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:
- Public Policy and Administration
- International Relations
- Global Challenges
| Public Policy and Administration |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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This course addresses the search for books and (online) journal articles in business and economics that are relevant to your thesis topic. The databases Business Source Complete (EBSCO) , EconLit (EBSCO) , and the Web of Science are included. Next to finding literature, you learn about available datasets for company data and statistics. Also included is a brief introduction to plagiarism and EndNote, a software programme for organising, storing, and inserting references while writing (for instance, in APA style).
Language: English
Prerequisites : Online tutorial on Academic Resources for SBE
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Master Thesis Research
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The curriculum of the master culminates in a master thesis. This part of the curriculum is your final proof-of-capability. It allows you to demonstrate that you have gained sufficient knowledge, competences and skills to perform independent scientific research and/or research-based engineering within your specialisation in instrumentation imaging engineering or molecular imaging engineering. You either conduct an entire scientific cycle or a research-based engineering design cycle. The scientific cycle consists of analysing lacking knowledge, formulating a hypothesis, drafting a research plan, executing experiments and reporting. The research-based engineering design cycle consists of formulating a problem, setting the design requirements based on scientific evidence, generating a concept and provide the (most) optimal solution.
The master thesis comprises 32 weeks of work and accounts for 48 EC of your degree. The number of weeks and EC allow you to contribute to the field of molecular imaging and engineering with your research and/or research-based engineering. During the master thesis, you prepare for the next step in your career, in line with your knowledge, competencies and personal.
Course objectives
During the master thesis, you complete the following tasks:
- write a proposal, which includes a clear scientific background overview on the thesis topic (including knowledge gaps), research question or aim, hypothesis, relevant contexts, the design requirements and a manageable project plan (methods, analysis, equipment, time etc.);
- execute the research and/or engineering plan and troubleshoot encountered problems to improve and develop the project;
- analyse and process data and/or possible engineering solutions and report the results, discuss results in the context of the existing literature in the field, and elaborate conclusions in a written master thesis;
- present and defend the thesis project in an oral presentation.
Recommended reading
Will be discussed with your thesis coordinator.
- R.M.A. Heeren
- K. Saralidze
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Included is the full text of (a selection of) master theses from the following Maastricht University faculties: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), from 1994 to 2005, from 2013 onward. Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE), from 2023 onward.
Overview of Maastricht University Databases collections with more information and direct access to these databases. Some are free to use.
Collections - Faculty Collections - Cultural Heritage Collections - Learning and Resource Centre Collections - UM Research Publications - UM Master theses.
LibSearch is the discovery tool of the Maastricht University Library. Use it to search books, articles, journals and more in the collections of the University Library (print and online), libraries in the Netherlands and libraries worldwide.
Starting to write a thesis is quite a challenge. Where to begin? How to choose a topic? The Thesis SupportAll provides basic information for bachelor and master students on how to get started. For help in searching and writing, you can also contact Peer Point.
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 ...
This course addresses the search for books and (online) journal articles in business and economics that are relevant to your thesis topic. The databases Business Source Complete (EBSCO) , EconLit (EBSCO) , and the Web of Science are included.
The Master’s thesis forms an integral part of the overall Master’s programming, accounting for one third of the overall degree. Students are required to write an independent Master’s thesis that demonstrates their ability to conduct original research.
conduct a supervised empirical research project and summarize this research in a master’s thesis.
analyse and process data and/or possible engineering solutions and report the results, discuss results in the context of the existing literature in the field, and elaborate conclusions in a written master thesis; present and defend the thesis project in an oral presentation.