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Despite being generally forbidden by the Jordanian Law of Personal Status, early marriage among Syrian refugees in the camp of Zaatari is still common, and according to some sources, its incidence has increased during the past years. This practice in Zaatari is regulated by the Syrian adat, that at the same time coexists with Jordanian law and decision norms advocated by International NGOs; giving
While public sector commonly works with system and civic integration, non-profit sector works with social integration. By doing a case study on Stockholm’s and Malmö’s municipalities, this thesis investigates how Voluntary Sector Organisation Public Partnerships (VSOPP) have influenced their labour market administrations’ views on integration. VSOPPs are partnerships between public and non-profit
With a new regionalisation process in Europe a number of macro-regions are appearing. The same as countries or cities, macro-regions aim at developing or increasing the competitiveness in the global markets not only for products or funds, but also for ideas, influence and reputation, for trust and attention. The model of competitive identity – the brand management model for nations, cities and reg
Graduate School Graduate School Board, 2025-06-09 In attendance Board members Lena Karlsson Director of Studies, Graduate School Leysan Storie Program Director, Politics and Society of the Contemporary Middle East Anne Jerneck Program Director, Development Studies Christopher Swader Program Director, Social Scientific Data Analysis Axel Fredholm Sociology Mikhail Martynovich Human Geography Sarah
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About Graduate School We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition. Read about what we do by clicking here. Our story A brief look at the Graduate School's history Our directors, from A to Ö Get to know the experts who are behind our programmes and courses Lena Karlsson Director of Studies Maja Sager Director, MSc in Social Studies of Gender Cat
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Graduate School Graduate School Board, 2025-04-22 In attendance Board members Lena Karlsson Director of Studies, Graduate School Leysan Storie Program Director, Politics and Society of the Contemporary Middle East Anne Jerneck Program Director, Development Studies Christopher Swader Program Director, Social Scientific Data Analysis Rikard Gustavsson Political Science Axel Fredholm Sociology Ida Na
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This thesis explores the insecurities of female maquila workers in Nicaragua in order to derive policy implications for the Nicaraguan state. These workers are deeply embedded in gendered and neoliberal structures of the global political economy. Based on theories of the social contract, the state is identified as being responsible for ensuring human security for its citizens. Using observations,
This thesis investigates the practical and conceptual interplay between authoritarian and green ecological governance within China’s Ecological Civilization system, post- 2013. Through a qualitative analysis of official policy documents and semi-structured interviews, the study explores how China navigates the spectrum between the ‘Green State’ and ‘Authoritarian Environmentalism’. Findings sugges
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze if and how globalization has a significant impact on nationalism. Therefore two dimensions of globalization are distinguished, political and economic globalization. Nationalism is analyzed as a feeling of superiority of the own nation. In order to test the impact a multilevel model using survey data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) from
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an influential global actor that in recent years has been criticised for the lack of female representation at their annual Davos summit. The WEF has justified this disparity as simply reflecting the current state of female leadership worldwide. This thesis explores both descriptive and substantive representation within the forum in order to determine whether or no
This research addresses the role and the power that the media have in framing information about terrorism and also the importance of the media in a well functioning democracy. In order to do so, a case study of the Terrorist Organization November 17 (or 17N) in Greece is presented, using theories related to terrorism, media and political influence in order to better understand the way that the med
This paper set out to examines United States growing use of drones in order to counter terrorism. In recent years the amount of drone strikes has increased dramatically primary because of the unique capabilities which allows the state to wage war without the loss of human soldiers. Drones offer a low cost and a low risk solution which has grown very popular within military circles. This paper focu
The transitional processes that took place in the post-communist states of the former Eastern Bloc present researchers with a plethora of problems that require the reconceptualization of established ideas within the political science scholarship. However, the literature on post-communist transitions is sparse and this thesis contributes to the field by conducting an explaining-outcome process trac
The proposed study aimed to understand the conditions central to the inclusion and exclusion of the newly arrived children in the Swedish education system by investigating the relevant procedures and actual practices. By employing an inductive qualitative approach, the data were collected from official documents and expert interviews with the responsible actors in the field i.e. government servant
This thesis researches the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union and its effect on the cooperation of the EU states in the United Nations General Assembly. Building on former studies concerning a similar research area, the goal of this thesis is twofold. One the one hand, it aims to empirically investigate the coordination of the EU states on the international stage, usin
Much scholarly work has been devoted to the issue of the identity politics of the EU, often however by attempting to construe limited empirical findings as proof of how the EU generally aims to represent itself and others. This thesis takes a different, more contextual, approach by investigating, via a Laclau and Mouffe inspired discourse analysis, how the EU via representations in its foreign pol
Kursguide - Course Syllabus Books Eriksen, T. H. (2014). Globalization: the key concepts. (Second edition.). 210 pages ISBN: 978-0-85785-742-2 (pbk.) Runyan, Ann Sisson & Spike V. Peterson (2014). Global gender issues in the new millennium. (4th Edition). Westview Press. 328 pages. ISBN: 9780813349176 Scholte, J. A. (2005). Globalization: a critical introduction. ([2. ed. [rev. and updated]). 492
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