Title:Back to the ‘Future of Europe’: A Political Sociology of EU Constitutional Saga
Author(s):COHEN, Antonin; VAUCHEZ, AntoineDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Looking back at eight years of controversies over Europe’s future, this paper develops a new research agenda towards a political sociology of EU constitutional politics. As a preliminary step, we make the case for reflexivity, ...
Title:Bank Market Structure, Systemic Risk, and Interbank Market Breakdowns
Author(s):LUCCHETTA, MarcellaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper explores theoretically the implications of bank market structure and banking system risks
concentration for the functioning of interbank markets. It employs a simple model where banks are
exposed to both credit ...
Title:The Banking and Distribution Sectors in a Small Open Economy DSGE Model
Author(s):DEÁK, Szabolcs; FONTAGNE, Lionel; MAFFEZZOLI, Marco; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The recent crisis has emphasized the role of financial - macroeconomic interactions, and international trade in goods and services, in the transmission of the shocks. Both phenomena, closely related to the higher degree ...
Title:The (Beginning of the) End of the Political Unity of the West? Four Scenarios of North Atlantic Futures
Author(s):KROTZ, UlrichDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Will future historians write about the last half-decade of the twentieth and the first half-decade of the twenty-first century as the beginning of the end of political unity of the West? If it will not be a more or less ...
Title:Between Force and Legitimacy: Th e Worldview of Robert Cooper
Author(s):FOLEY, FrankDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Advisor to Javier Solana and a Director General at the European Council, Robert Cooper argues for an assertive European stance against threats while at the same time emphasising the importance of gaining international ...
Title:Between intergovernmentalism and socialisation: the Brusselisation of ESDP
Author(s):BREUER, FabianDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In general, ESDP (European Security and Defence Policy) and its policy- and decision-making process pose a challenging puzzle for the theoretical research agenda of European integration studies. Even though ESDP is ...
Title:Beyond "position" and "valence". A unified framework for the analysis of political issues
Author(s):DE SIO, LorenzoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Starting from a review of models of positional and valence issues, the paper – by tapping into the
original definition of valence issue – introduces a classification of issues based on their level of
overall, dychotomic ...
Title:Beyond Occidentalism: Europe and the Self in Present-day Arabic Narrative Discourse
Author(s):CASINI, LorenzoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper deals with the theme of the representation of Europe in present-day Arabic narrative discourse. In the first part, which is mainly theoretical, the notion of Occidentalism is defined with particular reference to ...
Title:Beyond the Republic of Fear: Symbolic Domination in Bacthist Iraq
Author(s):LENNER, KatharinaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper explores the significance of official rhetoric, symbolism and cultural production as a social
practice of domination in Bacthist Iraq. In order to make sense of this aspect of domination, it is
necessary to ...
Title:Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative government and institutional constraints
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Although it is generally seen as desirable that parties in government are both responsive and responsible, these two characteristics are now in increasing tension with one another. Prudence and consistency in government, ...
Title:Biomedicine and EU Law: Unlikely Encounters?
Author(s):HENNETTE-VAUCHEZ, StéphanieDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Over the last decade, a significant body of biomedical law has emerged within EU law. In so far as the EU has long been portrayed as aiming mostly if not only at economic integration, it is surprising at face value to see ...