Global Affairs students have pursued a wide range of research questions for their senior capstone projects. Here is the list of Global Affairs capstone topics organized by cohort:
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- Towards A State-Driven Model of Environmental Governance: A Cross-Comparison of Southeast Asia
- Understanding the American Educational Aid Identity in Mindanao
- In what Ways are 5G Partnerships as part of the Digital Silk Road changing the way of Chinese foreign policy action?
- Representing Refugee Voices in UN Conferences
- Nationalism: An Ideational Explanation to the Failure of a Material Problem in Sino-Japanese Relations
- Asymmetric War Initiation by Weaker States
- Investigating the Effectiveness of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) and Deradicalization Programs on Women formerly involved with Terrorist Networks
- Development and History of Consultative Institutions in Singapore
- The Dynamics of Creative Migration: Case Study of Bulgarian Migrant Artists in Berlin
- How Singapore's Mass Schooling is Shaped by Economic Incentives
- Becoming Singaporean: Assessing the effectiveness of citizenship test in Singapore
- Protectionism in the Football World: A study
- How to win Friends and Influence people: China's Medical Diplomacy
- How do Female Parliamentarians in Sri Lanka enable Female Political Participation and what Processes do they use to gain Power?
- A Snapshot of Singaporean Youth: Understanding How Citizenship Education Fosters Political Engagement in Singapore
- Singapore’s Bicultural Huaren Elite: Vulnerabilities and Attitudinal Effects of State Sinicisation Programmes
- Rethinking "Illegal"Migration: The Relationship between Legal Immigration Policy and Regularization Policy
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- Populism and Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia: The Cases of Joko Widodo and Rodrigo Duterte
- Signaling in Chinese Foreign Policy: Role of Nationalism on Social Media
- Regime Insecurity and Norm Adoption: The Impact of Domestic Politics on State Socialisation
- Big Brother of the Region: An Examination of Regional Hegemons' Treatment of Subordinate States
- Fight or Flight: Civil Airspace Disputes and Why They Occur
- Gender Stereotypes and Their Effects on Women Politicians and Democracy in South Korea
- The State and Well-Being of Immigrants: Case of Marriage Migrant Women in South Korea
- Effects of Border Crossing Frequency and Ethnicity on the Integration of Malaysian Workers in Singapore
- Examining the Effect of Chaebol Endorsement on Voting Behavior in South Korea
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- Profit or Food Security?: Chinese Agricultural Investment in Australia
- Diagnosing the Belt and Road Initiative in Malaysia: China's Intentional Design or Poor Implementation
- Rethinking Return: The Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Possibility of Repatriation
- Conflicting Loyalties: A Photojournalistic Inquiry into Hong Kong's Public Space
- Bandwagoning for Autonomy: Cambodia's Relations with China and the US since 1997
- Unity through Cuisine: Food as a Tool of Nation Building and National Identity in Singapore
- Understanding his Excellency's Visit: Applying Social Science Fiction to Dictatorships
- Corruption's Intersection with Electoral Margins of Victory: A Study of Single-Party Dominant States
- After Insurgency: Coalition Forces and Violence in Post-Conflict Environments
- Is Made in Japan Drowning?: Platform Strategies of Japanese Water Utility Companies
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- Female Political Participation in Indonesia: Electoral Success and Incumbency
- Migration Infrastructures behind New Migration Flows
- Right-wing Politics and Multiculturalism in the UK
- Upsetting the Normalcy: China’s Reactive Assertiveness to US Involvement in the South China Sea
- Investigating the Effectiveness of Omni-Enmeshment in Southeast Asia
- The Cybernetics Model and Status Seeking Strategies in China (*Winner of the Tan Ming Seng Prize for Chinese Studies)
- Microfinance for India’s Poorest: A Randomised Control Trial for Avanti Finance (Policy Outcome Capstone)
- Barriers to Access to Healthcare for FDWs in Singapore
- Between Altruism, Need, and Strategy
- Government and Corporate Gender Quotas: A European Case Study Analysis
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- Japan’s Post-Conflict Economic Diversion to the ASEAN Region
- Nationalist Protests, Authoritarian Signaling, and Crisis Bargaining: Vietnamese Nationalism, China & the South China Sea Conflict
- Measuring the Menstrual Stigma: The Correlation between Menstrual Hygiene Management and Secondary Education in Nepal
- Solving the Puzzle of Chinese Foreign Policy in Africa
- The Evolution of Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy in the face of a Rising China
- The Role of Ideology in the Processes of Political Legitimization of Armed Insurgencies: A Case Study Exploration of Columbia’s Armed Insurgent Groups
- Evaluating the Significance of Degrading Links in al-Qaeda
- Normative Transfer from the International to the Domestic: Japan’s Level of Adherence to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Japan’s Regional HA/DR Cooperation Efforts – U.S. Involvement, China’s Foreign Policy Responses, and Strategic Implications for Japan
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