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The roles of government have long been discussed in economic development. Rather than discussing the existence of government intervention in China's telecommunications industry, the thesis was to identify how the government actually intervened to help bolster the industry. The research question is in what ways did the Chinese government intervene to promote its telecommunications industry? To
This study provides an analysis of EU's promotion of regional co-operation in the Southeast Europe (SEE) through the lenses of norm diffusion theory. While attempting to answer the question of how and why norm diffusion takes place, if it does happen; both the EU and the SEE are evaluated in an interaction in order to sketch out their mutual engagement in the diffusion process. A minor but rel
The importance of gender differences during conflict and peace-building have raised as a specific area of study both in the academy as well as among global institutions such as the UN. Among those, there is almost a pre-assumption that strengthening women's movements is positive for a peaceful and just solution. However, they fail to address the complex relationships between the conflicting pa
Can deterrence work against a rogue state? The following analysis is done in order to test the validity of deterrence theory upon a rogue actor, and if necessary, to try and develop it further. Whereas the security strategy proved successful against the Soviet Union because of mutual assumptions of rationality, it is questionable if it works towards new challenges today. The behavior of rogue stat
High frequency words are easier to recall compared to low frequency words in lists of only one frequency-range. This effect disappears when words of different frequencies are mixed in a list. Word frequency effects have often been assumed to rely on associations between words. The relationship between word frequency and associations was investigated by controlling associations using Latent Semanti
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the situation for immigrants within the context of minority nationalism. With the help of theories on nationalism and multiculturalism,a case-study has been conducted on the case of Quebec. The material used consists of academic books and journals, as well as primary sources from the Canadian government and the government of Quebec. Quebec has had a major i
This thesis explores the role of inferences in advertising discourse. Based on the study of conversational implicatures by Grice (1975), and the distinction between ostensive and covert communication elaborated by Sperber and Wilson (1986), a typology of inferences in advertising is proposed. Furthermore, this typology was applied to a corpus of Russian and Swedish TV commercials. The main finding
I find the concept ''centre of main interests'' interesting, since it is a new concept and a key element in the Regulation. It determines applicability of the Regulation - it is only applicable if the centre is situated within the Community (see 4.1 The Objective and Scope). It is decisive for jurisdiction regarding main proceedings (see 5 The Centre of Main Interessts) and decisiv
Parallel trade in the pharmaceutical industry is a complicated issue because it has connections with competition law, trade law, and intellectual property law. International exhaustion benefits consumers by promoting price competition. This is an extremely attractive argument. For several years, the parallel trade in pharmaceutical products has been an important issue for the European pharmaceutic
International human rights law does not exist in a vacuum. It owes its basis in public international law and presupposes the existence of States and State law. Since the end of World War II, gigantic steps have been taken, both on national and international level, to promote the development of friendly relations between people and peoples and to facilitate recognition of equal and inalienable righ
Domestic violence is one of the biggest human rights violations that affect women all over the world regardless of their color, nationality, or age. This problem has reached such a degree that women appear to be more at risk of facing violence inside of the home by a husband or partner, than outside by strangers. However, the traditional view that the State cannot be held responsible for acts of v
This thesis discusses the concept of alcohol provider liability. This more recent form of liability has become a popular tool when dealing with alcohol related accidents and aims to make alcohol providers, whether of commercial or private nature, liable for irresponsible service to their patrons or guests. Such liability, in its present form, is regulated either by statute or by common law princip
The GATT/WTO has not been covered in any of the compulsory subjects in the law programme, and there are no electives on the subject. This is something that should be made clear already at the outset, because it puts the thesis in the right perspective. Like all other law students, I knew nothing about the subject when I started to work on the thesis, and even now, my expertise only dates back a fe
After having worked with a project regarding custody procedures and detention facilities where the goal was to give recommendations to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Macedonia) on issues which needed to be changed for them to fulfil the European minimum standard, I doubted that there really existed any European minimum standards. Therefore, I studied Swedish, British, French and Europe
The aim of this thesis is to explain if certain auditor attributes affect Swedish auditors judgment and approach towards risk. The chosen methodology for this study is an explanatory method with a deductive approach. The method has been commonly used in previous researches in the field of audit risk judgment. With this approach, hypotheses has been formulated and then later tested towards empirica
De nuvarande svenska reglerna avseende sakrätt i panträtt är utspridda i olika författningar, vilka tidigare endast har reformerats vid extrem nödvändighet. USA hade tidigare ett regelverk för säkerhetsrätter som i många avseenden var väldigt likvärdigt det regelverk som idag finns i Sverige. Som ett svar på det faktum att de amerikanska reglerna hade uppnått en nivå av otolererbar komplexitet genThe current Swedish rules regarding perfection of liens is fragmented. The system has only undergone partial reform and even then only because of extreme necessity. The U.S. had a security interest system that in many parts were very similar to the system that today is present in Sweden. A reform took place as a response to the fact that the system finally reached the level of intolerable complexi
