M.Phil. and Ph.D. Thesis Titles
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil)
| 2018 |
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| CHUNG Man Yiu 鍾文耀 |
Political Meritocracy and Relational Equality |
| CHEN Yajiao 陳雅姣 |
Government-led Collaborative Actions under China’s Environmental Authoritarianism: A Comparative Study of Two Lake Watersheds in Yunnan Province |
| 2017 |
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| FENG Yudi 馮雨地 |
Individuals in the Political: A Study on Hanna Pitkin’s Theory of Political Action |
| 2016 |
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| KWONG Chi Yu 鄺止儒 |
Utilizing Place Meanings and User Opinions as Mechanisms to Improve Visitor Management in Hong Kong’s Country Parks |
| CHEN Shangshang 陳上上 |
Impact Investing in the Era of Collaborative Governance: An Empirical Study on Four Cases in Hong Kong |
| YIP Wai Fung, Andy 葉偉峯 |
Party Institutionalization of Opposition Political Parties in Hong Kong as a Hybrid Regime |
| 2014 |
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| CHAN Shuk Ying 陳淑瑩 |
Capitalism and the Good Life: a Critique of Liberal State Neutrality |
| YUEN Ho Yin 袁浩然 |
Rawlsian Justice and Welfare-state Capitalism |
| 2013 |
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| TSE Lap Shing Samuel 謝立城 |
Volunteerism and Political Participation Among Youths: A Case Study in Hong Kong |
| 2011 |
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| WU Xuanxuan 吳萱萱 |
Explaining Rising Chinese Popular Nationalism in 2008: Perception Gap and National Images |
| 2010 |
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| EBERLE Meghan Lea |
Precarity and Social Mobilization among Migrant Workers from Myanmar in Thailand |
| CHAN Kwan Nok 陳君諾 |
Institutions, Policy Networks and Agenda Setting: The Rise of Heritage Conservation in Hong Kong, 1970-1997 |
| 2009 |
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| ZHOU Guan Feng |
Nationalism and Japan's China policy: A Normative Study of Nationalism and Foregin Policy Making |
| MANG Fan Lun 孟繁麟 |
Reasonable Disagreement, State Neutrality and Perfectionism |
| LAM Chi Yan 林緻茵 |
The Impact of Intra-party Democracy on the Level of Party Political Efficacy of Grass-roots Councilors: The Case of DAB and DP |
| GUO Jie 郭潔 |
Policy Coordination of Harbour Planning in Hong Kong |
| 2007 |
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| LI Yu Wai 李裕維 |
Explaining Institutional Flexibility of the ASEAN Regional Forum: A Rationalist Frist-Cut |
| YEE Wai-Hang 余偉鏗 |
How Do Networks Work? Studying the Internal Dynamics of The Environmental Organizational Network in Hong Kong |
| 2006 |
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| WANG Liang 汪亮 |
Understanding Greenpeace Campaigns in China: Empowerment and Mobilization |
| LIU Ning 劉寧 |
Contracting-out Residential Care for the Elderly in Hong Kong |
| 2004 |
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| CHEUNG Yat-fung 張逸峰 |
Modernization and Rural Politics in Hong Kong |
| KONG Yuek Man, Josephine 江若雯 |
Marxist Critique of Capitalist Democracy: The Perspective of Rational Choice Marxism |
| LAI Cheuk-bun 賴卓彬 |
Are Human Rights Possible in the Confucian 'Nowheresville'? A Philosophical Analysis |
| TAM Yuk Lum 譚旭林 |
Contracting Out Estate Management Services in Hong Kong: Institutions and Collective Action |
| TSUI Wai Hang, Danny 崔偉恒 |
Civil Society in China: An Analysis of NGOs on the Mainland |
| 2003 |
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| WAN Kwok Fai 尹國輝 |
Beijing's United Front Policy Toward Hong Kong: An Application of Merilee Grindle's Model |
| SU Yingjun 蘇穎君 |
The Emerging Regulatory State in China: A Study of Shunde's Experience |
| 2002 |
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| AMATYA Pradyumna |
Institutional Change and Intervention Outcome: Comparing Assistance Schemes for Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal |
| CHAN So Ngor, Jennifer 陳素娥 |
Designing Institutions for Inter-Agency Cooperation: A Study of Landslide Management in Hong Kong |
| CHEUNG Kin Chung 張健聰 |
The Politics of Decentralization and Re-centralization in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Dissolution of Municipal Councils |
| WANG Pan Yeung 王濱洋 |
The Role of the National People's Congress in Chinese Foreign Affairs in the Reform Era |
| 2001 |
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| CHAN Chi Ming, Victor 陳志明 |
Domestic Institutions and Japan's Foreign Economic Policy: The Japanese Economic Assistance to Southeast Asia, 1997-1999 |
| KANAGBO, Kangoma Anthony |
The Role of the State and Multinational Corporations in Development: The Case of Malaysia |
| LEE Yiu Chung, Edward 李燿宗 |
The Sino-United States-Taiwan Triangular Relationship, 1988-1997 |
| 2000 |
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| HO Ka Ki, Lawrence 何家騏 |
Implementation of China's Hong Kong Policy: A Study of the Drafting of Hong Kong Basic Law, 1985-90 |
| LUNG Wing Cheung, Cecilia 龍詠翔 |
A Study of Taiwan-Hong Kong Relations: Policies, Processes and Challenges |
| WONG Cheuk Yin 王綽然 |
The Communist-Inspired Riots in Hong Kong, 1967: A Multi-Actors Approach |
| 1999 |
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| CHUI Po Ling |
Organising for the Provision of Public Housing in Hong Kong: An Institutional Analysis of Public Organisations and Policy Design |
| 1998 |
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| WAI Pong Wa |
Embedded Autonomy in the "East Asian Economic Miracle": The Case of Hong Kong with Special Reference to Banking, Textile and Garments, and Electronics Sectors |
| LAU Sze Fei, Sophia |
Government Professionals and Value Conflicts in the Civil Service: A Hong Kong Study |
| FOK Wai Lun |
A Study of Chinese Negotiating Behaviour in the Sino-British Negotiations over Hong Kong |
| CHOW Chiu Tak |
The Common good and the State: Explorations of Thomas Hill Green's Political Philosophy |
| 1997 |
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| NG Siu-ling, Giselle |
Accountability in Public Administration: The Case of Hong Kong |
| Ian Christopher Taylor |
The People's Republic of China's Anti-Hegemonic Posturing in the Post-Cultural Revolution era in southern Africa: "Repelling the tiger while chasing away the world" |
| LAM Man On, Jack |
Exploitation and Luck in Capitalism: A Philosophical Analysis |
| Trond Inge Lovdal |
Norway's Relations with the Peoples Republic of China in a Bipolar World, 1949-1971 |
| NG Kwan Wan, Winston |
The Study of International Regimes: A Theoretical Discussion |
| SIN Wai Lam, William |
The Limits of Utilitarianism on Prerogatives and Constraints |
| SZE Kit-yu, Veronica |
Local Government and Policy Implementation: A Study of Economic and Technological Development Zones in Guangzhou & Tianjin |
| 1996 |
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| LUN Kit Ming, Kimmy |
The People's Republic of China (PRC) as a Nuclear Power in the Post-Cold War ERA: Strategic Intentions and Security Concerns |
| Stephanie Himango |
The American Chamber of Commerce (Hong Kong): An Analysis of a Dual Purpose Business and Political Organization |
| 1994 |
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| LAM Pui Yee |
A Study of the Policy on Rehabilitation in Hong Kong from the Perspective of 'Equal Opportunities' |
| Kevin Ka-wing, May |
The Human Right to Welfare: A Philosophical Analysis |
| 1993 |
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| WAN Ho In, Eric |
A study of the political participation of Hong Kong's labour movement leadership in the transitional period |
| 1992 |
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| LEUNG Chi Yan |
The politics of economic leap forward and readjustment: a case study of economic policy making in China, 1977-1980 |
| 1991 |
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| LEE Fung Ping |
China and Indochina: the politics of aid, 1950-78 |
| 1990 |
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| YEP Kin Man, Ray |
The economists and the making of foreign trade policy in the Peoples Republic of China since 1984 |
| 1989 |
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| LEE Wing Tim |
The unity of particular and universal ends: Rousseau & Hegel in comparison |
| 1988 |
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| TSE Tak Wah, Sebastian |
The buffer state and the buffer system with reference to Afghanistan 1881-1947 |
| 1985 |
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| KAM Lee Kwok Ping, Vivien |
The literary profession and domestic politics in the People's Republic of China 1950-1980 |
| 1983 |
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| LI Suk Ying, Tammy |
Philosophical problems of the concept of rational decision-making in public administration literature |
| 1976 |
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| Linda Benson |
National minority policy in the sinkiang-uighur autonomous region, 1949-1974 |
Doctor of Philosophy
| 2018 |
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| HUANG Jie 黃 傑 |
Golden Youth: State, Market, and China’s Second-Generation Private Entrepreneurs |
| CHEN Hanyu 陳瀚諭 |
The Profit-Driven Welfare State in China: Public Housing in Two Prefecture-Level Districts |
| CHAN Sze Wan, Debby 陳詩韻 |
Signalling Effects of Social Movements in Asymmetric Bargaining: Myanmar and China, 2011-2016 |
| LI Yiran 李亦然 |
A Long March for Survival: The internet, Social Media and Government Accountability in China |
| LEUNG Yi Man, Evans 梁㦤雯 |
Industrial Restructuring in China: An Institutional Analysis of State-Society Relations and its Policy Impacts |
| PREECHARUSH Dulyapak |
The Politics of Federalization in Myanmar: A Study of Causal Relationships, Negotiation Mechanism, and Historical Evolution |
| MENG Weizhan 孟維瞻 |
Explaining the Variations in the Grand Strategies of Imperial China: Material Capabilities, Confucian Culture and Interest Conflict |
| YAO Yanran 姚嫣然 |
The Accountability Dilemmas of INGOs in China |
| RESTREPO Juan Manuel |
Scaling up Social Innovation: The Case of Escuela Nueva in Colombia and BRAC Education Programme in Bangladesh |
| 2017 |
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| AUNG Su Mon Thazin |
Governing the Transition: Policy Coordination Mechanisms in the Myanmar Core Executive, 2011-2016 |
| GORMAN Patrick Charles Lucien |
Weibo and the Outsourcing of Opinion Guidance |
| NIE Lin 聶 琳 |
Transparency of Foundations in China |
| QIU Qing 丘 晴 |
Innovation of Manufacturing Industries in the Pearl River Delta Region |
| 2016 |
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| LIU Kailin 劉凱琳 |
Exploring Lending Patterns for Information Asymmetry between Lenders and Borrowers in the Nonprofit and Forprofit Peer-to-peer Lending Platforms |
| XIN Ge 辛 格 |
Bootstrapping Public Participation in the Global South: Participatory Budgeting Reforms in Brazil, China and South Africa |
| PAO Sze Yi 包世一 |
Global Injustice, Collective Responsibility, and Individual Action |
| 2015 |
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| FAN Wenyue Phoebe 范文越 |
Growing Out of the Budget: The Political Economy of Sub-Provincial Finance in China |
| SCHLENZIG Nora Caroline Tschesja |
China and Its Neighbours in Mainland Southeast Asia: Statehood, Engagement and Development |
| WONG Hoi Lam Norma 王凱琳 |
The Management Strategies of Advocacy-oriented Social Service Nonprofit Organizations in Hong Kong |
| 2014 |
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| CHAN Wing Ching,Elton 陳永政 |
From Sage-kings to Confucian Republic: the political theories of jiaohua |
| DUPRE Jean-Francois |
The Politics of Linguistic Normalization in 21st century Taiwan: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Party System |
| LAI Cheuk Bun 賴卓彬 |
Democratic Means to Confucian Ends: A Philosophical Analysis of the Conceptual Relationship between Confucian Ethics and Democracy in the Theories of Xu Fuguan, Tang Junyi, and Mou Zongsan |
| LAM Chi Yan 林緻茵 |
Constructing Hegemony: Patriotic United Front on the Youths in Post-handover Hong Kong |
| POON Ping Yeung 潘炳揚 |
Explaining Changes in Food Safety Institutions in Hong Kong |
| ZHOU Kai 周 凱 |
Contentious Challenges and State Capacity: Why Do Governments Respond Differently to Social Protests in Contemporary China? |
| ZHOU Qian 周 茜 |
Pathways to Collective Action: a Study of Local Irrigation Governance and Management in Central China |
| ZHU Jia Feng 朱佳峰 |
Farewell to Political Obligation: Toward a New Liberal Theory of Political Legitimacy |
| 2013 |
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| CHU Caixia 褚彩霞 |
Grassroots NGOs in China: A Study of the Legitimation Process |
| LI Wei 李薇 |
Structural Change and the Relationship between Politicians and Bureaucrats: The Case of Hong Kong |
| XIA Lu 夏璐 |
Politicized Academic Capitalism - The Chinese Communist Party's Sociopolitical Control Mechanisms over Intellectuals during the Reform Era |
| 2012 |
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| LUO Wenen 羅文恩 |
From Dependence to Autonomy? Institutional Change and the Evolution of Charitable GONGGOs in China |
| ZHANG Xian 張弦 |
Explaining Public-Private Partnerships in China: Case Study of Primary Land Development in Beijing |
| 2011 |
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| CHAU Feon Long Yee 周朗怡 |
Changing the Rules of the Game: An Examination of Citizen Participation in Hong Kong's Urban Renewal |
| LI Ying 李穎 |
The Dynamics between the Local State, the Community, and Environmental NGOs in China: A State-in-Society Approach |
| CHEN Huirong 陳慧榮 |
State Power and Village Cadres in Contemporary China: The Case of Rural Land Tenure in Shandong Province |
| 2010 |
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| LIN Syaru Shirley 林夏如 |
National Identity, Economic Interest and Taiwan's Cross-Strait Economic Policy 1994-2009 |
| LI Jing 李靜 |
Policy Coordination in China: The Case of Infections Disease and Food Safety policy |
| GUO Jia 果佳 |
Policy Learning and Policy Implementation in China: A Case Study of the Grain for Green Project |
| HAN Rui 韓銳 |
Luck Egalitarianism: Criticisms and Alternatives |
| ZHENG YiZheng 鄭一鄭 |
Coordination of A Distributive Policy: The Case of Infection Control in Hong Kong |
| MOK Ka Tung 莫家楝 |
Being Vulnerable and Being Responsible: The Moral Responsibility of the Participants in the Cultural Revolution of China |
| 2009 |
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| HORIUCHI Toru |
Japan's China Policy: Koizumi as a 'Presidential' Prime Minister and the Foreign and Security Policymaking Process |
| 2008 |
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| LIN Tingjin 林挺進 |
Explaining the Intra-Provincial Inequality of Financing Compulsory Education in China: the Role of Finance Reform, Personnel Rules and Provincial Leaders, 1994-2001 |
| CHAN H. K. Nikkiter 陳夏鈞 |
Explaining the Policy Dynamics of Administrative Reorganization in Hong Kong: An Institutional Analysis of Policy Stasis and Punctuation |
| 2007 |
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| GUILLOUX Alain Francois Jacques |
Humanitarianism in National and Global Governance: A study of Taiwan's Responses to Diseases and Disasters |
| Benson W. K. WONG |
Teacher Participation and Empowerment: The Case of Hong Kong and Taiwan |
| Terence Y.K. YUEN 阮耀啟 |
Government-Nonprofits Collaborations: A Study of Linking Arrangements in Third-Party Government |
| 2006 |
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| WANG Xiaoqi 王曉琦 |
China's Civil Service Reform and Local Government Performance: A Principal-Agent Perspective |
| Bryan C.S. HO 何秋祥 |
Legitimacy and Participation In Rural Post-Mao China : Cases From ANHUI |
| 2005 |
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| Rikkie L.K. AU 區麗潔 |
The Governance of Government-Owned Railway Organisations in Hong Kong: Integration and Autonomy in Changing Times |
| Francesch Huidobro, Maria Del Mar |
A "Disciplined Governance" Approach to Government-NGOs Relations: the Structures and Dynamics of Environmental Politics and Management in Singapore |
| 2004 |
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| Kaihe CHEN 陳開和 |
Nationalizing Society, Identity Politics, and Foreign Policy Strategies: Taiwan's Mainland Policy, 1988-2000 |
| HOGAN, Mary Vivianne |
Sovereignty, State and Security After the Asian Financial Crisis: The Cases of Indonesia and South Korea |
| Christopher SKENE |
Democracy in the Era of Globalization: Explaining Authoritarian Practices in Asia and Latin America [Dr Skene was honoured the Best Dissertation Award (Ph.D. category) 2004-2005 by the Hong Kong Political Science Association] |
| Bruce K.K. KWONG 鄺錦鈞 |
Patron-Client Politics in Hong Kong |
| YU Wing Yat 余永逸 |
Democracy and Intra-Party Democratization: The Cases of Twiwan and Hong Kong |
| 2003 |
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| CHOU Kwok Ping, Bill 仇國平 |
Conflict and Ambiguity in the Implementation of Civil Service Reform in China, 1993-2000 |
| 2002 |
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| LIAO Xuanli 廖宣力 |
Chinese Think Tanks and China's Policy on Japan |
| 2001 |
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| LAM Waiman 林蔚文 |
Rediscovering Politics in Hong Kong (1949-1979): The Paradox of Political Indifference
[Miss Lam was honoured the Best Dissertation Award (Ph.D. category) 2001-02 by the Hong Kong Political Science Association] |
| 2000 |
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| WAN Pengfei 萬鵬飛 |
An Institutional Analysis of Chinese Urban Local Governance: Case Studies of Urban Residential Committees |
| Mely CABALLERO-ANTHONY |
Regional Organizations and Regional Security: The Role of Regional organizations in Conflict Management - the Case of ASEAN |
| 1999 |
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| Peter Lovelock |
The Evolution of China's National Information Infrastructure (NII): A Policy-making Analysis |
| LEUNG Yin Hung |
State and Society: The Emergence and Marginalization of Political Parties in Hong Kong |
| 1998 |
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| Julian Garza |
China's Bilateral Relations with the United States as a Source of Political risk Associated with Foreign Portfolio Equity Investment in China |
| Trini Wing-yue Leung |
The Politics of Labour Rebellions in China,1989-1994 |
| 1997 |
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| Raymond W.K. Lau |
The Socio-Political Impact of Economic Reforms and the Nature of the 1989 Mass Movement in Beijing |
| Johannes Richard Lombardo |
United States' Foreign Policy Towards the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong During the Early Cold War Period, 1945-1964 |
| Teresa S. Encarnacion |
Non-Governmental Organization Approaches to Cooperative Development: Two Case Studies of the Philippine Experience |
| 1996 |
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| Kang Kwon, Myung Hee |
Economic Growth and Urban Poverty in Hong Kong and Seoul |
| YEUNG Law Koon Chui |
Intergroup Relationships and the Political Orientation of Chinese Youth |
| WONG Charm Li |
Government-Business Relations in Hong Kong, 1945-1993 |
| LUI Kwok Man |
Construction and Testing of Causal Models in Voting Behaviour with Reference to Hong Kong |
| Gauld Robin D.C. |
Policy Processing in Theory and Practice: Health Reform in Hong Kong and New Zealand |
| 1995 |
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| Tubilewicz Czeslaw |
The Evolving Relations Between the People's Republic of China and East Central European: 'Strategic' Triangularism to 'Pragmatic' Bilateralism |
| 1990 |
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| CHAN Yuen Tak Fai, Dorothy |
A study of transport policy formulation in Hong Kong |
| 1989 |
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| Jose Oliveira de Barros |
Elites and democracy: the role of advisory committees in Hong Kong |
| 1987 |
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| LAM Tak Man, Jermain |
Nonalignment: the policy and the movement 1961-1986 |
| 1976 |
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| H.J. Widdowson |
The influence of Islam on the formation of the foreign policy of Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia |