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Människohandel - en analys utifrån risk, hot och en ”medlidande politik”
(2024-09-23)I och med globaliseringsprocesser har synen på vad som är att betrakta som hot kommit att förändras. Den typ av militära hot som vi tidigare stått inför har blivit allt mer sällan förekommande och ersätts idag gradvis ... -
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Hur olika nationer framställs - En kritisk diskursanalys av Donald Trump
(2019-09-17)Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att belysa USA:s inflytande på konflikten mellan Israel och Palestina. Genom att titta närmare på hur Donald Trump porträtterar de olika aktörerna kan vi få en känsla för talets inverkan på ... -
Perceiving Terrorism: A survey experiment about how Swedish students define terrorism based on the perpetrator’s ethnicity
(2019-02-20)The purpose of this study is to analyze how students perceive the concept of terrorism based on the ethnicity ascribed to the perpetrator. Studies conducted in the US have shown that the public defines political violence ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Återkomsten av djungelns lag: om svensk arbetarrörelse och prekariatet
(2016-05-24)Hobbe’s Leviathan has not only proved important for the theory of International Relations. This explorative study suggests that Hobbe’s experiences from the British civil war (1648-51), “bellum omnium contra omnes”, and ... -
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. ... -
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. ... -
Euroskepticism i västeuropeiska storpartier: En jämförelsestudie av svenska Socialdemokraterna och brittiska Conservative Party
(2015-05-26)Denna studie jämför euroskepticismen inom två europeiska partier, Socialdemokraterna i Sverige och The Conservative and the Unionist Party i Storbritannien, i syfte att bidra till svaret på följande frågor: vilka faktorer ...
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