Since reunification with The People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong and Macau have tried to get a new national identity. By applying Michael Billigs theories of banal nationalism in each region’s Policy Address introduction chapters written by each of the Chief Executive’s in the two regions a national identity is discerned. The analysis has been made on all Policy Address’es published between 1997

On all levels of government, politicians try to find solutions to our environmental problems. Municipalities in countries create action plans according to the Agenda 21, approved in 1992. This agenda encouraged the involvement of citizens from below and many took that to their hearts. Lund municipality in Sweden is one of them. The theory used in this thesis is deliberative democracy. It is a

The three Scandinavian anti-immigration parties Sweden Democrats, Danish People’s Party and the Norwegian Progress Party all have representation in their respective national assemblies. A large number of theories are available explaining the success of this party family. My purpose is not to perform a general study but to analyze the effects on the anti-immigration vote from a demand-side perspect

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been around for many years and has been viewed in different forms, aspects and by different actors because of the ever changing society. In 1984 a terrible incidence happened when a leaking chemical by the name of methyl isocyanate (MIC) was leaking in and outside of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) Pesticide Plant in Bhopal, India. Th

The aim of this essay is to cast new light on citizenship education in the context of Swedish educational policy. The Swedish educational policy is based on a set of core values which should be stated by everyone that is active in the school. One purpose of education within this system is to develop the student’s capacity to critically reflect upon values and ideas presented to them. The analysis

In this study the probable outcome of the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is investigated. At the same time an attempt is made to derive general factors that can determine whether a common source of water leads to conflict or cooperation between states. This is done by contrasting two different theories regarding conflict and cooperation over water in a heuristic case study. Th

The initiative Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is an example of the use of amnesty within American immigration politics. Enacted in June 2012, it addresses the delicate situation of young undocumented immigrants so called childhood arrivals. They are part of the society in many ways, but not on paper. The dilemma is characterized by a conflict of interest – the rights of the sovereign state

Inom den moderna vetenskapen finns inget utrymme för emotionella argument eller yttranden. Vetenskapen byggs på den kalla rationella tanken; humanekologen blandar inte in subjektiva förhållningsätt eller erfarenheter i sin vetenskap. Detta reflekteras i det moderna samhället där det specialiserade arbetet alienerar människan då hon bara producera ensidigt istället för allsidigt och därmed förlorar

Women in Saudi Arabia live with extremely limited rights. For example they don’t have the right to divorce, drive a car or travel without a male guardian. In the year of 2010 people in the Arabian countries started to confront their leader trough protest and demonstrations and finally manage to dethrone them. This is generally known as the Arabian spring. Since then women organizations in Saudi Ar

The City of Göteborg introduced the first whistleblowing action in the history of Swedish public administration. Through interviews and analysis of official documents this essay evaluates the design and implementation of that action in relation to policy theories and whistleblowing theories. I find that despite limitations made by Swedish law the action largely avoids common mistakes associated w

Women are disproportionally affected by armed conflicts. The starting point of this thesis is why the situation of women has not improved considerably even though resolutions such as the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) has been adopted. My objects of study are two National Action Plans, which are implementations of the UNSCR 1325; Swedens and United States of Americas.

This essay explores how the American Government understands and characterizes cyberspace and its relation to security. Building on the theory of securitization, the essay seeks to understand and describe the speech-acts that the American Government under the Obama Administration engages in in order to securitize the cyber domain and related referent objects. To accomplish this, this essay takes bo

After several decades of collaborative arms procurement conducted on juste retour principles the Member States of the European Union are moving towards market based solutions in their attempts to maintain a competitive and sustainable defence technological and industrial base on the continent. This paper seeks to conduct a baseline study on the impact of the European Defence Agency’s 2005/6 Code o

Through Bonnie M. Meguid’s theory on Position, Salience and Ownership, I analyse the two Swedish government parties Folkpartiets and Moderaternas strategic approaches towards the populist radical right party Sverigedemokraterna. The period that I analyse is 2006-2012 and the focus is on the parliament level. I use qualitative text analysis as method and concentrate on material like polical program

The aim of this thesis is to investigate why the Swedish Armed Forces (Försvarsmakten) still consist of so few women. This is done by analysing the Armed Forces’ documents regarding equality. The hypothesis is that there are discourses concerning gender and women in the organization which reproduce stereotypical dichotomies of men and women. By using Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis I have

The future of the Polish Senate is the subject of a major debate, which has been going on since its reinstatement in 1989 as a result of the negotiations between the ruling communistic Labour Party and Solidarity. The aim of this thesis is to provide a reconstruction of the debate and of the arguments used, as well as to see if there are any links between the Polish debate and the general, interna

This thesis is about the views of justice and the model for distributing recourses to the schools of Malmö, Sweden. The case of Malmö is typically relevant due to the problems of segregation and socio-economic conditions and the fact that the city uses a special model for distributing resources. The aim of this thesis is to find out what view of justice that can be ascribed the decision makers of

The revolution in Egypt in the spring of 2011 gathered tens of thousands of people demonstrating. According to UN Women, among others, were women and men equal as activists in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab Spring. I wondered who was designated as a protester in Swedish media portrayal of the Egyptian revolution. Despite reports that women and men stood side by side and were similar activists in

The problem of the perfect territorial size is an old one. It was discussed as early as in ancient Greece and picked up again by Dahl and Tufte with their book Size and Democracy. In this thesis, the subject is further developed when participation by citizens in politics is studied. The conditions for influencing the political decisions are investigated and citizen boards are chosen for studying.

In a globalized world, with ever-increasing interdependency and interconnectedness, it is often argued that political and ethical boundaries will gradually lose their significance. A cosmopolitan world order will eventually emerge, a process we, arguably, should help to bring about. However, in this paper, mainly from a communitarian perspective, I problematize this conception. The way towards thi