Search for dissertations about: "norm evolution"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words norm evolution.
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1. Norm Acceptance in the International Community : A study of disaster risk reduction and climate-induced migration
Abstract : Different kinds of normative claims and statements of “oughtness” infuse the international political environment. But why do some proposed norms become accepted by the international community while others do not? This thesis investigates this central question using two normatively charged international issues as vehicles for explanation. READ MORE
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2. From Idea to Norm : Promoting Conflict Prevention
Abstract : This study is concerned with tracing the process of how conflict prevention is moving from the realm of ideas to the field of action. Why is it that, despite historical as well as recent evidence of the infeasibility to prevent wars, the idea of conflict prevention has resurfaced to meet the challenge of the new wars of the post-Cold War era? The study investigates whether the growing interest in preventing the outbreak of violent conflicts marks the coming of age of conflict prevention as an international norm able to induce preventive practices. READ MORE
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3. Micro- and macroevolutionary aspects of body size diversification and thermal adaptation in insects
Abstract : Body size and body temperature are the two most important traits in biology. In this thesis I show how these twovariables have shaped the evolution of insects over the last 300 million years. READ MORE
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4. Modelling Two-Person Interactions Within and Between Cultural Groups
Abstract : The groups with which we associate influence our actions. This is often the case even when they are not deliberately organised but rather based on social categories, such as sex and skin colour, or cultural homogeneity, such as common language or customs. READ MORE
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5. Predator induced phenotypic plasticity in a freshwater snail
Abstract : In this thesis I examined a phenotypically plastic defence in a common freshwater snail, Radix balthica. Adaptive prey defences may involve behavioural, life-history or morphological changes. Snails are important species in freshwater systems. READ MORE