Jan 172013
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Transatlantic Relations and the future of Global Governance |
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| Vox populi, vox Dei: Europe’s Obamania relies on substance, not fiction |
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| The Evolution of the Global Environmental System: Trends and Prospects, by Francesco Francioni and Christine Bakker The system of international environmental governance has undergone a significant development in the past half of a century. Progress has been achieved especially at the normative level, with the adoption of treaties and instruments of soft law, and a general recognition that the environment is a concern of humankind as a whole. To this body of … Read more |
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Human Rights: The New Agenda, by Thomas Risse and Tanja A. Börzel The emergence of a new model of criminal accountability and of the Responsibility to Protect norm has signaled the change within human rights policies. In addition to new actors within human rights – private actors such as rebel groups and firms – the scholarship on human rights has evolved to include quantitative studies besides previously … Read more |
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Motioned, Debated, Agreed? Human Rights and Democracy Promotion in International Affairs, by Nelli Babayan and Daniela Huber Moving from insignificance to the top of global politics, democracy and human rights promotion has been expected to build on the waves of democratization and ensure rapid development and better protection of human rights. However, while some cases of human rights and democracy promotion have been marked with success – EU enlargement policy to … Read more |
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European Integration and Transatlantic Relations, by Meltem Müftüler-Baç and Damla Cihangir What role does the European integration process play in shaping transatlantic relations, if any? The question brings forth the related issue of whether the EU is able to exercise leadership in fostering changes in the international system and through its relationship with the US. The paper provides a literature review on the EU as a foreign policy … Read more |
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1st Workshop on WP4 (Environment) and WP 5 (Human Rights and Democracy) On 9 and 10 November 2012, the first Workshop on WP 4 (Environment) and WP 5 (Democracy and Human Rights) was held at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, by the Transworld teams from the EUI and the Freie Universität Berlin (FBU). The Workshop provided an opportunity for contributors to the above mentioned Work Packages to have a … Read more |
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Work Package 3 held its 1st workshop TRANSWORLD’s work package on ‘Trends in international security and EU-US adjustment policies’ held its first workshop at Sciences Po, Paris, on 29-30 November 2012. The event was organized by the CERI’s team. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the work done so far, particularly the paper on “Changing Trends in Transatlantic Security”, … Read more |
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| Forthcoming | ||||||||||
 26-28 February 2013Siena Work Package VII workshop |
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| 4-6 March 2013 Berlin Work Package VII-VIII Transworld Questionnaire Drafting Meeting |
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 25-26 April2013 London Plenary Conference |
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