This dissertation has compared food safety reforms in New Zealand (2002, 2007 and 2010) to a food safety reform in Norway (2004). At the same time these food safety reforms have been compared to general reforms in the two ...

As late as in the mid-1990s it was unthinkable for the UN Security Council to address issues of women’s rights and gender equality in relation to matters of international peace and security. Today the normative framework ...

The main motivation for this thesis is to connect preferences with observable behaviour at all stages of the EU policy-making process. The following are the most important stages in any policy-making process: 1) bargaining ...

There is growing scholarly interest in the role and function of non-state actors in global governance. A number of non-state governance schemes have been created in recent years to set environmental and social standards ...

The four articles that constitute the thesis are qualitative case-oriented comparative studies of the politics of citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA). The ‘politics of citizenship’ refers to the ...

While recent quantitative research concludes that economic inequality is unrelated to civil conflict, qualitative case studies suggest that what matters for political violence is so-called ‘horizontal inequalities’ (HIs), ...