Title:E Pluribus Europa? Assessing the Viability of the EU
Author(s):GLENCROSS, AndrewDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:As a novel and complex polity, also subject to endless proposals for institutional reform, the viability of the EU is an open but under-theorized question. This thesis conceptualizes EU viability from an internal perspective, ...
Title:Economic Disadvantage in Central and Eastern Europe: What difference does social assistance make?
Author(s):AVRAM, SilviaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The present study analyses the impact of social assistance programs on poverty, broadly construed as economic disadvantage, in eight Central and East European countries during the mid-2000s. It does that by examining ...
Title:The Economic Returns of Immigrants' Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
Author(s):LANCEE, BramDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims at analyzing to what extent different forms of social capital can help immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany to make headway on the labour market. Two forms of social capital are identified. Bonding ...
Title:The Efficacy of Sanctions of the European Union: When and why do they work?
Author(s):PORTELA, ClaraDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The present investigation analyses the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the European Union against third countries. It looks upon measures imposed after, or in force by 1992, year of the signing of the Treaty on European ...
Title:Emerging Diplomatic Elites in Post-Communist Europe
Author(s):DIGOL, DianaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of this study is to explore the process of diplomatic elite transformation in the post-communist countries within the context of political elite transformation and to analyse whether the process of circulation or ...
Title:Enlargement and Legitimacy: A passage from Europe of the Elites to Europe of the Electorates
Author(s):TAMVAKI, Dionysia D.Date:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This project focuses on the interrelations between the micro-level of popular attitudes to European integration and the macro-level of elite justifications for pursuing membership. Drawing on extant research on Eastern ...
Title:Esclavages et modernités : la servitude volontaire comme problématique du capitalisme contemporain
Author(s):CHAIGNOT, NicolasDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:La thèse tend à défendre l'idée que les concepts d'esclavage et de servitude sont essentiels pour comprendre la modernité contemporaine en Occident, et cela à partir d'une analyse interdisciplinaire des rapports entre le ...