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Title:How Problematic are Internal Euro Area Differences? Author(s):BJORKSTEN, Nils; SYRJANEN, MiikaDate:2000Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2000Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSC; 2000/14
Title:How real will the metaverse be? : exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds Author(s):PARCU, Pier Luigi ; ROSSI, Maria Alessandra ; INNOCENTI, Niccolò ; CARROZZA, Chiara Date:2023Citation:European planning studies, 2023, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, we perform a preliminary analysis of the technologies, firms and industries that may be affected by the possible futures of the metaverse, attempting to derive some hypotheses on the spatial effects of this ...
Title:How referendums challenge European democracy : Brexit and beyond Editor(s):ROSE, Richard Date:2020Citation:London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Palgrave Studies in European Union PoliticsType:BookAbstract:This book explains how citizens are using referendums to challenge decisions taken by the European Union. The opening chapters compare the two chief institutions of electoral democracy: parliamentary elections to decide ...
Title:How referendums differ from each other Author(s):ROSE, Richard Date:2020Citation:Richard ROSE (ed.), How referendums challenge European democracy : Brexit and beyond, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 19-36Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The frequency with which countries hold referendums differs greatly. Within Europe, Switzerland holds hundreds of referendums at the federal, cantonal and local levels. Even though a referendum has never been held at the ...
Title:How regulations became the crux of trade politics Author(s):WINSLETT, Gary Date:2016Citation:Journal of world trade, 2016, Vol. 50, No. 1. pp. 47-70Type:ArticleAbstract:Whereas tariffs were once the main barrier to international trade, cross-national differences in regulation now constitute the most significant impediment to trade and are therefore the centrepiece issues in contemporary ...
Title:How Regulatory Risks May Affect Security of Electricity Supply Author(s):RANCI, Pippo Date:2007Citation:European Review of Energy Markets, 2007, 2, 2, 131-146Type:Article
Title:How relevant is the public private distinction in the case of voluntary sustainability standards? Author(s):MARX, AxelDate:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2015/30; Global Governance Programme-168; Global EconomicsAbstract:This paper argues that the distinction between public and private standards only make sense if one looks at the legal status of specific standard-setting organisations. If one switches the unit of analysis the distinction ...
Title:How should the EU and other WTO members react to their WTO governance and WTO appellate body crises? Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich Date:2018Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2018/71; Global Governance Programme-331; [European, Transnational and Global Governance]; [Europe in the World]Abstract:Since 2017, the United States (US) and other World Trade Organization (WTO) members violate their legal duties and democratic mandates given by national parliaments to maintain the WTO Appellate Body (AB) as legally ...
Title:How should the WTO launch and negotiate a future round? Author(s):ODELL, John S.Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/110; Global Governance Programme-141; Global EconomicsAbstract:To reduce the serious information problems they face and prepare the way, advocates should commission an independent research team to produce a comprehensive negotiation analysis before they decide to move further. Reaching ...
Title:How should we think about the winners and losers from globalization? Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M. ; NELSON, Douglas Date:2020Citation:European journal of international law, 2020, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 1399-1408Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[Global Governance Programme]; [Global Economics]Abstract:How should we think about the winners and losers from globalization? What role can narrative analysis play in doing so? We argue that to be useful, identifying politically relevant narratives on the distributional effects ...
Title:How sick is British democracy? : a clinical analysis Author(s):ROSE, Richard Date:2021Citation:Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021, Challenges to Democracy in the 21st CenturyType:BookAbstract:Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list. This book challenges such a gloomy view by carefully examining the health of the British body politic from Tony Blair’s ...
Title:How Sirte became a hotbed of the Libyan conflict Author(s):AL-HAWARI, OmarDate:2021Type:OtherSeries/Number:Policy Briefs; 2021/05; Middle East Directions (MED)Abstract:The birthplace and former stronghold of the late Muammar Qadhafi, the coastal city of Sirte, was stigmatised and marginalised following the fall of the regime in October 2011. However, since 2019 it has again become the ...
Title:How size matters : Portugal as an EU member Author(s):ROSE, Richard ; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2014Type:Technical ReportSeries/Number:EUDO Report; 2014/06Abstract:The great majority of EU member states are not big states, and they are further divided into not so small, smaller and smallest states. The European Union’s establishment by a treaty between 27 independent states confers ...
Title:How some seemingly moderate political elections results may redirect a state's historical course, from the top down to the transformation of national growth and socio-cultural development patterns Author(s):KARKAZIS, John; BALTOS, Georgios ; BALODIS, Janis Date:2018Citation:Academic journal of interdisciplinary studies, 2018, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 119-128Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper discusses a model for identifying and evaluating how the critical changes in the politics of a state impact its socio-economic life. Political transitions of this magnitude may stem out of elections results, but ...
Title:How the EU27 came to be Author(s):LAFFAN, Brigid Date:2019Citation:Journal of common market studies, 2019, Vol. 57, No. S1, pp. 13-27Type:ArticleAbstract:The evening of 23 June 2016 was a momentous one in the history of European integration. In an ‘in‐out’ referendum, the UK opted for ‘exit’ over ‘voice’ when voting by 52 per cent to leave the EU. 1 On that narrow margin, ...
Title:How the European Union is preparing the "Third Industrial Revolution" with an innovative energy policy Author(s):PIEBALGS, Andris Date:2009Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2009/11; Loyola de Palacio Programme on Energy PolicyAbstract:It is clear that we are at the beginning of what has correctly been called the "third industrial revolution" - the rapid development of an entirely new energy system. We can expect a massive shift towards a carbon-free ...
Title:How to achieve supply chain sustainability efficiently? : taming the triple bottom line split business cycle Author(s):KLUMPP, Matthias Date:2018Citation:Sustainability, 2018, Vol. 10, No. 2, Art. 397Type:ArticleAbstract:For sustainable supply chains, specific concepts regarding how to efficiently improve sustainability are needed in a global comprehensive triple bottom line (TBL) approach, especially for forwarders as central actors in ...
Title:How to Become a Transnational Elite: Lawyers’ Politics at the Genesis of the European Communities (1950-1970) Author(s):VAUCHEZ, AntoineDate:2008Citation:Hanne PATERSEN et al. (eds), Paradoxes of European Legal Integration, Ashgate, 2008, 129-148Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Euro-lawyers are an enigma to anyone studying EU polity. While European studies have granted Law with a critical role as the real engine of the integration process, we actually know very little about the persons whose task ...
Title:How to change your foreign policy in 100 days : a new course with the Prodi Government? Author(s):BRIGHI, ElisabettaDate:2007Citation:The international spectator : Italian journal of international affairs, 2007, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 129-140Type:ArticleAbstract:Conventional wisdom has it that the new government of Romano Prodi managed to effect a significant “shift” in Italy's foreign policy away from the course of the centre-right in the proverbial first 100 days of government. ...
Title:How to Create a Transnational Party System Author(s):BARDI, Luciano ; BRESSANELLI, Edoardo ; CALOSSI, Enrico ; GAGATEK, Wojciech ; MAIR, Peter; PIZZIMENTI, EugenioDate:2010Type:Technical ReportSeries/Number:EUDO Report; 2010/02; EUDO Political Parties and Representation ObservatoryAbstract:This study has been prepared by the Observatory on Political Parties and Representation (OPPR), part of the European Democracy Observatory (EUDO) at the European University Institute (EUI). It covers four aspects: 1) An ...