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    Title: European Union competencies in respect of media pluralism and media freedom  Author(s): CMPF Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This report presents the phenomena of media freedom and pluralism and the major academic and policy debates about their social, political, economic role and implications. It highlights the importance of media freedom and ...
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    Title: The role of economic theory in WTO arbitrations  Author(s): RUTA, Michele Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: How can economic theory be useful in WTO arbitrations? Motivated by this question, this paper reviews the approach that is often used to determine the level of permissible retaliation in international trade disputes (the, ...
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    Title: Mercosur as a Regional and Global Protagonist  Author(s): PEÑA, Félix Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Developing a climate of mutual trust and promoting a renewed regional integration, especially one that enables to connect the economic systems and encourage the proliferation of transnational production chains, are two ...
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    Title: Is There a Legal Duty to Address World Poverty?  Author(s): SALOMON, Margot E. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: States are reticent to support the idea that they have human rights obligations to people other than their own. However decades of United Nations consideration and human rights standard-setting in the area of international ...
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    Title: Rescue at Sea: Human Rights obligations of states and private actors, with a focus on the EU’s external borders  Author(s): SCHEININ, Martin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This Policy Paper results from a lecture delivered as part of the Executive Seminar on global governance and transnational human rights obligations, convened at the European University Institute in late November 2011. The ...
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    Title: Courts, Social Change and Judicial Independence  Author(s): DREYZIN DE KLOR, Adriana Silvia; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; VAUCHEZ, Antoine; VAUCHEZ, Antoine; MÉGRET, Frédéric; KELEMEN, R. Daniel; ORTIZ AHLF, Loretta; RASK MADSEN, Mikael; STONE SWEET, Alec; LANE SCHEPPELE, Kim; KUMM, Mattias; POLLACK, Mark A.; SOLANKE, Iyiola Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The diversity and quality of the nine papers presented give an idea of both the broadness and richness of the seminar. Its great originality lies in the wide range of disciplinary and geographical views from which the topic ...
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    Title: A Public Choice View of IP(rizes)  Author(s): LEVMORE, Saul Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Interest groups have played an important if unappreciated role in shaping intellectual property rights. As economies are driven by ideas, rather than manufactured goods, there is likely to be a reconfiguration of the ...
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    Title: The EU Position in Taxation and Development  Author(s): MOGNI, Andrea Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Tax is a core part of a state building and one of the most visible signs of the social contract between citizens and the State. Fair, transparent and efficient tax systems demonstrate good governance and shape government ...
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    Title: European Defence: Challenges after the Treaty of Lisbon  Author(s): TEIXEIRA, Nuno Severiano Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This paper argues on European Defence issues, namely, the challenges after the Treaty of Lisbon. The first part analyses, in an historical perspective, the evolution of European defence, from its origins to the implementation ...
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    Title: A New Governance for the European Union and the Euro: Democracy and justice  Author(s): POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The report provides a democratic explanation for the crisis and the EU’s failure in successfully addressing it so far. It argues that the solution to the crisis and the future of EU governance must depart from a renewed ...
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    Title: The Democratic Governance of the Euro  Author(s): BIEBER, Roland; CLOSA MONTERO, Carlos; JAMES, Harold; JOERGES, Christian; NAPOLITANO, Giulio; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; DE WITTE, Bruno; KUMM, Mattias Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This policy paper includes some of the contributions for a group set up at the EUI to address the crisis of the Euro area with a focus on its democratic dimensions. The perspectives included in here are diverse and not ...
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    Title: The Governance Gap: Globalization and the crisis of democracy in the west  Author(s): KUPCHAN, Charles A. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: A crisis of governability has engulfed the world’s industrialized democracies. It is not coincidental that the United States, Europe, and Japan are simultaneously experiencing political breakdown. Rather, globalization is ...
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    Title: Global Administrative Law: An Italian perspective  Author(s): CASSESE, Sabino; BATTINI, Stefano; D’ALTERIO, Elisa; NAPOLITANO, Giulio; DE BELLIS, Maurizia; CAROLI CASAVOLA, Hilde; MORLINO, Elisabetta; CASINI, Lorenzo; CHITI, Edoardo; SAVINO, Mario Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This Policy Paper collects a set of contributions given and discussed at the Conference on “Global Administrative Law: an Italian Perspective”, European University Institute, Global Governance Programme, 24 February 2012. ...
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    Title: Trade Roundtable  Author(s): MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; ABBOTT, Roderick; CRAMÉR, Per; HOEKMAN, Bernard M.; MOREIRA, Vital Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The Doha round has been stalling for over 10 years now. It might not be ‘dead and loving it’ but definitely in moribund condition. Worse, there is no sign of reviving it, in the near future at least. The most optimistic ...
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    Title: European and United States Counter-Terrorism Policies, the Rule of Law and Human Rights  Author(s): SCHEININ, Martin; SCHEININ, Martin; BARRETT, Richard; MURPHY, Cian C.; ROACH, Kent; ROY, Olivier; LANE SCHEPPELE, Kim Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: On 15 March 2011 the Global Governance Programme at the EUI hosted a High-Level Policy Seminar (HLPS) on "European and United States Counter-Terrorism Policies, the Rule of Law and Human Rights". The first part of the ...
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    Title: The Macroeconomic and Financial Landscape in the Aftermath of the 2007 Crisis: New Challenges and Perspectives  Author(s): CARLETTI, Elena; CORSETTI, Giancarlo; SIMONELLI, Saverio; COOLEY, Thomas F.; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; JAMES, Harold; GRAY, Joanna; O'CALLAGHAN,Patrick; ALLEN, Franklin; GUISO, Luigi Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The paper by Thomas Cooley (New York University) discusses the challenges for the European Central Bank in the current situation both in terms of long term fiscal adjustments and of potential fragility of the European ...
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    Title: International Trade Observatory (ITO): Trade Roundtable  Author(s): MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; HORN, Henrik; MESSERLIN, Patrick; PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich; SAPIR, André Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The Doha round is going through tough times and at this stage it is impossible to predict its outcome. This is the central message coming from the meeting held on February 4, 2011 at EUI (RSCAS). For reasons having to do ...
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    Title: An EU Agenda for Global Governance  Author(s): POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; BARROSO, José Manuel Durão; BIERSTEKER, Thomas; CULPEPPER, Pepper D.; FARGUES, Philippe; HERITIER, Adrienne; KARAGIANNIS, Yannis; HILL, Christopher; KLEIN, Nadia; WESSELS, Wolfgang; JAMES, Harold; MORAVCSIK, Andrew; NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso; PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich; SIDJANSKI, Dusan; VINES, David Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP
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    Title: Global Governance: Dialogue Between Courts  Author(s): LORENZETTI, Ricardo Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Judicial diplomacy can be seen as a cooperative action and interaction among domestic courts, usually highest judicial bodies, towards regional legal integration. It has manifested itself in two ways: (1) through dialogue ...
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    Title: The EU 'Foreign Service': Under Construction  Author(s): MISSIROLI, Antonio Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: With the operational launch of the European External Action Service (EEAS), exactly one year after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, a key piece of the new EU external action puzzle falls into place. From now on, ...