Title:Nationalism and the International Order: Re-interpreting the politics of Banal Croatia, 1908-1918
Author(s):VELIZ, FernandoDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The subject of this thesis is the fundamental alteration of state allegiance, political claims and their respective legitimating arguments by political elites in Banal Croatia during the last ten years of the Habsburg ...
Title:Nationality, Citizenship and Ethno-cultural Membership: Preferential admission policies of EU Countries
Author(s):DUMBRAVA, CosticaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this thesis, I analyse justifications for preferential admission to citizenship based upon ethno-cultural grounds. My point of departure is the puzzling observation that, in matters of membership, states not only ...
Title:NATO Enlargement and Security of Central Europe: A declining security community
Author(s):OSICA, OlafDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The central argument of the study is that the NATO enlargement of 1999 failed to meet its strategic purpose. First, it has not removed the ‘eastern security dilemma’ which underpinned Polish, Czech and Hungarian quest for ...
Title:Network politics in transatlantic homeland security cooperation: A European dimension
Author(s):PAWLAK, PatrykDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The ‘National Vision’ of the Bush Administration with regard to homeland security aimed to ‘prevent the entry of terrorists and the instruments of terror while facilitating the legal flow of people, goods, and services’. ...
Title:The new spirit of technocracy? Ordering practice in United Nations Peacebuilding
Author(s):BÜGER, ChristianDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Whether global order is drifting towards democratic or technocratic modes of governing is a contested issue. This thesis takes up the challenge of investigating how trends towards global democratization or technocratization ...
Title:NGOs in the UN System : a study of institutionalised relations between societal actors and the United Nations
Author(s):MARTENS, KerstinDate:2003Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation to the UN, their consultative status and their characteristic features ...