Sökning: "Arms Trade"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Arms Trade.
1. Understanding European Arms Export Controls : Material Interests and Competing Norms
Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to better understand the formation and implementation of the restrictions that the EU and EU member states have imposed on exports of military and security equipment. Specifically, the thesis develops two norms-based theoretical frameworks for understanding how and why particular restrictions become integrated in states’ national and collective export controls, why others are rejected, and the different ways this integration occurs. LÄS MER
2. Ideals and Interests in Swedish Foreign Policy : Explaining the South African Gripen Deal
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores ideals and interests (and their interrelation) in foreign policy. An in-depth case study of this issue examines Sweden’s 1999 JAS-39 Gripen fighter aircraft deal with South Africa. LÄS MER
3. Online Combinatorial Optimization under Bandit Feedback
Sammanfattning : Multi-Armed Bandits (MAB) constitute the most fundamental model for sequential decision making problems with an exploration vs. exploitation trade-off. In such problems, the decision maker selects an arm in each round and observes a realization of the corresponding unknown reward distribution. LÄS MER
4. Minimizing Regret in Combinatorial Bandits and Reinforcement Learning
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates sequential decision making tasks that fall in the framework of reinforcement learning (RL). These tasks involve a decision maker repeatedly interacting with an environment modeled by an unknown finite Markov decision process (MDP), who wishes to maximize a notion of reward accumulated during her experience. LÄS MER
5. De hädangångnas heraldik : En studie av broderade begravningsfanor ca 1670-1720
Sammanfattning : In 17th century Europe the ceremonies of royalty and high nobility formed elaborate displays of extravagance. The aim of this thesis is to bring new knowledge about function, form and meaning of ceremonial textiles in Sweden during the so called Era of Greatness. LÄS MER