Poltical Economy of European Integration M.A.
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COVID-19 pandemic influence on the social protection systems of selected Global South countries.
(2022)
Social protection which is a set of policies and programmes designated to improve people’s life quality and protect them from poverty and social vulnerabilities is something that has been severely impacted by the sudden Coronavirus pandemic that began in late 2019. The following paper will analyse how the social protection systems of Brazil and Rwanda performed in the times of the crisis and its main assumption is that the social protection system in Brazil has failed in the face of COVID-19 pandemic due to deficient and callous governing while the inclusive and efficient policymaking in Rwanda enabled the country’s social protection system to conduct an effective crisis response.
The study will examine what are the country-specific social protection factors that contributed to different crisis responses in the instances of Brazil and Rwanda. The key results are that while the COVID-19 pandemic has disclosed the weaknesses of social protection systems in both Brazil and Rwanda, the first had a failed response because of the dismissive attitude of political leaders which resulted in unsatisfactory consequences in the social protection functionality while the latter performed admirably in the times of a crisis because of a fast institutional healthcare response and communication between the government and the citizens. The research method of this study is literature analysis and review as well as a cross-country comparison.
Cyprus is a big east Mediterranean island with more than half a century long problem. Unfortunately, this problem was caused by conflicts between two neighbouring nations on the island and with Turkey’s illegal invention this problem became the problem for the century. In this thesis historical development of the problem takes an important place since conflict has very important historical roots. This thesis explains peace projects of the UN on the island and the last well-known peace project called Annan plan which was also supported by the EU. Lastly the EU enlarged the island without solving this historical problem. The EU often uses its strong conditionality power over candidates, yet the EU fails to conduct a peace on the island before it welcomes Cyprus to the Union. The main reason for this fast enlargement decision of the EU was Greece’s open policy for Cyprus. Since Eastern enlargement was important for the EU as a new market and an important security policy, the EU did not want to spend time on Cyprus because this would postpone the eastern enlargement. As a result, Republic of Cyprus became a member of the EU as a whole island, while the problem is still there.
European Neighboorhood Policy as a power instrument of the Euopean Union: the case Azerbaijan
(2019)
This master thesis aims to identify the defining variables for a market ramp-up of electric road systems (ERS) and to develop scenarios for the potential market launch of the technology in Germany and Europe. For this purpose, a comprehensive analysis of the political, regulatory and economic variables is conducted, which finally leads to the generation of different market ramp-up scenarios.