Title:Transnational capitalism and the struggle over European order
Author(s):VAN APELDOORN, BastiaanDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the ...
Title:Transnational European citizenship. Tracing conceptions of citizenship in the European integration process
Author(s):OLSEN, Espen D. H.Date:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis asks what kind of conception(s) of citizenship that have emerged over time within the European integration process. The starting point for this research aim is a critique of the existing literature on European ...
Title:Transnational Policies of Emancipation or Colonization? Civil society promotion in post-communist Albania
Author(s):CHIODI, LuisaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis discusses whether the western aid policy of Civil Society Promotion (CSP) in postcommunist Albania constituted a policy of colonization with its direct penetration of the local public sphere or one of emancipation ...
Title:Tunisian New Entrepreneurs and their Past Experiences of Migration in Europe: The formation of network mechanisms
Author(s):CASSARINO, Jean-PierreDate:1998Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This text concentrates on the economic sociology of return migration, with specific reference to Tunisia. As such, it aims to analyze, on the one hand, the patterns of resource mobilization and the strategies for survival ...
Title:Unions in Hard Times. Labour Market Politics in Western Europe: Two Patterns of Reform
Author(s):DAVIDSSON, JohanDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:How can we understand labour market reforms in the era that has been described as governed by retrenchment and austerity? This thesis proposes that the patterns of reform that can be seen in Europe can be explained by the ...
Title:Using Historical Experience: The British Army and the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan
Author(s):SANGAR, EricDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This PhD explores some of the ways in which the British and German Armies have used historical experience in their process of operational adaptation in Afghanistan. Historical experience is conceptualized as a body of ...