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1. 1. Colonialism in The Expanse : A study of otherness, diaspora, and language in The Expanse

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Ida Sundberg; [2024]
   Keywords : science fiction; postcolonialism; The Expanse; the Other; creole; diaspora;

   Abstract : This essay examined postcolonialism in the first two novels in The Expanse series, Leviathan Wakes and Caliban’s War. Using otherness, creole language, and diaspora, this essay argued that The Expanse used three groups to demonstrate postcolonialism, showing that the Belters are the oppressed group and Earth oppressors. READ MORE

3. 2. The Unsettlement of the Greek Property Regime and the Emergence of Vigilant Violence in Thessaloniki’s West End

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

   Author : Nikolaos Vrantsis; [2021]
   Keywords : Housing; Housing System; Property Regime; Loïc Wacquant; Pierre Bourdieu; Social Space; Symbolic Power; Field of power; Thessaloniki; Ksiladika; Vigilance; Vigilant violence; Neoliberalism
; State ;

   Abstract : The thesis inquires into the entanglement between the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction that heavily relies on self-regulated property ownership and the emergence of vigilant violence on behalf of local property owners against undocumented migrants in the relegated neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki’s West End. It probes the extent to which incidents of vigilant violence can be used as indicators of the structural deficiencies in the Greek housing system and property paradigm. READ MORE

4. 3. Thomas Hobbes' ideology and today's populist parties on the right

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Laura Conciatori; [2021]
   Keywords : State of war; natural status; Thomas Hobbes; Leviathan; populist parties; Sweden Democrats; Vox; Jobbik.;

   Abstract : Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to analyze how populist parties argue for state authority in a way that resembles Thomas Hobbes’s arguments in Leviathan. Moreover, the essay analyzes the characteristics of human nature studied by Thomas Hobbes connecting it to the importance of the National State. READ MORE

5. 4. International Anarchy & the American Leviathan : A study in the moral and empirical applications of Hobbes’ concept of anarchy to American Foreign policy

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik

   Author : Nathalie Martinsdotter; Elias Johansson; [2019]
   Keywords : Thomas Hobbes; American Foreign Policy; Political Thought; International Relations; Realism; National Security Strategy; International Morality; Anarchy; Donald Trump; Barack Obama;

   Abstract : The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been identified as the reason for a large shift in American foreign policy towards a doctrine closer to that of political realism. This claim has led us to examine if this transformation could be detected and described if we analyzed and compared Trump’s foreign policy doctrine with his predecessor, Barack Obama, through the lens Thomas Hobbes, whose ideas are at the core of the three modern schools of political realism. READ MORE

6. 5. To be or not to be : state death and the digital Leviathan

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Erik Ryd; [2016]
   Keywords : state death; digitalisation; narrative; collective self; recognition;

   Abstract : This thesis explores state death and the possibilities to escape death that comes with the digitalising of the state. The analysis, built on earlier theorising of how we could understand what the state is, explicate the connection between the narrative of the identity, or “collective self”, and the survival of the state through a repository of its key information, which in turn could be viewed as an asset in terms of recognition. READ MORE