Title:An Affront to the Conscience of Humanity: Enforced disappearance in international human rights law
Author(s):KYRIAKOU, NikolasDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This PhD thesis takes issue with the practice of enforced disappearance as a multiple and complex human rights violation and covers various topics related to enforced disappearance. The point of departure is the historical ...
Title:After the Eastward Enlargement: The institutionalization of the Europarties and the EU party system
Author(s):BRESSANELLI, EdoardoDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In the long debate about the EU constitutional and institutional reform which accompanied the Central and Eastern enlargement of the Union, political parties at the European level – in brief: Europarties – have rarely ...
Title:Ageing and Political Institutions: Comparative political economy of long-term care for frail older people
Author(s):HIEDA, TakeshiDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Despite common socio-demographic pressures such as longer longevity, lower fertility rate, and feminization of labor market, public elderly care policy is remarkably diverse across advanced industrialized countries. This ...
Title:Agents of Memory in the Making: The Greek war-disabled of WWII
Author(s):ROVITHI, CharaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation examines the making of the WWII disabled as agents of memory focusing on the experience of mutilation of the specific group of war veterans. A large part of the research is based on oral testimonies, ...
Title:Aggression, the crime of crimes: a study of individual liability for the unlawful use of force
Author(s):VILLARINO VILLA, CristinaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Ever since the Nuremberg Tribunal delivered its historic judgment, the principle of individual criminal liability for the unlawful use of force has been characterized by an unbridgeable gap between theory and practice. ...
Title:Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe: From Berlin 1878 to Tbilisi 2008
Author(s):BRISKU, AdrianDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation looks at the ways in which Albanian and Georgian political and intellectual elites have understood, imagined, instrumentalised, and internalized the concept of Europe from the late nineteenth century to ...
Title:All Originals: Fiction and reality of multilingual legal drafting in the European Union and Canada
Author(s):DOCZEKALSKA, AgnieszkaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The phenomenon of multilingual law stems from official multilingualism, which usually requires not only that the law should be enacted in all official languages, but also that texts of a single legal instrument expressed ...
Title:Alla ricerca del consenso : il mercato elettorale visto dai parlamentari italiani
Author(s):LEGNANTE, GuidoDate:2002Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Questa tesi, che si colloca all'interno del filone di studi sul voto, costituisce il primo lavoro sistematico che cerca di rispondere all'interrogativo "che idea hanno i politici degli elettori e del mercato elettorale?". ...
Title:Alterglobalism in Postsocialism: A study of Central and Eastern European activists
Author(s):PIOTROWSKI, GrzegorzDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Alterglobalism in Postsocialism. A Study of Central and Eastern European Activists' is a doctoral thesis that presents the development and the characteristic of the Global Justice Movement in Poland, the Czech Republic and ...