Title:Pan-European Pension Funds: Current Situation and Future Prospects
Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The competitive pressures arising from European economic integration increasingly challenge the territorial sovereignty of national welfare states. This generates the need to situate domestic social security schemes amid ...
Title:Paolo Sarpi between Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes: A case study on the "political animal" in early modern Europe
Author(s):KAINULAINEN, JaskaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of my thesis is to present an intellectual biography of Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623) by researching three different but intertwining sides in his intellectual activities: natural philosophy, religion and politics. My ...
Title:A paradigm for coherence in EU external relations law : the European neighbourhood policy
Author(s):VAN VOOREN, BartDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Coherence is a powerful rhetorical device that is prevalent throughout decades of EU external relations discourse and practice. There is intuitiveness to coherence, an implied sense of ‘good fit’ between the different ...
Title:The Paradox of Constitutionalism: Constituent Power and Constitutional Form
Author(s):LOUGHLIN, Martin; WALKER, NeilDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book sets out to examine some of the key features of what we describe as the paradox of constitutionalism: whether those who have the authority to make a constitution - the 'constituent power' - can do so without ...