Swedish security politics changed during the time when Sweden joined the European Union. This thesis analyse this transformation with focus on a military operation in Chad were Sweden attended. Sweden has been considered as a neutral actor in the context of military conflicts. This neutrality can even be traced back to the nineteenth century. When Sweden entered the European Union the country star

In this study, the wide area of cultural integration politics is approached. Departing from a theoretical fusion between constructivist post-colonialism and liberal cosmopolitanism, the study investigates the approach to culture that is found within the integration strategies of multiculturalism and assimilation, repsectively. By employing two stylized ideal-types and applying them to a political

I have studied 40 individuals in order to see if there´s a relationship between poor dental health and osteitis pubis, because the two characters can be a sign of pregnancy. The individuals in my study are from S:t Petri cemetery in Helsingborg and Löddeköpinge cemetery in Scania, Sweden. Both cemeteries are dated to the medieval period. Of 22 women, I could establish that 19 had osteitis pubis, a

There is a new accelerating trend of foreign direct investments (FDI) in farmland in developing countries. After recent crises in food and energy, as well as the financial and environmental crises, the demand for farmland has increased significantly. Powerful economic actors lease large areas of farmland outside their own national borders in order to secure access to food, energy and other supplie

The aim of this thesis is to discuss the relationship between social movements and democracy in a globalized world. Social movements are understood as both compellers and sites of democracy. New technologies are creatively used by social movements, and the global web based movement Avaaz makes an interesting empirical case. Through an engagement with critical and normative theories of democracy, a

As one of the main objectives of the Bologna process, employability has become a central concept to consider for universities when designing higher education. Although the universities are required implementing employability, there is no defined meaning of what employability actually is which implies a significant autonomy for university teachers in how to interpret the concept and fill it with me

Finland is a bilingual state with a Finnish speaking majority and a Swedish speaking minority. In this essay I focus on the minority, the Finn-Swedes. By using instruments from discourse analysis I attempt to examine the Finn-Swede identity. In order to deepen the study I add an historic aspect to the analysis and in so doing apply postcolonial theory as a further analytical dimension. The mere fa

This bachelor thesis analyses the impact that development projects working with higher education and micro-credit have on youth’s empowerment processes. I have made a minor field study in Kenya and conducted 21 semi-structured respondent interviews with a group with higher education, a group that was provided with micro-credit and a group which was not provided with neither. The interviews were co

This paper attempts to answer two interrelated questions: what is good governance and what is its relationship with human development, and what allowed China to outperform India on the Human Development Index. The United Nations Development Programme and scholars connect human development very closely with good governance. However, even as its HDI score is 28% higher than India’s, China’s quality

The aim of this essay is to examine the relationship between the European Commission and civil by focusing on the issue of legitimacy. This study takes a critical stand towards the prevailing view in the debate on the EU’s democratic deficit. This view that centers on that EU institutions, like national parliaments and governments, derive most of their legitimacy from public input, so-called input

The largest Stone Age micro region in Latvia, has been discovered and extensively investigated during the 1960s -1980s in the Lake Lubāns basin. This master thesis discuss the interaction between hunter-gatherers and the environment in the developing stages of the Lake Lubāns. The literature studies have been carried out in attempt to find out whether people adapted to the environment and ecologic

Policy institutes, or think tanks as they are more commonly known, are usually described as a bridge between research and politics. With time, these organizations have taken new trajectories and today exist in various different forms – but are still referred to by the same term. This phenomenon has its counterparts in Sweden, and yet research about these organizations is nonexistent. This study in

This thesis is an osteological analysis of the bone assemblage from the quarter Hjärtat 4 in Halmstad, dating about 1320-1500 AD. The main aim was to quantify taxa and body parts, estimate sex and age at death, calculate withers height, identify taphonomic processes and record pathological conditions. Using this information, the next step was to analyze husbandry decisions and make an attempt to u

Almost all children and teenagers are active in sports clubs at some time during their lives. Sports clubs have a significant impact during childhood and adolescence, and they play a key developmental role. Participating in a sports club helps a person gain the kind of social capital that has a substantial positive impact on individuals and consequently on society. The very foundation of sports cl

The aim of this thesis is to explain which ideas have been at work when it comes to Malmö municipality’s integration policy. Furthermore I aim to see how their integration ideas are made into real actions taken by the municipality. With theories on the subjects of integration, multiculturalism, recognition, justice and equality I aim to explain the choices of action taken by Malmö municipality. Th

In the past decades, global challenges including food insecurity were viewed almost entirely as a rural phenomenon. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, rapid urbanization in the developing world has jeopardized livelihoods along the urban periphery leading to the gradual relocation of food insecurity closer to the urban areas. Hence, the purpose of this study was to explore hous

This report is a result of a Master Thesis project in mechanical engineering by Niklas Henriksson. It was done at Edenhall from September 2010 to May 2011. Edenhall has the past fifty years developed and manufactured bet harvesters. Vibrat-ing plows have long been the most common plow type as it can handle the most working condition. However this plow type has always been expensive in mainten-ance

Technology is often used as a method in memory intervention but there is a gap between what we know about memory processes and the interaction with technology tools (Topo, 2009; Dascal & Dror, 2005; Hjälmedelsinstitutet, 2011). This study aims to investigate how human use our memory in a real world setting and how we valuate a technological memory tool developed to support mild memory decline.

Brazil is the only country that has managed to successfully implement an economically viable large-scale biofuel program. In 2008, locally produced ethanol derived from sugarcane replaced more than half of the domestic gasoline market, without the aid of any government subsidies. Ethanol in Brazil represents an economically lucrative industry that also contributes to national energy and environmen