Dissertations 2016
Dissertations from 2016
- Bullets, ballots or both? The effects of fragmentation on the strategic decision of violent factions to participate in electoral politics.
- The dynamic nature of self-love and amor fati in Nietzsche.
- This Land is Your Land. How land redistribution reforms affect the recurrence of conflict in developing African countries.
- Fighting the illicit trade of art in the EU: challenges and perspectives.
- To delegate or not to delegate? The law and practice of the UN Security Council to delegate the use of force to NATO.
- A European area of protection? A cross-cutting analysis of the contradictions within the Common European Asylum System.
- Intellectual Property Rights and Trade. To what extent does the strength of Intellectual Property Rights affect high-technology exports to developing countries? The case of Germany.
- The Language of Austerity: a study of the metaphors of austerity discourse in the UK and Spain.
- An economical relationship? Political separatism and the European Union.
- The importance of gender stereotypes in explaining Russia’s high rate of domestic violence.
- UKIP - a big bunch of softies? A study of UKIP’s Euroscepticism.
- Shirking less or working ill? How reductions in sick pay generosity affect the absence behaviour of employees.
- Degrees of feminism: feminist policies in Sweden and the case of paternal leave.
- Laughter in the face of adversity: satirical publications in the later years of Franco’s Spain.
- The impact of the German minimum wage on intern employment in startups.
- Green lights of the North. Exploring the links between environmentalism and national identity among Swedish youth.
- Fragmentation and organised crime: a comparative study of violence in Italy and Mexico.
- The overlap between genocide and crimes against humanity: past and current tensions in international criminal law.
- Non-electoral participation and political knowledge: when does participation matter? A case study on the impact of participation on citizens’ political knowledge levels within the European Citizens’ Initiative.
- Interpreting the violence of left-wing terrorism: what is the explanation for the changes in the degree and the type of violence displayed by the Red Brigades?
- Head of State Immunities before the International Criminal Court: the problem of consent.
- ‘The Spiritualisation of Matter’: French intellectuals and the First World War, 1914-1923. How did French intellectuals respond to new technology of the First World War, and why?
- Why do the levels of sexual violence vary across genocides? A cross-sectional study of the Bengali and Kurdish genocides.
- “Crossing the river by feeling for stones”: is the Chinese Communist Party liberalising the state sector?
- A geolinguistic study of swear words in Spain. Exploring variation in the usage and attitudes towards swearing amongst youths in Madrid, Catalonia, the Basque Country and Andalusia.
- Why did Ukraine experience a revolution in 2013-2014?
- Discrimination in a colour-blind state. An analysis into the roots of racially motivated identity checks in Paris.
- Is pornographic speech authoritative?
- Dar la patada / Kicking down the door: how has squatting affected the provision of housing in Madrid since 2007?