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Title:Forget me not : alba amicorum and visual communication of friendship, belonging and emotional communities, 1763–1830s Author(s):LINDGREN, William
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- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:Few materials have preserved so much of the visualisation and friendship-practice of the cult of friendship as the album amicorum (friendship album). The albums earned their name from their role in the practice of friendship, ...
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Title:Paying the buyer : from one off defense offsets to strategic alliances Author(s):ANICETTI, Jonata 
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:My dissertation addresses the understudied phenomenon of defense offsets - compensation to states for buying foreign weapons. Governments have long demanded compensation when procuring highly complex and expensive weapon ...
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Title:William Temple’s political and economic thought : a restoration view of consequences of human nature, 1660–1699 Author(s):HAAVISTO, Juha OskariDate:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis focuses on the political and economic thought the seventeenth century diplomat and author William Temple (1628–1699). His works have previously been analysed mainly from the point of view of literary studies, ...
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Title:The abuse of constitutional identity : Illiberal constitutional discourse and European constitutional pluralism Author(s):SCHOLTES, Julian Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:‘Constitutional identity’ has become a key argument in the negotiation of authority between national legal orders and the legal order of the European Union. Many national constitutional courts have declared that the reach ...
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Title:The shadow line : railway and society in colonial East Africa, c. 1890–1914 Author(s):ASELMEYER, NormanDate:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The era of ‘imperial globalization’ at the turn of the twentieth century was also the age of colonial railways. The global network of railway lines has never expanded faster than in the decades before and after 1900. ...
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Title:Women and politics in the Romanian Legionary Movement Author(s):AXINIA, Anca DianaDate:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis examines women’s participation in the Legionary Movement or Iron Guard, a far-right, anti-Semitic movement active in interwar Romania. Over four chapters, I analyze how the participation of women changed over ...
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Title:Why sisters are better than brothers : the effect of sibling gender on attitudes and other essays in gender and education economics Author(s):REUTER, Johanna LuiseDate:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis is composed of three independent essays in applied microeconomics. The first contributes to the field of gender and family economics and analyzes the effect of the gender of the second-born sibling on first-born ...
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Title:From soft law to hard law : the concept and regulation of human rights due diligence in the EU legal context Author(s):FELD, LeonardDate:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:This dissertation examines the concept of human rights due diligence (HRDD) under international soft law and its transposition into business regulation, with a particular focus on the European Union context. It traces the ...
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Title:High steaks : climate change mitigation in the cattle sector Author(s):WILLIAMS, RebeccaDate:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:Increasingly, the environmental impact of animal agriculture is being recognised. In the past, climate criticism was largely reserved for the fossil fuel sector, or even the transport and aviation sectors. However, now it ...
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Title:Climate change and development : the global administrative law of the UNFCCC financial mechanism Author(s):LARREA, GonzaloDate:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:This research deals with the legal responsibility of states to provide climate finance to developing countries in order to facilitate climate mitigation and adaptation. The research demonstrates that the area of climate ...
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