Search for dissertations about: "European Community"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 157 swedish dissertations containing the words European Community.

2. 1. Exploring the Dynamics of Security Community-Building in the Post-Cold War Era : Spain, Morocco and the European Union

   Author : Niklas Bremberg; Jan Hallenberg; Charlotte Wagnsson; Jacob Westberg; Ian Manners; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; security; community; practice; institution; constructivism; crisis management; transgovernmental; network; European Union; Spain; Morocco; trade; defence; civil protection; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to make a theoretical as well as an empirical contribution to the debate on the security community concept in International Relations (IR) by way of conducting a study of the European Union (EU) as a security community-building institution in the case of Spain and Morocco. The security community concept originally sought to define the conditions under which the threat of inter-state war would be mitigated through social transaction and expectations of peaceful change between societies and states. READ MORE

4. 2. Europeans only? : essays on identity politics and the European Union

   Author : Peo Hansen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; European identity; European Union; European Commission; identity politics; discourse; discourse analysis; immigration; immigrants; ethnic minorities; culture; ethno-culturalism; citizenship; European citizenship; education; exclusion inclusion; neo-liberalism; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : The chief preoccupation of the dissertation revolves around the European Union's project of calling forth a collective sense of "European identity" amongst people in the Union. It focuses specifically on how the European Union's identity politics plays out once the ethnic minorities with immigrant background now living in the Union are brought into view. READ MORE

5. 3. 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

6. 4. Air transport liberalisation in the European community 1987-1992 : A case of integration

   Author : Robin Travis; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; European Union; air transport; aviation; liberalisation; integration theory; game theory; neo-functionalism; intergovernmentalism; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : Commercial aviation in the European Community was regulated by a system based on bilateral negotiations until the late 1980s. Regulation ensured that airlines did not compete. The lack of competition conflicted with the aim of the Treaty of Rome of having a common economic market. READ MORE

7. 5. Public Attitudes Towards the European Union : A study explaining the variations in public support towards the European Union within and between countries over time

   Author : Thomas Karv; Kim Strandberg; Kimmo Grönlund; Linda Berg; Åbo Akademi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political support; European Union; Legitimacy;

   Abstract : Public attitudes towards the European Union (EU) have become increasingly important over time. This especially since the process of European integration has become widely considered as a political process affected by attitudinal fluctuations. READ MORE