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This thesis examines how key political concepts within Islamic political thought—legitimacy, consultation (shura), and community (ummah)—have been formulated and reinterpreted across classical and modern contexts. Rather than evaluating Islamic political ideas through external normative frameworks such as liberal democracy, the study aims to analyze how political authority and governance have been

Migration has been a contested issue in Swedish politics over the past decade, and media coverage has repeatedly sparked debate about the impartiality of Sveriges Television (SVT). Using large language models (LLMs) as coding instruments, this study examines how migration has been framed in SVT Nyheter, a major Swedish public service news outlet, between 2014 and 2024. Rather than explaining causa

This study examines how energy policy is framed in official documents adopted by the Baltic Assembly between 2013 and 2023. Using qualitative content analysis and securitisation theory, the study analyses 22 documents, resolutions and joint statements adopted by the Baltic Assembly, to trace how energy framing evolved in response to geopolitical developments, particularly Russia’s annexation of C

Den här kvalitativa komparativa studien ämnar att utforska och jämföra de facto-staterna Taiwans och Kosovos relation till EU utifrån ett neorealistiskt perspektiv. Både Taiwan och Kosovo saknar fullt erkännande som suveräna stater. Tidigare har forskning gjorts om respektive fall, men inte i en komparativ kontext. Resultatet pekar på fyra oberoende variabler som skiljer fallen åt: internationella

The premise of this bachelor’s thesis is that Swedish Early Childhood Education is underrepresented in social science research, despite being governed by political objectives and constituting one of the most central welfare institutions in Swedish society. The empirical material consists of four Swedish Government Official Reports published between 1972 and 2020. Using a qualitative content analys

This study provides a number of lessons that Sweden can draw as a small state in NATO, based on how Norway and Denmark have acted in relation to NATO’s nuclear policy. Through a theory-driven content analysis of these two cases, the study concludes that small states can oppose nuclear weapons while remaining loyal allies in a military-based alliance. Norway and Denmark have systematically worked w

The Swedish government has presented a welfare reform, set to be implemented in 2026-2027. The reform includes an activation requirement with a clearly defined target group and a dual set of obligations imposed on both municipalities and individuals. This intends to address the long-term “welfare dependency” that recipients of welfare benefits are perceived to be trapped in. We situate this policy

The thesis examines how United Nations child marriage prevention strategies are translated from global policy frameworks into local practice in post-2011 Syria. While global frameworks developed by UNFPA and UNICEF assume the existence of stable legal systems, functioning institutions and predictable social environments, the Syrian conflict has produced conditions that fundamentally alter how prev

This study examines the Swedish church election and why the electoral participation is low while the Swedish parliamentary election has one of the best electoral participation in the world. The study was conducted partly through a statistical analysis based on data from the national SOM-survey and partly through interviews with five young individuals, two of whom had voted and three who had not. T

Swedish political party subsidies are a cornerstone of the country's political system, yet they remain a rarely debated and largely accepted practice. Unlike many other democracies,Sweden allocates significant public funds to political parties with little public scrutiny. Despite its democratic significance, the debate on the topic is surprisingly absent from extensive Swedish political discus

The idea of a just war is as old as war itself. This paper examines the ongoing conflict between the United States and Venezuela, as well as the Gulf War, and analyzes how they relate to just war theory, with a particular focus on jus ad bellum. The purpose of this thesis is to provide an empirical study of an otherwise theoretical subject in order to assess the viability of the theory in modern w

This study investigates the relationship between standard of living and environmental performance by analyzing the components of standard of living: income per capita, educational level, and life expectancy across both high- and low-income countries. The study finds a positive correlation between standard of living and environmental performance in all countries. However, this relationship is only

This qualitative study examines the organisation and risk-management practices of the Northern Civil Area and its County Administrative Boards. After a prolonged latent period, Sweden resumed its work on total defence in 2015, requiring authorities to adapt to new forms of security challenges including hybrid threats that blur the boundary between peace and conflict. A major administrative reform

This thesis examines Swedish national role conceptions and the extent of role contestation in the Swedish Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (Utrikesutskottet) in the context of Sweden’s recent changes in security and foreign policy. Drawing on role theory, particularly the concepts of national role conception and domestic role contestation, the study investigates (1) which national self-im

This study examines how repressive measures targeting minors have been legitimised in the political discourse during the Tidö Agreement period 2022–2025, with a particular focus on the introduction of youth detention facilities and proposals to lower the age of criminal responsibility. The study analyses how youth crime is constructed as a political problem and how these constructions shape unders

In recent years, research on European politics has increasingly examined a perceived turn toward nationalism, focusing largely on why this shift occurs and how it manifests. However, fewer studies address Swedish party politics and whether such nationalist tendencies can be identified in mainstream parties. Against this background, this thesis investigates whether nationalist ideas can be traced i

Elderly care constitutes a central part of the Swedish welfare system and is characterised by high job demands, limited resources, and relationally intensive work. The social work environment therefore plays a significant role in how everyday work is experienced. The aim of this study is to explore how the social work environment and experiences of participation are shaped in daily work within an

Den svenska arbetsmarknaden har under de senaste decennierna präglats av en ökad andel tidsbegränsade och flexibla anställningsformer. Bemanningsanställningar har blivit en vanlig väg in i arbetslivet för unga vuxna, men denna anställningsform innebär särskilda villkor som kan påverka upplevelsen av trygghet, social tillhörighet och integration på arbetsplatsen. Unga vuxna befinner sig i ett formb

Rapid urbanisation has intensified socio-spatial inequalities in cities of the Global South, leading to the growth of informal settlements that remain excluded from formal planning systems. In India, this condition is increasingly evident in rapidly urbanising cities such as Coimbatore. This thesis investigates how sustainable urban design strategies can be employed to rehabilitate informal settle

This analytical essay critically examines how social sustainability is constructed within Lund’s municipality district development program for Norra Fäladen. The existing research widely acknowledges that sustainable development and social sustainability are characterized by conceptual ambiguity and a lack of consensus regarding definition and measurement. Despite this, they are leading concepts f