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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012

Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...

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Efficiency, Fairness, and Social Cohesion in Europe and the United States : Incomes, Hours of Work, and Equality with an Afterthought on Iceland

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2016

on efficiency and fairness, including deep respect for human rights, holds the key to Europe's economic and social … income) places Europe ahead of the United States. Further, adjustments for education attainment and public health, as made by … the United Nations Human Development Index, similarly favor Europe vis-à-vis the US. While expansion fatigue has …

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Can and Should the EU's Eastern Partnership Be Saved?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2014

In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements at the Vilnius Summit in November 2013. This paper asks what went wrong and what can be done about it. Using a gravity model to estimate the effects of deep and shallow free...

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