Rahvusvaheliste suhete ja regiooni uuringute õppekava magistritööd – Master´s theses
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The EU energy policy image dynamics in relation to the external crisis: evidence from 5th and 6th European Commission terms
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The master thesis explores the EU energy policy agenda change by analyzing legislative preparatory documents prepared by the European Commission in the period between September 2009 and November 2019. This period covers ... -
EU member states and major external powers: is China's engagement in Central and Eastern Europe politically dividing the EU?
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)China is increasing its engagement with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. There are growing concerns in Europe that China’s economic engagement in this region may translate into political influence, which may ... -
Visual securitization of Calais migrants
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)Since the advent of social media, political communication has become increasingly visual. The increasing use of visuals in political and security discourses presents fundamental challenges to Securitization Theory (ST), ... -
The effect of SME management’s international experience on internationalization: the Tallinn case
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)This thesis explores the relationship between the international experiences of the management team and small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) ability to develop and employ internationalization strategies. In doing so, ... -
De facto state-patron state relations in two-level game theory: a case study on de facto states in Croatia and Bosnia during the Yugoslav wars
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)De facto states are political entities that control territory and maintain all the requirements expected of a state except one, they lack international recognition. What they do have, in many cases, is the patronage of a ... -
Cyber as a deterrent: utilizing offensive cyber capabilities in NATO's deterrence posture
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)Due to the lack of attention on the strategic benefits offensive cyber capabilities hold and how they could be used as deterrents, the purpose of this paper is to contribute to the strategic thought on utilizing offensive ... -
Doing good or doing harm? The factors affecting the provision of effective development aid: the case of Ukraine
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)Development aid is very complex, multifaceted and disputable topic which has changed tremendously since the modern development aid started after the World War II. Development aid has witnessed a number of different “phases” ... -
The selective implementation of the responsibility to protect principle: a comparative case study of Libya, Côte d’Ivoire, and Yemen
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The Responsibility to Protect principle was created as a response to the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 and the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. During the United Nations General Assembly in 1999, Secretary-General Kofi Annan ... -
Cultural diplomacy & the reproduction of identity and memory: the centenaries of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Lithuania
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)In 2017 and 2018, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Lithuania celebrated the hundredth anniversary of their independence. Considering these countries have limited international visibility due to their limited resources, ... -
Reinforcing fiscal discipline in response to the Eurozone crisis: why did the EU insist on strict austerity?
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The prolonged eurozone crisis revealed the flaws of institutional design in the European Union. Indebted member states were forced to cut government spending and conduct public sector reforms that led to high levels of ... -
The politics of memory and commemoration: centennial anniversary in the South Caucasus
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)This study attempts to explore the alteration of historical narratives on centennial anniversary according to existent political situations in the South Caucasus. Drawing on the literature developed by several scholars ... -
The European Union's quest for strategic autonomy: divergence of understandings across member states and its implications for cooperation
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)Being present in the European Union’s (EU) strategic documents and commonly used in political statements, “strategic autonomy” has become one of the latest catchphrases in European security and defence discourse. The ... -
The reshaped economic relations between Russia and Turkey after Western economic sanctions
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)Economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool is used by sender countries to change policy or behavior of a target country. The economic sanctions are multilevel phenomena that not only affects both sides of the action but ... -
Perceptions of grandeur: small states, alliance membership, and the value of status seeking
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Europeanization of member state’s foreign policy: Estonian foreign policy Europeanization towards the Republic of Turkey
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)This purpose of this master thesis is to study the influence of the European Union to Estonian foreign policy towards the Republic of Turkey. It is thriving to answer the raised question by applying the concept of ... -
Russian world, Pan-Turkism and EU normative power in Gagauz Yeri: competing geopolitical ideologies and regional identity at the sub-state level
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The current state of Gagauzia, a territorial autonomy within Moldova since the 1990s, reflects its troubled historical past and geographical location. Located at the crossroads of geopolitical interests, Gagauzia even ... -
The effectiveness of economic sanctions: the case of Qatar
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The debates on the effectiveness of economic sanctions have an important aspect of the sanctions’ literature. There are various assumptions of the determinants the “effectiveness” and the implementation of the “target ... -
Opening Pandora's box on the Balkans? The possibility of land swaps as conflict resolution for Kosovo
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The thesis will consider the recent debate about land swaps as a possibility of final settlement between Serbia and Kosovo. While Kosovo has declared its independence unilaterally ten years ago and built its institutions ... -
Tatarstani paradiplomacy: persistence through competitive identity
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The desire to attract foreign investment and tourism, solve transborder issues, or increase cultural ties is a crucial part of diplomacy. Solving such issues gradually filtered down to non-central governments. The term ... -
On the reciprocal relation between Israeli foreign and domestic policy in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 2009-2019
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)This thesis aims to explore the role and impact of Israel's domestic factor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dynamic in the period of 2009-2019, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It uses the ...
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