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Updated 06 May 2025

EUI scholars produce over 1,000 publications each year, offering insights into complex, real-world problems and fundamental questions about human society. Our repository holds refereed articles and books, reports and datasets.

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Mafalda Escada reassesses the politics of poverty

Mafalda Escada, PhD researcher at the EUI, explores the evolving politics of poverty and minimum income policies in Southern Europe. Her work examines the shift from charity-based aid to universal social rights, with a focus on the challenges and progress in Portugal, Italy, and Spain.

Who owns justice? A conversation with Julia Emtseva

Julia Emtseva, a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI Department of Law, looks into the complex interplay between private actors and transitional justice, especially focusing on their ever-growing role in performing public functions, as well as on how we can rethink transitional justice from a different angle.

How history informs the present: Shari’a law and tribal justice in Syria

How have tribal justice and Shari’a law influenced each other in Syria’s history? CIVICA Fellow Dima Hussain traces their evolving interaction, from historical roots to modern-day Idlib, exploring legal pluralism beyond state control through her work at EUI and the Central European University.

Vampirism and science in the Enlightenment: a conversation with Ádám Mézes

Ádám Mézes, Max Weber Fellow at the Department of History, combines historical anthropology with science and technology to study the Enlightenment in a Central European context, assessing questions of disenchantment, medicalisation, and governance.

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EUI’s Research Blog – EUIdeas

Explore evidence-driven contributions from EUI scholars on a wide range social, political, legal, and economic issues. See special collections on Black History Month and on war in Ukraine.

Research at the Robert Schuman Centre

We conduct basic and applied research to address real-world problems. The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies has 9 programmes on themes from energy regulation to migration, to media pluralism to global governance. See video playlists below.

EUI’s Research Repository

Publications and research data produced by the EUI’s scholarly community include special thematic collections and over 3,000 EUI theses.

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Interdisciplinary Research Clusters

Cross-campus interdisciplinary research that focuses on six interrelated themes of high societal interest: Democracy, Environment, Inequality, Digital Transformations, the Crisis of Expertise, and Finance and Society.

Research Support

We coordinate, systematise and broaden high-quality support for EUI faculty and researchers. Consult our pages for resources on the planning and grantseeking phase, collaboration across campus, or the reporting and dissemination of research results.

Department research profiles

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Explore the research profile of the EUI's four PhD-granting departments and discover how our work is shifting the knowledge frontier in the social sciences and informing policy worldwide.

Decoding the Diversity Paradox with Zeinab Aboutalebi

Research at the EUI

Creative collaborations, vital impacts

Latest publications

Who is left behind? Economic status loss and populist radical right voting

Latin American international law in the twenty-first century

Shrouded in secrecy: explaining why some countries refuse to disclose their military aid to Ukraine

A mid-level perspective on the ethics of immigration policies

Invisible costs of exiting autocracy: subjective well-being and emotional burnout among Russian wartime migrants

Handbook on crisis communication for public institutions

Introducing organizational (dis)entanglements: how scholarship on regime complexity and power dynamics helps make sense of international order-making