Search for dissertations about: "international novel"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 149 swedish dissertations containing the words international novel.
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1. A Darwinian Theory of International Conflict
Abstract : This dissertation aims to advance the current understanding of the general conditions affecting the likelihood of military conflicts and wars between states. To that end, the dissertation develops a Darwinian theory of international conflict. READ MORE
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2. Non-State Participation in International Organizations : Patterns, Drivers, and Consequences
Abstract : Over recent decades, one of the most prominent developments in global governance has been the expanded involvement of non-state actors (NSAs) in the policy-making bodies of international organizations (IOs). This trend is expected to have positive implications for democracy and effectiveness in global governance by improving participation, accountability, and representation, and by allowing IOs to draw on NSA resources to improve policy-making. READ MORE
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3. 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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4. Implementation of International Human Rights Law: A Discourse Theoretical Study Illustrated by the Right to Family Planning in Indonesian Law
Abstract : Discourse theory methodology provides an alternative and novel framework for human rights implementation as a topic of legal research. By conceptualising implementation of international human rights norms in a national legal context as a play of discourses competing for hegemony, it becomes possible to explore the workings of human rights constructions as well as where and how implementation fails or succeeds. READ MORE
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5. The Old World Journey : National Identity in Four American Novels from 1960 to 1973
Abstract : A commonly held assumption among literary critics is that the motif of the European journey is exhausted in American literature in the post-World-War-II period. Challenging this view, the present study claims that the Old World journey narrative lives on, but in new guises, and that it continues to be a forum for the discussion of American national identity. READ MORE