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Say no to racism?: FIFAs antirasism ur ett postkolonialt perspektiv
(2013-10-09)The purpose of this thesis is to historically describe how Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) interprets how the discourse of anti-racism has developed within their own organization throughout the ... -
Securing the Heterosexual State: A study of the political debate surrounding homosexuality in Uganda
(2015-12-02)In 2009 a Ugandan Member of Parliament presented the so called Anti Homosexuality Bill to the Ugandan parliament. The Bill offers extensive restrictions in order to combat homosexuality, which is already a crime in Uganda. ... -
Securitizing the Virtuality of the Real: A Gramscian Analysis of the Securitization of U.S. Cyberspace Governance.
(2013-05-07)This thesis analyzes the contemporary conformations of governance in the U.S. discourse on cyberspace through a Gramscian theory of International Relations. The thesis primarily focuses upon the question of governance ... -
Somaliska pirater - ett mycket litet problem: En undersökning av Sveriges arbete gällande frågan om somaliska pirater under 2009-2010.
(2013-10-16)During 2009-2010 Sweden participated in an international military operation whose intention, according to the Swedish news media, was to fight Somali pirates. The purpose of this thesis is to study various decisions and ... -
Suveränitet kontra humanitär intervention i Libyen 2011
(2013-07-19)For one month during the beginning of 2011, the world followed the violent events in Libya. During this time the United Nations was faced with a complex question, could they handle the ongoing violence and find a solution ... -
Sveriges politik för global utveckling: En uppsats om de fattigas perspektiv samt rättighetsperspektivet i den svenska handelspolitiken
(2015-02-02)Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur de fattigas- samt rättighetsperspektivet kommer till uttryck i Sveriges politik för global utveckling. Uppsatsen ämnar också att diskutera samstämmighetspolitikens prestation ... -
(Swift) sanctions and the rise of parallel payment systems: A qualitative study of financial infrastructure and power dynamics in times of FinTech
(2023-10-05)In 2022, the West imposed sanctions of unprecedented scale on Russia following the war in Ukraine, including severing Moscow from the main global financial message provider, Swift, with the objective to harm the ability ... -
“The natural evolution of non-alignment” A qualitative case study of how Sweden’s identity as non-aligned is reconstructed through narratives in a changing security context
(2022-02-02)Sweden’s defence policy is characterized by non-alignment, which historically has meant avoiding military alliances to stay neutral in war. This policy of non-alignment is over 200 years old and deeply ingrained into Swedish ... -
The Role of Buddhism in Society and Radical Buddhist Mobilization: An Explorative Study of Young Monks in Sri Lanka
(2015-06-15)Radical Buddhist mobilization in post-war Sri Lanka is taking place in an international context where religious groups are gaining a lot of attention in for instance media and by political leaders as well as by researchers. ... -
Them vs Us - The ontological significance of identity and (in)security in the Cold Conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia
(2019-12-17)In recent years, identity has become increasingly important within the field of International Relations and in studies of conflict. This has led to the widening of the field with the help of perspectives from the field of ... -
Varför har European Civil Peace Corps inte bildats?: En studie om civilt fredsbevarande, maktutövande och kämpande diskurser.
(2013-03-26)The purpose of this study is to find out why the EU has not yet implemented the European Civil Peace Corps (ECPC), which the EU Parliament took a resolution about in 1999. The more specific questions posed are whether ... -
Vi måste hjälpa dom stackars flyktingarna: En kritisk diskursanalys av hjälpande, medlidande och andrafiering i Facebook-gruppen "Grannar i Torslanda"
(2018-03-21)This single case study conducted with critical discourse analysis on qualitative interviews and comment fields, aims to critically reflect on the significance of the postcolonial concept of othering. Therefore, the first ... -
What are the odds of civil war? Investigating the relationship between quality of government, voter turnout, civil war, and the Democratic peace theory
(2023-10-05)The aim of this thesis is to quantitatively investigate the relationship between the quality of government, voter turnout, and civil war. By doing a hypothesistesting analysis through logistic regression. The hypothesis ... -
World in Conflict - The Case of Libya, The United Nations & NATO
(2017-05-09)This essay outlines the Libyan civil war in 2011 and describes the role that some of the involved actors came to play through out the conflict; furthermore, it puts a strong focus on the NATO-led intervention in the region ...