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Braving the Storm: How Are Global Biofuel Policies Sustained Despite Being Contested? An Analysis of the Biofuel Discourses of the EU, Brazil and Mozambique

Widenhorn, Saskia (2013-05)

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 ...

The Mediterranean in an Age of Globalisation

Halliday, Fred (2008-12-30)

This paper reflects the contents of the Plenary Lecture addressed to the participants of the 2nd Graduate Conference, European Consortium for Political Science, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, 25 August 2008

Why the EU does not Have an Independent Competition Agency: French Interests and Transaction Costs in Early European Integration

Karagiannis, Yannis (2008-12)

A major achievement of new institutionalism in economics and political science is the formalisation of the idea that certain policies are more efficient when administered by a politically independent organisation. Based ...