Monetary Sovereignty under the Gold Standard – The Case of the Ottoman Empire
Increasing indebtedness and severe crises caused the Ottoman Empire to lose monetary sovereignty, culminating with the adoption of a limping gold standard.
Is There Really a Significant Policy Implementation Problem in the EU?
EU’s major policy implementation problem is widely recognized, and should be combated through continuously combining plurilateral and hierarchical modes of EU governance.
Implications of the Securitisation of Migration
The securitization of migration reinforces a politics of fear and racism.
The EU’s Promotion of Gender Equality in Egypt: Towards a New Strategy?
The EU cannot let women see their rights deteriorate, nor it can think of them as mere disadvantaged, passive recipients of its aid.
Why is the Discourse of ‘Islamic Terrorism’ Problematic?
The prescribed causal relationship between religion and violence is not only contestable but also alarmingly reductionist.
Explaining US Hegemony: A Neo-Gramscian Synthesis of Pantich, Gindin and Konings
Transnational Historical Materialism, post-war reconstruction via the Bretton Woods System and the corporate-liberal paradigm help explain the persistence of US hegemony.
Intervention, Rectificatory Justice and Immigration: France and Ben Ali
Looking at the example of France and Tunisia, past interference in the political and social life of a country should be considered as a criteria of assessing immigration.
Analyzing the Threat of Human Trafficking in Europe
Sweden’s Sex Purchase Act of 1999 has had the unintended consequence of organized crime groups finding a new path of least resistance in human trafficking
The EU’s Normative Nature and Its Sanction Regime Against Russia: An Oxymoron?
Sanctions per se are not irreconcilable with normative behaviour, as they may perform the function of conveying a normative argument rather than merely coerce the other.
What is Security? Securitization Theory and its Application in Turkey
Examining the issue of Turkey’s accession to the EU, this essay examines how non-security issues can be securitized by various social and political actors.
