Title:Irish explanations
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Books reviewed:
Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so Poor for so Long?
Tom Garvin
(Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2004), xiv+278pp., ISBN: 0717137716
The Economy of Ireland: National and Sectoral Policy Issues
J. ...
Title:Is Governing Becoming More Contentious?
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:For a variety of reasons, political parties in European democracies are now more likely to be judged on how they govern rather than on the substantive policy programmes that they advocate. This is likely to have a number ...
Title:Is the National State the Appropriate Geographical Unit for Class Analysis?
Author(s):BREEN, Richard; ROTTMAN, D. B.Date:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Contemporary class analysis takes the national state as its unit of analysis, This convention could be challenged on at least two grounds. On the one hand, the national state might be seen as too gross an aggregation that ...
Title:Is There a European Way of War? Role Conceptions, Organizational Frames and the Utility of Force
Author(s):VENNESSON, Pascal; BREUER, Fabian; DE FRANCO, Chiara; SCHROEDER, Ursula C.Date:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Europe is the region of the world where the network of security institutions is the densest. Yet, these institutions did not erase differences about conceptions of force employment among European countries and between ...
Title:Is there a Tension between Transparency and Efficiency in Decisions? The case of the Council of the European Union
Author(s):NOVAK, StéphanieDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Decision makers sometimes refer to the tension between transparency and efficiency in decisions. Yet, this argument is not so obvious, partly because the notion of efficiency is unclear. As a first step in the analysis of ...
Title:The Israel Defense Forces and the Al-Aqsa Intifada: When Tactical Virtuosity Meets Strategic Disappointment
Author(s):CATIGNANI, SergioDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The following paper analyzes the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) counter-insurgency strategy and campaign carried out against the Palestinian insurgency within the Occupied/Disputed Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip ...
Title:Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the Intifadas. Dilemmas of a Conventional Army
Author(s):CATIGNANI, SergioDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This volume analyzes the conduct of the Israel Defence Forces’ (IDF) counter-insurgency operations during the two major Palestinian uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2005) in the Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. ...