Search for dissertations about: "EU sovereignty"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words EU sovereignty.

2. 1. Becoming Biofuels. The messy assembling of resources, sustainability, poverty, land use, and nation-states

   Author : Marie Widengård; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; biofuels; jatropha; assemblages; governmentality; political ecology; political economy; ethnography; governance; materiality; authority; territory; sovereignty; resources; poverty; sustainability; land use change; states; standards; certification; Africa; Zambia; Mozambique; Tanzania; Kenya; Brazil; EU;

   Abstract : Biofuels have come to represent the will to mitigate climate change by replacing fossil fuels with so-called climate-friendly and renewable plant sources, and to improve rural and poor conditions in the South through biofuel crop production, farm job creation, and smallholder cash cropping. The expansion of biofuels in countries in the South largely pivoted upon ‘the will to develop’, specifically through the oil shrub Jatropha curcas L. READ MORE

4. 2. A Europe of the Member States or of the Citizens? - Two Philosophical Perspectives on Sovereignty and Rights in the European Community

   Author : Ola Zetterquist; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; European law; rule of law; legitimacy; political philosophy. federalism; constitutional theory; rights; European Community; sovereignty; EU-rätt; Philosophy of law; theory of law; Rättsfilosofi; rättsteori;

   Abstract : Today’s debate about the EC and its future can be grouped along two main lines. On the one side are those who hold that the EC is a grouping of sovereign states for the purposes of international cooperation. READ MORE

5. 3. Radio Spectrum Management in the European Union

   Author : Maria Massaro; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; EU integration; radio spectrum management.; international relations; European Union; business lobbying;

   Abstract : This thesis work was conducted to explain how the radio spectrum is managed in the European Union (EU). The radio spectrum is the natural resource which makes modern wireless communication possible. Like other natural resources, the radio spectrum is managed by nations within their national territories. READ MORE

6. 4. European Legal Perspectives on Health-Related Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing

   Author : Santa Slokenberga; Elisabeth Rynning; Jane Reichel; Tamara Hervey; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; direct-to-consumer genetic testing; legal pluralism; state sovereignty; coexistence; privacy; consent; technical performance; utility; Medicinsk rätt; Medical Law;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis examines how the coexistence of the Council of Europe and the EUinfluences rules on direct-to-consumer genetic testing, as well as how these influencesreflect on individual states that are simultaneously bound to both of the legal orders ofinterest.Through the lens of legal pluralism and state sovereignty this research examines thecompetence and authority of the Council of Europe and the EU to handle the market aspects(technical performance and utility) as well as privacy (consent to a medical serviceand data protection requirements), and examines the obligations these two legal ordersplace on the Member States of the EU. READ MORE

7. 5. The New Role of the European Commission in the EU’s Security and Defence Architecture : entrepreneurship, crisis and integration

   Author : Calle Håkansson; Astrid Hedin; Mark Rhinard; Ana Juncos; Malmö universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; EU security and defence policy; European Commission; European integration; integration theory; Crisis; Geopolitical Commission; Global politik; Global politics;

   Abstract : In recent years, the European Union (EU) has strengthened its foreign, security and defence policy in a remarkable way. Several new supranational security and defence initiatives have been launched and implemented, which have given the European Commission a new and central role in European security and defence policy. READ MORE