Abstract  Title: Från neutralitet till öppenhet? ? En studie av säkerhetspolitikens utveckling i Sverige efter kalla krigets slutAuthor: Jens KindhSupervisor: Patric LindgrenLinnaeus UniversityDepartment of Political ScienceSpring term 2012 When the Cold War ended, a new Security situation was unfolded in Sweden. The purpose of this thesis is to describe and compare how the Swedish Security policy is organized and how it has changed since the Cold War ended. To do that, I?m going to try answer the following questions:How is the Swedish Security policy organized?What defence resolutions have affected the Swedish Security policy after the Cold War ended?How has different political actions made its impact on the Swedish Security policy after the Cold War ended?My theory is to try explain how the Swedish Security policy has changed after the Cold War through a realism Security perspective called traditional Security, which refers to a realistic construct of the states Security policy.

Background: Every year 56 million people die around the world and it is estimated that 60% of these people are in need of palliative care. It has been shown that patients in the palliative care experienced their situation as uncertain. When life no longer was certain, the patients tried to live their life day by day and make the best of it. Problem: When patients were diagnosed with an incurable disease the future became unsure, because their life would come to an end. Therefore patients with a palliative diagnosis could be in need of experiencing feelings of Security.

ABSTRACT The main purpose of IT Security policies is to protect companies against intrusion and unwanted spread of information. Statistics show that IT related crimes tend to increase and because of that it is important, from the company?s side of view, to be well prepared. The IT Security policy is an important part of that preparation. A lot of the crimes related to IT can be deduced indirectly to employees at the companies where the crime takes place.

This is a bachelor?s essay in the landscape architect programme in Alnarp. The purpose of the essay is to describe discussions about Security in planning contexts in Sweden. Written material from three levels of the discussions has been studied: Swedish research, governmental directives and practisers. I have tried to obtain a variation in types of material.

The purpose of this essay is to examine the development of the use of private Securitycontractors in Iraq. The reason is that there has been a considerable increase of the number ofprivate Security firms operating in Iraq during the last couple of years. The legislation in thefield of private military and Security is indistinct and my hypothesis is that the lack of nationaland/or international legislation can be connected to the increased globalization. To come toany conclusions about this I have chosen to make a comparative study between the two casesthe Gulf War and the War in Iraq which started in 2003. In this comparison, I ask thefollowing questions: 1) Are there any signs of anarchy in the field of private Security duringthe Gulf War respectively the last War in Iraq? 2) In what way has the use of private Securitycontractors changed from Case 1 to Case 2 ?According to my research, there were signs of anarchy in the field of private Security bothduring the Gulf War and during the latest war in Iraq.

The purpose of this master thesis is to evaluate how the current share price and market consensus affect Security analysts target price and if an investor should pay any attention to it. Empirical data is primarily collected from qualitative interviews with ten Security analysts but also from a quantitative e-mail survey. Our main finding is that Security analysts are indeed affected by each others earnings forecasts as well as the current share price. This is not strange, it is in several aspects rational. Security analysts has often nothing to gain by standing out too much and not either by spending too much time trying to create their own opinions due to lack of time or the complexity of what is analyzed.

This essay tries, in different levels, to explain and create a deeper understanding for the phenomena ?private Security companies?. By using Mary Kaldors theory about new wars, I will come to the conclusion that the inSecurity that these wars create is an important part in understanding the emergence of a Security need that these private Security companies can provide. Later I investigate and explain howthe neoliberal privatization policy that is spreading through the world today has laid ground for development of the private Security industry. When I have answered these questions I analyze how the private Security companies can affect the state, war and peace both positively and negatively.

Systems development methods mirror different organizational perspectives, and not all methods are formalised, but what they have in common is the purpose of structuring and supporting systems development processes. Which method would be the most suitable may be determined by the systems development context at hand, because every systems development context is unique. Information is a valuable asset in today?s organizations, and it needs to be protected against both internal and external Security threats. In our essay we aspired to find and present suggestions as to how systems developers can include Security in the very design based on formalised systems development methods to create systems that are better prepared to meet the Security challenges of today.

International organizations are important actors on the stage of world politics, and how these actors securitize the climate change issue is of importance for how it will be tackled by actors on global and national levels. The purpose of this study is to contribute to research on climate Security discourses and how climate change is defined as a Security concern amongst different actors. This study, in contrast to previous research, focuses on systematically mapping the definitions made by different international organizations by asking: whose Security is at stake; who is responsible for responding to the threat; how is the nature of the threat defined; and what responses are suggested? By analyzing material consisting of a variety of documents and statements from five international organizations, I aim to identify differences between these actors ? in how the climate change issue is conceptualized from a Security perspective. The result of the study shows that only one of the organizations shows clear elements of the national/geopolitical Security discourse, while all of the other actors primarily use the human Security discourse.

ABSTRACT The main purpose of IT Security policies is to protect companies against intrusion and unwanted spread of information. Statistics show that IT related crimes tend to increase and because of that it is important, from the company?s side of view, to be well prepared. The IT Security policy is an important part of that preparation. A lot of the crimes related to IT can be deduced indirectly to employees at the companies where the crime takes place.

The concept of national Security has been a matter for debate during recent years, especially in academic fields. Criticism has surfaced since the end of the cold war, directed towards the traditional perspective's dogmatic focus on armed threats and interstate war. Questions concerning an oncoming paradigm shift have been raised, regarding a widening of the Security agenda among national states to also include alternative threats, such as environmental hazards. In this thesis, the focus lies on the effects that climate changes have caused in the Swedish national Security agenda during the last 15 years. Swedish policy documents show that there have been some major changes, not only the widening of the Security agenda but the entire Security domain seems to have changed.

This essay conducts a descriptive analysis of the ideas expressed by NATO´s official Security strategy "Strategic Concept" from 2010 and the European Union?s Security strategy "A Secure Europe in a Better World" from 2003. The purpose of this analysis is to examine whether the ESDP and NATO are compatible with each other when it comes to the role of Security policy actor. To do so, I´ve chosen to analyse the actors' Security strategies based on three dimensions. These dimensions are: Their view of the international scene, their views on cooperation and their views on how to reach Security.

AbstractThe thesis investigates how the European Union promotes stability and Security in the Mediterranean region. The aim is to analyse the European Union?s Security ambitions with Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the Barcelona Process. An analytical framework with five sectors (military, political, economic, environmental and societal), based on the Copenhagen School?s theories about Security sectors and securitization, is used for the analysis.

The theory of ?Security communities? is generally understood as ?dependable expectations of peaceful change? between groups and whether or not the African Union can be said to meet that criteria has been contested in the research community. One of the central disagreements lie in the nature of the region?s conflicts, of which a majority are intrastate but with tendencies of transnational involvement. This paper seeks to understand how extensive this involvement is and how it affects the possibility of classifying the African Union as a Security community.

In the post Cold-War era, world politics was transforming itself through its emerging complex issues such as terrorism and influential and interdependent actors such as the European Union. In this new era, the European Union was developing its Common Foreign and Security Policy pillar both to present a coherent and unified EU policy and to prove its political potent in order to become an influential actor on world politics. On the other side, Security environment was also transforming its content through emerging actors and issues. As one of the most prominent actors of the world politics, the EU was influenced by the transformation of Security environment, whose economic ?soft power? proved necessary but insufficient for being a global power in this emerging Security environment.