Title:Intergenerational Transfers of Time and Money in European Families: Common Patterns — Different Regimes?
Author(s):ALBERTINI, Marco; KOHLI, Martin; VOGEL, ClaudiaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The `generational contract' is the most important and also the most contentious dimension of contemporary welfare systems. Much of the debate on how to reform it is still truncated, however, by focusing on its public ...
Title:Intergovernmental Cooperation. Rational Choices in Federal Systems and Beyond
Author(s):BOLLEYER, NicoleDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Over the past decades, governments have increasingly been confronted with problems that transcend their boundaries. A multitude of policy fields are affected, including environment, trade and security. Responding to the ...
Title:The International Community and Global Governance of Human Security
Author(s):PELTONEN, HannesDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:This paper addresses the global governance of human security and particularly its provision across borders. It argues that the responsibility to protect (R2P) framework is part of global governance. Of special interest to ...
Title:International Finance and Policy Cooperation: Before and After the 2007-2010 Financial Crisis
Author(s):KONOE, SaraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to assess regional and international policy cooperation in financial regulation from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Despite the development of regulatory and supervisory standards from Basel I ...
Title:International Norms and Local Agents in Peacebuilding: Small arms control in post-war Kosovo and Cambodia
Author(s):THOLENS, SimoneDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Finding that existing theories of International Relations have problems explaining why international Small Arms Control programmes succeed or fail, this thesis explores internationally driven micro-disarmament processes ...
Title:International Relations Theory and the Rise of European Foreign and Security Policy
Author(s):KROTZ, Ulrich; MAHER, RichardDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The historical rise of European foreign, security, and defense policy marks an important development in European politics and world politics more broadly. Long thought unlikely to amount to much, European integration in ...
Title:International Relations, Irrelevant? Don’t blame theory
Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:It is now commonplace to bemoan our field’s lack of practical relevance, and to blame this sorry situation on our penchant for ever-more abstract theorising over the analysis of real-world phenomena. This article challenges ...