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Questioning the eradication framing of global statelessness work : IBelong and beyond
No full textPublished online: 30 January 2026This article critically considers the prominent “ending statelessness” framing within global statelessness work to expose potential risks around such dominant approaches—both for advocacy efficacy and discursively (primarily for those directly impacted by the issue: i.e., stateless individuals). In probing the focus on “eradication” framing, the article focuses on the IBelong campaign launched by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to end statelessness in a decade (2014–2024). Drawing comparatively from lessons learned from other global initiatives seeking to end a perceived global ill (specifically 2005’s Make Poverty History and the UN target to End AIDS by 2030), I question whether the eradication framing is, in fact, the most effective way to address statelessness, while considering the—sometimes negative—implications this can have for people with lived experience of statelessness. Reflection on the discursive implications of such framing should complement more programmatic considerations given to the IBelong campaign within existing evaluations. This analysis is timely given that, following the end of IBelong campaign’s implementation period, the next phase within the ending statelessness endeavor is already under way. Although ending statelessness is undoubtedly desirable for (most, if not all) people affected by it, alternative framing approaches more sensitive to, and privileging, the insights and experiences of such individuals may provide a basis to recalibrate ongoing efforts to address statelessness worldwide, and ultimately better serve their interests
War of want : the impact of the First World War on the global food economy
No full textPublished online: 01 November 2025Food was the most important resource during the First World War. Without it, the massive armies on the Eastern and the Western Fronts, in Africa and in Asia could not have been assembled, let alone made to fight. And at the 'home front', which during the First World War came to be seen as integral to the war effort, food was crucial in maintaining production and morale. Any analysis of why and how the First World War was fought and won is incomplete without a consideration of how states, armies, communities, and individuals fought over the globe's supplies of grains, livestock, fertilizers, feeding stocks, and agricultural labour. This chapter will provide an analysis of the impact of this first global war on the worldwide food distribution system that had evolved since the Industrial Revolution. Its aim is to provide both an introduction to the reader on the impact of the First World War on food, and vice versa, and to provide essential contexts for both the chapters that follow and the data on changes in food supply and consumption, and its manifold effects on state, social structures, and health
A threat next door? : a research note on proximate interstate conflict causing willingness to fight based on Russia's invasion of Ukraine
No full textPublished online: 26 February 2026Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked a turning point in European security politics. In this context, the population's willingness to fight can be seen as an indicator of societal inclination toward military self-defense and a precondition for strengthening defensive capacities. Yet, causal evidence on what shapes this willingness remains limited, and studies on the effects of Russia's invasion on public attitudes have been largely confined to European countries. I employ Russia's invasion within an “Unexpected Event During Survey” design to estimate its impact on respondents' willingness to fight for their own country. Drawing on data from the World Values Survey in Czechia and Uruguay, the analysis reveals a significant increase in willingness to fight among Czech respondents—a country geographically and historically proximate to Russia—but no comparable effect in Uruguay. These findings offer novel causal evidence that proximate interstate conflict can increase willingness to fight for one's country, which contributes to broader debates on conscription and military security.This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - OUP Transformative Agreement (2024-2026 (EUI contract for 2026 only)
‘Come poeta che finge, non come filosofo che argomenta’ : Italian translations of Fontenelle’s 'Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes' (ca. 1730–1751)
No full textPublished online: 16 February 2026This contribution focusses on specific Italian translations of Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686). Its aim is twofold: on the one hand, it offers a comprehensive survey of the translations produced across the Peninsula in the first half of the eighteenth century. On the other, it constitutes a case study in the production of translations as means of transmission of knowledge in the Enlightenment period. After a first section revolving around two early manuscript versions, the second and third sections closely examine two translators: the grammarian in Paris Annibale Antonini (1702–1755) and the Piarist cleric Bernardino Vestrini (1715–1786). Looking at their own works alongside their versions of the Entretiens shows how their respective biographies, intellectual contexts and personal agendas had an impact on their translation practices, leading them to incorporate additional elements in their translations. In so doing, their Italian adaptations proved to be flexible sites of knowledge, able to transmit information distinct from the Cartesian physics of the original text
Joseph Morgan between England and Algiers
No full textPublished online: 16 February 2026This contribution concerns an active translator who is almost forgotten today and about whom we know very little beyond what he tells us in his publications. Joseph Morgan’s work, in particular his translations, repay a more detailed study, as he exemplifies not only the effect of mobility on translation but also the role played by Moslem countries and Islam in European intellectual culture in the eighteenth century. After twenty years spent in Algeria, he returned to England and, from 1720 to 1739 (after which date he vanishes), initiated a series of translations and other publications, including a political journal. Although his History of Algiers (1728–1730) seems to have encountered a certain success, he did not manage to make a name for himself in intellectual circles as he clearly wanted to do. The chapter discusses first his translation (published 1723–1725) of a manuscript poem by Mohamed Rabadan de Aragón (1580?–?), Discurso de la luz, which presents a biography of the Prophet, based on Arab authorities but directed towards the exiled Morisco community. In his annotations here (in particular his appended account of the expulsion of the Moriscoes from Spain), as well as in other translations and publications, we see his desire to counter European prejudices against Muslims and to give them a voice, presenting himself as the authorised mouthpiece of the North Africans. Also discussed are his remarks on translation and his use of translation to defend a patriotic British Protestantism against the Catholics
Verifying shareholders for electronic participation in general meetings : law and case studies in Baltic listed companies
No full textPublished online: 09 February 2026To participate electronically in general meetings, shareholders and their representatives must be verified to confirm their identities. Electronic verification remains relevant today as virtual and hybrid meetings of shareholders are widespread across the globe. This article studies shareholders’ electronic verification from the viewpoint of EU company law, domestic laws in the Baltic States, human rights instruments, data protection laws, and other sources; it focuses on three cases of companies from the Baltic States where shareholders were verified for electronic participation between 2021 and 2024. The three cases, from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, known for their digitalization efforts, are evaluated against the background of regional and domestic laws in those countries. The study reveals that verification spans multiple legal areas and is typically regulated by companies themselves. The paper concludes with recommendations for the more transparent and accessible electronic shareholder participation
No place to hide : the public attribution of responsibility for policy failures of international organisations
No full textPublished online: January 2026Who is held responsible when international organisations (IOs) fall short of public expectations? Scholarship on IO blame avoidance assumes that member states can hide behind IOs. As clarity of responsibility is assumed to be lacking in IOs, public responsibility attributions (PRA) will usually target the IO rather than individual member states. We argue, by contrast, that even in complex IOs such as the European Union (EU), clarity of responsibility is not always lacking. Therefore, whether the IO in general or individual member states become the main target of public blame attributions depends on the type of IO policy failure. In cases of failures to act and failures to comply, the responsibility of individual member states is comparatively easy to identify, and they thus become the main blame target. Only in cases of failures to perform clarity of responsibility is lacking, and the IO will become the main target of public blame attributions. To assess the plausibility of this‘failure hypothesis’, we study public blame attributions in two cases of EU foreign policy failures and two cases of EU environmental policy failures
Still second-order national elections? : evaluating the classic model after the 2024 European elections
No full textPublished online: 19 May 2025This article estimates whether the classic second-order national election (SONE) model still holds after 10 rounds of European Parliament elections, and how far the model explains the result in the 2024 elections, in particular. The article also investigates pan-European political effects: whether some political families have done systematically better or worse in European Parliament elections, including in 2024. It finds that the SONE model still holds, on average, across all 10 rounds of elections, including those in central and eastern Europe, but also that green and anti-European/radical right parties generally perform better in European elections than their government/opposition status or their previous national election performance would predict. In addition, the SONE model does not explain the outcomes in 2024 as well as it did for earlier rounds of the elections
'The Storms of 1848' : the global revolutions in Spain
No full textDefence date: 07 March 2022Examining Board: Lucy Riall (European University Institute); Pieter Judson (European University Institute); Florencia Peyrou Universidad Autónoma de Madrid); Stephen Jacobson, (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)This thesis explores the effect of the 1848 revolutionary cycle in Spain and its imperial space, focusing on its global connections and on the intersections between revolution, counterrevolution, and empire building. In doing so, it aims to contribute to a global approach to the 1848 revolutions that goes beyond perspectives that are exclusively centred on Europe as space. In this thesis, mid-nineteenth century Spain is understood not as a nation-state within the Iberian Peninsula, but as a fluid global empire with colonies, diasporas, and exile communities in various spaces. Considering the chronological frame of a “long 1848” and using various scales, this thesis stresses the continuities between the political upheavals and international reconfigurations that occurred around the year 1846, and the revolutionary events of 1848-1849. This thesis opposes the traditional image of Spain as an exception to the revolutionary cycle. It argues that the Parisian Revolution did in fact have a significant impact on the Iberian Peninsula, which prompted the Spanish government to develop counterrevolutionary measures on both sides of the Atlantic. Exile communities in Europe and spaces like Paris, Oran or New Orleans profited from the occasion presented by the 1848 revolutions to challenge either the political status quo in the metropole or the colonial order in the Caribbean. This generated a flow of transnational mobilities of revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors, information, propaganda, and material; mobilities that diverse state actors tried to curtail through various means to prevent revolutionary contagion. At the same time, hundreds of political prisoners were sent to overseas possessions as part of a repressive repertoire that combined counterrevolution and colonisation through the relocation of convicts. Finally, this thesis explores the changes to several political cultures in the Spanish empire during the early 1850s as a result of the revolutionary cycle
A two-dimensional conflict? : the new politics of minimum income reform in Southern Europe
No full textPublished online: 16 January 2026This article theorises and empirically traces how the emergence of a value-based cleavage has reshaped the politics of minimum income reform in Southern Europe. It argues that the rise of the libertarian–authoritarian value conflict in post-industrial politics, combined with the increasing centrality of activation in means-tested benefits, has restructured the political arena into a multidimensional space. In this context, policy reforms are shaped not only by the traditional class-based cleavage but also by a moral conflict over the rights and obligations of welfare recipients. The article therefore hypotheses that reform trajectories are increasingly driven by the policy preferences of coalition partners negotiating this multidimensional, twofold conflict. To examine this, it adopts a most-similar systems design, focusing on Italy, Spain, and Portugal – three countries that, despite a historical reliance on weak minimum income floors, have undergone significant yet divergent reforms over the past decade.The research has received support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 870698 (EUROSHIP)