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This study is an attempt to clarify the legal status of humanitarian intervention under international law today. Despite the long history of legal discourse on the matter, there is no consistent consensus as regards the legality of humanitarian intervention under international law. The opponents of formally acknowledging a right of humanitarian intervention often refer to the risk of abuse of the
During the last few years the countries in the African continent have experienced an enormous increase in female politicians on a national level. Rwanda is even the country with the highest number of female politicians in its parliament in the world. Despite this development in Africa, the quantitative research on women's political representation in the world has not yet paid attention to the
In 2002 George W. Bush held a speech where he classified six nations as being the main threats to American security, one of them being Syria, a state with a secular constitution, no resent offence towards the US, and with an improved diplomatic relationship to the US during the Clinton years. Being an ally to the Soviet Union during the Cold War Syria was forced to redefine its role in the region
Due to traditional beliefs about biological differences between the sexes, the sex ratio is abnormally uneven in northern parts of India. There is a combination of old methods like female infanticide and new technologies, which make selective abortion possible. The strong practices of dowry transform daughters to economical burdens to their parents. They face mortal danger before, at and after bir
This thesis studies two instruments within EC-law, affecting asylum issues, the Schengen Convention and the Dublin Regulation. These instruments are developed as a result of the free movement of persons in the European Union, and the development of the free internal market. The member states are afraid of losing control of who is residing within their borders, as their border controls has been rem
By isolating and forecasting the trend in two key variables this paper analyses the future plausibility of the current UK pensions system. Box Jenkins methods (1970, 1976, 1994) are applied to UK post-war government pensioner expenditure and population over 65. Conclusions are made with particular reference to the recent reports of the pensions commission who recommended a drastic reorganization o
The market for corporate control is one of the cornerstones of economical systems in every country. The Commission of the European Communities has tried for the past 15 years to get accepted a Directive that aims at harmonizing takeover regimes in the Member States of the European Union. The paper examines the rationales behind takeovers and methods to prevent them from occurring through two alter
Abstract In 1998 the United Nations held a diplomatic conference on the establishment of an International Criminal Court in Rome. In the end of the conference the negotiating states adopted the Rome Statute by which an international criminal court was established. The court, which entered into force on 1 July 2002, has jurisdiction over the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crim
The main purpose of this essay was to find out how members of Narcotics Anonymous and professionals within the socila service departments define integration of drug addicts, and ascertain how they experience their parts in the integration process. We have wanted to examine which factors that are essential for the earlier drogabuser in his rehabilitation to the ordinary world. We wanted to find ou
This study focuses on young adults with mild mental retardation and how their early adult life is a few years after leaving high school. They have grown up in a society where the view on mentally disabled has undergone big changes. Political decisions regarding handicapped, laws, official principles and social reforms have been dominated by the prinziple of normalization. The purpose has been to
The balance-of-payments-constrained growth theory has emerged as perhaps the most interesting objection to the doctrine of unregulated free trade within the field of development economics. It stipulates that growth is constrained by demand, particularly demand for exports because exports are the only source for foreign currency (assuming balanced current account in the long run) and thus crucial t
This paper discusses tying, a practice which, when used by large firms, has in the past been treated as anti-competitive and therefore undesirable. In the European Community, tying has been assessed in only a few court cases. The so called Tetra Pak II case was one such case. There, the court held that the defendant, Tetra Pak, was using tying in order to obtain market power by excluding its compe
This dissertation explores the sources of power that the EU and US use in their relations with Mercosur. The theoretical framework is drawn from the complex interdependence theory. I analyse the EU and US trade strategies and political goals regarding the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between the EU-Mercosur, and the US-Mercosur countries. I argue that the EU uses economic and soft power
Taking its theoretical point of departure in discourse theory this thesis endeavours to provide an enhanced understanding of subsidiarity in a European context. By analysing the discoursive response by the European elite to the dislocatory force of the 1992 crisis, it is argued that subsidiarity was used as a nodal point in the construction of a myth of the EU as a political system close to its ci
Researchers in the field of political corruption generally expect voters in democratic states to lose trust in corrupted politicians. However, there are cases where corrupted politicians maintain their popularity, a phenomenon studied in this thesis. Focus lies on three cases of political corruption: the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who has been the subject of several judicial investig
Abstract This thesis examines whether it is possible to ascertain a measurable difference between granted and refused grant applications with automatic methods. A corpus of project descriptions from the Swedish Science Council was examined with different classification techniques and using different linguistic features. A Naive Bayes classifier is shown to be a good predictor for this type of pro
The purpose of this study is to highlight the interaction in the press between the indigenous people -the Orang Ulu- in Sarawak state, Borneo, and the Malaysian government. The focus lies on the Kayan tribe in the Uma Juman settlement, and how the government controlled media and lack of an open two-way dialogue affects them. A people without freedom of speech are a people in permanent danger of ab
North Korea is considered to be the most autocratic dictatorship in the world today. Its citizens are denied their most basic human rights and North Koreas ambition to pursue nuclear weapons is looked upon with great fear from the international community and the US in particular. Some experts say that the threat from North Korea is far greater than the one possessed by Saddam Hussein. Although Nor
