Sökning: "grand strategy"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 43 uppsatser innehållade orden grand strategy.
1. The Arctic in Transition : Great Power Competition at the End of the Post-Cold War Order
Master-uppsats, FörsvarshögskolanSammanfattning : This study uses defensive realism, offensive realism and power transition theory (PTT) in order to examine the great powers’ grand strategies in the Arctic region, aiming to recontextualise the security theatre in the Arctic as a reflection of the return of great power politics and the end of Arctic exceptionalism, and to examine the explanatory power of the different strands of realism on the great power behaviour identified in their Arctic strategies. The study is conducted using qualitative content analysis and utilises Jacob Westberg’s theorisation of grand strategies through the categories of context, ends, means and ways as analytical framework, to which the theoretical framework is applied. LÄS MER
2. How Management Control Systems Coordinate Action - Managing Grand Challenges Through Coordinated Flexibility
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolSammanfattning : This thesis investigates how management control systems may be used to coordinate action when organizations engage in grand challenges. As of writing, more and more corporations are encouraged to engage in grand challenges, yet, research on how management control systems are used in these instances are limited. LÄS MER
3. Gender Indeterminacy in English to French Translation: Case Study of Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : This essay explores how characters’ gender indeterminacy in English fiction texts can be translated into French, and which translation choices are available to achieve its preservation. The translation of Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues by Hystériques & AssociéEs is made the focus of this essay, as the gendering in French of the main character, Jess, is examined. LÄS MER
4. Methods for local energy and climate planning : A Case stuudy on the Urban Community of Dunkirk
Master-uppsats, KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)Sammanfattning : Energy management concerns were raised in France after the oil crisis in the 1970s. From then, the local actors developed policies to better control the energy production and consumption on the territories. Climate considerations and the need to limit greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions were then added to these energy issues in the early 2000s. LÄS MER
5. Applying sufficiency strategies in the housing sector in the Parisian Region
Master-uppsats, KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknikSammanfattning : In France, the Parisian Region gathers more than 12 million residents, unevenly distributed. The Parisian urban area is the more densely populated territory of the country. Projects of residential and tertiary constructions around Paris remain numerous, especially in the context of the Grand Paris Project. LÄS MER