The aim of this thesis is to analyse the triangular dynamics of securitisation and de-securitisation underpinning the European Union’s policies agains...

The likelihood of clashes between international norms has increased in correlation with the upsurge in the number of specialised regimes emerging wit...

This thesis consists of three essays in applied microeconomics. In Chapter 1, I estimate the effect that wealth and power have on criminal justice ou...

Focussing on the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century radical William Godwin, this thesis examines the relationship between children’s books ...

Rhinoceros horns, Asian textiles, Chinese porcelain and Indian furniture populate the inventories from consumers in early modern Madrid. These goods h...

In November 1689, a brief Tuscan encounter between Leibniz and Galileo’s last disciple Vincenzio Viviani set the stage for the epistemological confro...

Post-2008 developments in European politics have reopened the debate on the extent to which we are witnessing a fundamental transformation of patterns...

This is a study of the development of war writing in the nineteenth century, showing how the authorial impulses of veterans from the Napoleonic Wars i...

This dissertation investigates the ties between Florentine merchants in Antwerp and their hometown in the sixteenth century. It demonstrates that such...

In this dissertation I seek to contribute to our understanding of the recasting of religion in the global order. I approach this by conducting a case...

Main aim of this thesis is to shed a new light on the 4th of August of regime, the authoritarian state that was established in August 1936 by Metaxas,...

The aim of this dissertation is to shed new light on the electoral support for radical right-wing parties (RRP). Whereas most existing investigations ...

The thesis contributes to the debate on the EU’s approach to the business practice of resale price maintenance (RPM). There is a very broad consensus...