Sökning: "political use"
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1. The Political Use of Force : Beyond National Security Considerations as a Source of American Foreign Policy
Sammanfattning : In addressing the question of what explains the tendency of the presidents of the United States to use military force on many occasions to solve international problems the realist perspective has been strongly dominant in political science. This study sets out to address and challenge whether what may be called realist privilege still qualifies as an understanding of this American phenomenon. LÄS MER
2. Politics on the net : NGO practices and experiences
Sammanfattning : This study investigates how different kinds of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), operating in different national political contexts, perceive and use the Internet as a political space. The political space concept, as defined here, encompasses two dimensions of Internet use: one external, where organisations use the Internet for online activism and campaigning, and one internal, signifying organisational use of the Internet to promote engagement and interactivity with members and/or supporters. LÄS MER
3. The Challenge of Political Risk : Exploring the political risk management of Swedsih multinational corporations
Sammanfattning : In an overarching aim to bridge the gap between political science and international business studies, this study explores how, against the backgrond of globalization, multinational coprorations understand and deal with the influence of many differet and sometimes very dynamic political environments, by focusing on the political risk management of a number of Swedish multinational corporations invoved in foreign investing. Based on interviewswith coproate executives in these corporations, this qualitative study found that Swedish invetsors use a "pragmatic" approach toeards political risk and the political envrionments in which they operate. LÄS MER
4. Leetocracy : Political participation, social network sites and inequality
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about whether social network sites have the potential to bring about more equal participation. It deals with a phenomenon that has changed the underlying infrastructure of how millions of people communicate. LÄS MER
5. The fall : Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland in a comparative perspective
Sammanfattning : The quick collapse of the Communist-led regimes in Eastern Europe caught the worldby surprise. Although much has been written about this monumental historical event,little attention has been paid to the issue of why the processes of collapse were sodifferent. LÄS MER
