PhD Graduates and Their Dissertation Titles

The Department supervises PhD research on various topics regarding politics in Asia and the Pacific. Here are some recent dissertation titles.

• Aspinall, Edward (2001)
  Political opposition and the transition from authoritarian rule: The case of Indonesia
  
  
• Choi, Nankyang (2003)
  Democratisation, decentralization, and local party politics in post-Suharto Indonesia
  
  
• Ekanayake, Rohan (2000)
  State coercion and the ascendancy of civil disorder in Sri Lanka
  
  
• Gillespie, John (2005)
  Transplanting commercial law reform: Developing a 'Rule of Law' in Vietnam
  
  
• Hamayotsu, Kikue (2005)
  Demobilizing Islam: Institutionalized religion and the politics of co-optation in Malaysia
  
  
• Heng, Russell (2000)
  Of the state, for the state, yet against the state: The struggle paradigm in Vietnam's media politics
  
  
• Hicks, Natalie (2005)
  The development of rural district administration in South Vietnam
  
  
• Honna, Jun (2000)
  The military and democratisation in Indonesia: The developing civil-military discourse during the late Soeharto era
  
  
• Hwang, Ia-won (2001)
  Changing conflict configurations and regime maintenance in Malaysian politics: From consociational bargaining to Mahathir's dominance
  
  
• Kabutaulaka, Tarcusius (2003)
  Paths in the jungle: Landowners and the struggle for control of Solomon Islands logging industry
  
  
• Koh, David W.H. (2000)
  Wards of Hanoi and state-society relations in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
  
  
• Mersat, Neilson (2005)
  Politics and business in Sarawak (1963-2004)
  
  
• Mietzner, Marcus (2004)
  Indonesian civil-military relations: The armed forces and political Islam in transition, 1997-2004
  
  
• Mizuno, Kumiko (2003)
  Indonesia's East Timor policy: 1998-2002
  
  
• Mokhsen, Nuraida (2003)
  Decentralisation in the New Order Indonesia
  
  
• Myoe, Maung Aung (2000)
  The counterinsurgency in Myanmar: The government's response to the Burma Communist Party
  
  
• Ondawame, Otto(2000)
  One people, one Soul, West Papuan nationalism and the Organisasi Papua Merdeka(OPM)/Free Papua Movement
  
  
• Pedersen, Morten (2005)
  International democracy promotion in authoritarian states: The Burmese case
  
  
• Porter, Donald (2001)
  The failure of corporatism in Indonesia Suharto and Islam
  
  
• Quimpo, Nathan (2004)
  Contested democracy and the Left in the Philippines after Marcos
  
  
• Rogers, Terrance (2002)
  The Papua New Guinea defence force Vanuatu (1980) to Bougainville (1990)
  
  
• Rudland, Emily (2003)
  Political triage: Health and the state in Myanmar
  
  
• St.George, Elizabeth (2002)
  Government policy and changes to higher education in Vietnam 1986 - 1998; Education in transition for development?
  
  
• Smith, Andrew (2002)
  Water first, a political history of delta hydraulics in Vietnam's Red River Delta
  
  
• Tan, Stan (2006)
  Dust beneath the mist: State and frontier formation in the Central Highland of Vietnam, the 1955-61 Period
  
  
• Tsumori, K (2000)
  Democratization and the middle class in Indonesia
  
  
• Wilson, Christopher (2006)
  From soil to God: Ethno-religious violence in North Maluku Province, Indonesia, 1999 - 2000