Search for dissertations about: "international development cooperation"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 75 swedish dissertations containing the words international development cooperation.
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16. When the first-world-north goes local : Education and gender in post-revolution Laos
Abstract : This thesis is a study of three global issues – development cooperation, education and gender - and their transformation to local circumstances in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. Combining post-colonial and post-structural perspectives, it sets out to understand how discourses of education and gender in Laos intersect with discourses of education and gender within development cooperation represented by organisations such as the World Bank and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). READ MORE
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17. Regional cooperation and conflict management: Lessons from the Pacific Rim
Abstract : Regional cooperation is increasingly important as a means to create peaceful relations and improve economic development. The problem today is not to initiate cooperation, but rather how to handle disputes and maintain good relations. This is done through conflict management mechanisms (CMMs) in most regional cooperation structures. READ MORE
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18. Window of opportunity : Dutch and Swedish security ideas and strategies 1942–1948
Abstract : The period treated in this thesis is one which is often characterized as a transition between World War II and the Cold War. By approaching it instead as a window of opportunity – a period in which the governments of small states perceived both an unusual space and an urgent need to reevaluate security – the security policies of two small northwestern European countries, the Netherlands and Sweden, are subjected to a critical reappraisal. READ MORE
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19. Business Relationships Between Local Firms and MNCs in a less Developing Country : The Case of Libyan Firms
Abstract : International business relationships have been widely researched over the last three decades. Themajor attention of these studies, no matter what their theoretical perspective, concerns the MNCs inthe less developing countries (LDCs). Studies that illustrate how firms in LDCs behave regardinginteraction with MNCs are slim. READ MORE
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20. International inter-firm transfer of technology : decisions and interactions : case studies from Swedish firms' joint ventures and licensing operations in China
Abstract : The technological assets of a firm are one of the main sources of its competitive power. In recent decades, the transfer of technology has become an important element of international business, sometimes as the explicit objective of international transaction, at other times, as the side effect of the sale/purchase of goods. READ MORE
