Search for dissertations about: "thesis related to peace and security"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words thesis related to peace and security.

2. 1. Power politics and peace policies : Intra-state conflict resolution in southern Africa

   Author : Thomas Ohlson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Peace and conflict research; conflict resolution; intrastate civil war; peace agreement; regional security complex; policy change; Southern Africa; Freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and conflict research; Freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and Conflict Research; freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : Why do some peace agreements after intra-state war fail, while others succeed? The dissertation focuses this question, with specific attention to intra-state wars in regional security complexes. The aim of this comparative study is theory building. Propositions, indicators and research questions are derived from a typology of explanatory variables. READ MORE

4. 2. Trust, Threat, and Stable Peace. : Swedish Great Power Perceptions 1905-1939

   Author : Rikard Bengtsson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Baltic Sea; Sweden; international relations; democracy; peace; security; confidence; Distrust; trust; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : This study is ultimately concerned with the attainment of stable peace in international affairs. The notion of stable peace-understood as military conflict resolution being unthinkable, no matter the severity of a conflict-rivals traditional accounts of the logic of international relations. READ MORE

5. 3. A world reformed? : the United States and European security from Reagan to Clinton

   Author : Mike Winnerstig; Erik Beukel; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; United States of America; realism; geopolitics; liberalism; constructivism; Cold War; balance of power; democratic peace; NATO; European Union.; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : The research aim of this study is to answer the following question: What kind of security strategies did the United States conduct toward Europe during the period 1981 through 1997 ( and why? In order to answer this question, three auxiliary questions are asked. Firstly, what was the U.S. READ MORE

6. 4. The Privatisation of Security and State Control of Force: Changes, Challenges and the Case of Iraq

   Author : Joakim Berndtsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; peace and development research; privatisation of security; private security companies; civil-military relations; state control of force; state monopoly of violence; Iraq;

   Abstract : The thematic focus of this dissertation is the privatisation of security, that is, the increasing use of private security companies (PSCs) to perform security- and military-related tasks traditionally associated with the state and institutions such as the police or the military. More concretely, the study investigates security privatisation in the context of violent conflict and in relation to the problem of state control of force. READ MORE

7. 5. Normative Encounters between the ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’: : Women, Peace and Security in Mali and Rwanda

   Author : Jenny Lorentzen; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; norms; practice; discourse; gender; peace building; Mali; Rwanda;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the multiple and often overlapping encounters between ‘global’ and ‘local’ norms, actors, practices, and discourses which take place when norms travel between different socio-political contexts. This is done through a study of how global gender equality norms embedded in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda are promoted in two war to peace transitions: Mali and Rwanda. READ MORE