This study examines commonalities and differences in leadership choices preferred by female leaders in Kazakhstan, Sweden and the United States of America. The results of the study show that all respondents (1) value the same leadership traits; (2) recognize the importance of me…
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This dissertation is an analysis of the so-called "Inferno" trilogy, written by August Strindberg from 1897 to 1898. Although the author wrote it in French--except for the last pages of the third volume--these texts have been mostly studied in Swedish translation. Based on the o…
Nuclear proliferation has been identified as the greatest threat to international security in the post Cold-War era. This study assesses the prospects for success of new U.S. policies aimed at promoting nuclear rollback. Nuclear rollback occurs when a nation with a nuclear weapo…
In industrial societies where civil law and state institutions have become well-established secular vehicles for governing the populace, it is widely assumed that the state no longer has an interest in fortifying the religious sector as a complementary source of social control. …
Global estimates suggest 20 million children from hundreds of different countries and cultures are currently displaced from their homes as refugees or internally displaced persons (USCR, 2000). Each year hundreds of thousands of children are resettled in second or third countrie…
I rectify a misconception in the growth literature that inequality is harmful for economic-growth (See Persson and Tabellini (1994)). 1 investigate the quantitative importance of intergenerational cooperation to economic growth, and show that the connection between income inequa…
This study examines the Holy Roman Empire's internal organization and polities as revealed by its reaction to a foreign crisis. The conflict between Sweden and Denmark during the years 1563-1576 affected the interests of a broad cross section of the Empire's myriad of states. Th…
The fairytale play has a venerable history in the theater. This study examines four plays by August Strindberg as analogs of the fairytale play. Lucky Per's Journey, Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, To Damascus I and The Great Highway are examined in order to link them to the folk…
In an attempt to improve the effectiveness of aid, many of the stakeholders in the international aid regime agreed to commit to five key principles in the Paris Declaration (PD) in 2005. These principles of ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual acc…
The main purpose of this study is to develop an understanding of the impact of neoliberal financialisation on income inequality. The distributional patterns and their relations to financialisation in four countries (USA, South Korea, Argentina, and Sweden) between circa 1980 and…
In many immigrant-receiving countries, the increased rate and diversification of immigration has placed immigrant integration high on academic and political agendas. Immigrant integration must also be understood within increasingly complex contexts due to the global recession an…
This work looks at endemic cancer and death among the people of two villages in the Cappadocia region of Central Anatolia/Turkey in multiple contexts. Following the discovery of the highly carcinogenic fibrous zeolite (erionite) in the rocks and volcanic tuffs in these villages,…
This paper presents a comparison of the policies of Germany and Sweden and assessments of well-being in each country in order to evaluate the impact that immigration policies may have on the mental and physical health of immigrants. On the basis of my comparisons, I draw conclus…
European modernist architectural design and urban planning for suburbs have often been theorized as dystopic creation myths. These narratives focus on the unfulfilled promises of activist designers to deliver equality, overscaled and generic neighborhoods, and contemporary socia…
This thesis examines the determinants of success and failure in cases of autonomous deterrence by middle powers threatened with attack by much stronger states, and the impact of external constraints upon deterrence strategy choice under such asymmetric conditions. It addresses b…
August Strindberg's To Damascus trilogy has been identified as the first expressionistic drama ever written. But Strindberg's expressionism is revealed also by certain images and intents borne out wholly or in part by theatrical elements, including setting; lighting; music; soun…
This dissertation analyzes the phenomenon of the transformation of mythical women through the grotesque in select twentieth century drama. Feminist rereading and re-visionist criticism are applied to expose, define, and understand the roots and the representations of patriarchal…
The emergence of such a phenomenon as soft power has activated scholarly efforts to analyze its specific and impact on international relations. This thesis is an analysis of soft power strategies of Austria, Germany, Sweden and Finland. Its aim is to identify the main features a…
This dissertation examines the naming methods on Late Viking Age Swedish runestones. It is well-known in the runological world that the runestones of the Late Viking Age preserve a plethora of personal names. At the same time, name scholars have long observed that the older Germ…