Title:European polity: layers of legitimacy
Author(s):TAMVAKI, Dionysia D.Date:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Transferring the legitimacy or illegitimacy debate away from national discourse to the supranational agenda of the European Union (EU) requires a theoretical re-invention of legitimacy so that it meets the normative standards ...
Title:The European Security Order between American Hegemony and French Independence
Author(s):KROTZ, Ulrich; SPERLING, JamesDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We investigate the impact of historically rooted domestic constructions of purpose and ambition on the patterns of discord and collaboration in the Franco-American relationship over the course of the postwar and post-cold ...
Title:The European Union and Global Financial Harmonisation
Author(s):QUAGLIA, LuciaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:This research examines the influence of the European Union (EU) in international financial harmonisation over the last two decades. It asks why the EU ‘uploads’ international financial regulation in some (few) cases, ...
Title:The European Union Response to Emergencies: A Sociological Neo-Institutionalist Approach
Author(s):WENDLING, CécileDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Disasters can strike at any time and can be of various types: natural like the Tsunami of 2004 that left over 300,000 people dead or man-made like the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah fighters. In face of the recurrence ...
Title:European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy. When and Why do they Work?
Author(s):PORTELA, ClaraDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the general public. This book examines sanctions as a political tool of influence ...
Title:European Worldviews: Ideas and the European Union in World Politics
Author(s):VENNESSON, PascalDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In international politics, what do the leaders of the European Union (EU) want? How do they understand international relations and how do they see the EU in world politics? The goal of this paper is to provide an introduction ...
Title:The Europeanisation of refugee policies : between human rights and internal security
Author(s):LAVENEX, SandraDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:From the beginnings of intergovernmental co-operation in the 1980s to the Amsterdam Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the developing EU refugee policies have oscillated between the conflicting policy frames of ...
Title:The Europeanisation of Refugee Policies: Between human rights and internal security
Author(s):LAVENEX, SandraDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:From the beginnings of intergovernmental co-operation in the 1980s to the Amsterdam Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the developing EU refugee policies have oscillated between the conflicting policy frames of ...