, 2016-12)Increasingly universities aim to provide students with opportunities to graduate with skills ready to perform in the workplace. However, workplace-based opportunities for students enrolled in foreign policy subjects are ... -
True Friends or False? The changing nature of relationships between Indian and British missionary women in the imperial contact zone of India, c1880-1940
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Using electronic literature in online learning and teaching
(Educause Australia, 2003)Academics have traditionally guided the reading of students to inject a range of scholarly perspectives into a course. The use of the literature is an important part of developing critical thinking skills and part of ... -
Eating together: navigating commensality in expatriate households employing migrant domestic workers in Singapore
(Australian National University, 2009)In this paper the author explores the issue of how meals are eaten in expatriate households in Singapore, where live-in migrant domestic workers are employed. This is an issue that is both practical and richly symbolic. ... -
Nonproliferation and the North Korean nuclear weapons program: impotence meets ambition
(2011)North Korea is unlikely to willingly relinquish its nuclear program because of its importance to the political economy of the DPRK state and the perpetuation of the Kim Jong-il regime. It is clear that the nuclear program ... -
The emergence of a "doctrinal culture" within the Canadian Air Force: where it came from, where it's at and where to from here? Part 2 : Towards a doctrinal culture within the Canadian Air Force
(Royal Canadian Air Force, 2009)Drawing on the background provided in Part 1, this article examines the Canadian Air Force's attempts to develop doctrine since the formation of Air Command in 1975. This examination is undertaken in three sections. First, ... -
The emergence of a "doctrinal culture" within the Canadian Air Force: where it came from, where it's at and where to from here? Part 1: Doctrine and the Canadian Air Force prior to the end of the Cold War
(Royal Canadian Air Force, 2009)The culture of the Canadian Air Force, like most other Western air forces, has not been traditionally characterised by a tendency towards theoretical or doctrinal development. Instead, an oral (rather than written) culture ... -
Africa in/and the World
(African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, 2009)Back in 2000 Gavin Kitching sparked a major debate about giving up African Studies, his main argument being that African studies had become depressing, because the leaders he had supported during anti-colonial and ... -
Zimbabwe's crisis: local and global contexts
(African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), 2009)In this 29th year of Zimbabwe's independence, the Zimbabwean dollar is near worthless, with one hundred trillion buying only AUD$4. There is evidence that state sanctioned violence and killings continue in the country ... -
The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement: the boomerang of competitive liberalisation?
(Center for Australian Studies, Chengchi University, 2005)Not all that long ago, considerable intellectual energy was spent across Australia analysing the formation of trade policy. And much as elsewhere, there were two basic approaches. The first approach focussed on the evolution ... -
Australian trade policy under the Howard Government
(Center for Australian Studies, Chengchi University, 2002)It is an open secret that APEC has, in recent years, fallen upon hard times. That secret began to circulate at the Vancouver APEC summit held four months into the Asian Financial Crisis when President Clinton casually ... -
Families on the frontier
(Griffith University, 2005)When considering questions of access, an argument for procreative autonomy is an interesting starting point. Its compelling logic, when applied to abortion debates, posits that women should be trusted to make abortion ... -
Pharmaceutical colonialism - ethical issues for research in Africa
(African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, 2009)Pharmaceutical Colonialism is the term used to describe the activities of some of the big pharmaceutical companies and their contract research organizations, that involves exploiting the sickness and poverty of citizens ... -
Carneades and the conceit of Rome: transhistorical approaches to imperialism
(The Classical Association, 2010)While the manner in which empires have been discussed in the Western tradition has been largely conditioned by a two-millennia-old dialectic that Carneades presented neatly to the Romans in the mid-second century B.C., ...