Using Europe: Strategic action in multi-level politics

Stretching Concepts Too Far? Multi-Level Governance, Policy Transfer and the Politics of Scale in South East Europe

This paper suggests that the literature on multi-level governance, dominated by Western European and U.S. writers and research settings, suffers from methodological and epistemological limitations. The concept, when refracted through the lens of lived political experiences in South East Europe, appears in serious need of revision and refinement. The paper goes on to argue that both notions of p...

11688 Models of Strategic Choice in Politics

The politics of health in Europe

Somatostatin is a tetradecapeptide with potent inhibitory actions on several endocrine systems; it blocks the release of growth hormone, follicle stimulating hormone and thyrotropin from the pituitary gland (Krulich et al., 1968; Brazeau et al., 1973; Hall et al., 1978; Reichlin, 1983) and several peptide hormones from the endocrine gut and pancreas (Cohen et al., 1978; Gerich, 1981). It also a...

Immigration and the Changing Politics of Europe

High Level Interpretation of Action Failures in Multi-Robot Systems

The paper addresses the problem of on-line monitoring and diagnosis of multi-robot systems. These tasks are performed by a Diagnostic Module whose high-level architecture is introduced: the on-line monitoring exploits a model of the system (robots + environment) based on automata. An assessment of the system status is performed during the monitoring phase, while a high-level interpretation of t...