This research revolves around a puzzle concerning the decision of the Turkish Government to carry out a series of military attacks against the Syrian Kurds during the period of 2015-2017. This hostile policy appears to ...

The policy realms of security and defence have long remained largely excluded from the process of European integration. However, after the publication of the EU Global Strategy in 2016, a fundamental change took place in ...

This thesis analyses how defensive structural realism and social constructivism explain EU’s 2021 foreign policy strategy towards the Arctic region. Through a pathway case study and process-tracing analysis, this thesis ...

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 ...

December 2019 the European Commission approved €3.2 billion in state aid to create a European car battery value chain under the notion of green growth and industrial prowess. This action reveals an apparent break with ...

While many housing markets across the European Union have seen large housing price fluctuations since the 1980s, Germany has until recently remained a beacon of housing market stability. Since 2010, Germany however suddenly ...

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 ...

This thesis looks at the differences regarding institutional structures in Latvia and Bulgaria, and the implications that this has for the economic development of both countries. How institutions function and interact ...

In recent years, prices in the Dutch residential real estate sector have been rising at an increasingly rapid pace. Although works in the field of economics do provide reasons why housing prices can increase in general, ...

The recent EU industrial strategies and the European Green Deal are a source of continuous academic discussion. By employing a Critical Political Economy (CPE) approach, the present thesis argues that these policies did ...