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The rise and fall of the Spitzenkandidaten in the European Union
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Promoting gender equality in the neighbourhood: the impact of domestic constraints on European Union induced domestic change in Armenia and Georgia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The Master’s thesis examines the European Union’s promotion of gender equality through its neighbourhood policy. More specifically, it focuses on the Eastern dimension of the neighbourhood, the Eastern Partnership, and ... -
How war becomes possible? : The Bush administration and its securitization of Iraq
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This thesis examines the 2003 US-Iraq war in order to provide an explanation regarding how the war became possible. Also, the thesis provides an insight into the outbreak of the war through the lens of securitization ... -
Europeanisation of national policy making: the case study of LGBT rights in Estonia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The study of LGBT rights is a new area for Europeanisation studies. Most of the literature discusses the topic through the lens of activism and/or human rights claims; and formulates the issue either on the European Union ... -
Liberal intergovernmentalism and African regionalism: case of the African Union
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Regional Integration has been categorized as a development strategy. It is also perceived as a means to enhance foreign policy goals through political integration. International Relations scholars have come up with varied ... -
Neighbourhood Europeanisation: extending a hand to Southern partners or securing internal security interests?
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This thesis aims to shed new light on the usage of Europeanisation as a framework within which to evaluate the consequences of neighbourhood Europeanisation. This is done by looking at the diffusion of European values ... -
The impact of Brexit on constructing the youth identity in the UK
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Facing the events of Brexit a large number of economic, political, social and cultural changes are taking place in the modern United Kingdom and the European Union. The given thesis presupposes and is aimed on discovering ... -
Enforcement of the European Union core values: EU responses to the erosion of the European values in Austria, Poland and Hungary
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This thesis analyzes the mechanisms ensuring compliance with the EU values that the EU has utilized in the cases of Austria (1999-2000), Hungary (2010-2020), and Poland (2015- 2020). The objective of the thesis is to ... -
The politicisation of European integration and its consequences: member state behaviour in the European semester
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)European integration has become increasingly politicised. This has led to an interesting new research agenda which analyzes the role that identity and mass politics play in regional integration in Europe. While much of ... -
Deterrence-terrorism: the use of strategic terrorism as the basis of deterrence in theory and in the case of Hezbollah-Israel, 2006-2020
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This thesis seeks to examine the dynamics of strategic terrorism when implemented in the pursuit of deterrent, rather than compellent effects. In doing to so, it addresses a gap in the theoretical literature concerning ... -
The role of populist radical right parties in framing the multipolar world order
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The potential transformation of the existing world order has been one of the most prominent topics in International Relations’ (IR) academic sphere and literature in recent years. However, several IR scholars have argued ... -
Securitizing societal resilience? Case of Latvia's comprehensive state defence system
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Due to Latvia’s geopolitical location and its particular understanding of the security environment it is located in, the state has since the war on Ukraine perceived hostility and threats to its security. While among the ... -
Which factors drive Russia’s grand strategy adjustment: pressure, perception, power
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Relations between Russia and the West, mainly the US, EU and NATO, have continuously deteriorated in the past decades due to several crises and differing answers to these by the relevant players, e.g. in the cases of ... -
Niger delta conflict: a framing and critical discourse analysis of news media coverage
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This thesis, “Niger Delta Conflict: A Framing and Critical Discourse Analysis of News Media Coverage”, examines the media’s representation of the Niger Delta conflict and its main conflicting actors. In conflicting reporting, ... -
Interests and international regimes: Explaining cooperation in Arctic disputes
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Since the end of the Cold War international politics in the Arctic have been characterized by unusual level of cooperation among states. More recently, climate change has allowed the states to increase their presence and ... -
Discourses of danger: Russian identity production in the Syrian conflict
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This Master’s thesis is a poststructuralist discourse analysis for a single case study and one event research problem. Drawing on an existing body of literature in the realm of discourse analysis, poststructuralism and ... -
Ideology vs. interests: are the radical right-wing populists the voice of the people? Case of Austria and Hungary
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The main objective of this thesis is to find out whether selected populist radical right-wing parties (PRRPs) truly represent the electorate, their demands and voices, or is it their merely political-strategic rhetoric ... -
The anti-vaccination movement: framing on Latvian language Facebook
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Anti-vaccination movements promote vaccine hesitancy, a significant global threat to public health. In Latvia vaccine hesitancy is of great concern with fears being raised on maintaining vaccination rates at the level ...
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