Organismes i activitats interuniversitàries
L’IBEI és un institut interuniversitari que es va fundar l’any 2004 com a esforç compartit per part de les cinc universitats públiques de l’àrea metropolitana de Barcelona per impulsar la formació de postgrau i la recerca en l’àmbit de la política i relacions internacionals.
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IBEI Working Papers [55]
The European Union continuously faces crises on a continental scale, such as the 1996 and 2000 “mad cow disease” crises, the 2008 financial crisis, or the 2015 refugee crisis. Within this context, institutions including ...
European Union agencies have been studied explicitly or implicitly from two distinct theoretical backgrounds: an intergovernmental and a supranational logic. The two logics relate to broader dynamics that aim to understand ...
This contribution provides insights into the dynamics of broadband markets in Europe. While there are many studies capturing the dynamics from an econometric perspective, qualitative studies are much smaller in number and ...
The purpose of this research is to determine the manner in which employment will evolve as a result of information and communication technologies. Prior research has shown that both communication and automation are displacing ...
Este artículo analiza las implicancias de la Internet industrial en las estrategias de crecimiento de los países América Latina. La Internet industrial es la próxima gran ola de innovación y se prevé que transformará ...
This paper examines the roles that telecommunications regulation and Internet governance have played over the last few decades in coordinating policies that contributed to the development of todays´global communications ...
El presente trabajo plantea un estudio sobre las políticas públicas de comunicación en materia de convergencia digital en América Latina, a partir del análisis de las reformas normativas en Argentina, Brasil y México. Entre ...
In the mid-1980s a movement towards privatization and de-regulation of the telecommunications sector was begun. The sector has been privatized in most countries and subjected to regulatory reform. The major reform occurred ...
The aim of this paper is to perform an analysis of the impact of broadband on regional productivity in Brazil, intending to find out if the economic impact is uniform across all territories of the country. The possibility ...
The European Union, the United States, and a number of other state actors have adopted policies obliging companies to conduct supply chain due diligence regarding the import of natural resources. While several authors have ...
The scholarship on migration in Europe heavily focuses on the integration of economically vulnerable migrants. In the age of commercialization of education, however, the European Union attracts a rising number of highly ...
Considered as a remedy to multiple problems that our world is facing, biofuels are nowadays promoted on a global scale. Despite this globalised approach, however, biofuels are heavily contested. Not only the social ...
This paper investigates the example of Cyprus as a case study for the Europeanisation of conflict resolution. The argument advanced is that the European Union (EU) impacts the positions of the parts of the conflict (here, ...
This dissertation argues that the Government of the People’s Republic of China, when it made the decision to import a quota of Hollywood films in 1994 to revive the failing domestic film industry, had different possible ...
This paper studies cooperation in a political system dominated by two opportunistic parties competing in a resource-based economy. Since a binding agreement as an external solution might be difficult to enforce due to the ...
What allows an armed group in a civil war to prevent desertion? This paper addresses this question with a focus on control in the rearguard. Most past studies focus on motivations for desertion. They explain desertion in ...
Budget transparency has come to be considered a key aspect of governance. Over the past decade, donors have invested increasing resources in strengthening processes through which budget transparency in developing countries ...
The paper focuses on the argumentative process through which new international norms prohibiting the use of weapons causing severe civilian harm emerge. It examines the debate surrounding the use and usefulness of landmines ...
The 1990s witnessed the launching of two ambitious trade regionalization plans, the Nafta and EU enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe. In contrast to previous projects for the creation or expansion of regional trade ...
