Title:New regionalism and regional integration: the role of national institutions
Author(s):OBYDENKOVA, AnastassiaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article focuses, first, on the under-explored issues of new regionalism: its subnational level and transnational regional cooperation as an initial stage of new regionalism. Second, it analyses the development of new ...
Title:The new spirit of technocracy? Ordering practice in United Nations Peacebuilding
Author(s):BÜGER, ChristianDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Whether global order is drifting towards democratic or technocratic modes of governing is a contested issue. This thesis takes up the challenge of investigating how trends towards global democratization or technocratization ...
Title:New Xenophobia in Europe
Author(s):BAUMGARTL, Bernd; FAVELL, AdrianDate:1995Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Predominantly within Europe, there has been a dramatic upsurge in xenophobic attitudes and ethnic violence. This work analyzes most European countries for the treatment of, and the action against foreigners. It describes ...
Title:NGOs and the United Nations: Institutionalization, professionalization, and adaptation
Author(s):MARTENS, KerstinDate:2005Type of Publication:BookAbstract:NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation to the UN, their consultative status and their characteristic features ...
Title:NGOs in the UN System : a study of institutionalised relations between societal actors and the United Nations
Author(s):MARTENS, KerstinDate:2003Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation to the UN, their consultative status and their characteristic features ...
Title:No Representation without Taxation. Trading Rights for Revenue in the Post-communist Setting
Author(s):MOLLER, JorgenDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Almost a century ago, the academic current of fiscal sociology voiced a very strong claim about the relationship between rights and revenue. Rights, the argument went, have historically been traded for revenue in a grand ...
Title:Noi si mura: Selected working papers of the European University Institute
Author(s):MAIHOFER, WernerDate:1986Type of Publication:BookAbstract:No' si mura, telle fut la réponse que Cosimo il Vecchio donna à ses amis qui s nquéraient de savoir pourquoi il se retirait des affaires publiques. Elle exprimait sa conviction ultime que rien ne resterait de lui, que ces ...
Title:Nominalization as Racialization in the Italian Press
Author(s):HANRETTY, Chris; HERMANIN, CostanzaDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article we discuss the language used by the Italian media to refer to immigrant and other minority groups. In particular, we focus on one linguistic device commonly used when referring to minorities, namely, the ...
Title:The (Non) Reform of the Georgian Pension System, 1991-2011: A brief history and update
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)Abstract:This study reviews the factors that played a major role in the development of the old-age pension system in Georgia, 1991-2009 and identifies three main stages in this process. Fiscal constraints and international technical ...
Title:(Non-)retours à l’Église gréco-catholique roumaine, entre adhésion et transmission religieuse
Author(s):MAHIEU, StephanieDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The author analyses the individual and collective motives which have pushed some of the Greek-Catholics to Join their former Church since 1989. The Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, founded in 1687, was outlawed by the ...
Title:Non-domination and the State: A Response to the Subaltern Critique
Author(s):LAMBA, RinkuDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this paper is to create some positive conceptual space for the relevance of the instrumentalities of the state when it comes to the politics of religious and multicultural accommodation. The challenge is to steer ...
Title:Norbert Elias and Franz Borkenau - Intertwined Life-Works
Author(s):SZAKOLCZAI, ArpadDate:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article argues that the life-works of Norbert Elias and Franz Borkenau can Lest he understood together, as they were developed in close interaction during the 1930s. Deriving inspiration from Freud, they took up the ...
Title:Normative Foundations of the Welfare State: The Nordic experience
Author(s):KILDAL, Nanna; KUHNLE, SteinDate:2005Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe. Welfare programs and institutions tend to be analyzed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking ...