Essays about: "sovereign power"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 45 essays containing the words sovereign power.

  1. 31. Securitizing Libya: The securitizing aspects of UN:s and NATO:s justification of Operation Unified Protector

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Christian Norelius; [2014]
    Keywords : Securitization; Referent Object; Securitizing Actor; Securitizing Speech Act; Military Intervention; Libya; UNSC; NATO; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : One of the toughest challenges for the international community is to justify military interventions in sovereign states. Echoing in terms of post-colonialism, underlying interest and power domination, military interventions must be argued for and legitimized in order to gain support from both public and institutional opinion. READ MORE

  2. 32. Advisory Opinion: A bridge between the CLCS and the ITLOS

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Sophie Cuenot; [2013]
    Keywords : Advisory opinion; Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf; International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; interpretation; competence; role; mandate; authority; International Seabed Authority; extended continental shelf; States Parties; Meeting of States Parties; UNCLOS; United Nations; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; outer limits line; delineation; continental shelf; outer edge; outer limits; continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles; maritime boundaries; settlement of disputes; continental margin; treaty; international agreement; sovereignty; article 76; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to try to establish a mechanism that will enable the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to get access to legal interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The mandate of the Commission is to validate the outer limits line delineated by coastal States. READ MORE

  3. 33. International Protection and the Sovereign Decision - A Geneology of the Responsibility to Protect

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Daniel Gustafsson; [2013]
    Keywords : RtoP; responsibility to protect; decisionism; Schmitt; bare life; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In the wake of the 2005 World Summit ratification of the responsibility to protect doctrine, the cases of Darfur and Syria have revealed the decisionary discretion of the collective international responsibility to protect inscribed within the doctrine. Through an engagement with the decisionist theory of Carl Schmitt and the work of Giorgio Agamben, this essay seeks to return the question of the decision regarding intervention under the responsibility to protect doctrine to its proper place as the functioning of power. READ MORE

  4. 34. Guarding the gates : Reassessing the concept of borders in Tanzania

    University essay from Institutionen för livsvetenskaper

    Author : Sebastian Larsson; [2012]
    Keywords : sovereign power; biopolitics; security; discourse; Tanzania;

    Abstract : Using discourse analysis, this study will apply a critical theoretical framework and discuss how perceptions of the Tanzanian national borders compares to problematized understandings of the socially constructed concepts of borders, sovereignty, and power. For example, the Tanzanian borders will be reassessed into something creating a safe ‘inside’ opposing an unsafe ‘outside, and into something dividing territories, thus, giving birth to the identities of ‘nationality’. READ MORE

  5. 35. Wide Spread Trade: Can terms of trade explain sovereign CDS spreads?

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Gustaf Folke; Carl-Adam von Schéele; [2011]
    Keywords : Credit risk; Terms of trade; Credit Default Swaps; Emerging markets; Sovereign;

    Abstract : This study reexamines the recent finding that level and volatility of terms of trade has significant explanatory power on spreads of emerging market sovereigns. In contradiction to previous results, we find no significant effect of these variables after controlling for global factors. Specifically, we find that the U.S. READ MORE