Title:Nationality, Citizenship and Ethno-cultural Membership: Preferential admission policies of EU Countries
Author(s):DUMBRAVA, CosticaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this thesis, I analyse justifications for preferential admission to citizenship based upon ethno-cultural grounds. My point of departure is the puzzling observation that, in matters of membership, states not only ...
Title:NATO Enlargement and Security of Central Europe: A declining security community
Author(s):OSICA, OlafDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The central argument of the study is that the NATO enlargement of 1999 failed to meet its strategic purpose. First, it has not removed the ‘eastern security dilemma’ which underpinned Polish, Czech and Hungarian quest for ...
Title:Negotiating Europe: EU promotion of Europeanness and non-institutional actors since the 1950s
Author(s):CALLIGARO, OrianeDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The concept of Europe is a strong symbolic underpinnings of European integration. Europe functions as a mobilizing metaphor, a sign of recognition that indicates belonging to a community in formation. At the institutional ...
Title:Network competition for European telecommunications
Author(s):STEHMANN, OliverDate:1993Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The telecommunications industry is in the throes of rapid technological and regulatory change. Markets for terminals and services have been liberalized, and only the provision of networks has remained under the control of ...
Title:Network politics in transatlantic homeland security cooperation: A European dimension
Author(s):PAWLAK, PatrykDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The ‘National Vision’ of the Bush Administration with regard to homeland security aimed to ‘prevent the entry of terrorists and the instruments of terror while facilitating the legal flow of people, goods, and services’. ...
Title:Network Structure Matters: Applications to R&D collaboration, collusion, and online communication networks
Author(s):KORKMAZ, GizemDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis studies the interplay between network structure and strategic decision making given the backdrop of economic and social networks. The first two chapters study how firms’ incentives to invest in costly R&D are ...
Title:The new discursive formation of literature under communist rule: From the silver age to socialist realism
Author(s):VIRBAN, FloareaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The primary aim of this thesis is to question how, and the extent to which, the implementation of Communist rule in Russia influenced the new discursive formation of literature. The latter refers to the complex process of ...
Title:New Governance and the Proceduralisation of European law: The Case of the Open Method of Coordination
Author(s):DAWSON, MarkDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis is devoted to analysing the emerging relationship in the European Union between 'new governance' - epitomised by the development of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) - and law. While some scholars have seen ...