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Big Science accelerator complexes are no longer mere tools for nuclear and particle physics, but modern-day experimental resources for a wide range of natural sciences and often named instrumental to scientific and technological development for innovation and economic growth. Facilities compete on a global market to attract the best users and facilitate the best science, and advertise the achievem

Världen blir alltmer globaliserad och statsgränsen har inte samma betydelse. Det internationella samfundet växer snabbt där stater blandar sig i varandras angelägenheter alltmer. Humanitära interventioner sker i större utsträckning och intresset att ingripa har ökat mycket senaste åren. Uppsatsen ämnar göra en jämförande fallstudie med interventionerna Kosovo och Libyen som studieobjekt. Med utgån

The purpose of this essay was to examine the structural composition of the global hegemony, and how it was expressed in peace building in Iraq. In order to examine this, the neoliberal hegemony was outlined with the help of Rovert Cox’s notions of structures and other critical scholars’ notions of neoliberalism. The neoliberal hegemony was expressed in Iraq through an extensive marketization forci

Emissions of greenhouse gases in many European countries are declining, and the European Union (EU) believes it is on track in achieving emission reductions as agreed upon in the Kyoto Agreement and the EU's more ambitious post-Kyoto climate policy. However, a number of recent publications indicate that emission reductions may also have been achieved because production has been shifted to other co

This article critically studies the hegemonic discursive construction of the EU’s current (2012) economic crisis, as it is articulated by political and economic elites and by mass media. The study focuses on the political economy of the particular crisis and through the critical concept of reification, the study emphasizes the hegemonic naturalization of the economic crisis by the “free market” ec

The increase of feminist foreign policy (FFP) declarations globally has provoked a vigilant scrutiny of these policies, especially their alignment with transformative, postcolonial, and intersectional feminisms. Contributing to existing scholarship on FFPs, this thesis explores the establishment of FFP in Germany from consultation process to final guidelines. Using a multidimensional Critical Disc

Historiskt har Sverige haft en unik relation till snus, som varit djupt rotat i den svenska kulturen. Denna uppsats undersöker hur denna produkt har hanterats juridiskt, från de tidiga 1900-talens liberala inställning till dagens betydligt mer restriktiva syn, med ett särskilt fokus på utvecklingen från 2000-talet och framåt. Uppsatsen analyserar hur regleringarna av snus och andra tobaksprodukterHistorically, Sweden has had a unique relationship with snus, which has been deeply rooted in Swedish culture. This paper examines how this cultural product has been handled legally, from the liberal attitude of the early 1900s to today's much more restrictive view, with a particular focus on developments from the 2000s onwards. The paper analyzes how the regulation of snus and other tobacco p

With an accelerating climate crisis, Russia as an aggressive military force, a changing American presence in the international community, and the move of Sweden and Finland to enter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), the geopolitics of the Arctic bear increasingly larger implications for global geopolitical trends. The Nordic states have large interests in how the Arctic region develop

In recent years, both the price and the security of supply of plannable energy have changed drastically with increasing uncertainty regarding pricing and availability. The political will to ensure access to plannable and safe energy supply nationally has increased significantly during the same period. The study examines the question of whether the lack of cheap planable energy with the threat of e

This work applied Bayesian Optimization (BO) for the task of calibrating methane-related parameters in the Lund-Potsdam-Jena General Ecosystem Simulator (LPJ-GUESS v4.1). A Gaussian Process (GP) was used as the surrogate model within the BO framework. Additionally, other enhancements we applied to the BO framework such as the use of complexity-penalizing priors for GP hyperparameters and numerical

This paper will examine the underlying identity processes of the European Space Agency. The aim is to discover how this agency is presenting itself and why, by using narrative analysis. Narrative analysis has proven to be effective in coming close to a subject’s performed identity. Theories from corporate communications and organisational studies have inspired the portrayal of ESA as a personified

This study explores entrepreneurship discourses in literature about entrepreneurial learning in Swedish elementary school and what subjects these aim to shape. The aim is to examine what motivates changes to entrepreneurship, how it is defined, and what political notions of the social and gender it establishes by using feminist theoretical premises, analytic categories of hegemony and subject form

This Master Thesis project is a pilot study in developing a collision avoidance function for an autonomous underwater vehicle, also called AUV. A collision avoidance function is necessary to ensure safe operation of an AUV. The AUV gets information about the surroundings through an active sonar. The image from the sonar has to be processed to extract information about the environment, e.g., detect

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the autonomy in an acquired subsidiary affects the integration process within an M&A process. The study uses a qualitative and deductive method by conducting a case study in a major Swedish technological company. We have made five different hypotheses based on three prominent articles within the M&A research area that deal with the subject o

The Philippines is an island nation in South East Asia consisting of more than 7 000 separate islands. The Philippines is the country in the world that is most often struck by tropical storm; every year between 6 and 9 typhoons hit land in the Philippines. In November 2013 the super typhoon Haiyan hit the nation, killing 10 000 people and causing massive destruction to parts of the infrastructure

This thesis aims to investigate the phenomenon of a paracrisis and the discourses constituting it to understand the stakeholder’s contribution to the paracrisis. The studied paracrisis unfolded in the comment section of the mexican beer brand Coronas Instagram during the global outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. The empirical material consists of comments that were analyzed with analytical and theore