Search for dissertations about: "International Regime Theory"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words International Regime Theory.
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1. The EU Presidency and the Northern Dimension Initiative : Applying International Regime Theory
Abstract : The main purpose of the thesis is to assess the role of the EU Presidency in the development of the Northern Dimension (ND) – an initiative on the European Union’s foreign policy agenda. Three Presidency periods have been selected within the same time interval held by countries geographically located within the ND: Finland in 1999, Sweden in 2001 and Denmark in 2002. READ MORE
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2. Understanding European Arms Export Controls : Material Interests and Competing Norms
Abstract : This thesis seeks to better understand the formation and implementation of the restrictions that the EU and EU member states have imposed on exports of military and security equipment. Specifically, the thesis develops two norms-based theoretical frameworks for understanding how and why particular restrictions become integrated in states’ national and collective export controls, why others are rejected, and the different ways this integration occurs. READ MORE
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3. Building the Nagoya Protocol Regime on Access and Benefit-Sharing : Institutional Design and Effectiveness
Abstract : The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was designed in accordance with the framework protocol approach, which comprises treaty bodies such as Conferences of the Parties (COP) and compliance mechanisms and sets out broad standards to be made more precise through the making of protocols. The CBD’s third objective, access and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources (ABS), was significantly developed by the Nagoya Protocol. READ MORE
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4. International organizations and children’s rights : Norm adoption, pressure tactics and state compliance
Abstract : Since the adoption of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the attention given by international organizations (IOs) to children’s rights has increased. This dissertation seeks to identify what this means for the global promotion of children’s rights, by addressing three interrelated questions: 1. READ MORE
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5. The implementation of international regimes : The case of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty
Abstract : The dissertation seeks to discern the political and administrative factors that determine the results of international environment and development policies. On the one hand, it makes a contribution to the broader theoretical debate on international regimes by combining regime theory and theories on domestic policy results into an integrated framework for the analysis of international policy results (theoretical objective). READ MORE