Browsing BI Open by Author "Sitter, Nick"
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A liberal actor in a realist world? The commission and the external dimension of the single market for energy
Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article investigates the Commission’s external energy policy through the lens of the regulatory state. It argues that because of the nature of its institutions, policy tools and resources, the Commission remains a ... -
A new look at Euroscepticism: How Stable Are the Cleavages?
Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;1/2010, Working paper, 2010)This paper is a transcript of the lecture at The ARENA annual conference 2009: A new look at Euroscepticism, Oslo, 11 December 2009. -
Assessing microfinance: The Bosnia and Herzegovina case
Welle-Strand, Anne; Sitter, Nick; Kjøllesdal, Kristian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Microfinance is often hailed both as a tool for fighting poverty and as a tool for post-conflict reconciliation. This paper explores the use of microfinance in post-civil war Bosnia and Herzegovina, assessing its results ... -
Defending the State: Nationalism, Geopolitics and Differentiated Integration in Visegrád Four Security Policy
Sitter, Nick (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)During the second half of the 2010s the governments of Poland and Hungary took a sharp turn away from liberal democracy and the rule of law. As they slipped down the international democracy rankings, the European Union ... -
The EU’s Enfants Terribles: Democratic Backsliding in Central Europe since 2010
Bakke, Elisabeth; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In the academic literature, Hungary and Poland are often cited as paradigmatic cases of democratic backsliding. However, as the backsliding narrative gained traction, the term has been applied to the rest of the post-communist ... -
Fra motspiller til medspiller: EU og norsk profesjonell fotball 1995-2012
Andersen, Svein S.; Anker, Elisabeth; Hanstad, Dag Vidar; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)I 1995 fastslo EU-domstolen at profesjonell fotball var en del av det indre marked. Dette førte til sterke negative reaksjoner fra fotballklubber og -forbund i hele Europa. Bosmandommen presset samtidig EU-kommisjonen til ... -
Horses for courses. The roles of IPE and Global Public Policy in global energy research
Sitter, Nick; Goldthau, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Although IPE and GPP overlap conceptionally and empirically, there is a case for keeping GPP and IPE analytically distinct. To simplify: GPP tells us why we need international regimes for energy, while IPE tells us why we ... -
The International Political Economy of oil and gas
Sitter, Nick; Goldthau, Andreas (Chapter, 2021)This chapter reviews the International Political Economy (IPE) scholarship in energy over the last few decades. It shows that there is a deep divide between two dominant schools of thought in IPE energy research: the liberal ... -
Managing Heterogeneity in the EU: Using Gas Market Liberalisation to Explore the Changing Mechanisms of Intergovernmental Governance
Andersen, Svein S.; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Since the Single European Act the EU has brought many ‘public’ policy sectors characterised by heterogeneity under the umbrella of the Single Market. Consequently, some of the tools employed to shelter these sectors from ... -
Norway's Storting Election of September 2005: Back to the Left?
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Power, authority and security: the EU’s Russian gas dilemma
Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper investigates contestation of authority in EU energy policy, with a focus on natural gas. It argues that the main challenge centers on the EU’s goals and means of energy security policy, not the location and scope ... -
Regulating for competition and security: The European energy sector
Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;7/2011, Working paper, 2011)The present paper explores the changing priorities in EU energy policy, its effects on the European energy market and the robustness of the regulatory toolbox available to the EU and its member states. -
Soft power with a hard edge: EU policy tools and energy security
Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)International security debates surrounding the European Union energy supply challenge commonly invoke the need for more EU hard power – e.g. getting tough on Russia or engaging directly with other exporters. This article ... -
The four horsemen of terrorism: it’s not waves, it’s strains
Parker, Tom; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)David Rapoport’s concept of four waves of terrorism, from anarchist terrorism in the 1880s, through nationalist and Marxist waves in the early and mid-Twentieth Century, to the present religious wave, is one of the most ... -
The Future of the Regulatory State: Adaptation, Transformation or Demise?
Lodge, Martin; Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;1/2011, Working paper, 2011)This short paper is meant to provide for some background ideas to motivate discussions during our workshop. It therefore seeks to make a few short (and hopefully somewhat provocative) points. The idea of the ‘regulatory ... -
The Hungarian Party System in 2010: More Polarized, less Plural
Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;6/2011, Working paper, 2011)This paper investigates the origins and nature of Hungary’s 2010 ‘earthquake election’. -
The limits of the EUR regulatory state: Power, politics and pragmatism in European gas markets
Andersen, Svein S.; Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;1/2009, Working paper, 2009)Paper presented at the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Eleventh Biennial International Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 23-25, 2009. Panel: Reconsidering the Regulatory State in Europe. -
The Norwegian local election of 2007
Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;2/2007, Working paper, 2007)The paper is a report prepared for the PSA Specialist Group on Scandinavia. -
The Study of European Union Politics in the UK and Ireland
Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;2/2012, Working paper, 2012)This is a working paper version of a paper written for SENT - The Network of European Studies. The working paper provides an overview of the development of the British and Irish literature on the EU, from the early debates ... -
To Structure Political Conflict: the Institutionalisation of Referendums on European Integration in the Nordic Countries
Sitter, Nick (CEAS Reports;1/2007, Working paper, 2007)This is a paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions of Workshops, Helsinki, May 7-12, 2007.