The past five years, Northern Africa and the Middle East have been characterized by revolutions and civil wars. Today, we can see two major civil wars raging in the region, one in Libya and another in Syria. In 2011, the UN Security Council (UNSC) passed resolutions that would ultimately lead to a military intervention in Libya, with the purpose to protect civilians from the regime. This intervent

This feminist research thesis focuses on Swedish women’s narratives about their own safety and vulnerability in public spaces. Earlier research, and also many feminist theories, claims that people are seeing women as victims and has an idea that women are in constant need of protection. The aim of the thesis is to make women’s personal standpoints about their lives visible. I used feminist securit

In this thesis I provide Swedish evidence suggesting that homeownership affects left-right orientation, a dimension that structures politics to a large extent in this country. While homeownership is a largely omitted variable in studies on political views, the home one owns is the most important asset of many Swedes today. I thus expect it to affect political views via its economic value. Using or

This thesis by using quantitative and qualitative data investigates the new forms of social and political collective action that rose after the financial crisis of 2009 in Greece. It attempts to study the rise of Informal Civil Society Organizations (ICSO) through the use of the research question, how can we understand the rise of informal civil society organizations in Greece after the onset of t

Identity. A widely discussed subject analyzed in this thesis. The intent of the thesis is to perform a discourse analysis of how Russian identity is constructed and how it transforms in time. This is realized by utilizing the theories and deconstructing methods by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. In addition Laclau, Mouffe and Slavoj Žižeks related theories on construction of political identitie

Under det senaste seklet har det svenska samhället utvecklats från att ha varit ett industrisamhälle till att bli ett kunskapssamhälle. Denna utveckling har inneburit att s.k. kunskapsföretag har kommit att få en alltmer central roll i samhället. Kunskapsföretag kännetecknas av att de främst bedriver kunskapsproduktion och inte materiell produktion. Det är de anställdas kunskap som utgör kunskapsfDuring the last century, the Swedish society has developed from being an industrial towards becoming a knowledge-based society. As a consequence, so-called knowledge management-companies have come to occupy a central role in society. Knowledge management-companies ́ primary production is knowledge and not matter. Since the employees possess the knowledge, they are the most valuable resources of th

This essay is a concept analysis of women empowerment in Swedish foreign aid. It aims to clarify different views of empowerment with the help of earlier research. With help of this concept analysis a case study is conducted on an international training program led by the organisation International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD). The case study attempts to portray how a giver and a receiver of f

The last few decades have witnessed the expansion of the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the policy-making process, a phenomenon referred to as “judicialization”. This shift of legislative power from the legislators to the judges inevitably has consequences for all the different interests involved. The aim of the thesis is to study the phenomenon of judicialization in the EU

Våga tala-kursen har under flera år funnits tillgänglig för studenter vid en högskola som behandling för talängslan. Behandlingen har bedrivits i grupp, med inriktning mot KBT. Den här studien syftade till att med kvantitativa metoder i form av självskattningsformulär undersöka effekten av denna behandling. Studiens frågeställning var om deltagarna i en våga tala-kurs skattade upplevda symtom och The Dare to speak course (“Våga tala”) has for several years been available to students at a college as a treatment for speech anxiety. The treatment was conducted in a groupformat, and based on CBT principles. This study aimed to investigate the effect of this treatment, using quantitative methods in the form of self-assessment questionnaires. The study's research question was whether the par

Virtual currencies have recently emerged at the intersection of Internet and finance, bringing unprecedented innovations in payment systems, money and finance. In particular, Bitcoin is examined as the first example of virtual currency, dating back to 2009. Ever since virtual currencies emerged, they received increased attention from public, private and societal regulators, especially in the field

The national Swedish election in 2014 resulted in The Sweden Democrats holding ultimate balance of power between the two major party-blocs. The party used its newfound power to strike the government’s budget proposition which caused the prime minister to call for an extra election. In order to restrain this political authority the red-green government and the Alliance established The December Agre

This study adds to the research within the theories of Securitization and the Communicational Revolution, while focusing on a combination of the two for establishing and examine a securitization process of the Communicational Revolution within the Swedish Armed Forces. The studied case consists of four security reports written by the Swedish Defense Preparation, which are gathered from the Swedish

During the last decades, research on motivation in creativity has mainly focused on examining how intrinsic and extrinsic motivators influence creative behavior, whereas little is known about effects of prosocial motivational processes on creative idea generation. The current study investigated how prosocial motivation affects creativity, ideational fluency and persistence. A sample of 40 Swedish

Although the Cold War was thought to be a part of history, Russia has in recent years increased their military capacity and activity which is interpreted by the West as a threat which needs to be addressed. This study aims to present how Sweden has changed its view regarding Russia with time and also to explain why this change has occurred. Although Russia may be constituting a larger threat now t

The purpose of this thesis is to study in what way Christiania has changed as an effect of the agreement signed with the Danish state in 2011. The thesis is written from a right to the city perspective, trying to find out in what ways the christianites possibilities to change themselves through changing their local area has been effected. Beyond that my purpose has also been to find out if the cha

The aim of this study was to investigate how the democratization of Kosovo has developed and to inquire the influence from the United Nations on Kosovo’s democracy. To achieve my purpose with the study I investigated the standards that the UN had set for Kosovo and the results from Freedom House and Human Rights Watch. I used the theoretical framework that affect peacebuilding and democratization.

Principen om barnets bästa är en grundläggande princip inom den svenska och internationella barnrätten. Barnets bästa ska vara i främsta rummet vid alla åtgärder som rör barn och är en av barnkonventionens viktigaste grundpelare. Denna uppsats är avsedd att granska vilken innebörd begreppet barnets bästa är avsett att ha enligt barnkonventionen och utlänningslagen. Avsikten är även att granska hurThe principle of the best interests of the child is a fundamental part of both Swedish and international children´s rights: in all actions concerning children, the best interest of the child should at least be a primary consideration. This is a foundation principle of the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The aim of this thesis is to examine what meaning the principle of the best inte

This study seeks an understanding of how Facebook users cope with the impact of anti-tobacco shock advertising by posting comments on Facebook. It also clarifies how healthcare organisations help these people re-construct themselves online after they have been shocked. The effectiveness of shock advertising at changing harmful behaviours has been extensively studied in the field of strategic commu

The European labour market is increasingly characterized by uncertain working conditions and precarious employment conditions. The Swedish Social Democrats (S) and the Swedish trade union Landsorganisationen (LO) have, due to these circumstances, developed a report which aims to address the development of the European labour market. The problem is that their definition of security is not consisten

The current debate on different models of global democracy has at times pitted proponents of ’statist’, ’cosmopolitan’, and ’pluralistic’ perspectives against each other, each claiming to represent perspectives fulfilling normative criteria for maintaining democratic legitimacy in a wider global and transnational sphere. This paper sets out to act in defence of one of these models in particular, n