Written by Yann-Sven Rittelmeyer. Cyprus is a presidential democracy with a President directly elected by universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The President is both Head

of State and Head of Government as he or she appoints the ministers and exercises executive power together with them. [...]

European Journal of Criminology, Ahead of Print. The intimate presence of state power and the resentments and reactions produced by involuntary confinement mean that the conditions

of imprisonment produce and expose various forms of resistance. The literature in this area has tended to focus on highly ... [...]

Written by Anna Flynn. The EU and China account for nearly 30 % of global trade. The EU has defined China as a ‘partner, competitor, and systemic rival.’ One of the key,

current challenges is that, following the announcement of United States’ tariffs, China announced new export controls on their rare earth elements in April and [...]

Socioeconomic developments in high-income countries since the postwar era have induced fundamental changes in the predominant social risks to which people are exposed. This

article seeks to determine whether this evolution is accompanied by changing expectations of the welfare state. [...]

AbstractThe UN Human Rights Committee’s jurisprudence regarding temporal jurisdiction remains underexplored in the literature. This article critically analyses the Committee’s

evolving jurisprudence on jurisdiction ratione temporis and continuing violations, delineating the different concepts and how they are applied by the Committee. [...]

AbstractThis article argues that the emergence of ostensibly new human rights norms and regimes can be better understood through closer attention to transnational legal processes,

rather than only lawmaking at a single level of government. Such dynamics may be particularly informative in the setting of significant uncertainty around the meaning [...]

AbstractThis article draws an explicit and much needed connection between Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) and the principle of the rule of law, arguing that the growing criminalisation

of HRDs undermines the rule of law, especially in liberal states that claim to uphold strong rule of law commitments. [...]

Social Sciences, Vol. 15, Pages 34: Examining the Link Between Critical Thinking, In-School Racial Discrimination, and Perceptions of Future College-Going Beliefs Social Sciences

doi: 10.3390/socsci15010034 [...]

Housing is becoming an urgent issue in many European Union (EU) countries, as rents and property prices are currently increasing faster than inflation. While housing is generally

the responsibility of EU countries, the EU supports national and local authorities through partnerships and social housing funding programmes. [...]