Title:Disarmament, neutrality and colonialism: Conflicting priorities in the Netherlands, 1921-1931
Author(s):BRAAT, EleniDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The decade after World War I saw the daring creation of the League of Nations: West European security had to be preserved through cooperation in transnational networks instead of through traditional multilateral expedients, ...
Title:Discourses and counter discourses: The Islamic headscarf in the French and German public spheres
Author(s):AMIR-MOAZAMI, SchirinDate:2004Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Ausgehend von den anhaltenden Debatten um das islamische Kopftuch in staatlichen Bildungseinrichtungen Deutschlands und Frankreichs analysiert Schirin Amir-Moazami die Logiken der Diskursproduktion über den Islam und bringt ...
Title:A Discrete-Choice Econometrician's Tale of Monetary Policy Identification and Predictability
Author(s):SIRCHENKO, AndreiDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis studies the econometric identification and predictability of monetary policy. It addresses the discrete and collective nature of policy decisions, and the use of the real-time versus currently available revised ...
Title:Disenchanted Europeans: Polish émigré writers from Kultura and the postwar reformulations of the West
Author(s):MIKOLAJEWSKI, LukaszDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:What are “Europe” and “the West”? How did the understandings of these notions change after World War II? In what way were they reconsidered and re-evaluated by the exiles from those European countries that, after 1945, ...
Title:Do Deliberative and Participatory Processes Matter? Crafting trust in political institutions
Author(s):NIELSEN HASSING, JulieDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why do people trust certain political institutions and not others, and how best to account for trust’s relationship with democratic participation? This dissertation focuses on the relationship between democratic participation ...