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Sweden’s security policy has shifted significantly in recent years, prompting new ways of legitimizing military engagement. This study explores how the Swedish Armed Forces use language and narrative to manage this transformation by analysing two editions of their “soldier manuals” from 2005 and 2023. Drawing on theories of strategic narratives and ontological security, the study examines how thes

Ukraine is a war-torn society polarised by language, among other things. Examining Ukrainian civilians through the scope of everyday peace, a post-liberal local agency is given to people whose identity is threatened. This thesis researches everyday peace across the Ukrainian language divide during war to determine how the war impacts everyday actions, explanations, and the applicability of the the

This thesis examines how consultation bodies – including economic institutions, universities, government authorities and civil society organizations – reproduce economic-political discourses in their responses to the government’s proposed reform of the Swedish fiscal framework (FOU24:76). Although Sweden has a longstanding tradition of incorporating experts, such as scholars and economists in the

This thesis explores the beginning of the opioid crisis and the ways in which the liberal welfare system and its principles have led to the lack of regulation of prescription opioids from both Health Canada and the FDA of the United States. The focus of this research is on the impetus to the overprescription of opioids, which started with the creation of Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin. The thesis focus

This thesis examines how offensive realism can explain China’s violations of international law in the South China Sea (SCS). Drawing on John Mearsheimer’s five bedrock assumptions: anarchy, offensive capability, uncertainty of intentions, survival as a primary goal, and rationality, the study uses the congruence method within a qualitative case study framework. It assesses whether China’s violatio

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a protracted dispute between the states Armenia and Azerbaijan. This study develops a framework for how dependence on Russia affected the conflict outcome in 2020-2023. The framework explains the possible effects of an asymmetric relationship between the great power Russia and two weaker powers in Armenia and Azerbaijan while in a violent conflict. In the quantitat

This master’s thesis concerns the problem of how subject teachers go about the task of basing their teachings on research knowledge, as it is stated for them in the Swedish education act. Some challenges for teachers lie in staying up to date with relevant research-based findings in all the areas that the teaching profession encompasses and orienting themselves in an overwhelming and complex infor

Background: The world is facing immense challenges regarding resource depletion, sustainable development and climate change. The European Union has made a commitment to being the first climate neutral continent with the initiative The European Green Deal. One of the regulations in the Green deal is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. A key component is the Digital Product Passport (

Recent years have seen a declining role of Western actors and international organisations in peace processes. Meanwhile, emerging powers have increasingly engaged as mediators in contemporary conflicts. This dynamic is particularly evident in the Ukraine war, where several emerging powers have launched a variety of peacemaking initiatives. Among these, Türkiye and Saudi Arabia have assumed the lea

Bakgrund: Klimakteriet är en fas som alla kvinnor går igenom och den kan variera i längd. Klimakteriet innebär att hormonnivåerna går ner vilket kan påverka kroppen på olika sätt och det är inte ovanligt att sexualiteten förändras. Dock är varje kvinnas upplevelse av klimakteriet individuell vilket är viktigt att beakta. Minskad lust och nedsatt lubrikation är vanligt förekommande förändringar un

Bakgrund: Transpersoner som genomgår graviditet och förlossning är en särskilt utsatt grupp som kan möta utmaningar inom mödra- och förlossningsvården. Tidigare forskning indikerar att bemötandet från vårdpersonal, såsom barnmorskor, påverkas av strukturella normer i samhället. Dessa strukturella normer kan ha betydelse för upplevelsen av trygghet och tillit i vården samt för den psykiska hälsan u

This study examines how the differing transitional justice approaches in Argentina and Chile after the military dictatorships in the late 20th century affected the possibility for reconciliation between the state and its citizens. Despite similar histories of authoritarian rule, widespread human rights abuses and the use of truth commissions, these countries chose different paths during the transi

Iceland's long-term care system faces significant challenges, marked by persistent fragmentation between health and social care sectors. Despite a rapidly aging population and repeated calls for reform, a major policy shift towards full integration, similar in impact to the foundational 1983 Act on the Affairs of the Elderly which held the promise of integration, has not materialized. This res

The discrete Bak-Sneppen model is a Markov chain describing the co-evolution of n species arranged in a one-dimensional circular lattice with periodic boundary conditions. Each species i at time t is assigned a fitness value xi(t) ∈ {0,1} and the system evolves through local interactions: at each time step, a species with fitness 0 is selected, and its fitness—along with that of its two neighbors—

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of 2024 TikTok has become an integral platform for sharing news about the war. The rise of TikTok has created an environment where everybody with an account can access, post and share content they deem to be news, fundamentally altering the news-landscape of conflict. These unprecedented changes to war reporting raise several questions: how is news

This thesis deals with Palestinian asylum seekers’ resistance to Swedish bureaucracy. In the context of increased restrictiveness of migration policies and a larger Palestinian solidarity movement, the study explores themes of resistance. It aims to formulate knowledge on resistance in the case of Palestinian asylum-seekers in Malmö. To do so, this study utilizes Foucauldian governmentality, which

This study examines the role of small state soft power in shaping relations with external actors, using Rwanda as a case study. Rwanda’s military involvement in the escalating conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) stands in contrasts with the positive international image it has cultivated since the 1994 genocide. The country has positioned itself as an economic hub and enhance

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 significantly changed the Swedish security environment and prompted Sweden to apply for membership in NATO. The military budget has since doubled, and procurement of military equipment has increased by three times. Thereby Sweden had begun its most extensive military build-up since the 1950s and its policy of non-alignment that had persisted for over 200 yea

This thesis examines how the Swedish climate activist group Rebellmammorna perform nonviolent resistance through the lens of micro-sociology and the concept of maternal activism. As a branch of Extinction Rebellion (XR), Rebellmammorna mobilize around a maternalist frame, using peaceful protest tactics such as silent sit-ins, slow marches, and symbolic acts to demand urgent climate action. While c

This thesis examines how the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) in Myanmar has employed nonviolent acts of resistance to challenge the military regime following the 2021 coup. It does so by departing from the micro-sociology of peace and conflict, with specific attention to the micro-sociology of nonviolent resistance. Guided by qualitative content analysis, supported by both visual and textual mat