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This thesis investigates how China has demonstrated its assertiveness in the South China Sea throughout Xi Jinping's second presidential term, from March 2018 to March 2023. Employing the theoretical framework of Offensive Realism, the thesis seeks to unravel the motivations behind China's assertiveness in the South China Sea, contributing to a nuanced understanding of its strategic behavi

The purpose of this thesis is to study how different political orientations in Swedish foreign security policy have been legitimized. After having pursued a policy of neutrality and non-alignment for 200 years, Sweden made a decision to apply for membership in the military alliance NATO. The investigated time periods are 2014 and 2022, during which Sweden has chosen completely different strategies

This study desires to display two speeches that were crucial to the 2016 EU-referendum in Great Britain. The two actors portrayed with one speech each are Boris Johnson and David Cameron, although the speeches weren’t given during the same time they are both highly accurate and significant to the referendum. The two speeches are applied to theories of analogies and also strategic narratives. Based

Climate change is a highly relevant topic in both politics and media. During 2019 the climate issue was much discussed and a recurring theme in Swedish news media, which have led me to speculate on how the climate question was portrayed during this year. Based on this, the study examines how climate change is framed in the media during 2019, using 32 articles published in three of Swedens biggest

The following study delves into the congruence of three major IR theories. Constructivism, liberalism and realism. It delves into this congruence by testing their compatibility under a single analytical framework. To best highlight these theories overlapping sides I have chosen to find variants of the theories that I believe to be most similar to one another. Furthermore, an idea analysis is condu

After the 2014 invasion of contested areas in Iraq by the so-called Islamic State (IS), the Yazidi community has suffered dire consequences. Genocide, sexual enslavement, forced religious conversion and forced displacement were some of these horrendous acts committed by IS against the Yazidi community and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. This thesis builds from the infusion of agonist theory in

This thesis investigates the intertwining of corporate social responsibility (CSR) discourse and the European Union's strategy for sustainable and circular textiles through a single case study and critical frame analysis (CFA). By doing this, concurring discourse between corporations and the institutions aimed at governing them can be problematised. Derived from conventional and contemporary C

This thesis explores the relationship between regional identity and its influence on EU support. Going beyond the common focus on decentralized countries or entire European contexts, the research specifically examines the influence of regional identity within the more unitary state of France. Building on established theory linking identity to EU support, the study distinguishes between exclusive a

The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention, was ratified by the European Union in 2023. However, five member states have not yet ratified. This essay investigates why some European Union member states have not ratified the Istanbul Convention, focusing specifically on Estonia and Lithuania using the mo

This study examines how Abolish Frontex activism and speech acts counter Frontex securitization discourses on migration and mobility. By using Critical Discourse Analysis the study reveals how Abolish Frontex is countering Frontex and the EU’s power and security system via speech acts, resistance and changing the securitizing discourse. The study is analyzing four of Abolish Frontex speech acts th

A certain volatility in regard to Russia’s relationship to the West has characterized international political space since 1991. If Gorbachev and Yeltsin succeeded in negating the Soviet Russian past to thus attempt to make possible an integration with the value community of Western civilizations, Putin has conducted a strategy that initially seemed to be aimed at securing global multipolarity and

This study has examined four different coalition agreements from four different governments that have governed Sweden on four different occasions, 2006, 2010, 2018 and 2022. The study aims to test the theory written by political scientists Hanna Bäck & Heike Klüver regarding their scientific research in how coalition governments work in reality and the vital role of a coalition agreement. Thei

The conceptualization of loss and damage reflects diverse perspectives, evident in the disparities observed in climate negotiations. This thesis examines how the Alliance of Small Island States and the European Union portrayed loss and damage during the establishment of the loss and damage fund. Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach is used for comprehending the portrayal of loss and damage, and the methodo

This thesis examines how China has been portrayed in the Annual Threat Assessment reports of the U.S. intelligence community between 2013-2023. A qualitative document analysis is conducted on 9 publicly available threat assessment reports issued during this period. The theoretical framework applied is threat perception theory, which posits that a state’s perception of threats guides strategic poli

Female dominated work remains significantly disadvantaged in comparison to male dominated ocucpations statistically. What remains unclear is what this looks like in practice, how this is felt by the individuals conducting the work and what this reflects about female-dominated work. In this light this thesis explores the nature of female-dominated occuaptions through nursing to understand where thi

This study investigates the consequences that female descriptive representation, at the highest executive political position, had on violence against women in politics. More specifically it looks at Jeanine Áñez ́s presidency and its impact on violence against women in Bolivia. The research question guiding the research is What were the consequences of Jeanine Áñez ́s presidency for violence again

This paper examines the policy standpoints of the Social Democratic party during the period from 2013 to 2023 pertaining to the issues of funding, regulation and principalship of the Swedish school system. The principal question asks whether the party has changed its position on the aforementioned issues to a more centralistic stance from the decentralistic standpoint motivated the communalisation

Bakgrund: Psykisk ohälsa som leder till självskadebeteende är ett komplext område som ökar i samhället. Det blir allt mer vanligt i unga åldrar. Vårdens bemötande är av betydelse för dessa patienter. Patienter med självskadebeteende är en stor samt ökande patientgrupp även inom ambulanssjukvården. Syfte: Arbetets syfte var att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att vårda patienter med självs

On February 24th 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then Ukraine has reported damage to more than 1000 sites of cultural importance. There are plenty of studies which map out the destruction of culture in war, however there is still no clear understanding of exactly why cultural heritage is under attack - what the motives are for targeting cultural heritage in conflicts. I therefore deemed it int

The dominance of men in politics has been a long standing trend, with women historically underrepresented in this sphere. Efforts toward women's inclusion in politics seek to address and rectify this gender imbalance, advocating for greater representation, equal opportunities, and the dismantling of barriers that have hindered women's active participation in political decision-making proce