Title:NATO Enlargement and Security of Central Europe: A declining security community
Author(s):OSICA, OlafDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The central argument of the study is that the NATO enlargement of 1999 failed to meet its strategic purpose. First, it has not removed the ‘eastern security dilemma’ which underpinned Polish, Czech and Hungarian quest for ...
Title:Needs and Risks in the Welfare State
Author(s):ZUTAVERN, Jan; KOHLI, MartinDate:2010Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This article describes what empirical-analytical research can learn from normative scholarship for the explanation of welfare state responses to needs and risks. It illustrates how welfare state theories have treated needs ...
Title:The Negotiated Revolution in Hungary
Author(s):BRUSZT, LaszloDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper is an updated version of a piece that I wrote about the Hungarian regime change of 1989 with some cautious parallels to the North African regime changes. It analyses the strategies of the opponents and the ...
Title:Neoliberalism’s Three Faces
Author(s):LEE MUDGE, StephanieDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Neoliberalism is oft invoked but ill-defined in the social sciences. This paper develops a tripartite definition of neoliberalism using tools from institutionalism and field theory. It argues that neoliberalism is a sui ...
Title:Network politics in transatlantic homeland security cooperation: A European dimension
Author(s):PAWLAK, PatrykDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The ‘National Vision’ of the Bush Administration with regard to homeland security aimed to ‘prevent the entry of terrorists and the instruments of terror while facilitating the legal flow of people, goods, and services’. ...