Advanced search

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays matching the above criteria.

  1. 1. Rights on the Move: Climate induced migration and States’ obligations under the ICCPR

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Ebba Nikolic Kajrup; [2023]
    Keywords : public international law; climate induced migration; climate change; ICCPR; right to life; non-refoulement; Teitiota; climate refugees; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Climate change is one of the current most pressing threats to human rights. The adverse impacts of climate change affect peoples’ mental and physical health and forces many to leave their countries. READ MORE

  3. 2. Navigating Troubled Waters : The nexus of U.S.-China tensions in China´s near seas

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Charlotte Kleberg; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : China is becoming increasingly capable of denying American naval forces access to and freedom of navigation in its near seas by means of an ‘anti-access/area denial’ (A2/AD) strategy and related capabilities that could force United States Navy (USN) to operate at a greater distance from the theater of operations. The thesis examines the naval interaction between access and denial in relation to wartime naval missions, to explain the magnitude of what is at stake in China´s near seas. READ MORE

  4. 3. Reconsidering the EU as a Geoeconomic Actor : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the internal debate regarding a New Industrial Strategy for the European Union

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling

    Author : Lukas Boström; [2021]
    Keywords : European Union; geopolitics; geoeconomics; trade policy; industrial policy; Single Market; protectionism; discourses;

    Abstract : In recent years there has been a growing internal debate within the EU regarding the direction of its trade policy. Circled around the understanding of a geoeconomic development within the international economic sphere, the Union is divided in terms of how to best respond in this proclaimed situation for ensuring its future success and prosperity. READ MORE

  5. 4. Navigating EU Norms : A Case Study of Norm Resistance in Georgia's Electoral Reform Process

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Bibbi Pehrson; [2021]
    Keywords : normative power; EU; Eastern Partnership; norm resistance; rhetorical adaptations; Georgia; electoral reform;

    Abstract : EU’s international role as a normative power can be questioned as the current foreign policy of the Eastern Partnership implies a limit to the union’s ability to democratize. An alignment with EU norms is often seen through a dichotomy of compliance or non-compliance, overlooking other forms of resistance stemming from a nexus of international compliance pressure, and defiance pressure from hybrid regime structures. READ MORE

  6. 5. Exploring the water-energy nexus in the Omo river basin : A first step toward the development of an integrated hydrological-OSeMOSYS energy model

    University essay from KTH/Mark- och vattenteknik

    Author : Caroline Sundin; [2017]
    Keywords : Water-Energy nexus; Topkapi-ETH; OSeMOSYS; Coupling of models; Omo river basin;

    Abstract : The issues of conflicts between water, energy and food (often referred to as WEFnexus) has become a problem in countries where the energy system is rapidly expanding; one of those countries is Ethiopia. Ethiopia has a large potential of hydropower, which is what most of the electricity production currently comes from. READ MORE