Search for dissertations about: "Cold War"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 80 swedish dissertations containing the words Cold War.

2. 11. Gendering Nuclear Disarmament : Identity and Disarmament in Sweden during the Cold War

   Author : Emma Rosengren; Thomas Jonter; Yvonne Svanström; Cecilia Åse; Towns Ann; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Feminist theory; nuclear disarmament; nuclear weapons; gender nation sexuality; identity and policy; internationella relationer; International Relations;

   Abstract : This dissertation provides new knowledge about gender, nuclear weapons and disarmament. Previous feminist research has shown that in contexts where positive associations are made between military strength, masculinity and nuclear weapon possession, it is hard to imagine nuclear renunciation and disarmament as anything other than potential emasculation or feminization. READ MORE

4. 12. Re-presenting the West : NATO’s Security Discourse after the End of the Cold War

   Author : Andreas Behnke; Jens Bartelson; Iver Neumann; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATO; security; discourse; nomos; identity; West; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is a critical investigation into the discursive processes through which the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has re-produced a geopolitical order, or nomos, after the end of the Cold War and the demise of its constitutive enemy, the Soviet Union. The thesis examines both the ontological as well as the epistemological aspects of these processes. READ MORE

5. 13. Advocates of Realpolitik : Sweden, Europe and the Helsinki Final Act

   Author : Aryo Makko; Hossein Sheiban; Thomas Jonter; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sweden; Foreign Policy; Diplomacy; CSCE; Final Act; Cold War; Détente; Active Foreign Policy; Olof Palme; Neutrality; Neutrality Policy; EC; EEC; History; historia;

   Abstract : Sweden is traditionally portrayed as an active critic and mediator or bridge builder in international politics during the 1960s and 1970s. The activation of Swedish foreign policy, often ascribed to Prime Minister Olof Palme, has been lauded as a transformation from armed isolationism to internationalist solidarity. READ MORE

6. 14. No alternatives : The end of ideology in the 1950s and the post-political world of the 1990s

   Author : Daniel Strand; Bosse Holmqvist; Mats Hallenberg; Howard Brick; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; intellectual history; political theory; philosophy of history; ideology; end of ideology; post-politics; modernization theory; Cold War; anticommunism; 1950s; 1990s; idéhistoria; History of Ideas;

   Abstract : In the 1950s, scholars in Europe and the United States announced the end of political ideology in the West. With the rise of affluent welfare states, they argued, ideological movements which sought to overthrow prevailing liberal democracy would disappear. READ MORE

7. 15. A world reformed? : the United States and European security from Reagan to Clinton

   Author : Mike Winnerstig; Erik Beukel; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; United States of America; realism; geopolitics; liberalism; constructivism; Cold War; balance of power; democratic peace; NATO; European Union.; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : The research aim of this study is to answer the following question: What kind of security strategies did the United States conduct toward Europe during the period 1981 through 1997 ( and why? In order to answer this question, three auxiliary questions are asked. Firstly, what was the U.S. READ MORE