This paper examines online newspaper articles related to the Covid-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, in order to analyse how the political affiliation of said newspapers influence which frames...Show moreThis paper examines online newspaper articles related to the Covid-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, in order to analyse how the political affiliation of said newspapers influence which frames they choose to employ. Drawing on framing theory, this thesis analyses 50 articles that were published by a conservative newspaper and 50 articles that were published by a liberal newspaper. The data consists of 100 articles that were published by The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph between 1 January 2020 and 1 March 2022. Content analysis is used to identify the different frames, such as economic or health-related frames, in order to establish a connection between certain frames and the political affiliation of the paper. Furthermore does this paper aim to assess the media’s role in the policy cycle. The main findings of this paper were that 44% of the analysed articles use the Health Risk Frame while 24% used the Economic Frame and 32% used neither. The Health Risk Frame was used more often by the liberal Guardian (29 times) and The Economic Frame was used more often by the conservative Telegraph (13 times). Additionally, these findings suggest that media framing can play a crucial role in the agenda-setting and evaluation part of the policy cycleShow less
China’s dominance in the rare earth elements (REE) market and the growing importance of applications of REE are grounds for concern about the security of the supply chain of REE. Although...Show moreChina’s dominance in the rare earth elements (REE) market and the growing importance of applications of REE are grounds for concern about the security of the supply chain of REE. Although multilateral cooperation could mitigate the supply security problems on the REE market, only little multilateral cooperation takes place on REE, with existing literature on other natural resources suggesting that securitisation might impact the willingness of states to cooperate. Therefore, this thesis poses the question: ‘How does the securitisation of REE by states impact multilateral cooperation?’ Through discourse and document analysis of the case study of Australia, it argues that in this case the securitisation of REE is accompanied by multilateral cooperation that is towards the middle of the spectrum from soft to hard law. This study provides further supports that multilateral cooperation in the area of REE is limited.Show less