Title:Habermas’s Notion of a Post-Secular Society. A Perspective from International Relations
Author(s):BARBATO, Mariano; KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:How can secular Western IR theory deal with religion? Bringing in the debates on religion in the public sphere, the paper’s goal is to foster a deeper understanding of the nexus between religion and international relations. ...
Title:Hagop Mintzuri and the Cosmopolitan Memory of Istanbul
Author(s):RIEDLER, FlorianDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This article explores notions of cosmopolitanism in the work of the Armenian-Turkish author Hagop Mintzuri (1886-1978). First of all, this theme is present in the author's autobiography describing his youth in late Ottoman ...
Title:The Handling of Insolvency within Trans-European Contractual Networks: Legal issues and possible solutions
Author(s):GIANI, LeonardoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper tries to identify some tools which, in case of insolvency, might prove to be effective in order to take care of the specificities which characterise inter-firm contractual networks. To summarise, this paper is ...
Title:Has the European Court of Justice Challenged Member State Sovereignty in Nationality Law?
Author(s):SHAW, Jo; DAVIES, Gareth T.; KOCHENOV, Dimitry; DOUGAN, Michael; GOLYNKER, Oxana; KOSTAKOPOULOU, Dora; DE GROOT, Gerard-René; SELING, Anja; SHAW, JoDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In March 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or Court) handed down its judgment in the long awaited case of Rottmann. This paper explores some of the implications of this important judgment through a ...
Title:Havana’s Botanical Garden in the Construction of Cuban National Identity
Author(s):AGUILERA-MANZANO, José MaríaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this article is to deepen the knowledge of the two projects of liberal identity that were forming on the island of Cuba during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This struggle can be seen in various fields, ...
Title:Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
Author(s):ADDA, Jérôme; LECHENE, ValérieDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, ...
Title:Herding in a Shifting Mediterranean Changing agro-pastoral livelihoods in the Mashreq & Maghreb region
Author(s):NORI, Michele; EL MOURID, Mohamed; GIORGI, Pamela; NEFZAOUI, AliDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Pastoralism is a characteristic livelihood system for the whole Mediterranean basin. From Morocco to Turkey, from Sardinia to Libya, herding societies are a common feature of all countries and civilisations that have ...
Title:Heterogeneous Firms, `Profit Shifting‘ FDI and International Tax Competition
Author(s):KRAUTHEIM, Sebastian; SCHMIDT-EISENLOHR, TimDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We develop a stylized model of international tax competition between a large country and a tax haven. In the large country, firms in a monopolistically competitive industry generate positive profits which can be taxed by ...
Title:Heuristics in Argumentation: A Game-Theoretical Investigation
Author(s):PRAKKEN, Henry; RIVERET, Régis; ROTOLO, Antonino; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper provides a game-theoretical investigation on how to determine optimal strategies in dialogue games for argumentation. To make our ideas as widely applicable as possible, we adopt an abstract dialectical setting ...