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Revisionism och stormaktsambitioner. En studie av Rysslands internat... 
Svensson Griparic, Janne : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2007) 1-year master
STUDENT ESSAY
English abstract: Russia has after the end of the Cold war played a hidden role at the international arena. After the collapse of the Soviet union Russia was to week to takeover its role as a global great power. The bipolar world system was replaced by a unipolar system with the USA as single global great power. Lately however Russia has started to show more self confidence in its international acting. The question then arises if the country has the ambition to once again become a global great power. This study aims to examine if Russia has these ambitions. The study has its theoretical base in the political realism and assumes from the hypothesis that Russia has clear ambitions to once again become a global great power and that these ambitions will be shown in the country’s acting within the military, political and economic sectors. By first define revisionism and great power Russia’s international acting is then analyzed within these sectors. In the analysis Russia shows clear ambitions to recapture a role as a global great power in according to the hypothesis. Swedish abstract: Ryssland har efter det Kalla krigets slut fört en undanskymd roll på den internationella arenan. Efter Sovjetunionens kollaps var Ryssland för svagt för att överta dess roll som global stormakt. Det bipolära världssystemet ersattes av ett unipolärt system med USA som ensam global stormakt. På senare tid har dock Ryssland börjat visa alltmer självförtroende i sitt internationella agerande. Frågan uppstår då om landet har en ambition att åter bli en global stormakt. Studien syftar till att undersöka om Ryssland har dessa ambitioner. Studien har sin teoretiska grund i den politiska realismen och utgår från hypotesen att Ryssland har klara ambitioner att åter bli en global stormakt och att dessa ambitioner kommer att visa sig i landets ageranden inom de militära, politiska och ekonomiska sektorerna. Genom att först definiera revisionism och stormakt analyseras därefter Rysslands internationella agerande inom dessa sektorer. I analysen visar Ryssland tydliga ambitioner att återta en roll som global stormakt helt i linje med hypotesen. 
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The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and the Presence of Russia
Nikolova, Iskra : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2010) bachelor
STUDENT ESSAY
English abstract: The aim of this paper is to reveal how the European – Russian political cooperation in the common Baltic Sea Region developed over the last twenty years, ending up at the recently adopted European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, which excludes Russian participation. This single case study is divided into two well-defined historical periods: starting from the fall of the Berlin Wall until the Eastern Bloc European enlargement and from 2004 to the adoption of the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea region in 2009; where comparison and process-tracing methods are applied to connect different variables that matter for clarifying the current state of relations. Furthermore, the analysis is conducted with the help of Constructivist and Neo-Realist theories for two purposes – to achieve stronger scientific explanation and to avoid too loose interpretation of the events. The results show that the Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region is often seen and understood differently by the various political actors, but consequently this leads to a situation in which the role of Russia in the common region remains unclear. When it comes to defining the Russian position today, the Baltic Sea Region provides a good climate for collaboration but so far, the European Union has failed to recognize that the Russian Federation although with a limited access to the sea, remains an actor that should not be ignored. Russia, as well appears confused about its overall foreign policy towards the European Union. Nevertheless, another significant outcome reveals that the levels of regional cooperation have been continuously increasing over the last twenty years, which is an indicator that the Russian presence did not diminish. Finally, the study suggests the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region is perhaps the beginning of a new tendency towards macro-regional policy development, which will play a future important role in the international relations. -
The Private is Globlal: A Study on Globalization, Development, and Eq...
Sigala, Catharina : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2012) bachelor
STUDENT ESSAY
English abstract: The last two decades witness that water is a politicized issue. The process of globalization has brought into existence a hierarchal structure in which the World Bank and the International Monterey Fund work in accordance to neoliberal theory. Development is, as a component in this process, placed high on the agendas of these multilateral institutions, and has become a global concern. The case of Bolivia’s water sector privatization has problematized the global consensus on neoliberal theory and its attempts to ensure development. The international system is a set of structures that shape the process of globalization, thus these have to be explored in order to understand the relation between neoliberalism, development, and equity. By placing Bolivia’s water sector privatization in the center of the research, concepts become researchable, while the neoliberal theory on development is tested. The policies of privatization did not succeed in targeting the poorest groups and equity was overseen. The study finds that the opposing views on whether privatization is a mean to achieve development are based in a clash on what development is. Dependency and power relations cannot be overseen. The clash is, in turn, translated into the relation between the global and the local, which is also shaped by contradiction in the context of globalization. Globalization is a process with a severe problem: there is no room for equity.
The Private is Global C Sigala 2012.pdf
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Law+Impunity=Legitimacy? Rethinking liberal legitimacy of internation...
Weski, Emelie : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2012) bachelor
STUDENT ESSAY
English abstract: In here, the criminalization of sexual violence is a manifestation of increased recognition of feminism, and proof of international law reaching at liberal criteria for legitimization. Though, in making conclusions other necessary criteria for fully recognized legitimacy are acknowledged (such as other types of rights, types of security and other levels for analysis). Though, from a strict feminist critical approach the criminalization of sexual violence, and the extent of such criminalization can by itself prove legitimacy or illegitimacy. The criminalizing of sexual violence took place over 100 years ago, yet the systematic use of it in warfare was not publicly condemned until the ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda) and the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal of former Yugoslavia) (Buss, 2009, p. 356) took on the duty to prosecute and convict. Still today women’s security and sexual violence are research fields that awake a lot of hostile emotions. Findings show that there is few, if any, affects for those tribunals that fail to bring justice to rape victims; calling for an analysis of Walzer’s political fit. The international praxis of impunity supports feminism in an existing ‘male truth’ risking the security of women. The legitimacy of the institution of international law is, however, not dependent on one legal procedure. Liberalist and feminist different interpretations of adequate necessity to create peace frame after 15 224 words a utilitarian illusion which slows down the pace of the implementation of a feminist security agenda. However, the progress is still evidence of strife towards the Kantian society of states. An inconsistent moral consensus finally results in the conclusion that this thesis cannot confirm the institution of international law illegitimate, arguably validating legitimacy.
BA - LAW, IMPUNITY, LEGITIMACY.pdf
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A Case for Constructivism - Investigating the Danish Cartoon Controve...
Nils, Dahlqvist : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2012) bachelor
STUDENT ESSAY
English abstract: This essay evaluates social constructivist theory by analyzing how it brings understanding to an empirical case. The case under study is the Danish Muhammad Cartoon Controversy of 2005-2006, and by using a constructivist conceptualization of identities and norms this essay attempts to demonstrate how constructivism helps in understanding the event where rationalist theories fall short. This essay concludes that these two concepts do further understanding of various social elements that contributed to the explosiveness of the conflict but that there is a difficulty in establishing causality and outlining in detail how they do so.
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