Den här uppsatsen belyser hur Tysklands förbundskansler, Angela Merkel, representerades i svenska och spanska nyhets- och opinionsartiklar på webben mellan datumen 3 januari 2011 och 29 december 2012. Merkel blev en allt viktigare politiker inom EU i och med eurokrisen som tog fart år 2008, då Tyskland var ett av de länder som gav mest pengar till de stödlån som EU utfärdade till bland annat Spanien. Idag anses Angela Merkel vara en av Europas viktigaste politiker, främst då Tyskland som ekonomisk stormakt inom EU har ett stort inflytande vad gäller beslutsfattanden i EU-frågor. Vi analyserade fyra tidningar med olika politisk bakgrund: Aftonbladet, Svenska Dagbladet, El País och ABC. Studien baserades på en kvantitativ innehållsanalys kombinerat med en kvalitativ textanalys. Den kvantitativa undersökningen fungerar som en översikt och belyser hur stor plats rapporteringen om Angela Merkel tar upp i svenska och spanska webbtidningar, under vilka kategorier artiklarna faller in samt vilken narrativ roll Merkel tillskrivs. Begreppet "narrativ roll" kommer från Van Gorp, som menar att nyhetsmedier, medvetet eller omedvetet, kan tillskriva människor en viss roll genom artikelns utformning, vilket i sig påverkar läsarens uppfattning om dessa. I den här studien användes de konstruerade rollerna skurk, hjälte eller neutral, som pekar på olika sätt att beskriva Angela Merkel genom språklig utformning. I den kvalitativa delen analyserades åtta artiklar för att på ett djupare plan se hur språkliga grepp som ordval, stil, faktaurval, metaforer och disposition av materialet påverkar framställningen av Angela Merkel i nyhetsartiklar på webben. Som referensram användes Lundgren, Ney och Thuréns massmedieretoriska modell. Vår förförståelse var att ländernas olika sociala och politiska bakgrund och förhållanden till Tyskland skulle avspegla sig i medierapporteringen Undersökningen visade däremot att Angela Merkel oftast tillskrevs en neutral roll i nyhetsartiklarna, både i spanska och svenska webbtidningar och oavsett tidningarnas politiska bakgrund. I opinionsmaterialet framställdes hon oftast som skurk, även om hon nästan lika ofta tillskrevs en neutral roll. Studien analyserades utifrån Strömbäcks gestaltningsteori och Hallin och Mancinis teori om olika mediepolitiska system i västvärlden.

Foreign policy of Germany has gained due to its special development in the post-war period some unique traits -- strong multilateral and westward orientation and civilian character. German unification became a turning point in this respect. The country was confronted with the necessity to find its new place within the changing international system. This paper focuses on the subsequent changes of foreign policy. Its purpose is to evaluate the change or continuity of these unique traits on one side and to describe Germany's new role in the international relations on the other. The initial step is to picture the function of bodies involved in shaping the foreign policy - government, parliament, individual federal countries and president. Further on the paper outlines the main events of German unification, restoring its full international subjectivity. The core descriptive part is divided in three main segments in terms of the personality leading the government, the chancellor. It first gives an account of foreign policy of the "Kohl era", continues with Schröder government and closes with foreign policy of Angela Merkel. With the view of the complexity of such a task the paper focuses on selected policy areas only -- European integration, transatlantic cooperation and partnership with Russia being among them.

This thesis analyzes the management of refugee crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany in relation to the applicable law of the European Union. In theoretical introduction, the thesis focuses on the definition of key concepts and the related areas of EU law. The second part is devoted to the policy of the Federal Republic of Germany led by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and the actions adopted. In the last part, these actions are analyzed in accordance with the main research question of this thesis, namely whether Germany is dealing with the immigrant crisis in accordance with the law of the European Union.

Immer wieder fallen im Verlauf von Wahlkämpfen Schlagworte wie Personalisierung, Negativismus und Sensationalismus. Während diese Eigenschaften auf modern geführte Wahl-Kampagnen in den USA durchaus zutreffen mögen, so bescheinigen Studien deutscher Wahlforschungsinstitute für die Bundesrepublik doch recht durchwachsene Befunde. Im Zuge der Bundestagswahl 2005 haben wir uns mittels einer Inhaltsanalyse mit der Kandidatendarstellung Angela Merkels in der deutschen Qualitätspresse beschäftigt. Dabei ging es uns besonders um die Feststellung eines Wandels in der Darstellung Angela Merkels, welcher die Wähler in ihrer Wahlentscheidung beeinflusst haben könnte und um erkennbare Indizien für einen generellen Trend zur Personalisierung. / During electoral campaigns one can always hear key words like personalization, negativism and sensationalism. While these terms may represent the harsh reality of modern campaigns in the US, the results for Germany are rather ambiguous, according to prominent scientific studies. Following the chronology of the German 2005 election of the Bundestag, we tried to evaluate the presentation of candidate Angela Merkel, who ran for chancellor’s office, in the German quality press. Our main goal was the verification of a change in the way the papers presented Angela Merkel, hence possibly influencing the electorate. Furthermore, we tried to find proof of a general trend of personalization in Germany’s elections of 2005.

This master thesis is concerned with the role of the chancellor in the foreign policy with respect to the institutional possibilities that the German political system provides him, and also with respect to the personality of the chancellor - it strives to answer the question, if it is possible to identify the personality impact in the chancellor foreign policy positions. As the case example the current chancellor Angela Merkel has been chosen, who serves for a period long enough to carry out the research and who is at the same time well-respected personality abroad. The thesis comes to the conclusion that the chancellor has the rights to intervene in the foreign policy and uses those rights. By means of the discourse and content analysis of chancellor's speeches it has been possible to identify foreign policy preferences of the chancellor which can be associated with her personal life experience.

This thesis concerns German foreign policy towards Russia during the governments of G. Schroeder and A. Merkel with a view to analyzing this policy from a number of perspectives. The first objective is to introduce an analysis of German-Russian relations in the areas of international politics, security, economy and energy policy from 1998 to the present. The second objective is to compare the approaches of both chancellors in foreign policy and identify whether a certain continuity in German foreign policy vis-á-vis Russia has been preserved or whether the policy has been modified, and if so, in what areas.

Immer wieder fallen im Verlauf von Wahlkämpfen Schlagworte wie Personalisierung, Negativismus und Sensationalismus. Während diese Eigenschaften auf modern geführte Wahl-Kampagnen in den USA durchaus zutreffen mögen, so bescheinigen Studien deutscher Wahlforschungsinstitute für die Bundesrepublik doch recht durchwachsene Befunde. Im Zuge der Bundestagswahl 2005 haben wir uns mittels einer Inhaltsanalyse mit der Kandidatendarstellung Angela Merkels in der deutschen Qualitätspresse beschäftigt. Dabei ging es uns besonders um die Feststellung eines Wandels in der Darstellung Angela Merkels, welcher die Wähler in ihrer Wahlentscheidung beeinflusst haben könnte und um erkennbare Indizien für einen generellen Trend zur Personalisierung. / During electoral campaigns one can always hear key words like personalization, negativism and sensationalism. While these terms may represent the harsh reality of modern campaigns in the US, the results for Germany are rather ambiguous, according to prominent scientific studies. Following the chronology of the German 2005 election of the Bundestag, we tried to evaluate the presentation of candidate Angela Merkel, who ran for chancellor’s office, in the German quality press. Our main goal was the verification of a change in the way the papers presented Angela Merkel, hence possibly influencing the electorate. Furthermore, we tried to find proof of a general trend of personalization in Germany’s elections of 2005.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the process of securitization of immigration and multiculturalism within the framework of migration, immigration and integration policies focusing on the case of Germany. Using the migration-security nexus as a primary theoretical foundation, I argue that within the policies and legislations related to immigration, German governments ultimately perceive immigration as a threat at the level of state security as well as Germany's national identity. The first government I have selected for my analysis is the cabinet led by Gerhard Schröder (1998 - 2005) who challenged the romanticized perception of the German nation as a "nation of descent" by saying that "Germany is a country of immigration." Secondly, I focus on the chancellorship of Angela Merkel whose approach toward the Syrian asylum seekers in the context of the current migration crisis (9/2015 - 11/2016) has been called "Wilkommenskutlur" (or "Welcome culture"). Nonetheless, by studying the policies related to immigration as well as governments' discourses, I argue that in both cases, immigration and multiculturalism are indeed linked to security issues. Hence, immigrants are perceived as a threat to Germany's national security and its identity.

This thesis deals with Angela Merkel's crisis management using the example of the Ukrainian and migration crises in the Polish political discourse. The aim of the research, which relied on the method of content analysis of stenographic transcripts of meetings of the Polish Sejm, was to find out how the Polish political elite perceived crisis management of Angela Merkel as the leader of Germany and the EU in these crises, what motivation they thought accompanied these actions, and what this showed about the Polish political scene itself. Before Angela Merkel left the chancellor's chair after 16 years, she was regarded as one of the most powerful world leaders, having led Germany and the EU through several major crises. However, many of the German Chancellor's actions have become divisive within the EU and, as the example of Poland has shown, also in the internal politics of the Member States. The analysis has revealed that the assessment of Angela Merkel's policies by Polish MPs mirrors the internal political split between the two major Polish parties, the Civic Platform and Law and Justice.

This thesis examines selected political speeches with regard to word-formation and its processes, namely from the grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic points of view. The analyzed political speeches are the Otto von Bismarck's speech delivered on 20 July 1870, the Adolf Hitler's speech delivered on 1 September 1939, the Willy Brandt's speech delivered on 10 November 1989, and the Angela Merkel's speech from 14 December 2015. This is an interdisciplinary thesis which deals with politics, history, and linguistics. The thesis examines four different periods, namely Bismarck's era, Nazism, the Federal Republic of Germany between 1949 and 1990, and the contemporary Federal Republic of Germany. These periods are analyzed from the political, historical, and socio-cultural points of view. Subsequently, the selected political speeches are analyzed with respect to word- formation, its processes, and the period in which they were delivered. The individual results are then compared and certain conclusions are drawn from the comparison. The aim of this thesis is to highlight the importance of word-formation and its processes which are significant for political speeches from the 19th century onwards. This thesis shows and analyzes the motives, purposes, aims, and consequences of their usage in particular...