Title:Siberian bosses : elite formation and legitimization in Russia from a regional perspective (1991-2004)
Author(s):BARA, AnnaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The political power to direct society is legitimate only when it expresses the identity of society and is attached to social values and norms. The problem is that, in Russia, the demolition of the Communist ideology and ...
Title:Similar Threat : Different responses : France and the UK facing Islamist terrorism
Author(s):FOLEY, FrankDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis seeks to explain why two states, faced with a similar terrorist threat, perceiving it in a similar way and drawing the same broad implications for their counterterrorist policies, have nevertheless displayed ...
Title:Single Equation Instrumental Variable Models: Identification under discrete variation
Author(s):SMOLINSKI, KonradDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Over the last decade, substantial interest in theoretical econometrics and microeconometrics has been directed towards nonparametric models. Much work has been devoted to the development of novel identification and estimation ...
Title:Slave Stories: Gender, Representation, and the Court in the Danish West Indies, 1780's-1820s
Author(s):SIMONSEN, GunvorDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study examines conceptions about money, its value, and management in the works of Islamic and Christian scholars in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean from a comparative perspective. By including both ...
Title:Small States – Big Negotiations Decision-Making Rules and Small State Influence in EU Treaty Negotiations
Author(s):LEHTONEN, TiiaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study examines the impact of the decision-making rules, procedures and practices of the European Union on the ability of small Member States to influence Treaty negotiation outcomes, and assesses the causality of ...