Research Postgraduates
Recent successfully completed and orally defended theses:
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil)
2023 |
YUAN Minjun 袁旻君 |
Navigating Across Cross-border Regional Innovation Systems: Institutional Entrepreneurs in China’s Greater Bay Area |
2022 |
BAI Yunpeng 白雲鵬 |
Authoritarian Cue Effect of State Repression |
Myat Aung Kaung |
Burmese Nationalism Under the Military Junta: Elite Manipulation and Grassroots Contention |
NI Jiaqian 倪佳倩 |
Behavior, Identity, and Incongruency: When and How Are Political Attitudes Moved? |
2021 |
CHOI Wai Tak, Douglas 蔡偉德 |
Justifying Exclusion: Freedom of Association, Territorial Rights, and the State’s Right to Exclude Immigrants |
KWOK Yiu Chung 郭耀聰 |
State-society Relations and Public Consultation in Hong Kong: A State-in-society Approach |
WOODS Andrew Nicholas |
Jus ad Bellum and the Korean War: Evaluating the Conflict and Testing the Theory |
2020 |
LI La, Larry 李拉 |
How is “China Insult” Deployed to Mobilise Political Support among Overseas Chinese Community for the Chinese Communist Party? |
TONG Kin Long 唐健朗 |
One Cross-Boundary City Region, Two Discourse, Many Storylines: A Discursive Analysis of Hong Kong – Pearl River Delta Integration |
WANG Bin, Oscar 王彬 |
Institutional Diversity and the Governance of Irrigation Commons in Rural China: Examining Ostrom’s Design Principles under Chinese Fragmented Authoritarianism |
ZHAO Lingbo 趙凌波 |
Alliances as Fair-weather Friendships: External Threats and Alliance Stability |
2019 |
SHANG Zheng 尚 正 |
A Critique of Alan Patten’s Neutrality as Equal Accommodation on the Necessity of Radicalizing Liberal Neutrality |
ZHANG Daiding 張岱鼎 |
Governing Innovation in China: Institutions, Policies, and Outcomes |
Doctor of Philosophy
2024 |
XIE Mengqi |
Regulatory oversight and information disclosure tools of information management for authoritarian environmentalism |
LIU Siyang |
Peripheral Nationalism in China and beyond: A Cross-regional study of Hong Kong, the Baltic state and Kazakhstan |
2023 |
FENG Naikang 馮乃康 |
Unpacking Adaptation in Implementation: The Case of China’s Food Safety Policy |
MA Rongzhen 馬荣真 |
The Role, Burden, and Capture of Regulatory Intermediaries: NGOs in China's Environmental Public Interest Litigation System |
2022 |
HAN Xiao 韓 蕭 |
Chinese Military Thinking of Surprise |
ANGIOLILLO Fabio |
Party Membership in Autocracies: Ruling Parties' Recruitment Strategies and Organizational Strength |
KANG Siqin 康思勤 |
The Inclination of Leviathan: The Expansion and Maintenance of Coercive Capacity in China |
XIANG Chen 向 晨 |
Essays on China's Environmental Governance in Transition |
HEMSLEY Elizabeth |
Immigration Restrictions and the Liberal State: Does Liberalism Require Open Borders? |
NEO Qi Zhi 梁啟智 |
To Censor and Oppress: The Political and Discursive Weaponization of ‘Fake News’ by the Authoritarian State in Southeast Asia |
MUKHIN Nikolai |
The Modern Regency: A New Theory of Leadership Transition in Dictatorships and Regime Resilience: Evidence From Communist Single-party Regimes |
SADLER Michael Paul |
What Makes Military Reassurance Work? Restraint, Conciliation, and Reciprocation During the Cold War |
2021 |
MAO Yexin 毛葉昕 |
How Does an Authoritarian Regime Choose Its Business Collaborator? Evidence From Public-private Partnerships in China |
WANG Mengqiao, Felix 王夢橋 |
Compensation, Diversion, and the Conservation-Development Tradeoff: Field Evidence from China |
2020 |
AL-SUDAIRI Mohammed Turki A |
Fighting the Many Smoke-less Wars: A Comparative Study of the Origins, Conceptualizations and Practices of Cultural Security in China and Saudi Arabia |
CUI Can 崔 璨 |
Remaking Water Regime: The Process of Institutional Change in China |
FUNG Wai King, Winston 馮為敬 |
China as a Norm Entrepreneur Disseminating a Humane Authority Model in International Society |
LIM Kirk 林駿傑 |
The Rise of Localism in Hong Kong: A Study of Discursive Formation |
2019 |
HTET Zaw |
The Problem of Social Integration: A Case Study of Muslims in Transitional Myanmar |
KWONG Ying Ho 鄺英豪 |
Politics of Assimilative Autonomy: Comparative Analysis of Central-peripheral Relations in Hong Kong and Macao under Chinese Sovereignty |
SONG Young, Annie 宋 英 |
Linking the Environment and Free Trade Agreements |
WU Jie 吳 洁 |
Hospital on Fire: Politicized Medical Dispute Resolution in China |
XIONG Cai 熊 彩 |
Revolution, Ideas and Violence in Policy Implementation: A Comparative Research on Birth Control Policy Implementation in Two Provinces in China |
YUEN Wing Han, Vera 阮穎嫻 |
Social Policy Change in a Hybrid Regime – The Case of Retirement Protection in Hong Kong |
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