Title:Being Moral: Moral competence and the limits of reasonable doubt
Author(s):HERMANN, JuliaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this thesis, I argue that we should conceive of morality as a set of overlapping practices and of moral knowledge first and foremost as the competence to participate in these practices. On the basis of a Wittgensteinian ...
Title:Beyond Electoralism? Electoral fraud in third wave regimes, 1974-2009
Author(s):VAN HAM, CarolienDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:As the “third wave” of democratization spread across the globe after 1974, more and more citizens got a chance –often for the first time in their lives- to cast their vote in multi-party elections. Since then, the number ...
Title:Beyond Post-Cold War Liberalism: A critical agenda for new powers in world politic
Author(s):MEDINA DE SOUZA, Igor AbdallaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This is a thesis on the normative consequences on policymaking of the post-Cold War liberal agenda developed by mainstream scholars of International Relations and International Law, more prominently Andrew Moravcsik and ...
Title:Beyond Radical Right: Attitudes towards immigration and voting behaviour in Europe
Author(s):PARDOS-PRADO, SergiDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The issue of immigration has thus far been conceptualised almost exclusively as a catalyst for radical forms of behaviour. Scholars of political behaviour have focused on the exceptional character of the radical voter, the ...
Title:Blow up - Explaining European armaments cooperation from 1992 until 2005
Author(s):TEICHLER, ThomasDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The subject of this thesis is European armaments cooperation between 1992 and 2005. During this period, European governments moved the institutional forum of cooperation from a transatlantic to a European context, extended ...
Title:Building EU Trade Governance. The European Commission and Non-State Actors in External Trade in Services Policy
Author(s):LIETAERT, MatthieuDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis contributes to the literature on EU studies by analysing how and why the European Union adopted a new trade agenda in the mid-1990s that departed from previous policies. While the EU was focused largely on its ...