Sökning: "External powers"

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  1. 1. The swing of the pendulum: Sweden's pivot to NATO : A case of small states' shift in security policy

    Kandidat-uppsats, Försvarshögskolan

    Författare :Irena Bonnier; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Security and defence policy; Sweden; NATO; Small states studies; Deterrence; Shelter theory s political military dimension; Realism; Foreign Policy Change; Domestic determinants of small states security policy; Process-tracing; Säkerhets- och försvarspolitik; Sverige; NATO; Småstatsteori; Avskräckning; Vindskyddsteorins politiska militära dimension; Realism; Utrikespolitisk förändring; Inhemska påverkansfaktorer på småstaters säkerhetspolitik; Processpårning;

    Sammanfattning : Sweden is the only state in the Baltic Sea region currently not under NATO protection, which puts the state in a particularly vulnerable position. On 18 May 2022, Sweden officially deemed NATO alignment a more effective option of security strategy in projecting deterrence and dealing with the security challenges the state is facing, compared to a strategy of non-alignment which has been Sweden’s security posture for over 200 years. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Narrating spheres of influence : An analysis of Russian and Chinese strategic narratives

    Master-uppsats, Försvarshögskolan

    Författare :Kasper Axelsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :sphere of influence; strategic narratives; China; Russia; narrative analysis;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis compares the projection of strategic narratives in Chinese and Russian state media narratives in their pursuit of spheres of influence. Previous research about spheres of influence have sought to explain why and how spheres of influence are maintained and under what circumstances one’s sphere is accepted or rejected by external great powers. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Flexible Organizational Structures of the Digitally Mediated Collective Actor - A Case of the Shame Movement in Georgia

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Författare :Darejan Tsurtsumia; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Communication Constitutes Organization; CCO; Collective Action; Structures; Digital Media; Georgia; Shame Movement; Social Movements; Logic of Connective Action; Flexible Organisational Structures; Protest Transformation; Gavrilov s Night; Georgian Dream; Private Facebook Group; Rallies; Non-human agency; Four Flows Framework; Solidarity; Citizenism; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Recent scholarship has challenged the notion that digital tools alone can sustain a social movement, emphasizing instead the importance of collective identity and organizational structures. However, there is still limited understanding of how organizational structures emerge and transform in a social movement. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Tankeförbrytaren och tankesultanen : En foucauldiansk analys av Kallocain och Ett öga rött

    Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Ana-Antonia Ascic; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Kallocain; Ett öga rött; Karin Boye; Jonas Hassen Khemiri; Michel Foucault; power; knowledge; discipline; resistance.;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies Karin Boye’s novel Kallocain: Roman från 2000-talet (1940) and Ett öga rött (2003) by Jonas Hassen Khemiri. The aim of the analysis is to examine the novels’ portrayals of power in order to see if there are traces of totalitarian tendencies from the dystopian novel Kallocain, in the contemporary story of Ett öga rött. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Ukraina- yttre makters slagfält? : Kvantitativ studie av narrativ i svensk media relaterat till konflikten i Ukraina 2014.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Försvarshögskolan

    Författare :Fredrika Stense; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Strategic narratives; narratives; civil war; geographical conflict; proxy war; hybrid warfare; Ukrainian conflict; Ukrainian crisis; war in Ukraine; Russia; Sweden; West; swedish media; Strategiska narrativ; narrativ; informationspåverkan; hybridkrig; inbördeskrig; geografisk konflikt; proxykrig; svensk media; Ukraina; kriget i Ukraina; ukrainakrisen; konflikten i Ukraina; Väst; Öst; Sverige; Ryssland;

    Sammanfattning : AbstractIs Ukraine the battlefield of external powers? The 2014 conflict in Ukraine was characterized by multiple media narratives, which shaped the portrayal and understanding of the conflict. Was it a geographical conflict between Ukraine and Russia, or a proxy war between the West and Russia? Control of the information arena is central to contemporary warfare, which marks research on the conflict in Ukraine. LÄS MER