Essays about: "Critical Policy and Discourse Studies"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 53 essays containing the words Critical Policy and Discourse Studies.
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11. Weaponized malware, physical damage, zero casualties – what informal norms are emerging in targeted state sponsored cyber-attacks? : The dynamics beyond causation: an interpretivist-constructivist analysis of the US media discourse regarding offensive cyber operations and cyber weapons between 2010 and 2020
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : In 2010, the discovery of the malicious computer worm Stuxnet shocked the world by its sophistication and unpredictability. Stuxnet was deemed as the world’s first cyber weapon and started discussions concerning offensive cyber operations – often called “cyber warfare” – globally. READ MORE
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12. Pushing the Border Outwards : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the European Commission’s Securitisation of Migration and the Right to Asylum
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis scrutinises the European Commission’s discourse surrounding the externalisation of migration and asylum policies and discusses what potential implications this may have on the right to asylum. The aim of this work is to increase the understanding of how migration and security are discursively connected and identify what this discourse looks like. READ MORE
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13. Research & innovation in the EU bioeconomy strategy : a useful solution or a political buzzword?
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Several policies and strategies for mitigating climate changes and for enhancing our way of handling natural resources have been developed during the last decade, where the EU Bioeconomy Strategy could be seen as one example. Research and innovation (R&I) is repeatedly used within policymaking as a tool for enabling transition into a more sustainable society and the EU Bioeconomy Strategy is no exemption. READ MORE
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14. Queering the Growth Paradigm: A feminist critical discourse analysis
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of GenderAbstract : The European Green Deal is an example of a growth-oriented environmental policy approach. However, from the perspective of Degrowth, the narrative of unlimited growth is criticized. Therefore, this thesis analyses resistant texts in reaction to the set of environmental policy initiatives proposed by the European Green Deal. READ MORE
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15. The Legal Empowerment Paradoxy? : A Critical Exploration of Power Imbalances in the Legal Empowerment Discourse from a Global North/South Perspective
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Legal empowerment as a theoretical and practical concept has gained increasing attention in international development. Due to the shifting aid paradigm, caused by the rising of South-South cooperation, legal empowerment’s proposed bottom-up character has challenged the larger conventional top-down approaches to development that traditionally have dominated the development agenda. READ MORE
