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Title:Scenarios of crisis in the Taiwan strait Author(s):DUCHÂTEL, MathieuDate:2021Type:OtherSeries/Number:Policy Briefs; 2021/27; Global Governance Programme; EU-Asia Project; [Europe in the World]Abstract:Since Taiwan’s re-election of President Tsai Ing-wen with a legis-lative majority, China has been slowly increasing military pressure against the Republic of China (ROC). The People’s Liberation Army is being modernised ...

Title:Weber in the Balkans: contested party–state relations in reforming the civil service in Albania and FYR Macedonia, 2000–13 Author(s):GJOKSI, Nisida EUI affiliated

Date:2018Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2018 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:What drives politicians to adopt and implement civil service reforms differently? What explains the variation in politicization and professionalization in the state bureaucracy across countries and across governments? Why ...

Title:Between democratic protection and self-defense : the case of Unasur and Venezuela Author(s):CLOSA, Carlos EUI affiliated

; PALESTINI CÉSPEDES, Stefano EUI affiliated

Date:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2015/93; Global Governance Programme-206; European, Transnational and Global GovernanceAbstract:Contrary to the assumption that the adoption and formalization of democratic protection mechanisms by regional organizations contribute per se to democratic consolidation, this article argues that the performance of those ...

Title:Institutional Corruptions Author(s):LESSIG, LawrenceDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2012/68; Global Governance Programme-33; European, Transnational and Global GovernanceAbstract:The concept of "institutional corruption" as developed by Professor Dennis Thompson is a critically important way to understand the failings of a modern democratic state. In this paper, Professor Lessig advances one way ...

Title:"Against Accountability" Author(s):MANSBRIDGE, JaneDate:2010Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2010/07Abstract: regimes, citizens do not need to depend so heavily on this "sanctions model", with its sanction-based accountability. Instead they can have a relationship with their representatives based on a "selection model" in which ...

Title:Rethinking targeted sanctions Author(s):ERIKSSON, MikaelDate:2009Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2009 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Despite having been in the political and scientific limelight for nearly two decades, the question of the effectiveness of targeted sanctions continues to puzzle and engage practitioners and scholars. Having been previously ...

Title:United Nations imperium : the legal status of territories subject to the administration of international organisations Author(s):KNOLL, BernhardDate:2005Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2005 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:The growing number of international organisations involved in ‘state-building’ and the scope of authority they exercise raises a number of important questions under international law - as to the status of UN-administered ...

Title:The circulation, use and conceptualization of European sex equality norms : a comparative analysis Author(s):KILPATRICK, Claire EUI affiliated