Rahvusvaheliste suhete ja regiooni uuringute õppekava magistritööd – Master´s theses
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
The Russian dilemma: identity construction toward the BRICS
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Russia faces an internal dilemma while projecting its identity toward the BRICS. The literature on the country identity suggests that it manifests both an imperial and great powerness self-perception, but in this case, ... -
The image of the Nagorno-Karabakh war: a discourse analysis
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The objective of this paper is to understand the image of the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020 from a constructivist perspective. It aims to provide insights on how ‘war’ can be a subject constructed by norms and meanings. ... -
Popular culture as a tool of soft power: Korean wave in Estonia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021) -
Nationalist religious discourse and securitisation: the case of revocation of Kashmir autonomy
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The state of Jammu and Kashmir in India was revoked of its autonomous status in 5th August, 2019, by the Indian government on the grounds of rising terrorism in the territory. The thesis aims to analyse the actual motive ... -
Securitization of money laundering in the UK, Finland, and Estonia 2010-2020
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The aim of this study was to analyze securitization process of a non-traditional, globalized threat, its interplay between geopolitical transformations, and national Selfconstruction. It was presumed the processes are ... -
De facto state normalisation in a time of crisis: an analysis of Transnistria’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into a global public health crisis unlike anything experienced this century, throwing people’s lives and the international system into chaos. At this time, we do not have a complete ... -
European Union small member states in the United Nations Security Council: a case of Europeanization of foreign policy
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Representation on the international arena has always been important for the European Union (EU), especially when it comes to international organizations as they are the main field for global decision-making. Particularly ... -
EU influence on environmental politics in the post-Soviet space: a comparison of Armenia and Georgia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Although environmental governance has long been one of the EU’s priorities in the Eastern Neighbourhood Programme, the amounts of EU funding that were invested in Armenia and Georgia seem to only weakly correlate with their ... -
Normative power Europe? The effect of EU human rights practice on the external perceptions of the EU in Turkey and Jordan
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This Master’s thesis examines the effect of European Union’s (EU) human rights practice on the external perceptions of the EU. More specifically, it focuses on the consistency between EU human rights rhetoric and practice ... -
Moving e-governance beyond borders: analysis of cross-border cooperation between Estonia and Finland
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This thesis aims to analyse contemporary cross-border cooperation in the field of public sector digitalisation and e-governance. Using Estonia and Finland as exemplary examples of state digitalisation cases, the study adds ... -
Image reflections, gender, and the power. How global decision-makers' appearance shapes public opinion abroad, in dependence on the different geo-territorial contexts? Research, based on Bulgaria, Estonia, and Greece.
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The aim of this thesis is to explore the influence of the external appearance, including gender distinction, of world decision-makers, in shaping perceptions abroad. Here, the theme of the appearance, or external presence, ... -
What motivates counterterrorism policy: the case study of Estonian counterterrorism policy development 2005-2020
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Estonia has not experienced terrorist attacks for the last 15 years. However, Estonia has been gradually developing its counterterrorism policies. What explains the counterterrorism policy development in Estonia in 2005 ... -
Sanctions as a foreign policy tool: comparing EU and US sanctions on the Russian Federation for Ukraine related activities
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Through the past decade, sanction literature has looked into different sides of this political tool, bringing a vast number of new insights to aspects such as sanction effectiveness, influence on the target by outlining ... -
Elite navigations in de facto states: exploring patron-client relationships in the case of Northern Cyprus
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This thesis focuses on the patron-client relationship between Turkey and TRNC. Through the use of patron-client relationships theory and ontological security theory, elite navigations as a concept is developed. Patron-client ... -
Assessing interest groups’ influence on EU climate policy: the case of the 2030 climate target policy
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The presence of interest groups (IGs) lobbying EU institutions has grown significantly in recent years. This surge is related to the increasing competences that the EU has been granted in several policy areas. From the ... -
Cyber resilience of e-government: comparative case analysis of Estonia and South Korea
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)E-government has evolved throughout modern times and shaped the new norm of governance. While global society pays more attention to this next-generation platform than before, it is also true that state actors should build ... -
Norm contestation & robustness: the effects of Russia’s contestation in Crimea on the robustness of the prohibition of force norm
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The debate on norms and their effectiveness is taking place at the international political level in parallel to the debate on norms in norm scholarship. This thesis aimed to bring them together by applying a theoretical ... -
Security strategy of small states: the case of Azerbaijan after the Tovuz clashes of 2020
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The main objective of the thesis is to analyze how a small state copes with a shock to its security emanating from a conventional military threat. The author used a single case study and chose the case of Azerbaijan after ... -
Deteriorated security environment and its impact on perception of threat in the non-aligned states: a comparative study of the Finnish and Swedish parliamentary debate on security after the Crimean annexation
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)It is widely recognised that Russia’s foreign policy has become increasingly aggressive for the past decades, whereas the Crimean annexation in 2014 has been perceived especially alarming in the European security context. ... -
Dissensus in post-2012 Russian art: self-perceptions vis-à-vis the West
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This research looks into the dissensus in post-2012 Russian art, particularly music and performance art. The goal of the study is twofold. First it attempts to reveal the main Russian identity patterns as presented by the ...
RSS 1.0