Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på emneord "USA"
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Amerikansk bruk av etterretningskontraktører - En utfordring for de statlige kjerneoppgavene og voldsmonopol?
(Master thesis, 2019-07-02)Bruken av etterretningskontraktører i den amerikanske forsvarssektoren har siden angrepene 11. september 2001 hatt en voldsom oppblomstring. Manglende ressurser, store personellkutt og tungrodd byråkrati er noe av forklaringen ... -
Challenges in Accessing Humanitarian Spaces in High-Conflict Contexts: ICRC, MSF, and NAC’s practice of Humanitarian Diplomacy in Southeast Afghanistan.
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)The nature of the practice of Humanitarian Diplomacy makes it a difficult subject for scholars to study and generalize and therefore has resulted in the field being dominated by single case-studies. This is especially true ... -
Establishing a New "Common Sense": A Study of the Leftist Movement in Northeastern United States
(Master thesis, 2018-06-05)This thesis examines political activism among young leftist activists and self-declared socialists in New England, United States. Based on my fieldwork of 2017, I have explored how members of a DSA (Democratic Socialists ... -
Kampen mot Roe vs. Wade - en casestudie av «Ja til livet»-bevegelsen og «Initiative 26» i Mississippi
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)In this case study I analyze the pro-life movement in the United States with the research question: How does the American pro-life movement operate, and what is the basis for their work? With this as a point of departure ... -
Mellom ord og krig: Ein komparativ casestudie av EU og USA sin bruk av GSP-sanksjonar mot Kviterussland
(Master thesis, 2012-06-03)This thesis aims to reveal the nature of the European Union as a sender of sanctions compared with the United States. The question I ask is; is the European Union less united as sender of GSP-sanctions than the US, and ... -
"Money, like water, will always find an outlet": Financing presidential general elections from 1976 to 2012.
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)This thesis investigates political finance in the United States focusing on presidential general elections from 1976 to 2012. Political finance is a scholarly field that has received renewed attention in American politics ... -
Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives: An empirical analysis
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)This thesis looks at the effect that the removal of Title II regulations on the Internet service providers under the Restoring Internet Freedom Order of 2018 had on Internet service provider’s incentives to invest in their ... -
To Be in the World But Not of It: American Evangelicals and the Dilemmas of Being Christian in a Secular World
(Master thesis, 2009-06-22)In this thesis I explore how evangelical Christians in two different churches in the US relate to the society they live in, which they regard as secular. I will give insight to their narratives on how they see their lives ...