Projects
Member states liability for internationally wrongful acts of international organizations. KU Leuven
The geoeconomic challenge to International Economic Law: The encroachment of security and strategic considerations in economic policies and the evolution of global economic regulation KU Leuven
A fundamental shift is beginning to materialize, portending a structural disruption of International Economic Law: the perception that the Chinese state-centered economic model is irreconcilable with key pillars of the trade, investment and financial rules in force for the past decades. A clash of economic models seems to be coming to a head in the wake of China’s increasingly global economic presence. At the center of the clash of models ...
Legitimating and framing China-led international initiatives: The cases of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Belt and Road Initiative KU Leuven
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are two notable examples of China’s efforts to raise its regional and global profile by building parallel institutional structures to the incumbent international economic system. To marshal external support for its diplomatic initiatives, China mobilized significant resources to promote and legitimate the AIIB and the BRI. At the same time, there were ...
Rights and duties of non-state actors in international law. KU Leuven
International recognition and execution of security rights in aircraft. KU Leuven
The international operation of aircraft, in combination with the high investment costs characterizing the aircraft finance sector, has as a consequence that creditors (both financial institutions and lessors of aircraft) need to scrupulously ascertain whether they are able to internationally enforce the security rights they have been granted. The security rights on aircraft are vested in accordance with the state of registration of the ...
The right to social security in the European Union: a comparative analysis on the basis of the constitutional traditions common to the EU Member States, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter. KU Leuven
The outbreak of the financial and economic crisis had a severe impact on national economies worldwide, including those of the member states of the European Union (EU). Several EU member states with financial difficulties received financial support by the EU institutions. In return, they were obliged to reduce public spending and as a result, national social security systems were drastically reformed. Since the financial and economic crisis, ...
New spaces of capital: The Real Estate/Financial Complex in Russia and Poland KU Leuven
English Summary
The state-finance-real estate ‘triangle’ found its most spectacular expression in
2007/8 when the collapse of the U.S. mortgage market caused an economic crisis
of global scale. Yet, even though financial news is full of implicit references to the
interaction between the three dimensions, it rarely explicitly addresses it as issue in
its own right. For this reason, Aalbers (2013b:1) has proposed the ...
The spending behaviour of political parties. The expenses of the parties in nine European democracies KU Leuven
Money constitutes one of the most valuable resources for political parties, as it allows them to buy a variety of other resources, including staff, office space, and marketing materials, and consequently to fund all party operations and activities. Given the important role of money in politics, this issue has already received considerable attention in academic literature. Political finance research has been blooming in recent decades, ...