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

My thesis examines the discourse and social practices of the Swedish Armed Forces in Afghanistan. The discourse analysis is used both as a theory and method and takes inspiration from Focault, Laclau, Mouffe and Fairclogh. The view on social relations and gender is that they are constructed through social interaction. The purpose is to describe and illuminate discourses and social practices which

This study investigates the possibilities to provide the end consumers of energy with information and statistics about their consumption in the form of a smartphone application. The report includes both electricity and district heating, but the focus is on electricity consumption. Earlier studies show potential savings up to 15-20% when real time energy usage information is supplied to the end use

Media spelar en stor roll i dagens samhälle och är ständigt med och sätter agendan för vad som ska diskuteras i vardagliga sammanhang. I denna text har en diskursanalys gjorts av den senaste Victoria’s Secret modevisningen som presenterats i ett ihopsatt TV-program. Detta för att granska hur bilden av kvinnan ser ut och medias framställning av kvinnlighet. Forskning tyder på att tonåringar påverka

Studien har granskat två aktuella nätverk på Internet som spridit sig och skapat reaktioner via Internet och andra medier. De två nätverken som studerats är Couchsurfing som startades 2004 och som idag har flera miljoner medlemmar samt Flattr vilket är ett nystartat nätverk med ett tiotusentals användare. I båda fallen har formen för betalning hamnat i fokus och skapat uppmärksamhet då de avvikit

By studying various theories about civil disobedience, five requirements have been developed for civil disobedience to be considered legitimate. The purpose with this paper is to see if the two networks Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) and the Revolutionary Front (RF) lives up to these criteria and therefore are legitimate in their actions. The study is done with ideology analysis of AFA:s and RF:s own w

Sammanfattning I denna uppsats har vi studerat ett aktuellt fall som exemplifierar hur en skandal konstrueras i media. Fallet vi valt att studera är Parken Zoo. Den 17 oktober 2012 sände Kalla fakta i TV4 ett reportage som handlade om hur djurparken avlivat friska djur och förvarat dessa huller om buller i ett fryshus i flera år. En fallstudie har utförts där vi gjort en kvalitativ innehållsanalys

Upphovsrätt och rätten till yttrandefrihet faller båda in under kategorin fundamentala rättigheter inom den Europeiska unionen (EU) och de förtjänar att åtnjuta skydd därefter. Men vad är det närmare rättsliga och faktiska förhållandet mellan dessa båda rättigheter i dagens informationssamhälle? Detta är en av tre frågor som skärskådas i uppsatsen. Presentationen ger vid handen att den traditionelCopyright and the right to freedom of expression both constitute fundamental rights in the European Union (EU) and should be protected accordingly. But what is the closer relationship, de jure and de facto, between these two legal regimes in the information society? This is one of three questions examined in this thesis. The presentation gives at hand that, traditionally, the notion has been that

This study will examine the practices and semiotic structures within the Jewish community in Malmö, linked to the last three years of conflict situations. In the media, Malmö has been described as a problematic city for people with a Jewish heritage, to live in. Swedish, as well as international media caught a big attention to this new conflict. In the aftermath of the articles the situation was l