Despite a rapid increase in popular support for Catalonia’s independence, the pro-independence movement has struggled to gain more support since 2014. Even though the issue gathered more attention from the media and ...

In 2006, the rise of the revolutionary Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) resulted in the election of Evo Morales as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. This signified the defeat of a neoliberal hegemony that had oppressed ...

This thesis explains the institutional regime shift from a state-driven institutional regime into a market-driven institutional regime in the International Labour Organization (ILO). This shift took place in 1998 in the ...

The European Commission (EC) started negotiating TTIP in the summer of 2013, and it has argued that it will lead to an increase in income and jobs. However, when taken a closer look at the econometric results this benefit ...

The road to decolonisation has been difficult for many colonial regions. The two regions under investigation here, West Papua and East Timor have had an opposite experience with acts of self-determination. The UN has ...

In September 2018, the newly elected populist government of Italy declared its intention to not comply with the fiscal regulations in the EU 2019 draft budgetary plan. After a strong dispute with the European Commission ...