Publications

This publication examines the transnational transmission and circulation of norms in the war on terror at the global level. The author demonstrates how complex and challenging it is to map the interna...chevron_right

This report presents the results of collaborative research project named Adequacy and Sustainability of Old-Age Income in the EU (AIM). The project highlights the differences among EU member-states wh...chevron_right

This paper looks at the consequences of the social and political process of the Europeanization of judicial power. According to the author, the creation of arrest and judicial mechanisms at the Europe...chevron_right

This essay narrates an exchange of communication between the Supreme Court of Canada and the European Court of Human Rights in relations to a central component of the domestic legal regime of dealing ...chevron_right

The report provides an account of Canadian law, policy and practice since 2001 regarding the detention and deportation of non-citizens alleged to pose a danger to national security. The author pays pa...chevron_right

This paper analyzes Russian pressures on security issues and the way the EU and NATO have been addressing them. It is argued that tensions over missile defense are closely related to NATO’s enlargemen...chevron_right

This study addresses the global financial instability and possible responses to it. The publication finds that the crisis was mainly determined by unstable macroeconomic policies in the major economie...chevron_right

As if core Europe did not have enough problems of its own, a new threat has arisen: the collapse of the European periphery. The deteriorating foreign exchange and financial conditions of satellite cou...chevron_right

Today it becomes increasingly clear that flexibility may not be a quality at all, but a major handicap. Let's analyze why that is.chevron_right

Spreads of sovereign debt within the eurozone have increased dramatically over the past few months. The hypothesis of this paper is that the widening bond spreads within the eurozone are the result of...chevron_right

Regulators seem to be torn between the need for transparent fair-value accounting and the perceived need to minimize the losses that banks report on their balance sheets.chevron_right

Large differences remain in the risk management of European banks, and in the way bank regulation is implemented. The Spanish banks are proud of their extreme conservatism and discipline in their risk...chevron_right

The current state of Latvia’s political scene is, to put it mildly, volatile. There are only two constant variables: 1) the deepening economic crisis and 2) two elections scheduled for 6 June 2009. Am...chevron_right

There is wide agreement that a recovery in bank lending is possible only if banks can get rid of the vast amounts of 'toxic' assets on their balance sheets.chevron_right

The paper first summarizes Russia's critique of the international security architecture and its aspiration to build something new and better. The author then presents a matrix of four models of intern...chevron_right