• How do third parties react to commodity sanctions?

  Vlaskamp, Martijn (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2023)

  Many sanctions regimes include bans on trade in natural resources (e.g., the US oil embargo on Venezuela, Iran, or Russia or Western sanctions on timber from Myanmar). Sanctions on various commodities have an “extraterritorial ...
• Individualization and collectivization in contexts of organized criminal violence: the case of Mexico’s War on organized crime

  Kalmanovitz, Pablo; Bradley, Miriam (Oxford University Press, 2023)

  Most lethal violence now occurs outside of war zones. In Latin America, countries like Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador, and Colombia have often had yearly homicide rates far exceeding those in Afghanistan or Syria. The use of ...
• Sociedad internacional híbrida: gobernanza, solidarismo y soberanismo

  Barbé, Esther (Fundación Carolina, 2024)
• State institutions in north Taiwan versus south Taiwan

  Wu, Chun-Ying; Liu, Amy H. (University of Michigan Press, 2024)

  While the previous chapter emphasized how state exclusion resulted in separation, in this chapter, we see how political representation yielded an outcome that is less extreme. During the authoritarian period, the Kuomintang ...
• Functional inequality in Latin America: news from the twentieth century

  Astorga Junquera, Pablo (SpringerNature, 2017)

  This chapter presents a new consistent yearly estimate of gross income (between-group) inequality Ginis for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela over the period 1900–2011, using a newly assembled wage ...
• Interregionalism, trade and standardization: the long road to the EU-MERCOSUR trade agreement and the uncertainties ahead

  Bianculli, Andrea C. (Oxford University Press, 2023)

  The European Union and the Common Market of the South reached a political accord for a free trade agreement in 2019. This chapter assesses the definitional and normative content of trade facilitation and intellectual ...
• Agenda dynamics in Spain

  Chaqués Bonafont, Laura; Palau, Anna M.; Muñoz Márquez, Luz (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  The main goal of the Policy Agendas Project in Spain is to promote a comprehensive theoretical and empirical understanding of agenda dynamics across time, issues, and levels of governance. The project establishes a link ...
• Public administration and democracy: the complementarity principle

  Bertelli, Anthony M.; Schwartz, Lindsey J. (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

  This Element argues for a complementarity principle – governance values should complement political values – as a guide for designing the structures and procedures of public administration. It argues that the value-congruity ...
• Boko Haram in Nigeria: R2P and non‐state armed groups

  Açikyildiz, Çaglar (Springer, 2022)

  Focusing on the case of Nigeria with the aim to understand what has been missing in terms of the protection of the Nigerian population and the role the NSAGs play, this chapter asks to what extent and how the Responsibility ...
• Spanish foreign policy: navigating global shifts and domestic crises

  Soler i Lecha, Eduard; Barbé, Esther (Springer, 2021)

  Spain’s foreign policy is often seen as the result of three structural changes: Europeanization, democratization and societal modernization. This contribution complements this assessment by analyzing the effects of three ...
• The EU and controlling the use of the death penalty: an organising principle for which fundamental norm?

  Kissack, Robert (Springer, 2020)

  The abolition of the death penalty has been an important foreign policy objective of the European Union for over a decade and it claims to be ‘the leading institutional actor in the fight against the death penalty worldwide’ ...
• The European Union and lethal autonomous weapons systems: united in diversity?

  Barbé, Esther; Badell Sánchez, Diego (Springer, 2020)

  This chapter focuses on norm contestation in the emerging stage by exploring the possible prohibition of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), which is advocated by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. At the UN Convention ...
• India’s ‘silent contestation’ of the EU’s perspective on local ownership

  Klossek, Lara (Springer, 2020)

  Local ownership has become a central theme in today’s discourse on peacebuilding, with the EU being very vocal in embracing the norm. On the surface, it thus seems that the EU is supported in its perspective on local ...
• Central banks and banking regulation: historical legacies and institutional challenges

  Jordana, Jacint; Rosas, Guillermo (Springer, 2019)

  Jordana and Rosas explore the different institutional models for the regulation of banks and financial services that exist worldwide. They find, on the one hand, many countries in which central banks have significant ...
• Good natural resource governance: how does the EU deal with the contestation of transparency standards?

  Vlaskamp, Martijn (Springer, 2020)

  Transparency is an organizing principle of the norm of good governance. The EU has adopted a number of policies to promote this norm as a way to address corruption and cronyism in the natural resource sector of many ...
• Self-determination and the reconfiguration of the nation-state in Europe

  Jordana, Jacint; Holesch, Adam, 1977-; Keating, Michael; Marx, Axel; Wouters, Jan (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019)

  In this concluding chapter, the authors summarize the contributions of the book on three interrelated dimensions (national-states and EU transformations, multilevel politics in the EU, and the self-determination claims ...
• Demandas lingüísticas y conflicto político en España

  Bianculli, Andrea C.; Jordana, Jacint; Ferrín Pereira, Mónica (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2021)
• Networked corruption risks in European defense procurement

  Czibik, Ágnes; Fazekas, Mihály; Hernández Sánchez, Alfredo; Wachs, Johannes (Springer, 2021)

  In this chapter we study corruption risks in EU defense procurement. Defense procurement has long been thought to present significant potential for corruption and state capture. Using a large dataset of contracts covering ...
• EU foreign policy and norm contestation in an eroding western and Intra-EU liberal order

  Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth; Valaskamp, Martijn; Barbé, Esther (Springer, 2020)

  The idea of the European Union being increasingly contested, whether globally or at home, is a frequently reiterated notion. It is believed that such challenges to the European integration stem from a number of diverse but ...
• Islamic finance and development in Malaysia

  Apaydin, Fulya (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  From a historical perspective, Islamic economic institutions have not been conducive to capital accumulation in Muslim societies (Kuran 2004, 2011). This has been further hampered by a lack of trust among different faith ...

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