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No Extraction Without Representation: The Ethno-Regional Oil Curse and Secessionist Conflict
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European Identity in International Society — A Constructivist Analysis of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Full text linkIn public discourse, the drawing up of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights was frequently linked to the hope that this project contributes to forging a European identity. This paper's argument starts form the tension inherent in this idea: On the one hand, identity-building implies the visualisation of what is specific for the European Community and its members. On the other hand, human rights are anchored in supposedly universal rules and global regimes, constituting the "international society" belonging to which is a crucial feature of the Union's identity as an actor. paper develops two-dimensional model European and differentiates two types human rights discourse capture this tension. It then provides detailed empirical analysis debate in around Convention drew up EU Charter. demonstrates that while dimension was not at centre Charter project beginning, globally-oriented discourse, stresses Europe commitments responsibilities, gained prominence during significantly shaped discursive space for defining fundamental polity.constitution building; European identity; fundamental/human rights; international agreements; asylum policy; social policy
Riots, coups and civil war : revisiting the greed and grievance debate
Full text linkThe most influential recent work on the determinants of civil wars found the factors associated with the grievance motivation to be largely irrelevant. Our paper subjects the results of this empirical work to further scrutiny by embedding the study of civil war in a more general analysis of varieties of violent contestation of political power within the borders of the state. Such an approach, we argue, will have important implications for how we think theoretically about the occurrence of domestic war as well as how we specify our empirical tests. In the empirical model, the manifestation of domestic conflict range from low intensity violence and coups to civil war. Our multinomial specification of domestic conflict supports the hypothesis that diversity accentuates distributional conflict and thus increases the risk of civil war. We also find that democracies may be more efficient than autocracies in reducing the risk of civil war.Post Conflict Reconstruction,Population Policies,Social Conflict and Violence,Peace&Peacekeeping,Hazard Risk Management
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