I takt med att de globala klimatförändringarna fortsätter kommer konsekvenserna bli allt mer ödesdigra. Vissa av dessa konsekvenser förbises ofta i den globala debatten och i världspolitikens inflytelserika kretsar. Uppskattningar gör gällande att så många som 200 miljoner människor blivit förskjutna som en konsekvens av klimatförändringarna. Detta aktualiserar frågan om klimatflyktingar. Syftet med denna uppsats är att studera varför det internationella samarbetet gällande klimatflyktingar kan betraktas som begränsat.

The aim of this study is to increase the understanding of the causes of the first war between Russia and Chechnya. Empirical data consists of four half-structured interviews with former Russian and Chechen war participants that tell about their perspective of the causes of the war between Russia and Chechnya. The study used narrative method and the theoretical framework consists of International Relations theories such as Realism, Geopolitics, Liberalism and Marxism. Geopolitics sees the geostrategic interest, territory as a cause of war. According to realism warfare occurs because of the state?s endeavor after power and influence in term of territory.

Ukraine shares a long history with Russia. In the early 21th century, Ukrainians wanted a freer Ukraine. Therefore the orange revolution started in 2004 by the Ukrainians and had a positive outcome. The situation later became worse because of the economic crisis in 2008 and a corrupt president. The pro-western politician Petro Poroshenko was elected to become president in 2014.

The purpose of this comparative study is to investigate if the views of Sayyid Qutb and Tariq Ramadan regarding social structure and religion are possible to unite with western liberal democracy. The basis of the study is the problematizing approaches written by Qutb and Ramadan regarding the possible unity between Islam and democracy. These problematizing approaches are then tested on the political philosophy of Liberalism to see if a unity is possible.The result showed that Qutb's view did not meet the criteria of democracy, which wasn't surprising due to his negative views on the system. However, Ramadan's reformist view on Muslim identity did unite with the views of liberal democracy, though questions regarding the possibility of creating and preserving a European Muslim identity in the secular society were immediately brought to attention.The importance in Qutb's view is social equality, unity and submission to God and the importance of Ramadan's view is to create and preserve a European Muslim identity and adapt to the society where you live and participate as a citizen. Qutb's view will not tolerate diversity and one is to keep or convert to the Muslim faith.

The purpose of the essay is to make a comparative study between the Christian value parity and the Christian Democrats. To answer the purpose the following questions are asked: What are the similarities and differences between party programs? What are the similarities and differences in their origin? The theory used is based on Reidar Larlsson political ideologies, there were two ideologies used to apply on the result: conservatism and Liberalism. The method was ideologies analysis. The result of the study shows that there were some similarities and some differences between the part programs.

The relationship between China and Japan has historically been problematic and, in some ways still is. One of the issues where both of the states cannot agree on is the island dispute. While both states are claiming sovereignty over the island and there do not seem to be an ending to it in the near future. If the island dispute continues to escalate it could have a negative impact in the Asian region and eventually rest of the world as well. However due to the complexity of the dispute a deeper knowledge is needed and a mutual understanding is needed.

Den övergripande frågeställningen i den här undersökningen är den om på vilket sätt realism ochLiberalism kom till uttryck i den officiella politiken gentemot Irak under hösten 1990.I uppsatsen framgår att president Bush beskrev det som hände under hösten 1990 genom enkombination av både realistiskt och liberalistiskt färgade skildringar. Här framkommer också attolika sätt att lösa situationen presenterades och att dessa innehade inslag av de bådaidétraditionerna Liberalism och realism. På samma sätt påvisas i uppsatsen att presidenten beskrevUSA:s roll utifrån samma typ av blandade argument.Vidare framkommer att Bush i huvudsak förhöll sig till den historiska traditionen avseendeamerikansk utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik men att han på en väsentlig punkt avvek från denna. Iuppsatsen konstateras att President Bush talade om den nya världsordningen, där USA sades ha ettledande ansvar för spridningen och försvaret av demokratisk Liberalism globalt.Motivet till varför undersökningen gjorts är att slutsatserna från analysen tydligt har påvisat huramerikansk utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik under förberedelserna för Kuwaitkriget såg ut. Iuppsatsen ges prov på hur hoten mot Amerika utmålades och hur lösandet med olika medel avdessa indikerades, samt vilken roll USA uppfattats ha eller borde ha haft i det internationellasystemet..

The thesis of this essay is that the concept of governance is a product of the neo-liberal dominant ideology and that the implementation of governance ideas will lead to a weaker nation-state. Using critical theory the essay constructs an ideal type of neo-Liberalism and compares its core values with these of the governance concept as treated by the main literature in the area. The essay then focuses on the issue of the state, and discusses whether the changes leading to a demand for governance have actually weakened the state. Furthermore, the essay presents the practical use of the term governance in the EU and Sweden and problemizes the changes that the neo-liberal domination has led to in terms of power and democracy. Finally the essay discusses alternative views on the changing role of the state.

This essay analyses the national standard for maintenance aid and if it´s compatible with the standards set in the government mould.As new-liberal ideas get more scope in the Swedish policy the analyses focus consisted in seeing about the social contribution been changed, and if the standards in the government mould have lost their worth.The national standard is not edified on the basis of subsistence levels, but becomes paradoxical when numbers of welfare recipients is the measure used in order to measure poverty, concurrent as the government mould aims to protecting every citizen?s welfare.The study analyses a type of society that has emerged during a period of time. In a normative analysis concepts are set in relation to each other where, the analysis presents standards that are vague. If the standards in the government mould are presented as something valuable and get their worth back in the policy, perhaps also the citizen´s in Sweden change attitude to poverty and welfare contribution.   Social- Liberalism justifies social contribution and the welfare State, while new-Liberalism has other opinions about what redistribution should contain.

Genom att intervjua sex personer med iranskt påbrå har jag försökt presentera dessa individers subjektiva bild av historieundervisning och de krav som de ställer på skolan. Frågornas svar har gett oss en uppfattning om hur historieundervisningen kan påverka elever med iraniesvensk bakgrund. Dessutom har vi iakttagit vad de iraniesvenska personerna förväntar sig få från historieundervisningen. Den kvalitativa forskningsprocessen har vävt samman följande teoretiska utgångspunkter: kapitalbegrepp, symboliskt våld, orientalism samt Charles Taylors diskussion kring Liberalism. Undersökningen visar att IP uppfattar historia i skolan som eurocentrisk och att iranskt kulturarv beskrivs som underlägsen.

This thesis is a case-study of an ongoing court case between the Swedish Competition Agency and Växjö Municipality about a set-up requirement to the long-distance heating system for newly built private houses on municipality owned land. This requirement was set up as part of the municipality?s long-term environmental goals; however the Competition Agency claims that the demand is damaging the free market in the municipality. The purpose of this thesis is to determine which normative assumptions the decision makers have based their actions and re-action on, and whether or not these assumptions are valid, thru theoretical ideal types. This is determined via method of textual analysis.

Due to the attention of several escapes, rescue attempts and hostage situations from Swedish prisons during the year of 2004 a debate about correctional system and safety arose. It resulted in official reports and proposals to improve the safety of the institutions. The incidents of 2004 will most likely have an effect on the discourse of the correctional system. The purpose with this study is to analyse which discourses that today can be distinguished in the correctional system and thereby will be the foundation of the correctional systemof tomorrow. The method used to answer the purpose of the study is a Foucauldian based discourse analysis.

Finland och Sverige har mycket gemensamt ? historiskt, kulturellt och geografiskt till exempel. Ändå finns påtagliga skillnader mellan hur problematiseringen av säkerhetspolitiken yttrar sig i de båda länderna. I denna uppsats analyseras den säkerhetspolitiska retoriken med Carol Lee Bacchis socialkonstruktivistiska metod för politisk analys. Analysen sker utifrån två teoretiska perspektiv, Liberalism och realism, och hur dessa ser på staten, internationellt samarbete och säkerhetsbegreppet.Genom att analysera hur de båda ländernas nuvarande politiska ledning skriver om säkerhetspolitik identifieras vilket huvudsakligt perspektiv på internationella relationer som ligger till grund för doktrin och säkerhetspolitiska överväganden.

In 1995, the World Trade Organization WTO was established. Today WTO has nearly 150 member countries, accounting for over 97 percent of the world trade. WTO has a number of agreements and one of them is the General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS. GATS control the service sector, and the public library is a small part of this sector. The purpose of this study is to examine the Swedish debate about GATSs possibility to affect the public library.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka diskurser inom det sociala välfärdsarbetet utifrån ideologiskt politiska aspekter. Studien grundar sig på artiklar och publikationer från ideologiskt förankrade tidskrifter och organisationer. I arbetet har vi inspirerats av Faircloughs (2003) kritiska diskursanalys, då den inte enbart fokuserar på diskurs utan även strukturerna som påverkar den. I studien kan vi se hur liberala och socialistiska ideal är dominerande inom välfärdsdebatten. Dessa har kommit att bilda två olika diskurser som konkurrerar med varandra om att bli dominerande gällande hur välfärden ska bedrivas.