Essays about: "The State, People and Conflict"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 76 essays containing the words The State, People and Conflict.

  1. 1. Investor’s Legitimate Expectations v State’s Regulatory Power - In Spanish Renewable Energy Saga Context

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

    Author : Ana Maglaperidze; [2023]
    Keywords : international investment law; fair and equitable treatment; legitimate expectations; special representations; due diligence; state’s right to regulate; regulatory objectives; Spanish Renewable Energy Saga; economic crisis; national security; absolute stability; relative stability; balancing exercise; proportionality principle; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : International investment law affords treaty protection mechanisms to investors against host states’ misconduct. One such tool available for investors is the fair and equitable treatment standard and its dominant element – legitimate expectations. READ MORE

  3. 2. Mining for Whose Future? The Recycling of Narratives for Continuous Extraction : A discursive study of the Gállok mine

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Julia Engström; [2023]
    Keywords : Environmental Justice; Sámi rights; Gállok; Critical Discourse Analysis; Green growth; Green transition; Mining;

    Abstract : The Exploitation of land for economic growth has been an ongoing issue for locals’ rights to land, especially indigenous people. In Sweden, EU’s largest producer of Iron ore, the conflict between the State, indigenous Sámi, and mining industries have caused many controversies over the years, where mining projects repeatedly infringe upon land inhabited by Sámi. READ MORE

  4. 3. Is EU policy taken out of competition? – A newspaper analysis of government-opposition conflict in Swedish EU politics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hassan El-Saghir; [2023]
    Keywords : opposition; EU policy; representative democracy; the cartel party thesis; policy alternatives; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the level of conict in the media between the government and the opposition at dierent time periods, and specically regarding EU policies. Opposition towards policy is a crucial ingredient in democratic systems of government that do not only allow the people to send dierent personalities to represent them in government, but rather dierent policy agendas that are, in the end, implemented in their name. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Russian Playbook : Using History & Path Dependence to Analyse How Russia Operationalises Grand Strategy in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Justine Westbrook; [2023]
    Keywords : Russia; Security; International Relations; Conflict; History; Path Dependence; Georgia; Ukraine; Moldova; War; Historical Institutionalism; USSR; Post-Soviet; Deception; Russian Influence; Weaponization; Weaponisation; Donba; South Ossetia; Crimea; Transnistria; Pridnestrovia; Russian Grand Strategy; Abkhazia; Frozen Conflict; Playbook;

    Abstract : To predict and prevent future armed conflicts like Russia’s war against Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2022, there is more value in knowing how these wars occurred rather than why they occurred. The Russian Playbook is built from three distinct “plays” employed by Moscow and organised in the theoretical framework of Historical Institutionalism through Path Dependence modelling. READ MORE

  6. 5. Gender-Based Violence in Conflict and Post-conflict Societies : A Case Study of South Sudan

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Lathan Yusuf; [2022]
    Keywords : Gender-Based Violence; Human Rights; Conflict; South Sudan;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on GBV against women and girls in conflict and post-conflict societies with a particular emphasis on South Sudan. It notes that women and girls are disproportionately affected by gender-based violence, and other consequences of war, including displacement and loss of livelihood. READ MORE