"A Country Where Everyone Feels Free?" The Georgian Orthodox Church, Political Homophobia and Europeanization of LGBTIQ ...
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The ignorance of dignity: The contagion of populism in Tunisian-European relations
Dignity! Tunisians call “their” revolution Thawrat al-Karama [ثورةالكرامة[, the Revolution of Dignity. Often referred to as the “Arab Spring”, the Tunisian revolution of 2010–2011 quickly spread to other countries in the region and is considered the first prototype of “post-modern revolutions” (Badie, 2021). By transnationalizing the revolts and gi...
Trade Between WAEMU And EU Countries Ante-Brexit : Lessons From A Gravity Model
The aim of this study is to analyse trade between the member countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and those of the European Union (EU) pre-Brexit over the period 2014-2019. It estimates a gravity model based on panel data. Three econometric estimation techniques are used : the WITHIN method, the Generalised Least Square...
Unpacking the green box: Determinants of Environmental Policy Stringency in Europeancountries / Unpacking the green box:...
This paper identifies the determinants of OECD Environmental Policy Stringency (EPS) index using a panel of 21 European countries for the period 2009-2019. If there is a large literature on the macroeconomic, political, and social determinants of EPS, the people’s attitudes or preferences toward environmental policies is still burgeoning. Thus, the...
RETRACTED: Digital Markets in EU Competition law
Published in Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
Online marketplaces’ expansion has completely transformed the way in which products and services are traded, benefiting both consumers and companies in a variety of ways. However, the decentralized nature of online markets, the problem of market domination, and the growing use of big data in digital marketplaces, has brought many difficulties relat...
RETRACTED: Anti-competitive behavior in digital markets
Published in Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
The regulations stated in Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) define that it is prohibited for companies to engage in agreements that are anticompetitive in nature with one another. E-commerce platforms have emerged as significant commercial channels in the virtual realm. The antitrust scrutiny has been drawn t...
Assessing Determinants and Impact of Possible Russian Influence in the Western Balkan Countries
Published in Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
For Russia, the Western Balkan region holds significant historical, cultural, and religious ties, and while from a historical point of view the Western Balkans represents an area where Russia tries to be a long-time actor, the relationship between Moscow and Western Balkan states also depends on international factors such as EU integration. Additio...
Strengthen EU/NATO Relationship: A Necessity, Now More Than Ever
Published in Research in Social Change
This study aims to analyse the evolution of the relationship between the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in the recent decades, particularly with the implementation of the EU's Common Security and defence Policy (CSDP). This study also aims to improve knowledge of the trends of different approaches in the EU ab...
Unpacking the green box: Determinants of Environmental Policy Stringency in European countries
This paper identifies the determinants of OECD Environmental Policy Stringency (EPS) index using a panel of 21 European countries for the period 2009-2019. If there is a large literature on the macroeconomic, political, and social determinants of EPS, the people’s attitudes or preferences toward environmental policies is still burgeoning. Thus, the...
Comparative Analysis of Green Hydrogen Policy Mixes of the EU and the US
Sustainable energy transition is the need of the hour, more so, because of the accelerated effects of climate change. This necessitates rapid, continuous, and persuasive political and technological approaches to enable an ecosystem of green alternatives for countries to support their net-zero ambitions. One such emerging technology approach is gree...
