Title:Kurdish Diaspora Political Activism in Europe with a Particular Focus on Great Britain
Author(s):BASER, BaharDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Research Report, Berghof Peace Support/Centre for Just Peace and Democracy, 2011Abstract:The Kurdish diaspora is the largest stateless diaspora in the world and it is thought to be the most politically active migrant group in Europe. Their activities consequently caused a spill over of the conflict in Turkey ...
Title:Le traité de Prüm Une vraie-fausse coopération renforcée dans l’Espace de sécurité de liberté et de justice
Author(s):ZILLER, JacquesDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper is a first critical analysis of the 'Prüm Convention on deepening transfrontier cooperation, amongst others in view of combating terrorism, transfrontier crime, and illegal migration', which was signed by Austria, ...
Title:Libya's Violent Revolution
Author(s):POLJAREVIC, EminDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Libya is unlike other states in North Africa mainly because of the distinctive arrangement of different socio-economic and political features it combines. This arrangement came into sharper focus in the wake of the recent ...
Title:Lost in transmission : evaluating internet effects on citizens’attitudes towards the European Union in times of crisis
Author(s):BACCINI, Leonardo; SUDULICH, Maria Laura; WALL, Matthew T.Date:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Previous studies suggest that citizens' attitudes towards the European Union (EU) are influenced by media coverage of EU institutions and policies. To date, empirical studies have investigated the effects of TV and newspaper ...
Title:Mass Migration, Student Protests and the Intelligentsia Popullore in the Albanian Transition to Democracy
Author(s):CHIODI, LuisaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:After decades under a Stalinist regime, the latecomer transition in Albania began thanks to the large-scale exodus of hundreds of young people which stimulated the mobilization of university students. In turn, the student ...
Title:Material Deprivation and the Outcomes of Elections
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Center for Social Sciences, Applied Social Research Programme Working PaperAbstract:This study shows that the district level outcomes in the 2012 parliamentary elections in Georgia are significantly associated with the mean household deprivation levels. This effect is statistically significant after ...
Title:Memory Politics in Western Europe
Author(s):ART, DavidDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper examines how ten West European states have dealt with the legacy of the Second World