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Master Thesis in European Studies

Here are a few of the theses written by students in the Master's programme European Studies in 2019-2020. Students engage in original research related to their specialisation and work on a broad range of topics, covering many policy areas, actors and institutions, pieces of legislation, normative questions and stages of the policy process. The focus of thesis clearly differs depending on the specialisation followed.

Specialisations:

  1. Public Policy and Administration
  2. International Relations
  3. Global Challenges
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Public Policy and Administration
Don’t Go Breaking the Frame: Framing strategies in anti-discrimination policy by LGBTQ civil society organizations in the European Union
Analyzing the priorities of EU’s Budgetary Expenditures in the Multiannual Financial Frameworks of 2014-2020 and 2021-2027 on the Topic of Migration and Border Management
A paradigm shift in Dutch climate policy: Did neoliberalism reach a deadlock? The agenda-setting process of the Dutch climate law and agreement in December 2018
The Changing Narratives of German Governments towards European Economic and Monetary Integration: The Breakthrough of the National Interest?
EU Funding Dependencies: Putting NGOs’ Autonomy to the Test Impact of the EU Funds on the NGOs’ Lobbying Behaviour
Agenda-Setting in the European Union: The Surprising Case of the Work-Life Balance Directive
The Euro on trial: The economic policy of a monetary big-bang An assessment of the EMU twenty years later
Towards a new EU Blue Card: Enforcement of the European Blue Card in Germany and the Netherlands
From Liberalisation Towards Protectionism? Inward Foreign Investment Policy in the European Union Post-Lisbon
Is all About Framing: Problem Definition and the Practice of Surrogacy at the European Parliament

International Relations
Local ownership and perceptions in EU’s peacebuilding efforts An analysis of EULEX Kosovo
The conflict in Ukraine: the EU’s role conceptions in the Eastern neighbourhood at a crossroads?
Still Normative Power Europe? A Quantitative Analysis on Normative Interests in the EU's Foreign Policy
The German Attitude on EU-Turkey Accession Talks: Explaining Inconsistency
Chinese and European approaches to international security: An investigation of normative rapprochement at a macro-level and in the domain of peacekeeping in the DRC
Eastern Partnership states’ fragility: the influence of institutional factors on the EU cooperation with the countries in the region
EU, Lebanon and Jordan in the Syrian Refugee Crisis: A comparative study
EU Institutional Actorness in the field of nuclear non- proliferation and disarmament
A qualitative content analysis of the media in France, Germany and the UK: do they perceive the EU as a relevant actor in the JCPOA?
Emergence of a European Strategic Culture? A Qualitative Analysis of Cross-National Convergence of Norms on the Use of Force

Global Challenges
Protecting our European Way of Life’? Migration and European Identity
Looking through the spectacles of European civil society actors: an analysis of EU’s power in West-African peacebuilding activities. A framing analysis of CSDN reports
Exploring Regional Variety in the Political Language of the AfD – A Comparative Case Study of Four German Länder
Children migrants, vulnerable population or potential threat ? EU discourse about Unaccompanied Minors (UAMs) during the migration crisis
Why does the EU not practice what it preaches? The gap between policy rhetoric and action in the case of the EU-Turkey Statement
EU Actorness in Global Migration Governance: Austria's Unexpected Withdrawal from the UN Global Compact for Migration
Assessing Different Conceptualizations of European Identity Among German-Turkish People
A Gendered Perspective on the Securitisation of Migration: Female Refugees in the German and French Newspaper Coverage
The establishment of the Troika in the Eurozone crisis: An intergovernmentalist approach to explain the inclusion of the IMF in the Euro crisis management
The EU and the promotion of women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa Deconstructing Tunisian exceptionalism