Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals: Recent submissions
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European transboundary crises and EU agencies: Examining board members' attitudes towards crisis involvement
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: A transnational logic?
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 ...
Broadband developments in Europe: A retrospective review of the determinants of supply and demand
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 impact of ICTs on employment in Latin America: A call for comprehensive regulation
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 ...
La internet industrial para el cambio estructural en América Latina
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 ...
Policy Coordination and Internet Governance in Latin America
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 ...
Políticas de comunicación y convergencia digital en América Latina. Un estudio sobre Argentina, Brasil y México
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 ...
Regulation of Latin American’s Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Sector: An Empirical Analysis
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 ...
Regional Inequalities in the Impact of Broadband on Productivity. Evidence from Brazil
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 ...
Mandatory due diligence for ‘conflict minerals’ and illegally logged timber: Emergence and cascade of a new norm on foreign accountability
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 ...
Labor Mobility of the Chinese Graduates from British and Spanish Universities: What Happens to the "Talent Migration"?
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 ...
Braving the Storm: How Are Global Biofuel Policies Sustained Despite Being Contested? An Analysis of the Biofuel Discourses of the EU, Brazil and Mozambique
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 ...
Europeanisation and Conflict Resolution: The Case of Cyprus
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, ...
Hollywood Films in the Non-Western World: What Are the Criteria Followed by the Chinese Government When Choosing Hollywood Film Imports?
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 ...
Alternation and Cooperation in a Two-party System: Implications for Resource-Based Developing Economies
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 ...
Can You Home Again? Desertion and Control of Hometowns in Civil Wars
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 ...
Comrades or Culprits? Donor Engagement and Budget Transparency in Aid Dependent Countries
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 ...
Banning Obsolete Weapons or Reshaping Perceptions of Military Utility: Discursive Dynamics in Weapons Prohibitions
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 ...
Divergent Reactions to Globalization: Labor Unions and the Nafta and the EU Enlargement Process
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 ...
