Title:National Regulatory Models for PMSCs and Implications for Future International Regulation
Author(s):QUIRICO, OttavioDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:What is the current state of the regulation in the matter of private military and security companies (PMSCs)? This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the existing national legislations concerning PMSCs in a number ...
Title:National, European and Community Patent Protection: Time for Reconsideration
Author(s):ULLRICH, HannsDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The completion of a Community system of unitary intellectual property protection has come to a halt when the Commission’s proposal for a Community Patent Regulation was shelved by the Council on political grounds in late ...
Title:Nationalism and Modernity
Author(s):MULLER, Johannes U.; STRATH, BoDate:1999Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HEC
Title:Nationalism and Transitions: Mobilizing for democracy in Yugoslavia
Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:The Yugoslav transition(s) to democracy is perhaps the most complex of all the Eastern European cases. It can be argued that Yugoslavia enjoyed the most favorable initial conditions of any country in the region: the regime ...
Title:Nationality Law and European Citizenship: The Role of Dual Nationality
Author(s):MARGIOTTA, Costanza; VONK, OlivierDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The relationship between the nationality laws of the European Union Member States and European
citizenship has long been the subject of academic discussion. The objective of the present paper is to
investigate particularly ...
Title:Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War
Author(s):MORELLI, Massimo; ROHNER, DominicDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We examine how natural resource location, rent sharing and fighting capacities of different groups matter for ethnic con.ict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple ...
Title:Natural Resources and State Fragility
Author(s):COLLIER, Paul; VENABLES, Anthony J.Date:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper provides an overview of the relationships between natural resources, governance, and
economic performance. The relationships run in both directions, with re-sources potentially altering
the quality of governance, ...
Title:The Nature of Legal Concepts: Inferential Nodes or Ontological Categories?
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:I shall compare two views of legal concepts: as nodes in inferential nets and as categories in an ontology
(a conceptual architecture). Firstly, I shall introduce the inferential approach, consider its implications,
and ...