Essays about: "epistemic communities"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words epistemic communities.
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1. Gendering Ethnicity : Colonialism and Structural Violence in the Swedish 1928 Reindeer Grazing Act
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)Abstract : This thesis examines how the gendering of ethnicity in the Swedish Reindeer Grazing Act of 1928 (RBL 1928) was part of a colonial structure of violence. The research context in which this thesis places itself is in the intersection of previous scholarship on the colonial interest in controlling Indigenous marriage, and scholarship on Swedish colonial history in Sápmi. READ MORE
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2. Interpreting interpretations - An exploratory study of enforcement authorities' interpretation of IFRS
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : This thesis investigates the identified research gap concerning enforcement of IFRS, in the presence of potential interpretation differences. An exploratory, qualitative case study has been made to analyse one enforcement process in Sweden involving six authorities, forming their opinion on whether the company of interest had violated IAS 39 when valuing its trading portfolio. READ MORE
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3. Solving the Rubik's Cube of European Security Strategy - Strategic Culture in the European External Action Service
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : A rapidly changing, increasingly complex and contentious global security environment has led to the European Union re-assessing its role as a strategic actor through the drafting of 2016’s new security strategy: the European Global Strategy. The new strategy has furthermore been followed by a number of initiatives to strengthen the military dimension of the EU. READ MORE
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4. Regulating the (E)Uterus - Epistemic Communities in the European Medicines Agency and the case of ellaOne
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : EU institutions increasingly rely upon opinions from scientific experts in decentralised agencies as the basis for EU-level legislation. At the same time, the role of private actors as drivers of integration is becoming more important as the availability of goods and services on the internal market depends upon proactive behaviour on their part. READ MORE
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5. Non-Governmental Organizations' Efforts to Protect Stratospheric Ozone
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In 1987, the international community adopted the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer – subsequently labelled as one of the most successful environmental treaties of our time. In 1992, Peter Haas emerged with a study on epistemic communities and their efforts to protect stratospheric ozone. READ MORE
