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This thesis investigates how authoritarian leaders justify the restructuring of state institutions and the dismissal of bureaucratic officials, with a focus on the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under President Trump's second administration. By applying a critical discourse analysis of two policy documents: an executive order and a memorandum, the study ex

Amidst global strategic rivalry and the growing politicization of interdependence and technology, structural influence within transnational economic systems underpinning high-tech industries has become an increasingly important source of strategic leverage. Within this context, this thesis investigates whether the European Union (EU) can derive geoeconomic power from its position in the global sem

This thesis explores the conditions and factors necessary for achieving sustainability and generating long term effects from collaborative projects in the public sector. Accordingly, this paper will examine a pilot crime prevention project in Lund municipality and investigate its conditions and resources to attain sustainable organizational structures. The paper is conducted in collaboration with

This thesis investigates the potential role of informal breaks within Scandinavian peace diplomacy, with a particular focus on the tradition of fika - a social coffee-break, put simply. While formal diplomatic processes are often the focus, we argue that informal moments such as fika can offer valuable opportunities for fostering additional trust, ease tensions, and encourage open dialogue in ways

In 1966, National Librarian Uno Willers expressed concerns about the condition of Sweden’s four legal deposit copies intended for long-term preservation. Since then, access has improved, internal library work has changed due to technological and societal developments, and the responsibility for long-term preservation has been reduced to two libraries – the National Library (KB) and Lund University

Bakgrund: Vattenfödsel erbjuds idag vid flera förlossningskliniker i Sverige till kvinnor med låg risk för förlossningskomplikationer. Trots dess växande popularitet finns fortsatt variation i tillgång, attityder och klinisk handläggning. Tidigare studier visar att barnmorskor ofta är positiva till vattenfödsel, men upplever begränsningar kopplade till riktlinjer, tekniska resurser och interprofes

The rise of digital services has reshaped the EU internal digital market and revealed significant shortcomings in EU competition law. In response, the EU introduced the Digital Markets Act (DMA), an ex-ante sector-specific legislative approach to address these issues. The DMA’s aim is to complement traditional competition law by addressing fairness and contestability within the internal market thr

This thesis examines how the sterilization requirement for transgender individuals who wanted to change their legal gender in Sweden between 1972 and 2013 was shaped in governmental invesigations (Statens offentliga utredningar) based on expert opinions and dominant descourses in society. The thesis has also investigated whether the sterilization requirement can be seen as a biopolitical practice.

This thesis examines how Sweden's security policies have changed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine and explores to what extent the invasion can explain the various changes. The study uses the combination of document analysis with both descriptive and explanatory case study to answer the two research questions. To broaden the debate the framework from Barry Buzan's book “People, States

Europe in the 1950:s was in a time of considerable change and prosperity. World War II resulted in a stronger state and a divergence in how Europe chose to finance their pension systems. The purpose of the research is to understand how the features of Esping-Andersen's ideal types change with the ATP-reform Sweden and the pension reform in West Germany in the 1950s, and how do they differ? A m

Northern Ireland has long been a case that has interested researchers in different disciplines. Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, it has attracted attention as a politically rare case within the UK. Its land border with the Republic of Ireland and history of conflict results in unique consequences post-Brexit. Analyzing the impact of the British media in shaping the way Northern Ireland was con

In recent years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the part that men play in governmental work concerning violence against women. Few research projects have focused on the Swedish context and the part that norm-changing interventions play in governmental work. This study investigates how much the Swedish government emphasizes norm altering work and the participation of men in strategi

In recent years we have seen radical right-wing populist parties emerge into government coalitions or other influential positions within parliaments. In Sweden the first example of this is the Swedish Democrats who act as a support party within the current government coalition, Tidösamarbetet. The purpose of this study is to describe how the Swedish media portrays the Swedish Democrats while they

This thesis examines the asymmetries between the European Union’s approach to climate justice through the Loss and Damage mechanism and its engagement with cultural restitution. It aims to determine whether and why the EU applies principles of justice differently in these two areas and whether the principles around cultural restitution can inform a more equitable climate justice agenda. With

China’s and the EU’s presence in Africa is regularly debated, but mainly with an economic focus. This paper aims to broaden the perspective of foreign influence and cultural neo-imperialism, specifically in the context of Kenya. This study examines whether China’s and the EU’s actions in Kenya can be understood as expressions of cultural neo-imperialism. Using a qualitative thematic analysis (TA),

Tuvalu, a low-lying Small Island Developing State (SIDS), is projected to face severe challenges due to climate change. Most notably, permanent inundation or the permanent loss of habitable land due to sea-level rise. This thesis investigates how Tuvalu has framed climate change as an existential security threat in its international discourse from 2021 to 2023. Applying an adapted version of secur

Under de senaste decennierna har EU:s polissamarbete utvecklats i takt med att gränsöverskridande brottslighet, terrorism och organiserad brottslighet blivit alltmer komplex i sin karaktär. För att effektivisera samarbetet mellan medlemsstaternas brottsbekämpande myndigheter har EU därför genomfört ett flertal rättsliga reformer, däribland antagandet av en EU-kodex för polis- samarbete med tillhörIn recent decades, police cooperation within the EU has evolved in response to the growing complexity of cross-border crime, terrorism, and organized criminal networks. To enhance the efficiency of cooperation between na- tional law enforcement authorities in the Member States, the EU has intro- duced several legal reforms, including the adoption of an EU Police Cooper- ation Code and related lega

This thesis investigates how Swedish parliamentary parties coordinate their positions on environmental legislation across the national and European levels using the 2023 revision of the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) as a case study. The study is guided by the Principal-Agent (PA) theory and addresses two research questions: (1) to what extent parties maintain alignment of policy

The Swedish forestry debate is deeply polarised concerning the issue of the meaning and implications of sustainable forestry. This study explores how competing discourses on sustainability are constructed within the Swedish forestry debate and which actors contribute to their articulation and dissemination. Drawing on Maarten Hajer’s argumentative discourse analysis (ADA), the paper identifies dom

The following thesis examines the representational function of Swedish lay judges based on Hanna Pitkin’s and Suzanne Dovi’s representation theories and Robert Dahl's democracy theory. It also examines how well the intended purpose of the lay judges representation function in the court corresponds to how the representation is carried out in practice, and how this affects the democratic legitim