Essays about: "thesis European union and africa"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 25 essays containing the words thesis European union and africa.
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16. GMOs for Development
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Given the increasing world population, prices and greenhouse gas emissions, there is a need to innovate agriculture in order to accelerate crop productivity sustainably. These issues are compounded in developing countries, which often face severe droughts, famine, and have limited access to drinking water. READ MORE
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17. Institutional Competition - Lessons Learnt from the Gulf of Aden Operations
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Since 2009 the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have conducted counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean to tackle Somalia based piracy. As the two organizations are arguably the most important security providers for Europe they have also moved towards managing the similar tasks in military and crisis management operations. READ MORE
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18. "...with great power there must also come --great responsibility!" : An ethical power-analysis of the institutional justice of the European Union’s approach to Food Security in
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The European Union aims at being an ethical actor on the global arena and the EU development-policy is directed towards achieving long-term socio-economic development, with a specific focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, where development is showing little progress, and food security and agricultural development is at the top of the agenda. The EU is both the biggest market and the biggest aid-donor for African countries. READ MORE
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19. What is the EU? The European Union’s foreign policy discourse
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to determine how the EU´s power projections are constructed in a depiction of its foreign policy actions in 2001 and 2011. Can the European Union be described as a normative or smart power? How is the EU´s foreign policy discourse constructed? This thesis employs a Discourse Historical Approach to answer these questions. READ MORE
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20. The Politics of Ideology in Information and Communication Technologies for Development: An African Case Study
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global StudiesAbstract : Information and communication technologies have acquired contemporary prominence and are being introduced as new and technologically innovative devices for rapid African development, becoming key cornerstones of the development assistance interventions of the European Union and the G8. But the Dot Force Initiative of the G8 and the various ICT for development programmes of the EU display a modernization and neoliberal approach to development. READ MORE
