Title:Individual Transnationalism and EU Support: An empirical test of Deutsch's transactionalist theory
Author(s):KUHN, TheresaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Recent trends of euroscepticism seriously challenge Deutsch’s transactionalist theory that increased transnational interactions trigger support for further political integration. While transnational interactions have indeed ...
Title:The Institutionalization of Party Systems in East Central Europe: Explaining variation
Author(s):CASAL BÉRTOA, FernandoDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation aims at providing an answer to the question of how party system institutionalization occurs and why it varies so much across countries, through a comparative analysis of the process of party system ...
Title:International Norms and Local Agents in Peacebuilding: Small arms control in post-war Kosovo and Cambodia
Author(s):THOLENS, SimoneDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Finding that existing theories of International Relations have problems explaining why international Small Arms Control programmes succeed or fail, this thesis explores internationally driven micro-disarmament processes ...