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Somalia has been a failed state since 1991, which has made it questionable whether the country would be able to rebuild its state. This thesis aims at understanding the factors affecting the state-building process in the country based on voices from interviewees belonging to the “International community” and the “Somali diaspora”. To gain an understanding of what implications the factors could hav
The thesis investigates the possibility of predicting future economic activity using the yield spread of a UK Treasury bond and bill, and a inflation variable. To investigate this matter, this paper uses the theoretical framework of the relationship between the term structure and economic growth. It is found that the chosen yield spread on its on holds some significance in forecasting future quart
For the past decades, counterfeiting has severely threatened China-EU trade. It not only led to tremendous loss for businesses, but also created problems such as harm to public health and other crime related activities. China has been accused by its main trading partners as being the biggest counterfeit source for a long time. Both China and EU have already put a lot of effort on containment of co
The European Motor Vehicle Industry is complex and plays a significant role in the economic aspects of the common market. The motor vehicles constitute an important part of everyday life for many consumers and are the second largest investment many makes. The legal framework surrounding this industry includes EU's Competition policy, which constitute the third pillar in the Single European Mar
Fair use is a doctrine native to the U.S., but is with the introduction of the internet more than a decade ago now informally applied worldwide. It has become a potent tool for the digitisation of classic content, such as books and music. In a very debated area of law, copyright is now regarded not as a promotional tool for intellectual endeavours, but as a brake block obstructing the development
The purpose is to answer the question: what are the consequences of the EU discourse on civilian crisis management for the social structures? Critical discourse analysis has been used, both as theory and as method together with social constructivism and the concepts of power and policing. Furthermore, semi-structured interviews with 16 Swedish police officers with experience from EU missions were
This paper’s aim is to analyse the Irish housing cycle using filtering and regression models developed by Leamer. The paper finds that residential investment and the construction sectors have been key contributors to economic growth, and can be used in predicting the business and employment cycle. This paper focuses on the boom years of the Irish property market and its eventual cooling off, which
The subject of institutions and their impact upon economic growth has been widely explored by a variety of literature. What has often been ignored, however, is the topic of how institutions arise in the first place. This paper thus takes the view that institutions are shaped by geography, and specifically, the agricultural sector. It is found that there exists some statistical and legal evidence t
This thesis aimed to analyze how the Taiwanese government narrates the Russo-Ukrainian war and why, regarding their foreign policy efforts and the articulation of a Taiwanese national identity. Twenty-nine articles from the Taiwanese Office of the President published between January and August 2022 were examined. In its discourse, Taiwan drew a parallel with the situation in Ukraine, portraying bo
En av grunderna bakom skiljeförfarandet är att skiljedomen med bindande verkan slutligt avgör tvisten mellan parterna. Det är dessutom så att det saknas möjligheter att överklaga en skiljedom på materiella grunder. I lagen (1999:116) om skiljeförfarande (LSF) finns emellertid vissa möjligheter att få en skiljedom undanröjd. Dessa möjligheter stadgas i 33 och 34 §§ LSF. Av 33 § LSF framgår ogiltighOne of the core principles underlying arbitration is that the arbitration award, with binding effect, finally resolves the dispute between the parties. In addi-tion, there is no possibility to appeal the arbitration award on material grounds. However, the Swedish Arbitration Act (1999:116) provides certain possibilities for having an arbitrational award set aside. These possibilities are laid down
Currently, industries are actively pursuing heat decarbonization solutions, yet face challenges in identifying and understanding suitable options for their facilities. Thermal energy storage (TES), systems that capture and store renewable energy for prolonged periods to provide superheated steam, are presented as a promising but relatively recent solution for decarbonizing heat-intensive industrie
In aviation, pilots engage in safety critical activities in the cockpit to guarantee a safe flight. Throughout history these activities have been transformed by introducing new artifacts in the cockpit, such as rules and technology, changing thereby the way in which pilots try to achieve safe flight outcomes. The recent introduction of the iPad in the cockpit of airlines, as part of the process of
Using data spanning from 1910 to 2020, house price dynamics of Stockholm and Gothenburg are found to be significantly affected by income, household debt, interest rates, construction costs and immigration. Real house prices in Stockholm and Gothenburg exhibit debt elasticities of 1.34 and 1.12, noticeably greater than their respective income elasticities of 0.24 and 0.39. Real house prices in both
This paper analyses the driving factors of youth- and adult unemployment in the OECD-countries during the 21st century. Focus is on both macroeconomic shock variables, such as the GDP-gap, the real interest rate and total factor productivity-growth, and institutional variables, such as union density, active labour market policies, the tax wedge, the replacement rate and the share of temporary empl
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-gamma) is a key regulator of metabolism, but how its structural dynamics control allosteric signaling remains unclear. To investigate this, we performed molecular dynamics simulations of PPAR-gamma and applied time-lagged independent component analysis to reduce the dimensionality of the data. Microstates were identified using K-means clusteri
This thesis explores how the European Union, through the East StratCom Task Force’s Disinformation Reviews, discursively frames Russia in its response to disinformation, and how this constructs the Union’s identity. Drawing on Thomas Diez operationalisation of Normative Power Europe as well as Strategic Narrative Theory, this study applies a critical discourse analysis of all reviews published wit
