Bravo Laguna, Carlos D. (Date of defense: 2022-07-14)
This thesis discusses the role and weight of the European Union institutions and Member States in the responses to three crises whose epicenters are located beyond the EU borders. To do so, it examines ...
Kumar, Shashwat (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)
This doctoral dissertation examines the role of Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs) in the macro institutional setup with an objective to understand what factors affected or continue to affect their ...
García Jaén, Óscar (Date of defense: 2023-05-18)
In this thesis, I contribute to answering the questions of what children need and what parents owe to them. To make this contribution, I discuss three fundamental goods that children arguably need to ...
Tskhadaia, Giorgi (Date of defense: 2020-02-13)
In this thesis, I argue that Jürgen Haberma’s neo-katian liberalim fails to provide universalistic foundations for truth and morality as it cannot be applied invariably across different context. However, ...
Nguyen, My Land Do (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
The purpose of this dissertation is to systematically investigate the theoretical perspective that political power derives from socioeconomic power—a fundamental tenet of both sociological theories of ...
Faustini Torres, Luisa (Date of defense: 2021-06-15)
What is the nexus between EU external migration policies and the democratization of Southern Mediterranean countries (SMCs)? Although being two essential components of EU external action and central ...
Tunaboylu, Muzaffer Sevda (Date of defense: 2021-09-23)
Adopting a bottom-up approach, and taking the EU‒Turkey deal as a case study, this Ph.D. thesis provides empirical evidence about the impact of externalisation policies on refugees’ daily lives and on ...
Jiménez García, Juan Ramón (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)
This thesis analyzes ethnics and gender inequalities in access to the labor market during the Great Recession in Spain. The first article illustrates the probabilities of unemployed people to get a job ...
Martinez Mendiola, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
Major socio-economic and demographic changes have occurred in Europe during the last decades which have challenged the gender specialization of tasks and time. Nonetheless, inequalities in the distribution ...
Schmid, Dominique (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)
Worldwide, the number of forest carbon offsetting projects has been increasing rapidly over the past decade. Advocates of these projects frame them as a triple-win by allowing continued economic growth ...