Title:Migrants and Political Life in Greece: Between political patronage and the search for inclusion
Author(s):GROPAS, Ruby; TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, AnnaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores the challenges that have arisen in the fields of political participation and naturalisation policies from the past two decades of immigration to Greece. It discusses the ways in which mainstream ...
Title:Military Strategy in the Global Village
Author(s):VENNESSON, PascalDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How has globalization – a set of connected processes that lead to a greater interaction capacity in the international system – affected military planners at the beginning of the 21st century? Over the years globalization ...
Title:A modern reconsideration of the theory of Optimal Currency Areas
Author(s):CORSETTI, GiancarloDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What can be learnt from revisiting the Optimal Currency Areas (OCA) theory 50 years from its birth, in light of recent advances in open economy macro and monetary theory? This paper presents a stylized micro-founded model ...
Title:Momentum and Impediments: Why Europe won’t emerge as a full political actor on the world stage soon
Author(s):KROTZ, UlrichDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Is Europe about to rise as a full political actor on the world stage? Conventional
wisdom had it that European integration in foreign policy, security and defence was
unlikely to amount to much very quickly. More recently, ...
Title:Montenegro’s Minorities in the Tangles of Citizenship, Participation, and Access to Rights
Author(s):DZANKIC, JelenaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines the relationship between citizenship, participation, cultural and socio-economic rights of minorities in Montenegro by focusing on the divergence between policies and their implementation. Taking an ...
Title:Mountains in a flat world: why proximity still matters for the location of economic activity
Author(s):RODRÍGUEZ-POSE, Andrés; CRESCENZI, RiccardoDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Thomas Friedman (2005, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) argues that the expansion of trade, the internationalization of firms, the galloping process of ...