Search for dissertations about: "Liberty"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the word Liberty.
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1. Liberty Revisited. A Historical and Systematic Account of an Egalitarian Conception of Liberty and Legitimacy
Abstract : This dissertation argues for an interpretation of liberty in terms of non-domination rather than non-interference, that non-domination can work as an independent criterion of political legitimacy, and that non-domination includes an approximation of equality in socioeconomic goods. In the first part, four theories of liberty and power – those of Kant, Locke, J. READ MORE
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2. Ages of liberty : social upheaval, history writing, and the new public sphere in Sweden, 1740-1792
Abstract : This dissertation investigates how different social groups used history as a political instrument in Sweden during the second half of the eighteenth century (1740-1792). More specifically, it analyzes how representations of the past were used to influence behavior, legitimize claims to power, mould opinion and forge collective identities. READ MORE
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3. Beacon of Liberty : Role Conceptions, Crises and Stability in Georgia’s Foreign Policy, 2004–2012
Abstract : In 2004, Mikheil Saakashvili was elected president in Georgia, committing to a foreign policy that would ostensibly make his country a leading example of reform and democratization in the post-Soviet space, and a net-contributor to Euro-Atlantic security. Throughout its time in power and until its defeat in Georgia’s 2012 parliamentary elections, the Saakashvili government remained steadfast in its commitment to establishing these international roles for Georgia, despite developments in both the country’s international and domestic contexts that could plausibly have made these roles, and the foreign policy decisions deriving from them, redundant. READ MORE
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4. The Tragedy of Liberty : Civic Concern and Disillusionment in James Thomson's Tragic Dramas
Abstract : Early eighteenth-century serious drama often addresses the significance of liberty. This study focuses on the theme of civic and individual liberty in the little known tragedies of James Thomson, Sophonisba, Agamemnon and Tancred and Sigismunda, all of which problematise the condition of liberty under the influence of ideology. READ MORE
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5. Ljus och frihet till näringsfång : om tidningsväsendet, arbetarrörelsen och det sociala medvetandets ekologi : exemplet Stockholm 1838-1869
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