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In recent years there has been a growing internal debate within the EU regarding the direction of its trade policy. Circled around the understanding of a geoeconomic development within the international economic sphere, the Union is divided in terms of how to best respond in this proclaimed situation for ensuring its future success and prosperity. Where the European Commission has adopted several protectionist measures at the same time as upholding its liberal route one may ask what this implies for the future, as well as what the underlying forces behind this trend are, which is part of the general aim of this study. Previous research has provided both rationalistic and constructivist approaches to analyzing EU’s trade policy agenda, where rationalistic approaches has investigated to which degree trade policy has been politicized and constructivists more focused to understanding to which degree ideas, norms and values has contributed to the Commission’s legitimization and continuation of liberal trade politics. However, the area of discourse(s) role in this nexus is left relatively unexplored. With use of the IR theories of Realism and Liberalism as well as the methods of Critical Discourse Analysis and Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework for critical discourse analysis, this paper examines the main respective arguments of the debate regarding a New European Industrial Strategy, through three dimensions of discourse(s): as text, discursive practice and social practice. Findings suggests that realist discourses have gained traction within the Commission at the same time as it is constrained by institutional and integrational discourses, which are factors that indeed may result in troublesome years to come.

Denna studie har undersökt ägarstrukturens påverkan på fotbollsklubbars finansiella prestation. Sambandet har studerats utifrån sportslig prestation som förklarande variabel. Sportslig prestation operationaliserades till antalet spelade matcher i den största multinationella fotbollsturneringen Champions League under den studerade perioden 2014–2019. Sportslig prestation adderade ett icke-finansiellt prestationsmått som inte återfinns i vanliga företag. Dataunderlaget bestod av såväl sportslig som finansiell data från urvalet på 18 fotbollsklubbar från de fem bästa fotbollsligorna i Europa. Både medieringstester och regressionsanalyser har genomförts. Inga betydande medieringseffekter har kunnat konstaterats men signifikanta samband inom den uppsatta analysmodellen har erhållits. Studiens resultat genererar en bra grund för vidare forskning inom ämnet.

The purpose of this study is to develop further knowledge of how specific educational attributes such as educational quality is affecting domestic terrorism activity. Using a time frame between 1999 and 2007, involving 133 countries. The research results indicate that educational quality does in most instances have a negative correlating effect on domestic terrorism activity. Though not to the same extent as the hypothesis suggests, where school completions rates appears to positively correlate with increased risk of domestic terrorism activity. However as theorized quality education proves to have more significant importance for a reduced risk of domestic terrorism compared to previous educational indicators that generally positively correlate with increased risk of domestic terrorism, when controlling for specific country conditions.