Essays about: "neo-liberalism"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 36 essays containing the word neo-liberalism.

1. 31. A New Approach to EU-ACP Cooperation - The Shaping, Negotiation and Implications of the Cotonou Agreement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Ingela Bladh; [2007]
   Keywords : Cotonou Agreement; EU-ACP cooperation; rationalism; cognitivism; neo-liberalism; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : On 23 June 2000, the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states signed the Cotonou Agreement, a trade and aid agreement which represents a new approach to EU-ACP cooperation. For instance, it provides for the non-reciprocal trade preferences previously enjoyed by the ACP states to be replaced with regional free trade agreements. READ MORE

3. 32. The Concept of Freedom in the Context of the War on Terror: A Comparative Study of the European Union and the United States Rhetoric

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Laura Dib; [2007]
   Keywords : European Union; United States; Security Policy; Freedom; Discourse Analysis; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Language is a powerful tool in the creation of social identities. This work analyses the security policy discourses of two major actors in world politics: the European Union and the United States. The material is composed of security documents of both actors ranging from the time before the 9/11 terrorist attacks to present day. READ MORE

4. 33. Grains and Gains: A study of the power structure within the GATT/WTO agricultural regime

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Tony Ingesson; Jon Jeppsson; [2006]
   Keywords : regime theory; agriculture; power structures; GATT WTO; coalitions; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The thesis presents a synthetic approach to the concept of power structures within international regimes by combining neo-liberalism, realism and rational choice theory in a structure/agency approach. The theoretical argument is applied to a case study of the power structure within the GATT/WTO agricultural negotiations and its development from 1947 to 2004. READ MORE

5. 34. 'New Europeans' for the 'New European Economy' : Citizenship Discourses and the Lisbon Agenda

   University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Sandy Hager; [2006]
   Keywords : European citizenship; Lisbon Agenda; EU transnational business; European Commission; critical theory; cultural political economy; neo-Gramscian IPE; discourse analysis; embedded neo-liberalism; neo-liberal communitarianism;

   Abstract : Combining insights from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and neo-Gramscian IPE theory, this paper puts forth a cultural political economy (CPE) perspective to analyse the discursive articulation of ‘European subjects’ in the context of the EU’s Lisbon Agenda modernisation strategy. It is suggested here that the transformation proposed in Lisbon to the new economic imaginary of the knowledge based economy (KBE), depends on ‘new subjects’ and thus new discursive constructions of identities to reflect the new economic and social formations it envisions. READ MORE

6. 35. Development With Neo-Liberal Policy - Is Income Inequality a Negative Societal Outcome?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Martina Hibell; [2005]
   Keywords : Chile; Development; Income inequality; Modernisation; Neo-liberalism; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Neo-liberal policy as a means for development has been present in our society since the first experiment in Chile during the 1970s. This experience came to be known as an economic ?miracle? and the model was soon imitated by surrounding countries. READ MORE