Title:Four Funerals and a Party? The Political Repertoire of the Italian Radicals
Author(s):RADAELLI, Claudio M.; DOSSI, SamueleDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The transformations brought about by changing patterns of representation, the role of the media in politics, and processes of Europeanization and globalization have challenged the political parties of the West-European ...
Title:The Fragile Consensus on Fragility
Author(s):BERTOLI, Simone; TICCI, ElisaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The concept of fragility, which was initially born in the security arena, has been gaining increasing
relevance in the development discourse over the past few years. However, fragility still remains a
fuzzy and elusive ...
Title:Fragile Countries and the 2008-2009 Crisis
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; GIOVANNETTI, GiorgiaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analyses the channels through which the economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009 is
transmitted to fragile countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Trade stands out as the main direct channel,
even though intra-Africa ...
Title:A Fragile Guideline to Development Assistance
Author(s):BERTOLI, Simone; TICCI, ElisaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The concept of fragility has gained an increasing relevance in development discourse. Nevertheless, it remains a fuzzy and elusive concept. This article presents a review of the literature, and identifies two main sets of ...
Title:Fragile States, Commodity Booms and Export Performance: An Analysis of the Sub-Saharan African Case
Author(s):MOLD, Andrew; PRIZZON, AnnalisaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Sub-Saharan Africa’s export performance over recent decades has typically been por-trayed as poor
compared to other regions in developing countries. This paper takes a new look at the record, using
data on the volume ...
Title:Fragility and MDG Progress: How Useful is the Fragility Concept?
Author(s):HARTTGEN, Kenneth; KLASEN, StephanDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:While progress in developing countries as a whole, in terms of growth, poverty reduction, and several
MDGs, has been quite good in recent years, fragile states lag behind in levels of MDG achievement.
To understand the ...
Title:Free Lunches? WTO as public good, and the WTO’s view of public goods
Author(s):MAVROIDIS, Petros C.Date:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The WTO can be viewed as a public good in that it provides a forum for negotiations which also produces the necessary legal framework to act as a support for agreed liberalization. To avoid any misunderstandings, in this ...
Title:Free Trade and New Economic Powers: Th e Worldview of Peter Mandelson
Author(s):TRISCRITTI, FiorellaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper uses the Operational Code methodology in order to study Peter Mandelson’s worldviews.
Using speeches from the public record I constructed Mandelson’s views of the international relations
and of the EU’s ...