This article aims to explain the influence of different dimensions political deliberation over two strings Nord Stream pipeline on European Union’s ability act as a unified actor with coherent strategy in realm global energy diplomacy. study concentrated four main cleavages project’s contestation: international, supranational, transatlantic and environmental. The analysis contestation implies b...

This article asks how terrorism expertise has been mobilized in recent trials on financing. How is expert knowledge concerning ongoing and complex political situations involving alleged translated into factual evidence before a court of law? What kind sources do courts use cases, what acknowledged or ignored? Through analysis concrete cases under the United Kingdom (UK) Terrorism Act (2000) Dut...

This paper reports on a small-scale research study into the beliefs of teenagers in Switzerland Swiss national languages and their status relative to English. High school students (n = 232) French-speaking city Lausanne completed questionnaire about economic, social, cultural symbolic value German, Italian The data was then analysed quantitatively by computing means, standard deviations, signif...

Abstract The contestation of global governance institutions can strengthen or weaken, as well transform, them. This article analyses the productive potential and justification by examining multiple authorities that are invoked auxiliaries in process. It studies (re-)construction these dissecting authority into three components: power, legitimacy connection to public interests. Empirically, focu...