Search for dissertations about: "Security Dilemma"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words Security Dilemma.

2. 6. Keep them strong, keep them friendly : Swedish-American relations and the Pax Americana, 1948-1952

   Author : Charles Silva; Thorsten Borring Olesen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; diplomatic history; European integration; European Recovery Program; international politics; Marshall Plan; military history; NATO; OEEC; political history; liberalization; non-alignment; productivity; rearmament; security policy; stabilization; Sweden 20th century; Swedish-American relations; Swedish trade; United States foreign policy; historia; History;

   Abstract : This is a study of Swedish-American relations between 1948 and 1952, a period of exceptional flux and complexity in international politics. In this era of recovery and integration in Western Europe, the United States became profoundly engaged in European political, economic, and military affairs. READ MORE

4. 7. Voluntary Coercion. Collective Action and the Social Contract

   Author : Magnus Jiborn; Praktisk filosofi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; convention.; evolutionary stability; equilibrium; Assurance game; Prisoner s Dilemma; evolutionary game theory; game theory; collective action; Social contract; Systematic philosophy; ethics; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi;

   Abstract : This work provides a game theoretical analysis of the classical idea of a social contract. According to what we might call the Hobbesian justification of the state, coercion is necessary in order to provide people with basic security and to enable them to successfully engage in mutually beneficial cooperation. READ MORE

5. 8. An Afghan Dilemma: Education, Gender and Globalisation in an Islamic Context

   Author : Pia Karlsson; Amir Mansory; Holger Daun; David Stephens; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Islamic education; Western type of education; girls’ education; farz; maktab; madrasa; adab; akhlaq; Islam; globalisation; gender; folk theory; International education; Internationell pedagogik; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

   Abstract : Afghanistan has a long history of Islamic education while Western type of education (maktab) is of more recent date. The latter type of education has expanded rapidly recently. However, girls’ enrolment remains low, around 35 per cent.The present study examines children’s, particularly girls’, participation in the two educational systems. READ MORE

6. 9. Constructing Historical Realism : International Relations as Comparative History

   Author : Martin Hall; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; theory; historical sociology; feudalism; Late Antiquity; Japan; Republican Rome; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : In this study the author seeks to develop Historical Realism as a new approach to International Relations. Drawing on recent theoretical developments in International Relations and Historical Sociology it is argued, first, that a distinction between constitutive and causal theory is necessary and, second, that this distinction makes comparisons at a high level of abstraction across time and space possible. READ MORE

7. 10. Fertility and HIV infection : fertility decision-making challenges of mutually- disclosed discordant couples and young people

   Author : Jolly Beyeza-Kashesya; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Young people; HIV-infected; HIV discordant couples; Fertility decision-making; Uganda;

   Abstract : Background: Sexuality and reproduction in mature generalised HIV epidemics pose significant dilemma to both HIV infected and negative people. Sexually active young people and HIV serodiscordant couples are faced with difficult decision-making about procreation and HIV transmission. READ MORE