Blar i Brage NMBU på forfatter "Stuvøy, Kirsti"
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Access and participation : gender equality in the engineering profession in Ghana
Akowuah, Gloria Adwoa Sarfoaa (Master thesis, 2018)The engineering profession which is among one of the fields noted for advancing economic growth continues to illustrate a low number of females amid interventions. The profession, branded as “male dominated field” speaks ... -
After nickel : a multiplicity of perspectives on the urban transformation in Nikel, Russia
Turbina, Elina (Master thesis, 2022)Globalization processes have had a major impact on the development of the global political economy, and the role cities have in it as actors reshaping the international community. This thesis follows an urban transformation ... -
The Barents-cooperation amidst geopolitical tensions : a discourse analysis of Norwegian experiences
Onsager, Jonas Ekkeren (Master thesis, 2020)The Barents-cooperation, a multilateral cross-border collaboration including Norway and Russia, currently finds itself surrounded by an increased geopolitical tension. Recent years have seen a deteriorating relationship ... -
Brexit : a historical case-study of UK's integration with the EU
Dineen, Isabel (Master thesis, 2019)This thesis explores Brexit as process by examining what reasons have been given for UK’s integration process with the EU from the accession in 1973 to UK’s decision to leave the EU in 2016 and whether these reasons have ... -
Children in war : a discussion of child soldiers and the concept of childhood
Svendsen, Carina (Master thesis, 2017)Children and young people are affected by conflict in numerous ways, and are seen as constituting one of the groups that are referred to as the primary victims during and after war and conflict. In contemporary conflicts, ... -
The city as an actor in international relations : the case of cross-border city networks seen from Kristiansand, Norway
Hagstrøm, Linn Chloe Cueto (Master thesis, 2019)Cities garner increasing interest as an object of study within the field of international relations. Networked social relations is used as a guiding framework to understand cities as actors rather than as sites for ... -
Civil society development in Russia : political actors and power in EU-Russia relations
Holden, Marianne (Master thesis, 2016-08-11)This thesis examines non-state actors’ role in International Relations. To accomplish this, the study has two objectives. The first objective is theoretical: to explain that different dimensions of power must be included ... -
Conceptualizing animals : the role of welfare in the international politics of animal agriculture and animal liberation
Walter, Kristen Michelle (Master thesis, 2020)Agriculture has been greatly important in the process of food production, and while agriculture is referenced to in IR, it tends to be referenced to as part of sustainability, accessibility and human rights discourse. ... -
Early expctations of the Barents-cooperation compared to current assessments of the cooperation
Sande, Julie Charlotte Jørgensen (Master thesis, 2022)The status of the Barents-cooperation thirty years after it was established has been analyzed by comparing ambitions against realities as perceived by practitioners and experts on the cooperation. By studying the ... -
Embodying experiences of (in)security : exploring ethnic minority youth’s encounters with the police and policing practices in Oslo
Leon Hernandez, Ixchel Aq Ba L (Master thesis, 2019)The police are a state institution with the power to coerce and maintain “order” within a society so that individuals feel safe. The moment in which an induvial encounter the police, is the moment in which the individual ... -
Emotions and foreign policy : an autoethnographic study of representational techniques at Japanese war museums
Finstad, Vemund Sveen (Master thesis, 2019)To this day, the alleged ‘history problem’; the perception from other countries, mainly Asian neighbours, that Japan has not come to terms with its aggressive and militarist past, continues to weigh on the Land of the ... -
EU-Ukraine relations : representations of Russia in the EU rhetoric towards Ukraine
Soloshenko, Yanina (Master thesis, 2018)Ukraine-Russia conflict that exploded in 2014 undermined the international law system's core, and the fundamentals of European as well as the global security architecture. The variety of research on the crisis issue provide ... -
Exploring the knowledge-politics nexus in global governance : a case study of the anti-chemical weapons assemblage in Syria (2013-2017)
Handeland, Lars Vetle (Master thesis, 2019)This thesis explores the relationship between knowledge and politics in global governance today. To do so, I conduct a case study of the efforts to disarm and govern the use of chemical weapons in Syria between 2013 and ... -
For Auld Lang Syne? : a study of Scottish paradiplomacy towards the Nordic countries after the Brexit vote
Haugvoll, Karoline Andrea (Master thesis, 2021)Can Scotland engage in international relations? Following its position as subject to the United Kingdom of Great Britain , as a matter of law the simple answer is no. Nevertheless, Scotland has long engaged internationally ... -
From principles to pragmatism? : ontological insecurity and the EU´s sanctions regime against Russia
Aaser, Erlend Bern (Master thesis, 2017)In 2014, the relationship between the European Union (EU) and Russia turned from cooperation to conflict. The backdrop of this stalemate was the Russian annexation of Crimea, which the EU responded to by implementing ... -
Gendered power relations in UN peace missions : accounts of policewomen’s perseverance and empowerment
Stensvik, Merethe Albrecht (Master thesis, 2022)This research investigates policewomen’s experiences of gendered power relations in UN peacekeeping missions. It employs the theoretical framework of IR feminism and draws inspiration from feminist institutionalism and ... -
Global governance and how norms travel : the case of gender based violence in Russia
Weber, Victoria (Master thesis, 2017)The main purpose of this thesis is to understand why international norms on gender based violence are not completely accepted in Russia and thus are not fully incorporated into the Russian legislation framework. Considering ... -
The grammar of status competition : international hierarchies as domestic practice
Beaumont, Paul (PhD Thesis;2020:57, Doctoral thesis, 2020)A burgeoning body of research has documented that status-seeking abounds in world politics. Yet the status hierarchies to which states respond and compete within are notoriously ambiguous and difficult to empirically ... -
Hospitality, refugee camps and contested relations : the case of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, 1948–2000s
Davis, Samuel John Menzies (Master thesis, 2019)Hospitality provides a lens for understanding spatial relations of power and ethics. It seeks to unpack these relations through an examination of everyday practices, in which relations between the guest and host subjects ... -
How Oslo engages the world globally : a study of Oslo’s involvement in transnational city networks on climate and environment
Jansen, Tuva Kristin (Master thesis, 2021)Cities are increasingly gaining interest as an object of study within the field of International Relations. While cities are not new, they have for long been overlooked within the field of international relations. However, ...