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Arktis utgör ett av de minst utvecklade internationella regioner i världen. Trots politiska initiativ som arktiska rådet och liknande existerar det inte idag något övergripande legalt ramverk för att adressera flertalet juridiska dispyter och kontroverser. Jordens klimatförändring, främst på grund av en ökning av koldioxid i atmosfären, har resulterat i ett Arktis som skiljer sig markant mot det vThe Arctic is one of the most severe and least developed international regions in the world. Despite arrangements such as the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and its successor the Arctic Council, there is no existing viable multi-lateral Arctic body. Pari passu, earth’s climate change, primarily due to an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, is rapidly re-forming the Arctic. The

Icelandic authorities implemented capital controls in October 2008, in a response to the global financial crisis and to prevent outflow of foreign reserves. This was done to protect the Icelandic krona from depreciating and to gain monetary autonomy. However, the operational activity of the pension funds in Iceland has been affected by this policy change, as the funds have been missing out on fore

The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze cash-for-care regulatory policies for the elderly long-term care in three countries, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and to seek policy implications in preparation for regulatory policies that are suitable for the direction of South Korea’s welfare state and the socio-cultural environment. For this purpose, each country’s cash-for-care regulatory po

Critical infrastructures must be both robust and resilient in order to ensure the functioning of society. A key activity in ensuring their proper function is finding and addressing system weaknesses by the means of risk and vulnerability analysis. A critical factor of such analysis is the ability to determine the negative consequences of various types of contingencies. Numerous mathematical and si

Microservice applications consist of a set of smaller services interacting in a graph structure to deliver the full application. Jobs will traverse this graph in different paths, both depending on the type of job, but also on the current load of different service replicas. Different paths will incur different scenario-specific costs, dependent on, e.g., deployment and the underlying cloud system.

Despite a common colonial past under the British empire, Singapore and Malaysia have experienced vastly different development paths since independence. While Singapore has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world today, Malaysia’s economy remains a mere third of that of Singapore’s. Despite the economic disparity between the two countries, the newly available data on well-being, as prese

Based on six interviews with employees at cultural institutions, this study investigates how events in support of Palestine were restricted by the Copenhagen municipality in the period between November 2023 and March 2024. Following Braun and Clarke’s (2022) approach to reflexive thematic analysis, I analyse the interviews and draw on theoretical perspectives regarding anti-Palestinian racism, cri

In the last years the use of lightweight fire fighting vehicles has become more common in Swedish fire and rescue services. These vehicles need some kind of suitable fire extinguishing system. The purpose of this report is to assist the fire and rescue services with information for the decision about which system to use. Six different systems (CCS Cobra, DSPA, Firexpress, Oertzen, One Seven and a

The upcoming negotiations on a global Arms Trade Treaty in July, 2012 mark a new development within arms control regimes. This thesis seeks to investigate the prospects and challenges towards the achievement of an Arms Trade Treaty. In doing so, it will adopt an ideational analysis in order to investigate the emergence of norms in small arms and how these have the potential to affect policy outcom

The aim of this study was to understand and explain which social and structural risk factors are behind young people choosing to commit criminal acts, in order to increase awareness of the problem. The method that was selected in this study was a qualitative method based on autobiographies and biographies. Four different autobiographies were used as empirical evidence and the analysis of the autob

In response to a period of low inflation and near-zero interest rates, the Swedish central bank initiated Quantitative Easing (QE) in 2015. While the impact of QE on bank lending has been studied in the US and UK, its effects in Sweden remains under-researched. We study the effects of QE on residential bank lending in Sweden through the liquidity, bank lending and bank capital channels. Using a on

This study investigates the cyber security threats and risks that are associated with forced teleworking during the period of Covid-19, when organizations have been forced to telework. Three different main aspects from two theories have been crucial when investigating the threats and risks associated with forced teleworking, which are the Social, Technical and Risk Tolerance aspects. This study