Essays about: "the rationalist and constructivist approach"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words the rationalist and constructivist approach.
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1. De-escalation amid a Total War? : An interpretivist-constructivist analysis of Finland's involvement (or lack thereof) in the Siege of Leningrad and Murmansk during the Continuation War 1941-1944
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : At the beginning of the Continuation War in 1941, Finnish and German troops commenced a gradual escalation which resulted in swift successive victories against the Soviets. Yet, Finland´s Field Marshal Mannerheim unexpectedly turned his back on military rationality at Leningrad and Murmansk despite his knowledge of how vitally strategic the locations were to the Soviet war effort. READ MORE
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2. On fixing the international drug control regime: bridging the gap between evidence and politics
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The war on drugs has failed. The 'world drug problem' is bigger than ever. The repressive law-enforcement policies are counterproductive. What now? A new approach is needed, one that accepts the fact that drugs cannot be eliminated from society, but focuses on the harm that it causes, so says science. READ MORE
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3. A duty to address human rights violations?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis concerns the impact of instrumental benefits and norms on state behaviour in international relations. This is studied on the case of the EU’s and Japan’s initiation of enforcement against North Korea in the UN Human Rights Council, which has garnered increased attention since 2013 when a commission of inquiry successfully put the issue on the international community’s agenda. READ MORE
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4. Constructivism and Role-Taking An Analysis of the Single European Act
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : By conceiving identity as endogenously defined and construing other central political concepts according to this assumption, constructivism has proven apt to understand and explain phenomena that eariler were hard to grasp. Constructivist ideas have here been used in order to analyze the events surrounding the Single European Act as a contrast to the more conventional rationalist approach used by Liberal Intergovernmentalism. READ MORE
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5. Turkey as the European Other - A Constructivist Account of Turkey's Accession Process to the EU
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Turkey's accession process to the EU has been characterized by conflicting interests and problematic negotiations between the parties. No earlier applications for membership in the EU have implied such lengthy preparations. This paper makes an attempt to describe this process in constructivist terms. READ MORE
