Title:Asymmetrical war and the notion of armed conflict - a tentative conceptualization
Author(s):PAULUS, Andreas; VASHAKMADZE, MindiaDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:States across the globe are increasingly involved in violent conflicts with non-state groups both within and across borders. This new situation challenges the classic distinction in international humanitarian law between ...
Title:Authority, Arbitration and the Claims of the Law
Author(s):VINX, LarsDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper argues that Raz’s ‘normal justification thesis’ fails to explain how the law can meaningfully claim arbitrative authority. Given that the law’s claim to authority is usually understood to amount to (or at least ...
Title:Begrenzte Wahl: Gelegenheitsstrukturen und Erwerbsmuster in Paarhaushalten im europäischen Vergleich
Author(s):STEIBER, Nadia; HAAS, BarbaraDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article investigates employment patterns in couple households - and in particular their variability according to the presence and age of children. The aim of the comparative analysis of ten European countries, using ...
Title:Behavioural Effects of Obligations
Author(s):GALBIATI, Roberto; VERTOVA, PietroDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:How formal rules affect human behaviour is a crucial issue in economics. Formal rules are defined as obligations backed by incentives. The economic literature has largely focused on the role of incentives in shaping ...
Title:Between Surprise and Social Science
Author(s):MAIER, Charles S.Date:2009Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Social scientists and historians have been living in a world of unexpected outcomes. The revival of
passionate political ideologies in the l960s, the reversal of predicted secularization in the modern
world, the collapse ...
Title:Borderlines in the Borderlands: Defining difference through history, “race”, and citizenship in Fascist Italy
Author(s):PERGHER, RobertaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper discusses the colony in Libya and the province of South Tyrol under Fascism. It focuses on their status as 'borderlands' and what that meant in terms of defining the difference between the native populations on ...
Title:Brain imaging as a diagnostic and as a communicative tool in disorders of consciousness
Author(s):BAGGIO, Giosuè; MORATTI, SofiaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Recently, a number of neuroimaging studies have been conducted, aimed at detecting signs of consciousness in patients with a diagnosis of vegetative or minimally conscious state. The contributions appeared during an ongoing ...
Title:The capabilities approach as a bridge between animals and robots
Author(s):LAUKYTE, MigleDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper I argue that robots, understood as artificially intelligent and autonomous entities, may one day be regarded as subjects of rights. The argument is built by looking at Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, ...
Title:Cartography and Production of Space: a Challenge for the Historian
Author(s):PANSINI, ValeriaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Cartographic sources have been used to support the role of “imagination” and “invention” in the production of spaces and locality. Their role as instruments of power and producers of order has been underlined inside the ...