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This paper focuses on the European Security and Defense Policy and tries to answer the question why the member states have deviating deepening preferences in this field. After discovering the supranational-intergovernmental divide, we will determine its possible causes. The Qualitative Comparative Analysis helps us to distillate the most valuable independent variables and reveals 'institutional culture' and 'balancing' as most important. Finally, we match our findings with the initial theories, used to derive the causal variables, and verify their explanatory power. Adapted from the source document.

De prijs van gebed : twee momentopnamen uit de financiële geschiedenis van de karmel van 's-Hertogenbosch (1874 en 1925) /Brian Heffernan --Brouwen voor een hoger doel? : goddelijke voorzienigheid of marktgevoel bij het economisch beleid van cisterciënzerabdijen in de Lage Landen /Harry van Royen --Koostergemeenschappen en hun ervaringen met een familiefonds : de Brenninkmeijers en liefdadigheid /Hans Wennink --Nederlandse religieuzen tot op de dag van vandaag actief betrokken op de maatschappij /Rogier Moulen Janssen --"We hadden niks en we waren niks" : een voorbeeld van omgaan met (zak)geld bij de Franciscanessen van Veghel /Jeroen Neus --De (i)materiële inzet voor het Rijk Gods : hoe de Franciscanessen van Mariadal hun kapitaal beheerden /Marie-Antoinette Willemsen --Verwerving en afstoting van kloosterlijk erfgoed : een financiële meevaller? /Joost van Hest.

"This text was presented as an inaugural speech by Eric van de Luijtgaarden at Maastricht University on 22nd September, 2022.This is a bilingual publication. The Dutch title is 'Andere juristen' and the text can be read in Dutch at the back of the book when turned upside-down."--

Compromises have long been considered as the most important ingredient for the success of the Belgian and Dutch pacification democracy. The trick is to find one another in the middle was by politicians but also by political scientists (Lijphart, 1977) and analysts as an ideal put forward. Koen Koch described this a little whimpering but striking in a commentary on the policies of the second Cabinet Cook (1998-2002), in which Liberals and Social Democrats sat together: 'The color of political success in the Netherlands is not purple, but gray' (Koch, 1999). Adapted from the source document.

This article presents a state-of-the-art description of political theory and analyses the role of political theory within the discipline of political science. It starts by describing two dominant approaches within the sub-discipline: conceptual political theory and normative political theory. Secondly, it situates political theory as separated from political science in general and from actual political debates. Thirdly, it analyses the role of methodology in normative political theory. I argue that the most important contribution of political theory to political science in general is its emphasis on the fact that politics is first and foremost a normative endeavor and that any political-scientific analysis should always be aware of this normative character. Adapted from the source document.

This article tries to analyse & improve the individual-level approaches to the study of public Euroscepticism in Belgium. In recent literature, three approaches focusing on instrumental, cultural & political cues can be distinguished. First, the utilitarian approach associates Euroscepticism with economic interests. Second, the cultural approach draws on cultural attitudes & affective identities. Third, the political approach associates support for European integration with political efficacy & institutional trust. Drawing upon Belgian data from the IntUne Project 2007, the results show that negative evaluations of the benefits of European membership, social distrust in European fellow citizens & institutional distrust in the EU are the most important determinants of Euroscepticism, while education, national attachment, exclusive identity & political powerlessness have a minor impact. Tables, Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.