{"id":892,"date":"2016-09-22T13:07:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/?page_id=892"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:07:04","slug":"2016-undergraduate-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/?page_id=892","title":{"rendered":"2016 Undergraduate dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Showcasing student research<\/h2>\n<p>Again, an\u00a0exciting range of topics have been analysed this year.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has been a concern for three students, while international norms and security issues continue to be popular:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are the hegemonic ambitions of Russia and the US in Syria an indicator of a new Cold War?<\/li>\n<li>Syria: a chaotic proxy war on both a regional and global scale?<\/li>\n<li>The struggle for Syria: to what extent is the conflict in Syria a proxy war for the wider geo-political game?<\/li>\n<li>Terrorist or Freedom Fighter. Is there a difference in views between the East and the West?<\/li>\n<li>Who are the legitimate holders of the British representation claim for the 2003 invasion of Iraq?<\/li>\n<li>To what extent is Westphalian sovereignty under threat from international norms?<\/li>\n<li>Different sides of the same coin? Parallels in the construction of US and Chinese regional hegemonies \u2013 and the potential for exceptionalist divergence in policy thereafter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the same time, challenges faced in democratic societies today &#8211; in the UK, the US and elsewhere &#8211;\u00a0have received a lot of attention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explaining democratic transitions. Has modernization, as theorised by Inglehart and Welzel, brought about effective democracy in the case of Poland?<\/li>\n<li>To what extent do the various facts of human nature threaten our ideal of democracy?<\/li>\n<li>Is federalism allowing for democracy in the American political system? With reference to gay rights, legalisation of marijuana, gun control and abortion<\/li>\n<li>Given the level of devolution, to what extent could Scotland be considered a sovereign state in all but name?<\/li>\n<li>Is Myanmar a political curate\u2019s egg? A critical assessment of the extent to which Myanmar has transitioned over the last 8 years from a military dominated police state to a fully civilian-led multiparty democracy<\/li>\n<li>A woman\u2019s place is in the House. An analysis of media representation of women seeking election in the 2015 General Election<\/li>\n<li>Apathy in the UK<\/li>\n<li>Secularism and State Policies. A case study investigation of Britain\u2019s public policy from 1997-2015 using Ahmet Kuru\u2019s comparative framework<\/li>\n<li>Are there still major inequalities in US elections? A case study of Florida in the 2000 presidential election<\/li>\n<li>To wat extent did the development impasse see a change to the \u2018one size fits all\u2019 aspect of approaches adopted in the development era? A theoretical study with a practical application: the case of Ghana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showcasing student research Again, an\u00a0exciting range of topics have been analysed this year. The conflict has been a concern for three students, while international norms and security issues continue to be popular: Are the hegemonic ambitions of Russia and the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/?page_id=892\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-892","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}