Search for dissertations about: "jens bartelson"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words jens bartelson.
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1. A genealogy of sovereignty
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2. The Remaking of American Strategy toward Iran and Iraq : Outline of a Theory of Foreign Policy Change
Abstract : This study sets out to develop a realist-constructivist theory of foreign policy change. The theory claims that whenever policymakers believe that the distribution of power favors an expansive grand strategy or necessitates retrenchment, they will act accordingly. READ MORE
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3. Re-presenting the West : NATO’s Security Discourse after the End of the Cold War
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is a critical investigation into the discursive processes through which the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has re-produced a geopolitical order, or nomos, after the end of the Cold War and the demise of its constitutive enemy, the Soviet Union. The thesis examines both the ontological as well as the epistemological aspects of these processes. READ MORE
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4. Political Science and the Concept of Politics : A Twentieth-Century Genealogy
Abstract : This dissertation is a historical investigation of the concept of politics in twentieth-century political science. It is set against the backdrop of the comprehensive rethinking of political concepts we are witnessing today in debates about forces like globalization, individualization, multiculturalism, and postcolonialism, and it seeks to account for the apparent difficulties in rethinking politics in similar terms today. READ MORE
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5. Compound Republics as viable Political Systems : A Comparison of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and the European Union
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