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6. Humanitarian Assistance or ‘Association With Terrorists’? How U.S Antiterrorism Financing Policy De-Limit Humanitarian Organizations: A Disciplinary Power Analysis
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In this thesis, the power dynamics underpinning the relationship between USAIDfunded humanitarian organizations and U.S governmental agencies – in relation to the Global War on Terror (GWoT) - are critically investigated. To this end, a Foucauldian lens of ’disciplinary power’ is utilized to uncover U. READ MORE
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7. Normative or Power? Genealogical analysis of citizens' rights promotion within the EU visa liberalisation policy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Since 2008, the European Union requires the candidate and neighbourhood countries to undertake reforms in the field of citizens’ rights, including protection of minorities in order to give their nationals access to the Schengen area for the short-term stays. However, within the visa liberalisation procedure, the European Union has demonstrated ambivalence in monitoring the implementation of these normative reforms. READ MORE
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8. EU FIRST? Examining the Promotion of Sustainable Development in EU Trade Agreements with Singapore and Vietnam
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This dissertation aims to determine why the EU is promoting sustainable development as a value in its Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), but also to examine what kind of an actor the EU is in international relations. Since the 2015 Trade for All strategy, the EU has included sustainable development as a key objective in its trade strategy and one way of doing this is by adding a Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapter in its FTAs. READ MORE
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9. Shit Matters! Assessing sociocultural barriers and opportunities for upscaling adoption of human faeces derived fertilizers in central Uganda
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Nutrient recovered faecal sludge is a novel alternative fertilizer product, and is proposed to be promoted in places where improvement in sanitation management is needed, for example in Uganda’s capital Kampala. However, Uganda and most of Africa is perceived as a faecofobic area, i.e. READ MORE
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10. The EU - a Normative Power: Understanding the EU's motivations through its use and non-use of sanctions (restrictive measures)
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The objective is to understand to what extent the EU’s behaviors/reactions, especially the use of sanctions, against the third countries vary in accordance with strategic or normative motivations and secondarily how the EU’s foreign policy choices have been varied over time. For this purpose, the thesis explores the EU’s stated motivations and actual practices by employing content analysis. READ MORE
