INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Author: MATEO GONZÁLEZ GEMMA.
Year: 2003.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIA POLÍTICA Y DERECHO PÚBLICO.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE DOCTORADO Y DE FORMACIÓN CONTINUADA.

Summary: Â How do you explain the outcome of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) in the European Union (EU)? Until now, relatively little has been written on this interesting phenomenon. At the moment, there are two kinds of interpretations. The first is based solely on national interests and the distribution of power between the States and the second, based on the theoretical model of the "dustbin", concludes that the results are unpredictable. Both interpretations deal negotiation processes as "black boxes" and used only entries in the negotiation as explanatory variables. In contrast to both explanations this study focuses directly in the negotiating process. The main argument is that the complexity of multilateral negotiations and the IGC multi like in the EU calls for a series of informal rules and procedures. Based on the literature neoinstitucionalismo, trying to show that these rules affect the negotiation process, and therefore the results. Negotiations completely intergovernmental, as presupposes intergovernmentalism or chaotic negotiations, along the lines of "trash", would be unable to avoid what has been called the "trap of joint decision." Our interpretation lies in the effects of institutionalization of the IGC, and in particular the fact that increasingly are still negotiating rules more articulated. Therefore, the argument that we raise defies explanations existing emphasis on the importance of analysis of the negotiating process in order to better understand the results achieved in the IGC in the EU.

Author: CALVO ORTEGA FRANCESC.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA.

Summary: Nothing better than our religious culture to check the manner in which certain types of experiences linked to the spiritual come in one way or another bounded by definition propia.Aparecen as an act of separation through which arises in the field of a religion binary partition of what being at the same time internal and external to it, can be accepted or on the contrary has to be rejected. whether individual behavior or gurpo comply or not the rules, codes and values fiejados by those religious bodies that are authorized to do so. Also on the threshold of a break in that it put all these developments, it is not fair to treat them with reference to the monotonous indiferenciación of historic change, which includes all events and the abstract of its succession law, but from a perspective transformation of the rupture epistemolígica from which decompose, amending or annulling the relationship between theology and medicine, physiology and psychiatry, natural science and mathematics or psychopathology and psychoanalysis. These cuts, which appear and disappear a series of relationships, practices and discourses on everything that is especially strange to Christianity, which focuses our attention on methodological this thesis.

Author: RODRÍGUEZ LÓPEZ M. CARMEN.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID [www.uam.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID.

Summary: The prospect of entry into the EEC / EU has brought in some accession countries reformulation in terms of its democratic political system. This thesis is an analysis of what it means to the idea of Europe as a political goal by Spain and Turkey and the reactions of the main political parties before the democratization of political conditionality set by Brussels as essential criterion for membership. The Spanish case, closed at the time, it serves as a reference point that allows us to consider how this has evolved and how political conditionality has been raised in the case turkish. In turn, he examines whether the EU offers a model policy and a way of promoting democratization in third countries other than the American model performance.