Essays about: "defensive realism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words defensive realism.
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1. The Arctic in Transition : Great Power Competition at the End of the Post-Cold War Order
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : This study uses defensive realism, offensive realism and power transition theory (PTT) in order to examine the great powers’ grand strategies in the Arctic region, aiming to recontextualise the security theatre in the Arctic as a reflection of the return of great power politics and the end of Arctic exceptionalism, and to examine the explanatory power of the different strands of realism on the great power behaviour identified in their Arctic strategies. The study is conducted using qualitative content analysis and utilises Jacob Westberg’s theorisation of grand strategies through the categories of context, ends, means and ways as analytical framework, to which the theoretical framework is applied. READ MORE
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2. The China-India land border conflict : A qualitative case study of the China-India border dispute from a realistic perspective
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)Abstract : Why has the China-India border conflict developed into what it is today? What could it become in the future? These questions will be discussed and analyzed from the perspective of offensive and defensive realism, which is based on John Mearsheimer’s theory of realism. This thesis is structured as a case study with a theory testing element with a main focus of analyzing and explaining the border conflict from offensive and defensive realism. READ MORE
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3. Escalation in Eastern Europe : An Analysis of the Variables That Led to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : This essay aims to find a link between NATO policy in Europe from 2014-2022 to Russia’sdecision to invade Ukraine in February 2022. A process tracing methodology is used in conjunction with an offensive realist framework to demonstrate NATO’s role in influencing Russian defense policy. READ MORE
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4. He who desires peace? : A comparative case study analysis of why national nuclear weapon doctrines and evolving strategies change, application in relation to offensive and defensive neorealist theory
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)Abstract : This essay bases itself on a qualitative method and a case study analysis of seven objects of analysis, partly the nations who are identified as superpowers among nuclear weapons states, long term possessors of nuclear weapons, and new players. It also examines the historical and contemporary nature of national nuclear doctrine with the aim of conceptualising change and why they occur in doctrines, as well as testing these changes against theories of offensive and defensive neorealist assumptions on what drives states to act within the sphere of nuclear force. READ MORE
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5. Chief Bishop by the Sword: an Idiographic Case Study of the First Crusade from the perspective of Just War Theory and Defensive Neorealism
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In this thesis I sought to study the doctrine of the just war within the context of the First Crusade. Utilising an aggregate theory consisting of just war theory, defensive realism, and poliheuristic decision-making, I operationalised my research questions in an idiographic case study scrutinising two transcriptions of a speech Pope Urban II made at Clermont in 1095. READ MORE
