IBEI Working Papers: Recent submissions
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Ten Propositions on Rural Poverty and Agrarian Transition in Central Eurasia
The relation between agricultural development and rural poverty reduction in six Central Eurasian countries, namely Azerbaijan (South Caucasus) and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (Central ...
The European Union Police Mission: The Beginning of a New Future for Bosnia and Herzegovina?
The creation, reform and/or restructuring of the police in post-conflict societies remains one of the key challenges for practitioners and scholars in the contemporary fields of peace and security, particularly due to the ...
Where Has the Old Debate Gone? Realism, Institutionalism, and IR Theory
This paper resorts to the contribution of the science philosopher Gerald Holton to map some of the IR arguments and debates in an unconventional and more insightful way. From this starting point, it is sustained that the ...
Globalization and Europeanization: Analysing Change
The main motivation for exploring the relationship between globalization and Europeanization is the understanding of the importance of exogenous factors for policy change at the domestic level. Can we distinguish the ...
The Politics of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Argentina
The search for political determinants of intergovernmental fiscal relations has shaped much of the recent literature on the economic viability of federalism. This study assesses the explanatory power of two competing views ...
Nuclear Weapons as Symbols. The Role of Norms in Nuclear Policy Making
Throughout history, nuclear weapons have been considered to be the ultimate weapons. This understanding largely detached them from the portfolio of conventional military means and assigned them a symbolic meaning that ...
Learning from Shocks and the Decision to Open
Two claims pervade the literature on the political economy of market reforms: that economic crises cause reforms; and that crises matter because they bring into question the validity of the economic model held to be ...
The Experience of European Integration and the Potential for Integration in South America
The experience of the European Union is the most significant and far-reaching among all attempts at regional integration. It is, therefore, the most likely to provide some lessons for those world regions that are just ...
Regulation in the Age of Globalization: The Difussion of Regulatory Agencies across Europe and Latin America
One of the most notable characteristics of the change in governance of the past two decades has been the restructuring of the state, most notably the delegation of authority from politicians and ministries to technocrats ...
The ‘Global Dimension’ of Contemporary Politics. An Argument for Taking ‘Global’ Seriously
Recent years have seen a striking proliferation of the term ‘global’ in public and political discourse. The popularity of the term is a manifestation of the fact that there is a widespread notion that contemporary social ...
