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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
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), ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Will climate change increase the prevalence of violent conflict in the future? To investigate this broad and difficult question, this thesis argues that we need to start with sound causal inference regarding the historical ...
(Doctoral dissertation / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
Practitioners with limited security resources lack appropriate guidelines when protecting targets against mass-casualty attacks. Existing guidelines about prioritization between targets and protective security measures are ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
This dissertation aims to contribute to a more contextually informed analysis of CSR by studying how political-economic institutions influence CSR practices. Approaching CSR as a political phenomenon, the dissertation ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
The concept of freedom is a perennial bone of contention in normative political theory, and also the fundamental topic of this thesis. The thesis is divided into an introductory chapter, and three parts with two chapters ...