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    Title: National Security and Expulsion to a Risk of Torture  Author(s): LETNAR CERNIC, Jernej Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In Saadi v Italy, the European Court of Human Rights held that article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits expulsion of individuals to states where they would face a "real risk" of torture, inhuman or ...
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    Title: National Security – a Trump Card? The European Court of Human Rights decisions in Herri Batasuna and Batasuna v. Spain, Etxeberria and Others v. Spain and Herritarren Zerrenda v. Spain  Author(s): LETNAR CERNIC, Jernej Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: On 30 June 2009, the European Court of Human Rights delivered three decisions deriving from the situation in the Basque country, Herri Batasuna and Batasuna v. Spain, Etxeberría and Others v. Spain and Herritarren Zerrenda ...
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    Title: Natural Law and Personhood: Samuel Pufendorf on Social Explanation  Author(s): HAAKONSSEN, Knud Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Today the idea of natural law is generally considered a subject in ethics, politics and jurisprudence and concerned with the status of basic norms. During the last one and a half centuries natural law has come to be seen ...
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    Title: Neoliberalism’s Three Faces  Author(s): LEE MUDGE, Stephanie Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Neoliberalism is oft invoked but ill-defined in the social sciences. This paper develops a tripartite definition of neoliberalism using tools from institutionalism and field theory. It argues that neoliberalism is a sui ...
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    Title: Nested Models and Model Uncertainty  Author(s): KRIWOLUZKY, Alexander; STOLTENBERG, Christian A. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Uncertainty about the appropriate choice among nested models is a central concern for optimal policy when policy prescriptions from those models differ. The standard procedure is to specify a prior over the parameter space ...
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    Title: Nested Models and Model Uncertainty  Author(s): KRIWOLUZKY, Alexander; STOLTENBERG, Christian A. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Uncertainty about the appropriate choice among nested models is a central concern for optimal policy when policy prescriptions from those models differ. The standard procedure is to specify a prior over the parameter space ...
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    Title: Neue Beschäftigungsstrategien jenseits von externer und interner Flexibilisierung  Author(s): TÜNTE, Markus; APITZSCH, Birgit; SHIRE, Karen A. Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Recent research about regular employment in core areas of high qualified service work in Germany yields contradictory findings about continuities and changes in employment stability. In addressing current debates about ...
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    Title: A new approach to bootstrap inference in functional coefficient models  Author(s): HERWARTZ, Helmut; XU, Fang Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article
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    Title: Nominal Debt as a Burden on Monetary Policy  Author(s): DIAZ-GIMENEZ, Javier; GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; MARIMON, Ramon; TELES, Pedro Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We characterize the optimal sequential choice of monetary policy in economies with either nominal or indexed debt. In a model where nominal debt is the only source of time inconsistency, the Markov-perfect equilibrium ...
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    Title: (Non-)retours à l’Église gréco-catholique roumaine, entre adhésion et transmission religieuse  Author(s): MAHIEU, Stephanie Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The author analyses the individual and collective motives which have pushed some of the Greek-Catholics to Join their former Church since 1989. The Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, founded in 1687, was outlawed by the ...
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    Title: Non-domination and the State: A Response to the Subaltern Critique  Author(s): LAMBA, Rinku Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The aim of this paper is to create some positive conceptual space for the relevance of the instrumentalities of the state when it comes to the politics of religious and multicultural accommodation. The challenge is to steer ...
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    Title: “NOT EXCEPTING THE IROQUOIS THEMSELVES...” Machiavelli, Pufendorf and the Prehistory of International Law  Author(s): KOSKENNIEMI, Martti Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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    Title: Nuclear Weapons and Limited War: The U.S. Army in the 1950s  Author(s): TRAUSCHWEIZER, Ingo Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This essay discusses how the U.S. Army proved its utility for the nuclear age in the wake of the Korean War. It specifically addresses the rationale behind the reorganization of U.S. Army formations into pentomic divisions ...
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    Title: O'Gorman, lecteur d’Acosta  Author(s): DELMAS, Adrien Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Ne serait-ce que du point de vue de sa réception, La invención de América est la partie la plus marquante de l’œuvre d’O’Gorman. Cet ouvrage synthétique, bref, marque l’aboutissement d’un long et patient travail d’analyse ...
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    Title: Objective Knowledge in Social Sciences and Humanities: Karl Popper and Beyond  Author(s): VALENTINI, Chiara; MARIMON, Ramon; VALENTINI, Chiara; BLACKBURN, Simon; CLELAND, Carol; POSTEMA, Gerald; COLLINS, Harry; CRUIKSHANK, Justin; VANDENBERGHE, Frédéric Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This collection of papers addresses the issue of ‘objective vs. subjective’ knowledge in the social sciences and humanities: how we may get ‘objective’ knowledge out of ‘subjective’ perceptions; how ‘induction’ and ‘deduction’ ...
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    Title: “Often we are deceived, and we suffer glaucoma”. Rethinking Legal Humanism in the History of the Western Rights Tradition  Author(s): LONGFIELD KARR, Susan Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This working paper argues for renewed attention by scholars of early modern political and legal thought as to how and why humanist jurists invoked the authority of rights—natural and customary—to legitimize or to critique ...
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    Title: Oil Workers, Trade Unions and the Emergence of Oil Nationalism in Libya, 1956-1969  Author(s): BINI, Elisabetta Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyzes the ways in which U.S. oil companies transformed Libya’s economy and society between the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the rise of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime in 1969, as the country became one of the main oil ...
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    Title: On Acting and Knowing  Author(s): FRIEDRICHS, Jörg; KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This article moves from deconstruction to reconstruction in epistemology and research methodology. To begin with, we show why many social scientists are mistaken in their hope to obtain warranted knowledge in practical ...
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    Title: On Cosmopolitan Occupations: The case of the World Tribunal on Iraq  Author(s): CUBUKCU, Ayca Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Within the tradition of ‘civil society tribunals’, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was an unprecedented endeavour in global scale, scope, structure and sophistication. Embedded within the global antiwar movement from 2003 ...
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    Title: On Pain and the Privation Theory of Evil  Author(s): SAMET, Irit Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The paper argues that pain is not a good counter-example to the privation theory of evil. Objectors to the privation thesis see pain as too real to be accounted for in privative terms. However, the properties for which ...