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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Humanitarian Law: A mixed-methods study to understand and explain how states’ position themselves vis-à-vis lethal autonomous weapons systems compliance with international humanitarian law
(2020-11-17)
The purpose of this study is to understand and explain how states’ position themselves vis-à-vis lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL). It is important to understand ...
Hur motiveras svensk biståndspolitik genom diskurser om säkerhet?: En kritisk diskursanalys av policyramverket för svenskt utvecklingssamarbete och humanitärt bistånd (2016)
(2021-07-07)
This essay is a critical discourse analysis of representations of security that are visible in the Swedish aid policy. The text aims to analyse discourses of security, through lenses of poststructuralist critique, in the ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Ensamkommande barn: En diskursanalys av den retoriska utvecklingen i USA
(2021-09-02)
Syftet med det här arbetet är att undersöka åtta kommittémöten i den amerikanska kongressens representanthus för att se hur retoriken ser ut kring ensamkommande barn för åren 2015–2019. Specifikt innebär detta att med hjälp ...
“Det mäktigaste landet i världen”: En diskursanalys av USA:s identitetsskapande genom kärnvapenstrategi under president Obama respektive Trump
(2022-04-07)
This bachelor thesis analyzes how identity is constructed through US nuclear strategy along
three themes. The research questions are: which similarities and differences exist between the
US nuclear strategy during ...
Local Entertainers in Cebu, Philippines: Entertainment and Sex Work: The Struggle for Empowerment
(2022-11-09)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine why local women in Cebu, Philippines, chose to work as
entertainers and sex workers. It will examine how their occupation affect their daily lives, in
regard to their economy ...
National identity and foreign policy: An analysis of the performative in Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy and the Swedish national identity
(2023-02-09)
Viewing Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) as a paradigmatically case of national
identity formulation, this thesis overarching aim is to answer the following research question:
to what extent is Sweden’s national ...
BRI- En idé om en ny värld som materialiseras genom infrastruktur? En kritisk diskursanalys om hur BRI:s nyckeldokument utmanar idéer och normer inom den globala styrningen Katarina Hedencrona
(2021-02-09)
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a Chinese infrastructure project, initiated in 2013, with
a plan to be finished in 2049. The project has received a great amount of media attention and
has been scrutinized carefully ...
(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 ...