The role of the city is undergoing changes, and a new discourse is emerging, where growth-oriented projects plays an important role on the local political agenda, and brings increased competition between cities. There are clear indications on a shift from the local government to interactive processes with private-public partnerships that operates in a project-oriented development of the society. T

The purpose of this paper is to present a broad perspective regarding the historical similarities and differences in the development of asylum and refugee policy, at the supranational and national level. By comparing the two historical contexts of the European Union and Sweden, this paper attempts to answer whether national asylum and refugee policy has become more restrictive from entering the su

This thesis aim is to explore the role of Ukraine on Eurasia ‘chessboard’ on which the struggle for power has being played, since the continent started to act politically, up to day. Master thesis elaborate on the introduction and theoretical framework that investigate the role of Ukraine as a critically important geopolitical pivot whose importance is derived not from it power and motivation but

The Stockholmprogramme was recently adopted by the European Council. In a five-year period the focus of EUs work should be in the area of justice and security. Human rights defenders has criticized the European Union for promoting the security of the Union before human rights. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the contradictions in the Stockholmprogramme about the right to seek asylum and

The abortion issue in the European Union today stands for a paradox situation. Within the union abortion is handled through the subsidiary principle, which states that every country has the right to decide upon the issue itself. Although all member countries of the union have ratified the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, three countries still does no

In the Uzbek cotton industry run by the state under the country’s president Islam Karimov, children as young as the age of 7 have been forced to work under awful conditions picking cotton to fulfill stately quotas for years. In 2007 it was discovered that clothes sold by the multinational Swedish company H&M partly contained cotton from the Uzbek cotton industry. From an assumption that a viol

Violence in the name of honour is a quite new phenomenon in Sweden. The violence can be shown as threat, abuse, and harassment. Women happen to be the main victim in many of the cases of violence in the name of honour. My ground thesis in this paper is just about the question about gender and that women are more exposure to the violence in the name of honour than men. The purpose of this theoretic

In the mid-90s, a nation-wide famine broke out in North Korea, driving people across the border into China in search of food. This was the start of a slow and steady exodus. China claims that these people are illegal migrants, and that a treaty with North Korea obligates it to return them. Others argue that they are refugees that should be protected against refoulment, because of the harsh punishm

The Roma people’s isolation has been a major concern for the population in Europe for many years. Programs and legal frameworks are created for the protection for this underprivileged group; however the isolation continues to exist. The purpose of this paper is to explain why many of the measures taken are shown to be inadequate. The outlining and the examination of the history in this matter will

Development in the sense that we currently use the term has existed since the post-war period and its orthodoxy has changed significantly in the course of time. With economic growth as a first objective, development suffered a crisis in the 1980/1990’s, in view of the lack of concrete results and the increase in poverty at a world level. Human development emerged as a re-orientation in development

In this paper, the moral duty towards asylum seekers and refugees in the EU is highlighted, from the perspectives of Universalism and Communitariarism. Due to different levels of safety and conditions related to being granted asylum in EU member states, the attractiveness of these states for asylum seekers and refugees to seek protection differ substantially. The implementation of the Dublin II Co

The Senegalese decision to brake off negotiations over a renewed fisheries agreement with the European Union in 2006 represents a puzzle since substantial economical gains are associated with an accord and because such agreements have been renewed with a certain degree of continuity in the past. In this thesis, it is argued that the Senegalese withdrawal can be understood as a response to solid do

The European Union is in many ways a huge and vast organization. With an increasing number of members and a deeper cooperation in many areas, the EU constantly needs to change to adapt to new opportunities and challenges. But in parallel to this development there is an entirely different debate, one that concerns the democratic legitimacy of the cooperation as a whole. The European Union is unique

A current issue in Sweden today is whether muslim women shall have the right to bear the niqāb in the public context. A case in Sweden is a woman who is forbidden to wear her niqāb in her education to be a child caretaker. The purpose of this report is to examine whether it is permissible to tolerate a woman’s niqab in an adult education? To emphasize, there has been a review of relevant laws, exa

This paper studies the inclusion of the indigenous population in the Guatemalan democratisation process. The indigenous population have throughout the history of Guatemala always suffered from exclusion. Thus it is interesting to study if there have been any improvements in their situation since the signing of the peace agreement in 1996. The base of our paper is Donna Le Van Cott’s article, Build

Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ fallstudie som undersöker varför demokratiseringsprocessen i Eritrea stannat upp. Vi har gjort en djupdykning i ett av de fall som nämns i Mansfield och Snyder artikel, Democratic Transitions, Institutional Strength, and War (2002), där de presenterar teorin om hur ofullständiga demokratier är mer konfliktbenägna. Efter ett trettio år långt självständighetskrig blev Erit

Den här uppsatsen undersöker vilka likheter och skillnader man kan se i hur tre svenska dagstidningar med olika politisk inriktning rapporterade om kriget i Gaza under december 2008 och januari 2009. Totalt undersöks 43 artiklar publicerade under åtta dagar. Ett strategiskt urval har gjorts för att välja ut vilka dagar som ska undersökas, dessa dagar föregicks av viktiga krigshändelser i Gaza. Hyp

The purpose of this paper is to examine if pornography can constitute a human rights violation. This will be done analysing arguments for and against pornography in relation to human rights conventions and a general human rights perspective. The study concludes that pornography from a convention perspective is a social pattern to be modified, while the human rights perspective proposes pornography

Municipal economic policy has a significant role for the municipality in a time of globalisation to boost growth and thereby welfare. The study aims to understand the ideas reflected in a municipality's economic policy and how they take their expression. The study aims to construct a model to understand these ideas and expressions, an analytic tool which will help to analyze a municipality'