This thesis focuses on panda diplomacy as a part of Chinese interest in soft power and its public diplomacy. The main purpose is to examine the role of the panda in Chinese foreign affairs. A previous research chapter is mapped out to understand the domestic discussion on soft power and the state of public diplomacy in Chinese foreign affairs. Pandas and the concept of panda diplomacy is then exam

The experience drawn from the wars in the early modern era in Europe suggest that interstate wars lead to centralization of power and resources. These wars are also strongly associated with state building and were a crucial component in the formation of the modern state. Though another dynamic can be perceived in contemporary warfare. The wars we see today differ in actors, motives, methods of war

Politics should be constituted by social representativeness in order to be conceptualised as democratic and legitimate. The set of politicians ought to be diverse and heterogeneous with the aim to include a wide spectrum of interest and concerns. The debate about women lacking power in politics was raised in the seventies. The political parties acted in response to the debate by implementing diffe

According to Ronald Inglehart, level of individual’s environmental concern is linked with grade of post-materialism resulting from physical and economic security experienced. As post-materialist individuals are considered to prioritize environmental protection over economic benefit, this study raises a question whether this change in values can provide a long-lasting solution for environmental cha

As the world becomes more global so does the conflicts and refugee movements. Whilst many have studied the tensions between the communities of host nations and refugee groups this thesis aims to explore what type of tension and conflict that occurs when one refugee group hosts another. In order to do so this thesis seeks to answer in what way, if any, the arrival of the Palestinian Refugees from S

According to the values of democracy, the governors should be held accountable for their actions and omissions by the governed. However, on a global level there is a deep deficit of democratic accountability. The Inter-Parliamentary Union, (IPU) whose members consist of almost all of the national parliaments in the world, claims to increase accountability within the UN system. This thesis uses the

This essay examines which civic ideals that are described in the Swedish nine-year compulsory school, the journal from the Swedish Teachers Union and the journal from the National Union of Teachers in Sweden. One of the most important tasks for the nine-year compulsory school is to educate future citizens, however, other actors strive to influence the values and ideals during this education. The S

In the middle of the 19th Century the American Henry Thoreau famously did an act of what we today call Civil Disobedience. Since then he has inspired lots of people with his act and today it has become a known and discussed phenomenon. In this thesis I’ll examine the phenomenon civil disobedience. I use a normative study to analyse whether you, from a feminist perspective, can justify three specif

This study aims to investigate what possibilities policymaking have, specifically the design of parental leave policies, to reach a more gender equal division of unpaid housework. The investigation poses the question, how the design of the Swedish and Danish parental leave policies, in respect of reserved ”daddy quotas”, have effected the long-term gender division of unpaid housework. There is no

During recent years, Sweden has received the largest amount of refugees relative to its population among all OECD countries, posing new challenges to integrating those refugees in the labour market. Integration strategies, as well as outcomes of labour market integration, vary between municipalities. This thesis examines causes that can explain the variation in refugees’ local labour market integr

Over the years Donald Trump has made several controversial statements regarding women. Despite that, 42% of all American women who voted in the 2016 election, voted for him. This study examined what it was that made women vote for him. The method used was qualitative, and to collect material, interviews with six women, who voted for Trump, were conducted. General information on voting behavior amo

With this qualitative case study I intended to explain the power change in Egypt 2013 and characterize whether it was a revolution or military coup. I aimed to do this by answering two questions of “How can the power change in Egypt 2013 be explained?” and “How can the power change in Egypt 2013 be characterized, revolution or military coup?”. In this study I disclosed Samuel Huntington’s theo

The main purpose of this thesis is to examine how Swedish party leaders from the three biggest parties talk about the collective identities “women” and “immigrants” in their 2016 speeches from “Almedalsveckan”, the main political event in Sweden. By relating and contrasting these two groupings towards each other, I will also scrutinise whether an exclusion of “immigrant women” takes place. My anal

Straffrättens lagtext är könsneutral, men inte utan undantag. Ett undantag är grov kvinnofridskränkning som tillsammans med grov fridskränkning stadgas i BrB 4 kap. 4a §. Skillnaden mellan fridskränkningsbrotten är att grov kvinnofridskränkning har ett förbestämt könskrav på gärningspersonen och brottsoffret samt ställer krav på deras relation. Gärningspersonen, en man, och brottsoffret, en kvinnaCriminal law is gender neutral in its written construction, but there are exceptions. One of those exceptions is gross violation of women’s integrity. Its sibling provision is called gross violation of integrity, which is gender neutral. The difference between the two provisions is that the relation of the perpetrator and the victim in gross violation of women’s integrity is predetermined in terms

This thesis have examined the Region of Skåne, and its work within the EU. The analysis unit in focus is the Skåne European Office, which is the representation office of the region in Brussels. The aim of the thesis has been to examine their lobbying and networking in Brussels. The question asked is: “How does the region of Skåne exercise their lobbying and networking through their office in Bruss

Ontological security has for the last ten years emerged as a fruitful analytical tool to construe political movement by understanding the individual subject as in the need for a coherent and secure self-identity. Three articles with different views on how the individual subject is understood has recently been published. They criticise common assumptions within the field of ontological security. T

Why are there only 21% female politicians in the highest decision-making body, the Parliamentary Assembly, in Bosnia & Herzegovina, when there has been established a law that requires a 40% quota of gender representation in these positions? Because of all the laws and regulating documents that have been determined by the state to improve the gender inequality issue, it can fairly be claimed th

In 2004, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland (the DHSSPS) was ordered by the Court of Appeal to produce guidelines for healthcare professionals on the legal framework surrounding abortion in the region. The process, which came to last eleven long years, has been one characterised by intense struggle over meaning and been the main political battleground w

2015 was a tough year for the Swedish government and especially the Social Democrats in Sweden. This essay examines what caused the establishment of border controls by looking at the Social Democrats with the help of two theories concerning party strategies. The paper is based on, in addition to the theories, interviews with social democratic members of the parliament. The featured perspectives an

This paper examines the changes in communication about migration policy for Sweden's three largest political parties; Moderaterna, Socialdemokraterna and Sverigedemokraterna. The purpose whit this essay is to find out if the communication of Moderaterna and Socialdemokraterna has become more similar to the communication of Sverigedemokraterna regarding migration policy. I have examined posts f