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The diplomatic role of the European Parliament’s standing committees, delegations and assemblies: insights from ACP–EU inter-parliamentary cooperation
No full textThis article focuses on the contribution that the European Parliament’s standing committees,
delegations and inter-parliamentary assemblies make as diplomatic actors in
the post-Lisbon Treaty period. These three types of bodies and institutions are grouped
together, because in practice they work in complementary ways. The committees play a
coordinating role, the delegations act as ‘embassies on the move’ and the participation
of the European Parliament in inter-parliamentary assemblies represents the clearest
institutional sign of the European Parliament’s external action. The article focuses on
a case study: the involvement of the European Parliament in the EU’s partnership with
the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of countries (ACP) through the Development
Committee (DEVE), the competent European Parliament delegation, and the activities
within the Joint Parliamentary Assembly. The article aims to analyse whether and how
the European Parliament is able to play a distinctive diplomatic role through its standing
committees, delegations and inter-parliamentary assemblies
European aid and health system strengthening : an analysis of donor approaches in the DRC, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique and the Global Fund
Full text linkIn the field of international health assistance, there is a growing consensus on the limits of disease-specific interventions and the need for more health system strengthening. European donors are considered to be strong supporters of health system strengthening. Nevertheless, little is known about how their support translates into concrete policies at partner country level. Furthermore, as development cooperation is a shared policy between the EU and its Member States, it remains unclear to what extent European donors share a similar approach. Against this background, Lies Steurs analyses the European approach to international health assistance. The main focus of the research is on the partner country level, with chapters on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique. In addition, Lies also investigates the relation between European donors and the Global Fund
System change for climate change? Understanding climate change adaptation mainstreaming within the European Union’s development cooperation
Full text linkThis PhD dissertation aims to assess the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in
the development cooperation efforts of the European Union (EU). Adaptation and aid
activities are inherently interlinked for three reasons: (i) the disproportionate impact
of climate change on developing countries, (ii) the potentially negative impact of
climate change on poverty reduction efforts and (iii) the role development cooperation
can play in reducing vulnerability to climate change. Integrating or mainstreaming
climate change in aid activities is the prime response of aid donors in order to address
these linkages.
Approaching the nexus between climate change adaptation and development
cooperation from multiple theoretical angles, this dissertation aims to generate a
pluralistic and multi-faceted understanding of this integration process. More
specifically, the two main perspectives that guide this dissertation are an
institutionalist approach and a critical approach towards the nexus. Regarding the
former, article 1 draws from the literature on environmental- and climate policy
integration (EPI and CPI) in order to assess how and to what extent climate change
adaptation is mainstreamed in the current development policy cycle (2014-2020).
Regarding the latter, article 2 and 3 are aimed at problematizing this integration
exercise by looking specifically at the power effects encapsulated in the discursive
representation of climate change as a challenge for development cooperation, as well
as in the concrete policy techniques that are being used in this regard. In article 2, this
is pursued by employing a critical frame analysis in order to analyze the discourse
surrounding the climate-development nexus within the EU. In article 3, I use a
governmentality perspective to problematize the discursive constructions and policy
techniques employed within the EU’s thematic agency for providing adaptation
assistance towards its partner countries in the Global South: the Global Climate
Change Alliance.
All three articles point to a mainstreaming rationale in which adaptation is retrofitted
in EU development cooperation, ignoring its transformational potential in aid
activities. Discursively, adaptation is framed within the parameters of existing
development paradigms, such as security and economic growth. Moreover, the
responsibility for change in this regard is almost entirely projected upon EU partner
countries. Third, mainstreaming is also predominantly imagined and pursued in a top-
down fashion, in which meaning and implementation modalities are transposed from
HQ-level towards EU delegations and partner countries alike. These political
underpinnings of adaptation mainstreaming generate an institutional reality in which
adaptation is ‘just another requirement’ within EU delegations, to be implemented
through procedural and organizational adjustments. However, capacity is lacking in
order to elevate adaptation mainstreaming to a level in which it could evoke a system
change in development cooperation
China in International Climate Governance : policy formation, strategic narrative projection and role reception in European media
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The migration-development nexus in the EU : understanding ideational change through politicization
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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