En moralisk erkännandepolitik? - En idéanalys om svensk moralsyn i erkännandet av Angola, Kosovo och Palestina
(2019) STVK02 20191Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The significance of morality as an important variable for the analysis of international relations has been emphasized only in recent times. Therefore, this approach has not yet in Swedish scientific studies been used to cover the many branches in the field of Sweden’s foreign policy. As such, moral beliefs in Swedish recognition politics of states, as one of these branches, remains a gap in the political research field. This thesis fills that gap by characterising Sweden’s moral beliefs in three different state recognitions scattered over time that have not unambiguously been regarded to fulfill the legal criterias of a statehood: Angola 1975, Kosovo 2008 and Palestine 2014. The aim is to analyze if there has been a change of Sweden’s... (More)
- The significance of morality as an important variable for the analysis of international relations has been emphasized only in recent times. Therefore, this approach has not yet in Swedish scientific studies been used to cover the many branches in the field of Sweden’s foreign policy. As such, moral beliefs in Swedish recognition politics of states, as one of these branches, remains a gap in the political research field. This thesis fills that gap by characterising Sweden’s moral beliefs in three different state recognitions scattered over time that have not unambiguously been regarded to fulfill the legal criterias of a statehood: Angola 1975, Kosovo 2008 and Palestine 2014. The aim is to analyze if there has been a change of Sweden’s moral beliefs in the recognition of the three states, in order to clarify if the contentious recognition of Palestine is a new phenomena or an extension of previous moral beliefs in similar recognition situations such as Angola and Kosovo. By converting the ideas and principles of Kant and Grotius to ideal-types, I have measured to what extent the moral beliefs in each of the recognition reflect these ideal-types. I have come to the conclusion that there have in fact been a change of moral beliefs in these three recognitions. Angola was characterized by the ideas of Kant regarding the rights and freedoms of the individual. Kosovo was also Kantian, but due to a European solidarity. Palestine, however, was Grotian with emphasis on the two-state solution with Israel. (Less)
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- author
- Shiltagh, Nabil LU
- supervisor
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- Ted Svensson LU
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20191
- year
- 2019
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Moralsyn, Erkännandepolitik, Kant, Grotius, Idéanalys
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8973189
- date added to LUP
- 2019-09-06 09:57:50
- date last changed
- 2019-09-06 09:57:50
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abstract = {{The significance of morality as an important variable for the analysis of international relations has been emphasized only in recent times. Therefore, this approach has not yet in Swedish scientific studies been used to cover the many branches in the field of Sweden’s foreign policy. As such, moral beliefs in Swedish recognition politics of states, as one of these branches, remains a gap in the political research field. This thesis fills that gap by characterising Sweden’s moral beliefs in three different state recognitions scattered over time that have not unambiguously been regarded to fulfill the legal criterias of a statehood: Angola 1975, Kosovo 2008 and Palestine 2014. The aim is to analyze if there has been a change of Sweden’s moral beliefs in the recognition of the three states, in order to clarify if the contentious recognition of Palestine is a new phenomena or an extension of previous moral beliefs in similar recognition situations such as Angola and Kosovo. By converting the ideas and principles of Kant and Grotius to ideal-types, I have measured to what extent the moral beliefs in each of the recognition reflect these ideal-types. I have come to the conclusion that there have in fact been a change of moral beliefs in these three recognitions. Angola was characterized by the ideas of Kant regarding the rights and freedoms of the individual. Kosovo was also Kantian, but due to a European solidarity. Palestine, however, was Grotian with emphasis on the two-state solution with Israel.}},
author = {{Shiltagh, Nabil}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{En moralisk erkännandepolitik? - En idéanalys om svensk moralsyn i erkännandet av Angola, Kosovo och Palestina}},
year = {{2019}},
}