Title:Enlargement and Legitimacy: A passage from Europe of the Elites to Europe of the Electorates
Author(s):TAMVAKI, Dionysia D.Date:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This project focuses on the interrelations between the micro-level of popular attitudes to European integration and the macro-level of elite justifications for pursuing membership. Drawing on extant research on Eastern ...
Title:Esclavages et modernités : la servitude volontaire comme problématique du capitalisme contemporain
Author(s):CHAIGNOT, NicolasDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:La thèse tend à défendre l'idée que les concepts d'esclavage et de servitude sont essentiels pour comprendre la modernité contemporaine en Occident, et cela à partir d'une analyse interdisciplinaire des rapports entre le ...
Title:Europe as an Issue Dimension in the Party Politics of the Central East European Candidate States
Author(s):STRATULAT, CorinaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis focuses on political party discourses and developments vis-à-vis European integration in the former CEE candidate states for EU membership, with particular attention to the case of Romania. Exploring the domestic ...
Title:Europe beyond Brussels: An analysis of everyday discourses in the EU Agencies
Author(s):TRIGA, VassilikiDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Using insights from the theory of discursive psychology, and a combined methodology of quantitative and qualitative techniques, this dissertation investigates the everyday discourses of individuals working in three “European ...
Title:European foreign policy making towards the Mediterranean non member countries
Author(s):BICCHI, FedericaDate:2003Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:A comprehensive and theoretically informed examination of European foreign policy making towards the Mediterranean, from 1957 to nowadays. This dissertation focuses on the reasons and the patterns of Europeans’ actions, ...
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: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 ...