The polity of European Union (EU) has been characterized by different theories and concepts over time. At the beginning, IR theories such as Neofunctionalism and Intergovernmentalism were often referred to in explaining the process of European integration. The fierce competition in the global market since the mid 1980s gave rise to the new impetus of boosting further integration by adopting the...

At the centre of this article are two physicians active in Rome between 1600 and 1630 who combined medical practice with broader involvement in the dynamic cultural, economic and political scene of the centre of the Catholic world. The city's distinctive and very influential social landscape magnified issues of career-building and allows us to recapture physicians' different strategies of self-...

The current efforts in “building cyberinfrastructure” are being met with varied success in different disciplines. With respect to the social sciences, cyberinfrastructure (CI) is a tool of significant potential for advancing research, both in terms of connecting social scientists, as well as making accessible vast stores of research data. The current focus of CI, however, is apposite for only a...