In years to come, the past decade will be characterized as one of revolt against liberalism. With the election of Barack Obama in 2008, liberalism appeared to reach new heights. But the year also marked what, to many, seemed like the beginning of the end. Election after elec tion around the globe …

This paper provides a bibliometric review of 156 articles published between 2011 and 2021 on social impact bonds (SIBs). We identified five research streams, namely studies that: (i) place the origins of SIBs in the neo-liberalism framework; (ii) consider SIBs as an evolution of the new public management …

This article presents and discusses an extracurricular, co-constructed programme: “The Catalyst Club” as a form of Artistic Educational Commoning (AEC). Having been developed as part of a PhD research at Minerva Art Academy (Groningen, The Netherlands), The Catalyst Club (TCC) explored new perspectives …

Jan Willem Duyvendak and Josip Kesic, with Timothy Stacey, explore how nativist logics have infiltrated liberal settings and discourses, primarily in the Netherlands as well as other countries with strong liberal traditions like the US and France. They deconstruct and explain the underlying logic of …

Gender equality is one of the European Union’s (EU) core values. However, no EU Member State (MS) has achieved gender equality. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is the EU institute responsible for promoting gender equality. The aim of this dissertation was to find out how effective EIGE …

The aim of this dissertation is to analyze whether non-state actors, in the form of international governmental organizations, make states irrelevant within the global political arena. There has been a shift in the division of power in the political sphere as a result of trade openness. Indeed, international …

The Chemical Weapons Convention (hereinafter 'the CWC') and its implementation organ the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (hereinafter 'the OPCW or 'the Organization') were purposely created by states to overcome the mutual threat of chemical weapons on the global agenda. Despite …

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