Negotiating the Common Agricultural Policy: A Critical Appraisal of Franco-German Intra-Alliance Rivalry

The Evolution of the Franco-german Rivalry

Recent research on interstate conflict has suggested that the concept of interstate rivalry can be extremely useful in accounting for the outbreak or escalation of conflict. Scholars have found that so-called "rival" adversaries account for a large proportion of all interstate conflict, including interstate wars, militarized interstate disputes, and violent territorial exchanges. Furthermore, c...

Policy Instruments in the Common Agricultural Policy

Policy changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can be explained in terms of the exhaustion and long-term contradictions of policy instruments. Changes in policy instruments have reoriented the policy without any change in formal Treaty goals. The social and economic efficacy of instruments in terms of evidence-based policy analysis was a key factor in whether they were delegitimized. Th...

A Critical Appraisal of Climate Policy

Ten years after the initial Climate Change Convention from Rio in 1992, the developed world is likely to ratify the Kyoto Protocol which has been celebrated as a milestone in climate protection. Standard economic theory, however, casts doubt that Kyoto will go beyond symbolic policy. In this paper we show that the final concretion of the Kyoto Protocol obeys the theoretical prediction: Kyoto mo...

Current anti-doping policy: a critical appraisal

BACKGROUND Current anti-doping in competitive sports is advocated for reasons of fair-play and concern for the athlete's health. With the inception of the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), anti-doping effort has been considerably intensified. Resources invested in anti-doping are rising steeply and increasingly involve public funding. Most of the effort concerns elite athletes with much less imp...

The common agricultural policy after 2013