Title:Nationalism and the International Order: Re-interpreting the politics of Banal Croatia, 1908-1918
Author(s):VELIZ, FernandoDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The subject of this thesis is the fundamental alteration of state allegiance, political claims and their respective legitimating arguments by political elites in Banal Croatia during the last ten years of the Habsburg ...
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 ...