Sökning: "Mark Rhinard"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Mark Rhinard.
1. The Governance of Missing Asylum-Seekers in Sweden : Managing "Missingness" Through Different Technologies of Power
Sammanfattning : For a highly controlled and comprehensive welfare state such as Sweden, one can assume that incorporating populations into a system of bureaucratic management (and keeping them there) is paramount to its overall functioning. Either subjects are incorporated into the system and thereby managed, or subjects are expelled from the system and no longer managed. LÄS MER
2. Making Sense of Large-scale Cyber Incidents : International Cybersecurity Beyond Threat-based Security Perspectives
Sammanfattning : Large-scale cyber incidents have figured prominently in securitizing speech acts over the last decade. This thesis demonstrates how conceptualizations of cybersecurity as a public security problem connects to and shapes cybersecurity governance in national and international settings. LÄS MER
3. Health security in the European Union : Agents, practices and materialities of securitization
Sammanfattning : Over the past two decades, the notion of ‘health security’ has emerged as a central tenet of European Union (EU) public health policy. This PhD thesis examines the rise and implications of health security cooperation, associated with an imperative to fight ‘bioterrorist attacks’, pandemics and other natural or man-made events. LÄS MER
4. Subaltern Securitization : The Use of Protest and Violence in Postcolonial Nigeria
Sammanfattning : Securitization theory (ST) makes an insightful and significant contribution to security studies. Through the use of discursive speech act, ST provides an innovative strategy for understanding the application of security’s distinctive character and dynamics to any issue in order to make it a security issue. LÄS MER
5. Explaining Early Adoption : National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights
Sammanfattning : Diffusion of innovations theory concerns the process by which innovations are communicated through the members of a social system. Previous research has shed significant light on how public policies diffuse across governments over time, but there is little understanding of why they diffuse. The answer may lie in the motivations of early adopters. LÄS MER