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Today, Sweden is well-known as a nation with a strong voice for non-proliferation and disarmament. This has not always been the case though, during the 1950´s the country was on its way to develop nuclear weapons of its own. This paper seeks to examine how this shift of direction happened during the 1960´s, and how it has affected Swedish security and defence policy as of today. This paper aims t

The purpose of this paper is to compare the posture and operations of Russian nuclear submarines compared to their Soviet predecessors, in the context of nuclear weapons. By conducting a case study comparing the Soviet and Russian nuclear doctrines and their application, limited to the submarine part of the Nuclear triad, and using the Organizational logics model as the method and Waltz’s 3rd imag

In January 2017 the Swedish Prime minister announced at a conference in Sälen that for the first time in history Sweden now had a National Security Strategy and it was now to be implemented. In Sweden, ministers in the Cabinet are not allowed by the constitution to directly influence the work of Sweden’s governmental authorities. The institutions of the government are independent in the execution

The abduction, or arrest as it´s referred to in Russia, of Eston Kohver on the border between Estonia and Russia in September 2014 caused many nations in the western world to condemn the practices of both the Russian counter-intelligence directorate and the Russian justice system. The aim of this thesis is to try to uncover why Russia acted as it did by applying Graham Allison and Philip Zelikows

Ever since the end of the Cold War, there has been a differentiated view of the need for a national defense between Sweden and Finland. During the 2000s, Finland has had a strong national defense in relation to its spruce counttries, while Sweden gradually phased out its national defense capabilities. The purpose of this case study is to identify the reason why the two countries have distinguished

This study thesis Swedish national defence cooperation during the time of the Cold War until today within the spectrum of foreign and security policy. The question to be answered are how Sweden has interact with affecting circumstances regarding national security when deciding type of defence cooperation, and how has Swedish defense cooperation evolved into what it is today. The consequences dur

As of June 2019, medical health care social workers will become eligible for authorization, thereby putting an end to an over 50-year-long debate. The aim of this study was to investigate this debate and how it has been expressed in various texts, foremost legal documents and professional journal articles. Discourse analysis was used as a methodological tool in order to examine explicit and implic

The purpose of this paper is to describe and understand the social secretaries’ experiences regarding their discretion in relation to the client group (young people with criminal behavior 15-20 years) from an o. We used a qualitative method through semi-structured interviews with six different social secretaries within one and the same social service in a municipality in southern Sweden. When anal

This thesis studies Marcus Oscarsson, Joakim Lamotte, Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet, some of the biggest journalistic actors on Facebook in Sweden, and what kind of political material from them that gets spread and engaged with on Facebook. The thesis also analyze the difference between the private actors Oscarsson and Lamotte and the traditional actors Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet and what typ

Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka gyms ätstörningspolicy och aspekten om var gränsen går mellan konsumentens egenansvar i problematiken gentemot gymmets val att som företag ta ett övergripande ansvar för konsumentens välmående. Studien utgörs av fyra olika gyms deltagande genom semistrukturerade intervjuer och mejlade frågeformulär, samt att fem individer som tidigare varit drabbade av ät

The aim of this study was to investigate how social workers describe the difficulties that they experience while interacting with parents of adolescents who seek support from social services and also how social workers describe accountability for the children amongst themselves and the parents. The method chosen for this study was qualitative interviews with five different youth welfare social wor

The occurrence of climate change will have a significant impact on society and adapting to a more sustainable environment is of key importance. The dangers of climate change will include temperature and precipitation patterns becoming more extreme creating a substantial impact on society. Greece’s location and climate make it particularly vulnerable to a changing climate and climate impact assessm

Denna enkätstudie undersökte 211 svenska socionomstudenters intresse av att arbeta med försörjningsstöd, samt relationen mellan intresset och i) studenternas erfarenheter av arbete med försörjningsstöd, ii) studenternas syn på försörjningsstödssystemet och iii) studenternas syn på arbetssituationen på försörjningsstöd. Resultatet visade att studenterna hade ett begränsat intresse av att arbeta medThis study examined the interest in working with social assistance among 211 Swedish BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) students. It also focused the relationship between the students’ interest and i) their prior work experience in the field, ii) their attitudes towards the Swedish social assistance system and iii) their attitudes towards the work situation within the field of social assistance. This w

This study aims to examine social work with people that have experience from selling sex and/or sex trafficking, to show the impact of stigma in social work. The analysis is qualitative and based on semi-structured interviews with six people with experience from social work with this group. Our result showed that social work interventions can be found in three levels: community level, group level

Denna komparativa uppsats undersöker och jämför anställningsskyddet för sjuka arbetstagare i Sverige, Norge och Danmark. Detta görs genom studier av rättskällor utifrån en rättsdogmatisk metodik. Grundprincipen i ett anställningsförhållande är att en arbetsgivare betalar den arbetstagare som utför av arbetsgivaren anbefallna arbetsuppgifter. Utförs inte arbetsuppgifter uppfylls inte kontraktet, ocThis comparative essay aims to research and compare the protection of employment for sick employees in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The study is conducted by studying various sources of law according to the law dogmatic method. The basic principles of the terms of employment is that an employer pays an employee to perform stipulated assignments. If the assignments are not performed, the employment

Syftet med den här undersökningen var att få en djupare förståelse för män som utsätts för våld i nära relation av en kvinnlig partner. Vi har undersökt vilka normer som finns inbäddade i det faktum att en man blir slagen av en kvinna och hur dessa normer har påverkat männens syn på sin egen roll och valet att inte söka hjälp ur sin situation. Empirin har samlats in genom fyra självbiografier skriThe purpose of this study was to get a deeper understanding of men who are exposed to domestic violence by their female partners. We have examined the embedded norms related to the fact, that a man gets beaten by a woman, and how these norms have affected these men’s views on their role and their choice not to seek assistance to get out of their situation. The empirical data has been collected thr

Sammanfattning “Bemanning” är idag ett inarbetat begrepp som innebär att ett bemanningsföretag anställer personal för att hyra ut dessa till att utföra arbete hos ett kundföretag. Det betyder att det normala anställningsförhållandet mellan en arbetsgivare och en arbetstagare får en tredje involverad part. Branschen har växt sedan början av 90-talet och har kommit att bli en allt mer etablerad del Abstract The staffing agency is today a well-known concept. Staffing agencies hire employees in order to rent them out to companies to fill vacancies on the market. This means that the traditional employment relationship between the employer and the employee now often involves a third party. The industry has grown since the early nineties and has become an established part of the labour market due

The purpose of this study was to analyze school counselors perspective on a preventive work with cyberbullying and social media in order to understand how they, in a digital age, perceive their professional role and discretion in a work with social media and preventing cyberbullying. A qualitative study was undertaken which included six semistructured interviews with school counselors who work wit

Mental illness and stress among young people is an increasing public health problem in Nordic countries such as Sweden and is a relevant subject in social work. The increase is most evident among young people, which is something that today's professions address in their respective journals as problematic, this is the foundation of our thesis. The purpose of this study was to investigate how co

This study explores the connection between the indoor and outdoor environment and how through the use of shading devices they affect each other. The chosen location for the study is a well-known street in the urban context of Copenhagen. Through different façade and shading evaluations, this thesis aims to investigate the possibility of achieving desired visual and thermal comfort levels for the i