Vi har undersökt jämställdhetspolicyarbetet vid Lunds universitet med hjälp av Carol Lee Bacchis metod What’s the problem?. Denna postmoderna metod bygger på antagandet om att problem skapas i policyarbete genom de sätt som de representeras på. Syftet har varit att undersöka vad jämställdhet representeras som inom universitetsvärlden och vad detta får för effekter. Vi har använt oss av material i

The purpose of this thesis is to study the construction of group identities and their political significance in the texts of two Swedish party leaders: Göran Hägglund (KD) and Jimmie Åkesson (SD). The aim is also to relate these identities to the more general political discourse of the respective leaders. The empirical material has been studied within a discourse theoretical framework, drawing upo

Utvecklingen av EU:s migrationspolitik har kritiserats för att vara restriktiv och säkerhetsinriktad, då utformningen av den försvårar invandring in till unionen. Ett överstatligt samarbetsområde för frihet, säkerhet och rättvisa har skapats där migrationspolitik sammankopplas med bland annat gränsbevakningspolitik och gränsöverskridande brottsbekämpning. Syftet med denna uppsats är att genom att

EU:s och Rysslands maktutövande över Moldavien framställs ofta som mycket olika, men den här uppsatsen visar på att det i båda fallen handlar om liknande postkoloniala strukturer – skillnaden ligger i vilken form av makt man använder inom dessa strukturer. Uppsatsen har som syfte att utifrån ett postkolonialt perspektiv och genom ett tillämpande av Joseph Nyes begrepp hård och mjuk makt, undersöka

En beständig demokrati förutsätter enligt deliberativa och deltagardemokratiska ideal ett samhälle med demokratiskt engagerade medborgare. Dessa behöver då ges någon form av demokratisk fostran. Enligt vår tes kan de få detta genom ideellt idrottsengagemang. Vår undersökning syftar till att undersöka huruvida demokratisk fostran erhållits hos ideellt aktiva ungdomar inom fotboll och ridsport. Vi h

I Afghanistan har säkerhetsläget gradvis försämrats sedan den amerikansk- och brittiskledda invasionen 2001. Ett antal motståndsgrupper har gradvis flyttat fram sina positioner och bidrar starkt till denna utveckling. John Stephen Stedman har i artikeln ”Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes” (1997) skapat ett teoretiskt ramverk för kategorisering och hantering av grupper som saboterar fredprocesser

Integrationspolitiken i Sverige och Danmark skiljer sig markant ifrån de annars så lika grannländerna i norr. Det riktas en stark kritik mot Danmarks alltför stränga invandrarpolitik, tillskillnad från Sverige som ställer relativt få naturalisationskrav på sina ”nya medborgare”. Kopplingen mellan synen på medborgarskap och länders val av integrationspolitik saknas i tidigare forskning. I denna upp

My intention with this essay is to analyze documents from the Untied Nations to provide a deeper understanding of the debates that are taking place today concerning climate change and its security dimensions. There are two different security perspectives that can be applied on the climate change debates. The first one is called the national security perspective and has its roots in realism. This p

This study examines the effects of changes in macroeconomic variables on sovereign CDS spreads for the countries within the PIIGS block. We run regressions for the countries individually and with the inclusion of Germany as a benchmark. In addition to study the whole time period (2004Q1-2009Q3), we divided it into two sub-periods, the first being financially stable and the second being characteriz

In the year 2000, the Swedish Parliament adopted the bill ”From patient to citizen – a national action plan for the disability policy”. One of the key goals in this action plan was to turn Sweden into a society accessible for all, latest by 2010. Now, ten years later, it is obvious that the goal is not implemented. The main objectives for my research is to find out the main reasons for why the goa

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the ways the Common European Asylum System is portrayed from security and human rights perspectives. In order to do this the author conducts a case study of two main legislative acts in the area of asylum in the EU – the Dublin II Regulation and the Eurodac Regulation and proceeds with a discourse analysis of texts taken from different sources – European Co

Augustenborg is suburb city in Malmö south of Sweden. The climate is temperate with occasional snow during the winter. Open storm water is applied in Augustenborg since late 1990s and the storm water is disconnected from the combined sewer system in order to give the area a lift up value and to solve the flooding problems in basements after heavy rainfall events. The new open system consists of po

The Swedish head of state is a constitutional monarch. 2010 is an election year and in June Crown Princess Victoria will marry her fiancé Daniel Westling. The debate in the media surrounding the form of government and issues related to the monarchy is more relevant than ever. The SOM-institute at Gothenburg University has concluded that the Swedish people’s support for the monarchy relatively str

In the past decade the European Union has established itself as an actor in Civilian Crisis Management. This process has been accompanied by a set-up and development of various institutions and concepts that guide the work in this field. As well as in other areas of European foreign policy, in Civilian Crisis Management a gap between policy-making and outcome can be identified. Taking this as a st

The production of animalistic food has prooven to be environmentally harmful in several ways, and since it is hard to solve the problem through measures directed towards the production, it may be relevant as a political scientist to investigate; how we might use political instruments to lower the consumption of meat, assuming we want the instruments to be cost-effective and legitimate. I've s

The current development approach to reduce poverty is through participation which is thought to lead to empowerment. Empowerment is a state where people actively make informed choices that benefits them. The Kenya Water for Heath Organization (KWAHO) has been working extensively with participatory water management projects together with capacity building in Kenya, with the aim of empowering its pa

The turbulence of the war in the Balkans has been an external motivation for a rapid development of the European foreign policy, to establish security and stability through various instruments. It implied intensification to initiate a foreign policy towards integration of the Western Balkans i.e. through economic and political assistance provided by the Stability Pact (SP) & the Stabilisation

Following a military coup in 2006 the Pacific island-nation of Fiji has become an increasingly autocratic state. The international community has responded by imposing sanctions against Fiji. These sanctions are mainly targeted sanctions consisting of visa bans and restriction on financial flows, as well as diplomatic sanction, which aim to force the Fijian regime to hold elections and return the c

This bachelor thesis contains the justification of Guantanamo Bay. How the U.S.A has justified Guantanamo Bay and how the Human Rights Watch has rejected U.S.A's arguments. This study about Human Rights Watch's and U.S.A's argumentation regarding Guantanamo Bay, has been reconstructed and interconnected with ethical perspectives as rule-based action, end-based action and the problem of