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Department of Economics (ECO)

The EUI’s Department of Economics focuses on a wide range of topics in the fields of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics.

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Department of History and Civilisation (HEC)

The EUI’s Department of History and Civilisation focuses on global, comparative, and transnational approaches to the history of Europe in the world since 1400.

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Department of Law (LAW)

The EUI’s Department of Law is committed to the study of law in a comparative and contextual manner, with a special focus on European and international law.

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Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS)

At the EUI’s Department of Political and Social Sciences, research spans the fields of comparative politics, international relations, sociology, and social and political theory in Europe and beyond.

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Max Weber Programme (MWP)

The largest international postdoctoral programme in Europe for the humanities and social sciences, the Max Weber Programme (MWP) is credited with creating the first taught postdoctoral programme in the social and historical sciences.

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Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSC)

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies develops cutting-edge academic research and then makes it policy relevant.

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School of Transnational Governance (STG)

The Florence School of Transnational Governance trains current and future leaders in the methods, skills, and theory of governance beyond the state, supporting them in developing policymaking strategies that transcend national borders.

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Hesitant first steps towards screening outbound investment from Europe
(2025, Article) 
Law & geoeconomics, 2025, OnlineFirst
The European Union has joined other jurisdictions in contemplating whether to screen outbound investment to ensure its “economic security”. However, unlike in the United States and elsewhere, policymakers in Europe seem more hesitant to develop the novel restrictive investment instrument. Instead of screening mechanisms, the EU speaks only of monitoring systems to collect more data. This policy review situates the initial policy steps taken by the European Commission and EU member states within the larger trend of scrutinizing outbound investment internationally. It highlights the strong opposition of European businesses to the introduction of a new instrument and the role that businesses may have played in shaping the more hesitant approach. Lastly, the review reflects on the legal implications and future research agenda, highlighting the lack of data on outbound investment as one of the key challenges for researchers and policymakers alike.
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Power in international political sociology
(2025, Contribution to book)  ; 
Stacie E. GODDARD, George LAWSON and Ole Jacob SENDING (eds), The Oxford handbook of international political sociology, New York : Oxford University Press, 2025, Oxford handbooks, pp. 661-693
This chapter surveys the research that inform the thinking of power in International Political Sociology (IPS). In the 1980s, International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy scholars reacted to agential and behavioral concepts of power inherited from Morgenthau and Dahl and developed analyses that emphasized embedded relations and structures, hence relational power and structural power. The sociological turn in IR in the 1990s conceptualized intersubjective, discursive, and ritualized practices as playing significant roles in power relations. These were developed in research on social recognition and identity, technologies of government, and social conventions and performativity. Work in political theory has engaged in research streams on resistance, developed more widely since the 1960s, and these have been taken up in IR and IPS since the 1990s. Among them, subaltern studies, cultural studies, post-structuralist theory, and feminist theory have mapped power in ways that may prove challenging, and fruitful, for IPS research.
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Power
(2025, Contribution to book) 
Beate JAHN and Sebastian SCHINDLER (eds), Elgar encyclopedia of international relations, Cheltenham ; Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, Elgar encyclopedias in the social sciences, pp. 312-317
Power is a central concept used in the domains of political theory, explanatory theory and political practice. Whereas realism in International Relations linked the three domains through the concept of power, subsequent conceptual developments qualified and/or detached these links. Neo-institutionalist power analysis detached power analysis from political theory and developed the contextual setting or translation process via which control over resources can become control over outcomes. In a critique of this intentional and agent-centred analysis, international political economy scholars developed structural power concepts that denote the biased practices and processes via which dependency is (re)produced. Finally, international political sociology scholars focus on the profoundly political processes and rituals of recognition that constitute subjects and their identities, as well as the material and intersubjective contexts in which rank and status are established. Reconnecting explanatory with political theory, they face the risk of a realist fallacy: while all power is about politics, not all politics is about power.
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Open Access
Accidental neoliberalism : democratic accountability in the making of the Euro, 1957-92
(2025, Article) 
Contemporary European history, 2025, OnlineFirst
Neoliberalism can be defined as the drive to shield capitalism from the scrutiny and accountability of democratic processes. This definition is particularly relevant to the creation of the euro, as it reflects some imbalances of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty creating the European Union (EU). The monetary union was designed to function with full independence, largely beyond the reach of democratic deliberations. This article investigates whether this outcome was intentional. It argues that the asymmetric structure of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was purposefully crafted, as the European policymakers involved in the negotiations were acutely aware of the imperfections of the system being developed. However, these shortcomings were not specifically aligned with a particular neoliberal ideology. Instead, this article shows they resulted from a broader set of concerns, primarily driven by a reluctance to centralise decision-making power at the EU level due to fears of losing aspects of national sovereignty. Understanding the unintentional nature of this outcome is crucial, as confusing what is accidental with what is deliberate can lead to misunderstandings about the motivations behind EMU and misconceive the paths for its reform.
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Crowdwork and global supply chains : regulating digital piecework
(2022, Contribution to book) 
Valerio De STEFANO, Ilda DURRI, Charalampos STYLOGIANNIS, and Mathias WOUTERS (eds), A research agenda for the gig economy and society, Cheltenham ; Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, pp. 215–234
Crowdwork is a relatively recent and dynamically evolving phenomenon that has yet to be effectively tackled by regulators. Many of the governance challenges it rises are not entirely new, however, but represent a continuation of those that have long existed in the global supply chain (GSC) context. This Chapter draws analogies between the power dynamics, labour rights deficits and governance gaps created by both business models. It critically reviews the growing body of regulations addressing crowdwork and GSCs, showing their promises but also salient gaps and weaknesses. The Chapter argues for a comprehensive legal accountability system mandating platforms to make their operations transparent and to prevent any risks of labour rights violation in their ecosystems. Drawing insights from the GSC's regulatory patterns, the analysis concludes that the best way forward would be a multi-level governance framework combining private and public law instruments.