Title:NATO: The management of diversity
Author(s):ROMERO, FedericoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The image of a harmonious Atlantic alliance occasionally riven by acute crises was the actors’ own perception, and recurring fear, throughout its Cold War history. A long-term historical assessment, however, emphasizes a ...
Title:Natural Law and Personhood: Samuel Pufendorf on Social Explanation
Author(s):HAAKONSSEN, KnudDate:2010Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Today the idea of natural law is generally considered a subject in ethics, politics and jurisprudence and concerned with the status of basic norms. During the last one and a half centuries natural law has come to be seen ...
Title:Natural Law: Alive and Kicking? A Look at the Constitutional Morality of Sexual Privacy in Ireland
Author(s):O'CONNELL, RoryDate:1996-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article discusses the role of moral argument in the Constitutional case law of the Irish courts. It looks at the debate on the constitutional morality of sexuality in four major cases: a 1973 case protecting the right ...
Title:Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War
Author(s):MORELLI, Massimo; ROHNER, DominicDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We examine how natural resource location, rent sharing and fighting capacities of different groups matter for ethnic con.ict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple ...
Title:Natural Resources and State Fragility
Author(s):COLLIER, Paul; VENABLES, Anthony J.Date:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper provides an overview of the relationships between natural resources, governance, and
economic performance. The relationships run in both directions, with re-sources potentially altering
the quality of governance, ...
Title:The Nature of Legal Concepts: Inferential Nodes or Ontological Categories?
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:I shall compare two views of legal concepts: as nodes in inferential nets and as categories in an ontology
(a conceptual architecture). Firstly, I shall introduce the inferential approach, consider its implications,
and ...
Title:The Nature of Stalin's Dictatorship: The Politburo, 1924-1953
Author(s):REES, Edward ArfonDate:2003Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:Studies in Russian and East European history and societyAbstract:This volume is the last of a series of three on decision-making in the Stalin era.