Hugo Lamhauge Hansen vart ph.d.-ritgerð á University of Kent

Hósdagin 19. juli fekk Hugo Lamhauge Hansen handað prógv fyri ph.d. ritgerð sína á University of Kent í Canterbury, Stórabretlandi.

Heitið á ritgerðini er “The Land of Maybe and International Actorness: Evaluating Faroese Paradiplomacy”.

Ritgerðin, ið varð vard undan hesum og endaliga góðkend 25. apríl 2018, viðgerð føroyskan uttanríkispolitikk sum paradiplomati – við bæði empiriskum og teoretiskum vísindaligum íkasti.

Menningin av føroyskum uttanríkispolitikki er lýst, og trý dømi neyvt kannað við paradiplomatiskari ástøði – fyri soleiðis at greina, hví og hvussu føroyskur uttanríkispolitikkur verður rikin.

Í metingarnevndini vóru Michael Keating, professari á University of Aberdeen, uttanhýsis metari, og Feargal Cochrane, professari á University of Kent, innanhýsis metari.

Í vegleiðingarnevndini vóru Richard Whitman, professari, og Jane O’Mahony, Dr., bæði frá University of Kent.

Enskur samandráttur

This thesis presents a single-country study of the Faroe Islands as a sub-state entity in international relations, asking specifically 'why and how do the Faroes conduct paradiplomacy?' Identifying both the absence of an extensive, systematic evaluation of Faroese external relations, and the rarity of tools to study this agency, the thesis nonetheless identifies and applies precisely such an comprehensive explanatory framework. Indeed, the thesis adopts, contextualises and complements Kuznetsov's 2015 framework, and applies it to three empirical key case studies, examining Faroese participation in UN, Nordic and Arctic for, as well as trade promotion and marine resource management. Thus, the original academic contribution of the thesis rests on the dual contribution of the empirically substantiated findings, triangulated across the three case studies. A wholly new, in-depth analysis of Faroese paradiplomacy, the first contribution is empirical, adding to the comparative literature within the canons on Paradiplomacy and Island Studies. The second contribution is theoretical, testing Kuznetsov's explanatory framework and demonstrating how it can be amended for in-depth analysis. Overall, the thesis shows that successive Faroese governments have expanded external, paradiplomatic activity significantly since the mid-1990s in particular, and have built a foreign service in a process of pragmatic and principled state building. Drawing on the specificities of the three case studies, the thesis identifies and examines causes driving Faroese paradiplomacy; jurisdiction, the motivations, institutionalisations, attitudes of the Danish government, and considers the consequences of Faroese paradiplomacy for the Realm.

Ph.d.-verkætlanin er lutvíst fíggjað úr Granskingargrunninum.

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