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Title:A living tradition : Catholic Social Doctrine and Holy See Diplomacy Author(s):STUMMVOLL, Albert AlexanderDate:2018Citation: Eugene : Cascade Books, 2018 Type:BookAbstract:On the world stage, the Holy See acts as both a religious and a political actor. As the head of over 1.2 billion Catholics, the pope is a widely recognized spiritual authority. Politically, the Holy See maintains diplomatic ...

Title:Negotiating the Ottoman Constitution : 1839-1876 Author(s):KOÇUNYAN, AylinDate:2018Citation: Paris ; Louvain ; Bristol : CT Peeters Publishers, 2018, Collection Turcica ; 24 Type:BookAbstract:This book traces the transcultural and transnational dimension of the internal genesis of the Ottoman Constitution, which was promulgated on December 23, 1876. It shows that the constitutional process incorporated, from ...

Title:The diplomacy of decolonisation : America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-64 Author(s):O'MALLEY, AlannaDate:2018Citation: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018, Key studies in diplomacy Type:BookAbstract:The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American relationship, the book reveals how ...

Title:Disenchanted Europeans : Polish émigré writers from Kultura and the postwar reformulations of the West Author(s):MIKOLAJEWSKI, LukaszDate:2018Citation: Oxford ; Berlin : Peter Lang, 2018, Exil-Studien ; 16 Type:BookAbstract:As Europe experienced tumultuous change after the Second World War, two Polish exiles, Jerzy Stempowski (1893-1969) and Andrzej Bobkowski (1913-1961), discussed and redefined their ideas of the continent in the pages of ...

Title:Political participation, diffused governance, and the transformation of democracy : patterns of change Author(s):PETERS, YvetteDate:2018Citation: Abingdon : Routledge, 2018, Democratization studies Type:BookAbstract:Although democratic governments have introduced a number of institutional reforms in part intended to increase citizens’ political involvement, studies show a continued decline in regular political engagement. This book ...

Title:Regulatory integration across borders : public–private cooperation in transnational regulation Author(s):SCHMIDT, Rebecca EUI affiliated

Date:2018Citation: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018, Cambridge studies in transnational law Type:BookAbstract:This book deals with a key feature of globalization: the rise of regulation beyond the state. It examines the emergence of transnational regulatory cooperation between public and private actors and pursues an inquiry that ...

Title:El noble atribulado : nobleza y teología moral en la Castilla moderna (1550-1650) Author(s):SOSA MAYOR, IgorDate:2018Citation: Madrid : Marcial Pons, 2018, Ediciones de Historia, Estudios Type:BookAbstract:La presente obra pretende contribuir a nuestro conocimiento de una historia sociocultural de la nobleza en la Edad Moderna. Para ello se adentra por medio de consultas de teólogos morales en la conciencia del noble atribulado ...

Title:The contentious politics of higher education : struggles and power relations within English and Italian universities Author(s):CINI, Lorenzo EUI affiliated

Date:2018Citation: Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2018, The mobilization series on social movements, protest, and culture Type:BookAbstract:Drawing on neo-institutionalist and social movement approaches, this book analyses the impact that recent student mobilizations have brought about within Italian and English universities in terms of student services, ...

Title:Social movements, memory and media : narrative in action in the Italian and Spanish student movements Author(s):ZAMPONI, Lorenzo EUI affiliated

Date:2018Citation: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, Palgrave studies in European political sociology Type:BookAbstract:Cultural factors shape the symbolic environment in which contentious politics take place. Among these factors, collective memories are particularly relevant: they can help collective action by providing symbolic material ...

Title:The prudential carve-out for financial services : rationale and practice in the GATS and preferential trade agreements Author(s):CANTORE, Carlo Maria EUI affiliated

Date:2018Citation: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018 Type:BookAbstract:The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) sets out a framework and rules for the liberalization of international trade in services. Paragraph 2(a) of the GATS Annex on Financial Services ...

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