Search for dissertations about: "Continuation War"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Continuation War.

  2. 1. War and Unreason. Bounded Learning Theory and War Duration

    Author : Marco Nilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; war duration; security dilemma; offense-defense balance; offensive expectations; offense dominance; defense dominance; Winter War; Continuation War; Iran-Iraq War; Indo- Pakistani War; ideas; rational choice; expected utility; war; bounded learning theory.; war duration;

    Abstract : Why are some wars longer than others? Offense-defense theorists have assumed that wars are shorter and it is more difficult for states to create security when military technology favors the offense and attacking is easier than defending. This study argues that this assumption is wrong on both accounts. READ MORE

  4. 2. 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

  5. 3. Optimal stopping, incomplete information, and stochastic games

    Author : Yuqiong Wang; Erik Ekström; Sören Christensen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Optimal stopping; sequential analysis; incomplete information; asymmetric information; stochastic filtering; Dynkin games; tug-of-war games; Mathematics; Matematik;

    Abstract : This thesis contains six papers on the topics of optimal stopping and stochastic games. Paper I extends the classical Bayesian sequential testing and detection problems for a Brownian motion to higher dimensions. We demonstrate unilateral concavity of the cost function and present its structural properties through various examples. READ MORE

  6. 4. Two Quests for Unity : John Dewey, R. G. Collingwood, and the Persistence of Idealism

    Author : Bruno Hamnell; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Dewey; R. G. Collingwood; Idealism; Pragmatism; Liberalism; Unity; Experience; Practical Knowledge; Intellectual History; History of Philosophy; Anglo-America;

    Abstract : After having dominated philosophical thought in Britain and the United States during the end of the nineteenth century, idealism was in steady decline by the outbreak of World War I. Its ideas and ideals seemed unsuited to face the transition from Victorianism to modernism and the rapid social changes of the post-war era. READ MORE