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Between the Fronts: Conflict and Crisis Management on the Eastern and Southern Flanks of the EU
While Germany has shown its willingness to assert itself in economic policy issues since the outbreak of the global financial and economic crisis,...
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Comprehensive Crisis Response
By the summer of 2010, it had eventually become clear to virtually everybody that the Eurozone debt crisis was a systemic one, not cyclical or...
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The Corona Crisis
From March 2020 onwards the effects of tiering were soon overlaid by the Corona crisis. As Italy, whose economy was in trouble anyway, was also the...
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Lessons of the Crisis for Eurozone Reform
The euro crisis provides a wealth of lessons that should not be ignored. Financial stability was grossly neglected before the crisis. Completing the...
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Germany’s New Foreign Policy Pragmatism
What do the developments outlined above mean for Germany’s role in Europe and the world in general, and its relationship with America in particular?...
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From Birth of Dollar Hegemony Towards the 1929 Crisis
Did the establishment of the Gold Exchange Standard at the Genoa Conference (1922) play a role in the Great Crisis of 1929? This has been a strongly...
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The Evolving Nature of the Irish Policy Space
This chapter uses the Irish element of the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS) of Dáil candidates in the 2020 election to explore policy similarities...
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Is Canada “Back”? Engineering a Diplomatic and International Policy Renaissance
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and his ministers are fond of emphasizing that “Canada is back” on the world stage. While repeating that mantra may...
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The Political Foundations of Canadian Exceptionalism in Immigration Policy
Immigration is a contentious topic in most liberal democracies. Anti-immigrant politicians and parties have used nativism to generate electoral...
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The Great Crisis of 2008
Sub-prime loans and the bankruptcy of Lehman were the biggest headlines of the 2008 Greet Crisis. There was in fact a global credit bubble and bust...
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Government Responses to Crisis
When crises occur, citizens, media and policymakers alike expect government to respond and to take a leading role in recovery. Given the scale and...
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Economic Policy After Brexit
One area almost completely ignored by economic studies, and yet which has possibly the greatest potential to influence whether Brexit will ultimately...
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The Greek Crisis
How could a tiny country, Greece, have become for two years and more the non-stop key news story of the bursting European credit bubble? How did this...
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The Third Wave: The International Financial Crisis and Refugees
This chapter examines the third wave of nativist populism in the post-war era, which began to brew in the wake of the International Financial Crisis...
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The Return of Trudeaumania: A Public Diplomacy Shift in Foreign and Defence Policy?
Canada is a country that has traditionally benefited from a considerable amount of international goodwill. Largely due to its Pearsonian legacy of...
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Conclusion: Will Canada’s Immigration Policy Take an International Turn?
It is not uncommon to read that because international migration by definition involves the people and interests of more than one state, it ought to...
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How the Target Balances Came About: The First Phase of the Crisis
Based on the development of the Target balances, various phases of the euro crisis can be distinguished, beginning with steeply rising balances...
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The First Wave: The Oil Crisis and the New Nationalists
This chapter examines the first wave of nativist populism in the post-war era, which emerged in opposition to over-taxation and multiculturalism in...
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The European Migrant Crisis: A Case Study in Failure of Governmental and Supra-governmental Responses
One of the main reasons for advocating international integration and, even more precisely, for the creation of supra-state governance structures is...
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Ten Policy Ideas for re:generation Europe
This chapter translates the theoretical insights of the previous chapters into real-life policy proposals. They range from the scandalously ambitious...