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11	Hard Ice, Soft Politics : EU:s och USA:s utrikespolitik i den arktiska regionen Sandevärn, Johan January 2010 (has links) The polar ice in the Arctic is melting resulting in new opportunities for the Arctic states to extracting vital resources and to find new shorter transport routes. Two of the largest actors who both presently have published polices towards the Arctic region is the EU and the US. This work firstly aims to offer a descriptive view of the EU and the US’ polices towards the Arctic region. Secondly, investigate the documents quantitatively and qualitatively to show weather the EU and US policies are featured by ‘hard power’ or ‘soft power’ by the research of Joseph S. Nye Jr. to find out if Robert Kagan’s hypotheses that the EU mainly use ‘soft power’ and that the US mainly use ‘hard power’. The findings showed that Kagan in this case was right about the EU and the use of ‘soft power’ but that the US mainly uses ‘soft power’ politics in their Arctic policy.
12	A Neoconservative Theory of International Politics? Mahabir, Lakshana 14 May 2018 (has links) Neoconservatism has long had a tenuous relationship with International Relations theory. Despite an abundance of explanatory material and its influence in US foreign policy, few works in IR have attempted to build a stand-alone theory out of it. Furthermore, previous work on the topic has resulted in an under-developed and poor understanding of the movement’s core ideas. The thesis redefines neoconservatism as a trifecta of i) a set of explanatory ideas on world politics, ii) an approach to foreign policy, and iii) an ideology that stems from the European Enlightenment, all the way to the present day. Using this expanded conceptualization, the thesis builds a theory out of what can broadly be considered an ideology. The theory takes the form of an ideal-type construct and emphasizes hegemony in the international system. It offers an explanation for the causes of alliances, as well as regional and systemic conflicts. The theory also adopts a prescriptive function and offers an account of foreign policy analysis. It is highly recommended that the assumptions of the theory that are laid out here be tested in future work. neoconservatism international relations neo-conservatism international relations theory US foreign policy ideology theory of international politics hegemony liberalism conservatism Leo Strauss Edmund Burke Allan Bloom Irving Kristol Bill Kristol Robert Kagan Paul Wolfowitz Jeane Kirkpatrick Bret Stephens Daniel Patrick Moynahan

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Hard Ice, Soft Politics : EU:s och USA:s utrikespolitik i den arktiska regionen

A Neoconservative Theory of International Politics?