Stater med allvarliga interna problem har i allt större utsträckning kommit att betecknas med etiketter som exempelvis ”failed state”. Detta fenomen kan analyseras i anslutning till en historisk utveckling där framför allt kalla krigets slut och terrorattentaten 2001 kan betraktas som milstolpar. Kategoriseringen av problematiska stater kan analyseras som en diskurs som växt fram under perioden ef

Den här studiens syfte är att bidra till teoriutveckling inom området som berör inomstatliga väpnade konflikters varaktighet. Vi ställer elva hypoteser om hur olika variabler påverkar inomstatliga väpnade konflikters varaktighet som vi sedan analyserar kvantitativt. En del av hypoteserna är kopplade till Colliers (et al. 2004) och Fearons (2004) teorier kring inbördeskrig, men vi har även formuler

As an equality producing mechanism Martha Nussbaum presents a list of ten central human capabilities which, if realised, will lead to a dignified life. The purpose of this thesis is to discover if it is reasonable to suggest that Nussbaum’s list of central human capacities equates to a unified definition of dignity. By examining the parallels between the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (hereafte

EU påstår sig vara ledande aktör i de internationella klimatförhandlingarna. Studien avser därför att undersöka EU: s ledarroll på FN: s klimatmöte COP 15 i Köpenhamn 7-18 december 2009. Med inriktning mot arbetsgruppen AWG-KP söker författarna svar i en relevant och politisk angelägenhet av internationell karaktär. Med utgångspunkt i roll- och ledarskapsteori analyseras hur EU ser på sig själv (e

The purpose of this essay is to show that an individual or a group fleeing environmental change can count as what will be called core refugees. This is done by comparing the main criteria for a refugee in the refugee convention of 1951 and the African union’s refugee convention of 1969. These two conventions are used since they represent different views of who’s a refugee, even though they are rel

The aim of this thesis is to examine how President Obama wants to establish health care reform in the United States of America and ultimately, to look at how health care reform will improve economic human rights. The thesis discusses Obama’s plan and the challenges he faces while presenting arguments from a neo-liberal theory and also using a human rights perspective as a supporter of health care

Sedan 1999 har svenskar ökat sin identifiering med Europa. En enkel förklaring kan vara globaliseringens effekter, men disskuteras situationen i Europa vidare finner man många orsaker. kosmopolitism, nationalism, xenofobi och institutionalism disskuteras i denna uppsats och EU:s påverkan är den dominerande teorin. Hur den europeiska identiteten byggts upp förklaras främst genom institutionalism, m

Ever since its independence from Panamá, Colombia has suffered internal conflicts. This has posed a threat to the country’s stability and has produced much internal displacement in the country. After Sudan, Colombia has the largest amount of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the world. There are many NGOs active in Colombia that work to attend this crisis and in comparison to other countries

This thesis aims to critically examine the unlawfulness of humanitarian interventions. It does so by theoretically adopting a legal positivist perspective, combined with a teleological approach. The thesis examines in detail the provisions of the Articles in the UN Charter relating to the prohibition of the use of force. Furthermore, it scrutinizes the central concept of sovereignty and provides a

The role of the city is undergoing changes, and a new discourse is emerging, where growth-oriented projects plays an important role on the local political agenda, and brings increased competition between cities. There are clear indications on a shift from the local government to interactive processes with private-public partnerships that operates in a project-oriented development of the society. T

The purpose of this paper is to present a broad perspective regarding the historical similarities and differences in the development of asylum and refugee policy, at the supranational and national level. By comparing the two historical contexts of the European Union and Sweden, this paper attempts to answer whether national asylum and refugee policy has become more restrictive from entering the su

This thesis aim is to explore the role of Ukraine on Eurasia ‘chessboard’ on which the struggle for power has being played, since the continent started to act politically, up to day. Master thesis elaborate on the introduction and theoretical framework that investigate the role of Ukraine as a critically important geopolitical pivot whose importance is derived not from it power and motivation but

The Stockholmprogramme was recently adopted by the European Council. In a five-year period the focus of EUs work should be in the area of justice and security. Human rights defenders has criticized the European Union for promoting the security of the Union before human rights. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the contradictions in the Stockholmprogramme about the right to seek asylum and

The abortion issue in the European Union today stands for a paradox situation. Within the union abortion is handled through the subsidiary principle, which states that every country has the right to decide upon the issue itself. Although all member countries of the union have ratified the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, three countries still does no

In the Uzbek cotton industry run by the state under the country’s president Islam Karimov, children as young as the age of 7 have been forced to work under awful conditions picking cotton to fulfill stately quotas for years. In 2007 it was discovered that clothes sold by the multinational Swedish company H&M partly contained cotton from the Uzbek cotton industry. From an assumption that a viol

Violence in the name of honour is a quite new phenomenon in Sweden. The violence can be shown as threat, abuse, and harassment. Women happen to be the main victim in many of the cases of violence in the name of honour. My ground thesis in this paper is just about the question about gender and that women are more exposure to the violence in the name of honour than men. The purpose of this theoretic

In the mid-90s, a nation-wide famine broke out in North Korea, driving people across the border into China in search of food. This was the start of a slow and steady exodus. China claims that these people are illegal migrants, and that a treaty with North Korea obligates it to return them. Others argue that they are refugees that should be protected against refoulment, because of the harsh punishm

The Roma people’s isolation has been a major concern for the population in Europe for many years. Programs and legal frameworks are created for the protection for this underprivileged group; however the isolation continues to exist. The purpose of this paper is to explain why many of the measures taken are shown to be inadequate. The outlining and the examination of the history in this matter will

Development in the sense that we currently use the term has existed since the post-war period and its orthodoxy has changed significantly in the course of time. With economic growth as a first objective, development suffered a crisis in the 1980/1990’s, in view of the lack of concrete results and the increase in poverty at a world level. Human development emerged as a re-orientation in development

In this paper, the moral duty towards asylum seekers and refugees in the EU is highlighted, from the perspectives of Universalism and Communitariarism. Due to different levels of safety and conditions related to being granted asylum in EU member states, the attractiveness of these states for asylum seekers and refugees to seek protection differ substantially. The implementation of the Dublin II Co