Title:Similar Threat : Different responses : France and the UK facing Islamist terrorism
Author(s):FOLEY, FrankDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis seeks to explain why two states, faced with a similar terrorist threat, perceiving it in a similar way and drawing the same broad implications for their counterterrorist policies, have nevertheless displayed ...
Title:Small States – Big Negotiations Decision-Making Rules and Small State Influence in EU Treaty Negotiations
Author(s):LEHTONEN, TiiaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study examines the impact of the decision-making rules, procedures and practices of the European Union on the ability of small Member States to influence Treaty negotiation outcomes, and assesses the causality of ...
Title:State and Civil War: A comparative analysis of the political thought of Carl Schmitt and Vladimir I Lenin
Author(s):BOLSINGER, EckardDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The end of the Cold War has seen the resurgence of old patterns of internal and external armed conflicts. War and civil war as factors in the process of the dissolution and formation of political structures have reappeared ...
Title:Statist Cosmopolitanism
Author(s):YPI, Lea LemanDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis defends a particular version of cosmopolitanism: statist cosmopolitanism. Its point of departure is the current debate in international political theory on the moral standing of boundaries and the scope of ...
Title:Stealing the fire: A study of emancipatory practices in the field of communication
Author(s):MILAN, StefaniaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This research addresses the emergence of emancipatory practices in the field of communication, as part of the growing mobilisations on media and communication issues. By emancipatory communication practices (ECP) I mean ...