Search for dissertations about: "Poland"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 99 swedish dissertations containing the word Poland.

  2. 6. Cross-Border Recognition of Formalized Same-Sex Relationships in Europe : The Role of Ordre Public in the Baltic States and Poland

    Author : Laima Vaige; Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg; Mosa Sayed; Máire Ní Shuilleabháin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Private international law; cross-border recognition; same-sex relationships; the Baltic States; Poland; human rights; EU private international law; ordre public; Private International Law; Internationell privaträtt;

    Abstract : Same-sex relationships have successively qualified for formalization through marriage or registered partnership in many European countries, although some countries in Europe still refuse to give them any form of recognition or only allow very limited effects. The irregular speed of development in domestic family laws in European States results in “limping family” relations, that is, family relations that are recognized as creating a formal family civil status in many European States but not in all of them. READ MORE

  4. 7. Energy Use, Efficiency Gains and Emission Abatement in Transitional Industrialised Economies: Poland and the Baltic States

    Author : Jürgen Salay; Miljö- och energisystem; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; implementation; sustainable energy; renewable energy; electricity production; power industry; Baltic states; Poland; transition; sulphur dioxide; air pollution; energy efficiency; Energy; energy use; Environmental technology; pollution control; Miljöteknik; kontroll av utsläpp; Energy research; Energiforskning;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of how energy use and air pollution in Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been affected by the economic transition after 1989. It consists of six articles, which examine three different aspects of these changes. READ MORE

  5. 8. Kind words, cruise missiles and everything in between : A neoclassical realist study of the use of power resources in U.S. policies towards Poland, Ukraine and Belarus 1989–2008

    Author : Barbara Kunz; Jan Hallenberg; Hans E. Andersson; Ronnie Hjorth; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; neoclassical realism; foreign policy; power; U.S. foreign policy; Central and Eastern Europe; Poland; Ukraine; Belarus; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study intends to explain why the United States led entirely different policies towards Poland, Ukraine and Belarus under circumstances where realist theory would predict otherwise. Realism being an “environment based theory”, it would indeed predict a state to lead highly similar foreign policies under identical conditions. READ MORE

  6. 9. Semiotics of Politics : Dialogicality of Parliamentary Talk

    Author : Jaakko Turunen; Inga Brandell; Johan Tralau; Jens Bartelson; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; language; dialogicality; parliamentary talk; Mikhail Bakhtin; Hans-Georg Gadamer; Yuri Lotman; Poland; Slovakia; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society; Politik; ekonomi och samhällets organisering; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; Statskunskap;

    Abstract : Parliamentary talk, despite its central place in politics, has not been the focus of many qualitative studies. The present study investigates how parliamentary talk emerges in a dialogue between different arguments in the parliament. READ MORE

  7. 10. Parks, Policies and People : Nature Conservation Governance in Post-Socialist EU Countries

    Author : Natalya Yakusheva; Björn Hassler; Magnus Boström; Annica Kronsell; Stacy Vandeveer; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; national parks; Carpathians; Poland; Slovakia; Europeanization; Central Eastern Europe; multi-level governance; Environmental Studies; Miljövetenskapliga studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : The national parks in the Carpathian Mountains along the Polish and Slovak border represent encompassing policy agendas that strive to balance biodiversity conservation and social welfare tasks. These countries have, during the last 25 years, undergone rapid transformation from socialist regimes to liberal democracies, and this transformation has affected the political, social and economic spheres. READ MORE