In tracked educational systems, students are allocated to an educational program based on their academic abilities and interests. Although tracking is considered to be a practice that enhances optimal learning opportunities for all students, it has (unintended) side effects, such as a negative perception of students in the vocational track. The present dissertation covers four studies regarding those students. Data from ...
Cooperation between military powers during wars is not a new phenomenon. However, due to the increased globalization and the newly available technologies, supportive acts take more complex forms and concern a wider variety of actors – both States and non-State actors. This study scrutinizes the position of supportive acts under international law. The central research question is formulated as follows: what are the possible ...
The project of global economic liberalization, with the aim to provide for economies open to trade and investment, is in distress. The use of trade and investment by foreign states for political ends resulted into the introduction of security concerns in foreign and domestic economic policy. The European Union and its various Member States, traditionally supporters of an open market economy and a bastion of free trade, ...
The project analyses the legal and regulatory framework for online terrorist activity surveillance tools, both in open source and in the deep web. The research builds upon best practices and existing laws, trying to identify the legal loopholes (if any) in the European landscape (EU and national levels), mostly in the area of data protection, criminal law and export control. The basic assumption of this study is ...
As internationalizing firms have faced rising geopolitical tensions in recent years, studies of international corporate expansion have started to pay increasing attention to dyadic intergovernmental dissent—defined as the extent to which the policy interests of given national governments are misaligned. While extant studies demonstrate dissent's impact on the financial outcomes of cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) (e.g., acquisition ...