By comparing the experience off interaction in a life world with a drug habit and a life world without a drug habit you might find how they differ. We asked four former drug abusers in four semi structured interviews to describe their experiences off interaction under these two circumstances. The difference between the two life worlds when it comes to interaction is that in the drug abusing life world our informants describe that communicative action has to stand back for a more goal oriented action. In the drug free life world, communicative action on the other hand is experienced as the most important action. The difference is about wether interaction is goal oriented or oriented at understanding.

No-fly Zones have been used in three recent conflicts. For every intervention the time taken to achieve the end-state has decreased. It took twelve years in Iraq, three years in Bosnia and only nine months in Libya. NATO was part of the intervention in both Bosnia and Libya, facing almost the same size of opponent, but it took them four times longer to achieve the end-state in Bosnia compared to Libya. The purpose of this essay is to analyze this difference in the time taken to achieve the end-state with a structured focused comparison of Bosnia and Libya based on Robert Pape´s theory of coercion with a focus on No-fly Zones. The results show that the mandate can explain the difference. In Libya NATO had the opportunity, due to the mandate, to use pre-emptive strikes, which they did not have in Bosnia.

Krisberedskapen har i det svenska samhället förändrats över tid från fokus på invasion till fokus på krishantering. Detta har också bidragit till att samhället är beroende av frivilliga som hjälper till i samhällets krisberedskap. Detta examensarbete syftade till att undersöka vad det är som motiverar dagens frivilliga att engagera sig i frivilligorganisationer, men också varför dessa väljer att stanna kvar och delta aktivt i organisationens verksamheter. Vidare att tillhandahålla frivilligorganisationer inom svensk krisberedskap ett verktyg för att rekrytera nya, och motivera befintliga, medlemmar. Efter initial kontakt med respektive frivilligorganisation (Frivilliga resursgruppen, Svenska blå stjärnan och Svenska sjöräddningssällskapet) genomfördes 24 telefonintervjuer inkluderande 35 frågor.

15th of December 2005 was a historical day for the Iraqi people when they could vote for the first time in a free referendum for the draft of the new constitution. The result showed that 79% accepted it. The Iraqi constitution has been criticized by many for its Islamic ascendancy. By giving Islam the role as the source for legislation, will make the situation worse for the Iraqi women, so it has been said.My aim with this Master thesis is not to evaluate weather or not Islam as a religion will undermine women's roll in the society. My ambition is rather to examine the constitution in order to see which kind of theory of citizenship it is inspired from and how will it affect the situation of the Iraqi women.

This essay is on the subject of the changes that the Swedish military is undergoing. This essay will take the old ways of alignment thinking, were the military was to protect the nation against an invasion and compare it to the newer way of alignment thinking, where the military is to go abroad and do peacekeeping operations as there main objective. This comparison will be done by using Bengt Abrahamson theory about professions. He uses three parts one is specialised theoretical knowledge, another is ethics and the last is corps spirit. This theory will then be connected to four interviews.

This essay is a case study about the Swedish Armed Forces during the years 1988-2004; when it transformed from a force constructed to meet an invasion, to an international force with the primary mission to help subdue conflicts around the world. The essay uses texts and documents to examine what happened between these years and to find out what drove that change.By asking the questions A) ?What happened between the years 1988-2004?? and B) ?What is the difference between the Armed Forces in 1988 and in 2004??, it is possible to also ask C)?Why did the Swedish Armed Forces change??.The essay is divided into three main parts; 1) a theory-part focused on three main theories of international relations: liberalism, realism, and constructivism, 2) a historical case study examining the evolvement of the Armed Forces during these years, and 3) a conclusions section that uses thethree theories of international relations to examine why this change happened.In examining the historical period and making conclusions about the differences between these years it was also necessary to construct a scale of military power, on which the historical case study is based..

Marinens sjöstridskrafters förmåga har sedan kalla krigets slut genomgått stor förändring. Den största är att kvantiteten drastiskt har minskats. Frågan som måste ställas är om den förmåga marinen besuttit har uppnått de krav politiken har ställt.Uppsatsen genomför en komparativ studie och kartlägger hur de marina materiella förmågorna har varit tillräckliga för att kunna nå de mål och möta de hot som svenska regeringar identifierat i propositioner sedan 1981 tills 2009 med fokus på det marina närområdet och Östersjön med tre nedslag i historien. För att förstå förändringen som skett tas även förändringen av den säkerhetspolitiska omvärldsuppfattningen upp.I analysen ses den förändring av omvärlden som legat till grund för de mål och hot som identifierats samt vilken marin sjöstridsförmåga som funnits. Från en omvärld som givit ett mål att verka fredsbevarande och bekämpa en invasion ensamt, har fokus skiftat till att möta det vidgade säkerhetsbegreppet, som ska mötas tillsammans med andra efter solidaritetsförklaringen.

This study is an investigation of newly arrived young Iraqis and their view on obstacles and opportunities available in a secondary school in Södertälje City. This is also a comparative study between the newly arrived Iraqis schooling in Iraq and in Sweden. We have used theoretical concepts such as culture, ethnicity, refugee, intercultural education, socialization and PTSD. These have helped us to provide distinct guidelines when we analyze newly arrived young Iraqis in Södertälje City. Our approach has been based on qualitative interviews with both students and teachers.

ABSTRACTTitle: The defend of the picture ? a comparison of recruitment advertisements from the Swedish Armed Forces / Bilden av försvaret? en jämförande studie av Försvarsmaktens rekryteringsannonserNumber of pages: 35Author: Greta SimonssonTutor: Mats LindCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Autumn Semester 2007University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityAim: Do the messages in the recruitment advertisements from the Swedish Armed Forces differ between such advertisements produced in the ?defense against invasion? era and those produced in the present, more internationally oriented era, when analyzed using semiotics? And, how are these advertisements understood by their receivers?Material and method: Interviews, a focus group and semiotic analysis.Main results: The messages in the recruitment advertisements have changed. In line with the changed focus of the Swedish Armed Forces to more international cooperation and missions, the present day advertisements do indeed have a more international and aggressive focus.Keywords: Swedish Armed Forces, information, recruitment, advertisements, semeiotics..

Purpose: Which type of social critique does hiphop music present and is it possible to categorize the critique?Is it possible to categorize the social critique ideologically on the basis of socialism, liberalism and conservatism?Procedure and method: A qualitative text method has been used to see which arguments the songs portray. Two different analyzes has been used. The first one was a theory based on Thomas Denk and Daniel Silanders book: Att studera demokratisering and Arvidssons book: Musik och politik hör ihop and its purpose were to categorise the critique. The second one was based on a book by Reidar Larssons: Politiska ideologier i vår tid.

The Swedish Armed Forces have gone through a remarkable change. From beingan organisation built on the notion of countering a Soviet invasion it has evolvedto focusing on small, multilateral rapid reaction capabilities to be used within theframework of the European security and defence policy, ESDP.This thesis regards the change as a process of Europeanisation. Drawing fromsociological and historical institutionalism, it is shown that the Swedish ArmedForces in the post-cold war context was path dependent and unwilling to redefineits historical raison d?être. The origin of the ESDP Europeanised the nationaldefence policy, whereas the bureaucracy was still unwilling to translate the newstructural norms.

Natten mellan den 19 och 20 mars 2003 inledde koalitionstrupper Operation Iraqi Freedom. Detta var slutet på det som kom att gå till historien som Irakkrisen.30 år tidigare formulerade Graham Allison en teori, i form av tre modeller, för att förklara utrikespolitiskt agerande utifrån Kubakrisen. Vi har prövat huruvida Allisons teori fortfarande kan förklara utrikespolitiskt agerande genom att pröva den på Irakkrisen. Detta har operationaliserats genom en systematisk genomgång av tillgängligt material som behandlar uppsatsämnet.Efter att ha betraktat Irakkrisen utifrån Allisons tre olika modeller kan vi konstatera att teorin fortfarande är bärkraftig. Dock behövs viss komplettering till den 30 år gamla teorin ? i form av en inrikespolitisk analys, bredare organisationsanalys samt en djupare value- och beliefsystem-analys ? för att kunna åstadkomma en fylligare undersökning som förenar Allisons modeller med dagens verklighet..

Wooded pastures are common in the agricultural landscape in Sweden, often rich in naturaland cultural values. It is not a well confined biotope but consist of a semi-open landscapewith a complex pattern and wide variation of tree and shrub coverage. The values in thewooded pastures have been created through a long history of management.One major threat to wooded pastures is ceasing management. Yearly and intensive grazinghas been demanded for several years in order to receive economical support. At the sametime trees and bushes have often been regarded as vegetal invasion.

Steroidresponsiv meningit-arterit (SRMA) är en immunmedierad sjukdom som karaktäriseras av steril meningit och arterit i kärlen i meningerna. Det är den vanligaste formen av meningit hos hund. Kännetecknande för sjukdomen är en invasion av neutrofiler i centrala nervsystemet (CNS) och höga IgA-nivåer både i blod och i cerebrospinalvätska (CSF). Etiologin och patogenesen bakom sjukdomen är relativt okänd. Mycket talar för att en produktion av kemokinen IL-8 i CNS i kombination med ett ökat uttryck av integrinen CD11a är orsaken till att immunsvaret lokaliseras till CNS.

Detta arbete bygger på en kvalitativ studie om den ideella rörelsens betydelse i samhället. Den exemplifierande undersökningen utgår från sju respondenters syn på vad den ideella sektorn, (med utgångspunkt från idrottsrörelsen), bidrar med till samhället. Syftet med studie är att undersöka vilka synsätt det finns på vad den ideella sektorn bidrar med till samhället. Forskning kring området har knappt genomförts innan slutet av 1990-talet men modern forskning påvisar att ideella verksamheter har en stor påverkan på samhället. Med utgångspunkt i den tvärvetenskapliga forskningsansatsen socialt kapital har resultat påvisats att såväl gemenskap, tillit, trygghet samt medborgarskap grott utifrån ideell verksamhet.