Essays about: "Arms Trade"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 39 essays containing the words Arms Trade.

  1. 21. The controversies of destructive spending: Arms production and growth in the post-Cold War era

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Athina Swahn; Anja Tuneld; [2018]
    Keywords : Arms trade; Beyond GDP; Defense spending; Economic growth; Military expenditure;

    Abstract : Critics of the GDP measure are claiming that it fails to capture the true well-being of a country and demand that alternative measures be developed. To determine how the destructive spending on arms should enter a new measure, an understanding of its effects on GDP is required. READ MORE

  3. 22. Development and Legitimacy of Export Credit Agencies: A case study of the Swedish Export Credit Guarantee Board’s Exportkreditnämnden policy objectives and their compatibility with the Swedish policies for global development

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Sara Bergdahl; [2017]
    Keywords : ECAs; policy for global development; sustainable development; Agenda 2030; Legitimacy theory; EKN; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to analyze in which principal ways the Swedish Export Credit Guarantee Board’s Exportkreditnämnden (EKN) policy objectives are compatible and incompatible with Sweden’s Policy for Global Development (PGU). The study is conducted as a qualitative case study with secondary sources as empirical foundation. READ MORE

  4. 23. Selectivity in European State Aid? – A comprehensive review of the selectivity criterion applied to tax measures

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Andréas Vidmar; [2017]
    Keywords : EU law; fiscal law; competition law; law; State aid; tax measures; The apple case; APAs; the derogation method; fiscal autonomy; tax rulings; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Ekonomiska diskrepanser mellan länder och företag globalt skapar krav och behov för reglering av beviljande av bidrag eller statligt stöd på internationell nivå. I dess frånvaro skulle länder kunna ge vinster till produkter och kringgå konkurrens med otillbörlig förskjutning av varor som skulle ha behövt samma subventioner för att ha en ärbar chans att konkurrera med. READ MORE

  5. 24. Gender Mainstreaming in the Swedish National Action Plan to Implement Agenda 1325

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Alexander Eriksson; [2015]
    Keywords : Resolution 1325; National Action Plans NAPs ; Sweden; gender mainstreaming; Critical Discourse Analysis CDA ; Peace and Security; Critical Feminist Theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 has been hailed as a groundbreaking achievement. It was the first time in which the Security Council addressed women’s issues and a gender mainstreaming strategy was through the agenda introduced to the security domain. READ MORE

  6. 25. Arms, Alliances and Trade

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : George Timoney Ringström; [2015]
    Keywords : NATO; Arms trade; Arm export; Swedish arms export; Gravity Model; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : With the use of arms trade data spanning the time period between 1992 and 2010, this thesis sets out to study what influence joining NATO has on a country’s volume of arms export and its probability of exporting arms. An assessment is also made of how NATO members trade arms. READ MORE