Several founding democratic norms of the European Union (EU) may nowadays be found in their emerging stage in the post-Soviet countries outside of the Union’s borders. This is an indication that norms may get diffused, float around the continent and find a fertile soil in a new environment. Thus Georgia, located thousands of kilometers away from the EU, is highlighted as a success story of its coo

This paper explores Europeanization of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs by looking at the impact of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) on the Ministry. Despite being intergovernmental, voluntary, governed by treaties and not laws previous studies suggest that CFSP has an impact on the domestic arena. The analysis is based on the conceptual framework developed by Smith (2000) in whi

This thesis explores the state of regional cooperation, particularly in the field of security, among Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden (Norden). The author examines correlation between a set of socially constructed factors and the creation of a common Nordic profile in a regional security organization, the OSCE. Formally, Norden is divided in the EU and the non-EU members, but unofficia

Depletion of the indigenous energy resources of the EU, growing dependence on the external energy supplies, volatile prices of the global energy resources, increasing global rivalry for hydrocarbon reserves and recent Russian-Ukrainian disputes over natural gas prices which as a consequence has resulted in gas supply disruptions to several EU member states escalated the significance of the Europea

In this case study the author first investigates how environmental and social considerations are being implemented in the Swedish public procurement process. After that the author tries to explain these descriptions using theories on public policy implementation. A distinction is made to the food procurement process in Sweden’s three largest primary municipalities. Through the study of local polic

“A dagger through the skull and nothing to the wallet“ is a common expression for the situation in the squatter societies of Rio de Janeiro. It is used equally amongst the residents of the slums or “favelas” as they are called, as well as used by the recently implemented pacifying police force that work there. In Rio de Janeiro there are 17 murders committed everyday. The majority of those murders

Kvinnor tjänar forfarande mindre än vad män gör i Sverige. 2011 var löneskillnaden 85.9%, hela arbetsmarknaden inkluderad. I den här uppsatsen visar jag att löneskillnaderna har sin orsak i den socialt konstruerade genusstrukturen som påverkar samhällets statussammansättningsprocesser och till exempel arbetsfördelningen inom hemmet. Förekomsten av direkt diskriminering, fördelningsdiskriminering o

The thesis examines the perception of change within organizations in the private and public sectors. Using qualitative interview the thesis presents a study of two interviews, one in an anonymous private company and the other in the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, Försäkringskassan. Both informants function within human resources within their organizations and the thesis ambition is to map these

This thesis deals with how the Swedish EU membership has been regulated constitutionally. Although the EU membership arguably has had profound effects on Swedish public policymaking very little about this is mentioned in the constitution. How can that be? The inquiry is made more relevant by the fact it has been described as an “elephant in the room” – an obvious problem that no one wants to discu

This paper intends to investigate the impact of the two-sided market effect with nearby theories, the importance of customer loyalty and customer relationship management in the newspaper industry. It takes its theoretical references from academic research literature and interviews with the focus on customer loyalty and customer relationship management in the two-sided market environment. The resu

There ́s an empirical evidence that childhood trauma affect the occurrence of mental health problems later in life. The aim of this descriptive study is to out of psychosocial background and personality structure illuminate a group of young men (18-24 years) convicted for violence- and sexual crimes and to identify systematic differences in occurrence of traumatizing experiences during growth betw

Food has an incredible ability to convey meaning. In the new food economy, creating value added products with appropriately charged meanings is an increasingly complex and risky business. However, there are food manufacturers that seemingly have an uncomplicated and successful ability to value add their products: Small-scale farming Producers. Utilizing cultural analysis and ethnography as an app

As the world is globalizing, multiculturalism is a common phenomena in more and more countries. The government of Sweden has decided to embrace multiculturalism and work towards a country where people with different cultural background can meet and live together. It's a political goal to implement this idea of multiculturalism in every public institution. One of the most important institution

Areas polluted by industrial activity are common throughout Sweden. Eslöv is an old manufacturing town with an industrial history dating back to the late 19th century. On behalf of the municipality of Eslöv, the situation of soil pollution in the city has been investigated. The method used in this investigation (MIFO) is developed by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. In general the meth

This essay focuses on the controversial method Electric convulsive therapy within Swedish psychiatry and involves the complex of problems around informed consent, custodial care and human autonomy. It also questions the different perspectives on side effects, and what they really mean for patients everyday life. One of the premier purposes of the essay is to investigate the treatment in relation t

Rent dricksvatten är det viktigaste och mest grundläggande livsmedlet som finns. Detta livsmedel tas ofta för givet och många är omedvetna om att det inom vissa områden även i Sverige finns problem med att hitta bra vattenresurser för dricksvattenproduktion. Detta examensarbete utgör en kartläggning, beskrivning och analys av Kalmar läns regionalt viktiga vattenresurser. Arbetet är en fortsättningPure drinking water is our most important victual. It is commonly taken for granted and people often are unaware that, even in Sweden, there are problem areas where good water resources are rare. In this bachelor thesis, I map, describe and analyse the water resources of regional importance in Kalmar län. It is supposed to give an overview of the area conditions of generating drinking water, what

In May 2011 Tetra Pak launched the first carton bottle for aseptic milk, the Tetra Evero Aseptic (TEA). This Master Thesis aims to give proposals on how the future development of the mechanism working as a dolly when the inductor is making the longitudinal sealing (LS) on the package in the A6 filling machine, should be continued. The current LS mechanism is not fulfilling the requirements in func

This study aims to shine a light on the relation between Islam and human rights in general, and the relation between the Muslim Brotherhood political party in Egypt (FJP) and human rights in particular. The study uses theoretical discussions and insights in order to approach the subject in the best possible way and aims to point out valuable lessons that can be drawn, in order to make human rights

This study assesses the impacts of the floods in early 2011 in the Northern Cape Province in South Africa and focuses especially on the small town Keimoes located on the major Orange River. During this period 33 municipalities in 7 out of the country’s 8 provinces were declared as disaster areas due to widespread flooding. In Keimoes and the Northern Cape Province the flood impacts were widespread

Although the debate has become less heated in the post-Cold War period, no conclusive evidence has been reached regarding the economic impact of military spending. The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence and magnitude of budgetary trade-offs between military spending and human capital spending in the MENA (Middle East and North-Africa) region. It is striking that the guns versus butt