The aim of this thesis is to explain the Swedish foreign policy change regarding to the recognition of new states between 1991 and 2011. Traditionally the Swedish policy on recognition of new states is based on the legal criteria for statehood; a state must possess a permanent population; cover a defined territory and be presided over by an effective government. In this thesis a descriptive study

Is it possible to integrate contradictionary goals like economic growth, social development and at the same time protect the environment? This essay’s aim is to contribute to the field of environmental policy integration. Due to the author’s Lenshow and Jordan, Sweden is a country that has been integrating environmental policy for a long time and is not as sensitive as many other countries to dif

The object of this thesis is the Öresund region and the Committee of the Regions (CoR). It may be the first survey to examine a cross-border region such as the Öresund region within the Committee of the Regions and describes how Swedish and Danish CoR-members from this region co-operate within the CoR. Semi-structured elite interviews have been conducted with CoR-members at the sub-national level

This essay is investigating how ideas influence political decisions, more precisely how ideas influenced the founding of SIDA, Swedens foreign aid institution, in the 1960´s. The goal of the investigation is to show how these ideas mattered and to do that I analyze them by seeing how the can be seen as road maps and focal points. Road maps are supported by a causal belief and focal points define w

While reading European newspapers one easily gets the impression of a growing feeling of insecurity in the society. The aim of my thesis is to examine whether the European migration policy has been securitized or not and subsequently if there is a wish from the European Council to securitize an European identity. The method for answering my question is the Copenhagen school securitization theory,

This paper is a qualitative study of interactions between domestic and EU-level politics. I’ll apply the model of Two-Level Games by Robert D. Putnam on the 2011 Euro-crisis scenario where Finland hindered the negotiations of the new bailout package because they wanted to get collateral as a condition for future loans for the problem countries like Greece. First, a brief overview of the scenario i

What causes changes in management? This thesis attempts to explain governmental change in the Swedish emergency management and at the same time determine how these changes can best be explained. The Swedish emergency management has been reorganized several times over the past 30 years and it’s these reorganizations that form the basis for this study. The study is based on three different organizat

This thesis analyses the ideas and beliefs of the swedish Social Democratic Party and the Conservative Part concerning swedish diplomacy, swedish embassies and swedish representation abroad. As a basis I’ve used the views of the Traditional School, the Nascental School and the Innovative School as they are presented by Stuart Murray in one of his articles. Using these as well as traditional theori

Alignment behavior of states provides an interesting and observable approach to International Politics. This theory testing thesis examines the ways external and internal threats give impact on the alignment behavior of states. Traditional alignment theory, such as Steven Walts Balance-of-Threat, predicts that states balance against their primary external threat by aligning a secondary threat. Ste

The purpose of this study is to examine and compare approaches to explain the geographic differences in voter support for the radical right populist (RRP) party Sverigedemokraterna (the Swedendemocrats) in the Swedish public parliamentary elections in 2010. This is done with a comparative, theory testing research design, comparing 50 Swedish municipalities with exceptional results for Sverigedemok

Proponents of the recent movement of realism in political theory have expressed dissatisfaction with the typically Kantian and ideal theoretical assumptions that guide much political and normative theorizing. In this paper it is proposed that these realist theorists could find support for their critique of the Kantian legacy, as well as building blocks for a realist alternative, by drawing on the

Kommunikation är grundläggande i varje social interaktion, arbetsplats och projekt. Speciellt mellan två deltagare i ett utvecklingsprojekt. Fungerande kommunikation mellan dessa parter är centralt för att projektet ska bli lyckat. Vi har granskat samarbetet mellan Skånetrafiken och Cubic i utvecklingen av det nya biljettsystemet. Vilka kommunikationsproblem som uppkom under projektet och om det v

The last decades has seen a development in the international arena towards new norms, designed to protect civilians during humanitarian crises. This notion became known as the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and has established itself since the turn of the millennia. At the same time we can observe a change in the behavior during war by the western powers, where territorial conquest no longer is t

In Sweden there is an ongoing debate about how to come to terms with the inequality between men and women that still permeates society in different ways. One of the measures proposed is the one through affirmative action on the parental allowance. My aim with the study is to analyze the standpoint in the matter, of three Swedish political parliament parties to try to discern if there is a lack of

In this thesis I examine some of the political effects due to transnational corporations. Transnational firms are major actors on the international as well as the national level, where they on one hand are appreciated as conductors of economic growth and on the other hand have become a bargaining partner in policy making. What are the political consequences of making politics to attract these busi

This study focuses on the dimensions of security in the context of an ever more globalized and interconnected world, where flows of information, goods, and humans are considered to make up vital systems from a security point of view. First out, existing theories arguing that flow security is the main challenge for the future wellbeing of the globalized societies are reviewed, secondly, the illicit

This thesis seeks to introduce the reader to the idea of Cosmic War giving background on the formation of the concept, how it is currently perceived, and the difference from other seemingly similar ideas such as terrorism and holy war. Following this the most influential factors in the modern appearance of Cosmic War such as the rise of religion in the face of modernity and secularism are explored

In this essay I will investigate the role of science in the political govering process and if you can call it rational. I have chosen Swedish windpower as a case, which through political decisions are under huge expansion. As theoretical ground I use Lennart Lundkvist’s theory of ecological rational gouvernance and look at two propositions from the Swedish government. By using different criteria t

The purpose of this essay is, with the help of discourse theory presented by Laclau and Mouffe and with the methodological practice inspired by Ulf Mörkenstam, to find the dominating structure (hegemony) in discourse concerning meat consumption related to climate change issues in Swedish politics. In the reality of this new meat discourse, the suggestions of political measurements are differing co

This article uses negotiations theory to analyze the Good Friday agreement negotiations in 1998. Negotiations theory is often divided into either rational choice or cognitive perspectives whereas negotiations in fact constitutes of both. The article uses framework models, inspired by the work of Kjell Hausken who includes both rational and cognitive factors to analyze the negotiations leading to t