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SPIRe Seminar Week 4 “Not so Normative Europe: A Western Power in the Making?”
SPIRe’s week four seminar features Prof. Ben Tonra presenting his paper co-authored with Dr. James Ker-Lindsay of the London School of Economics “Not so Normative Europe: A Western Power in the Making?” Wednesday, February 13th from 12:00-13:00 in G316 Newman … Continue reading
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SPIRe Seminar Week 3: Dr. Guy Ben-Porat
This week’s SPIRe seminar feature Dr. Guy Ben-Porat from Ben-Gurion University presenting on his forthcoming book “Between State and Synagogue: The Secularization of Contemporary Israel” from Cambridge University Press. The seminar will be in G317 Newman (Arts) at UCD Belfield … Continue reading
Victory for Europe? Not yet
SPIRe’s Prof. Daniel Thomas outlines the challenges that still remain to overcoming the EU financial crisis in a recent blog post at europedebate.ie.
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The rhetoric of reform: What stops reform from happening?
SPIRE’s Dr. Niamh Hardiman recently spoke on political reform at the MacGill Summer School. A transcript of her comments can be found here.
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The Eurozone crisis after the Greek elections
SPIRE’s Dr. Niamh Hardiman posts some thoughts about what’s happening in the Eurozone on Crooked Timber. Kevin O’Rourke, who’s cited in Dr. Hardiman’s comments, has blogged some further comments on The Irish Economy, here.
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Professor Elinor Ostrom
By: Dr. Samuel Brazys Professor Elinor Ostrom, the first and only female Nobel laureate in Economics died today at the age of 78. Professor Ostrom, or Lin as she was known to colleagues and students alike, was an extraordinary scholar … Continue reading
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Time running out for the political reform agenda?
Post by David Farrell, June 2012 I have an op ed in today’s Irish Times about the (effectively) stalled political reform agenda of this government. The link is here. There can be no more prevarication. The government made a clear … Continue reading
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The Future of Intergovernmentalism
SPIRe’s Professor Daniel Thomas discusses the implications for Ireland of the future of intergovernmentalism in Europe in a new post at europedebate.ie
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