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Intro -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Deconstructing Sovereignty -- I -- II -- III -- References -- Chapter 3: (Re)claiming Sovereignty -- I -- II -- References -- Chapter 4: Credibly (Re)claiming Sovereignty -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- References -- Chapter 5: Swiss Claims of Sovereignty -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- References -- Chapter 6: Testing Swiss Sovereignty Credibility -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- References -- Chapter 7: Empirics on Swiss Sovereignty Credibility -- I -- II -- III -- References -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1: Statistical Techniques -- Appendix 2: Overall Results -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Index.

"Humanitarian Aid and the European Union" published on by Oxford University Press.

This article investigates the European Union Humanitarian Aid Policy's (EUHAP's) institutional shape. A theoretical approach referring to the literature on sovereignty is adopted, hypothesizing that the EUHAP has ideal institutional settings to cope with European Union (EU) integration and Member States' concerns about the maintenance of sovereignty. Challenging the formalist approach assuming sovereignty as an organized hypocrisy whereof states are the incontrovertible promoters, the article shows how EUHAP's implementation, rather than negotiation, indicates evidence of arguable sovereign control by Member States over the EU's activity. The enhancing of EU's competences within EUHAP's implementation, sometimes going beyond what has been agreed with Member States within negotiations, signals the inability of EUHAP's sui generis institutional setting to combine the advantages of supranational cooperation with an absence of risk for Member States' sovereignty. EUHAP's institutional uniqueness must depend on reasons associated with the satisfaction of humanitarian aid priorities rather than on the EU's internal logics.

This article investigates the relationship between political revolutions and the evolution of politics. It discusses the circularity within the concept of revolution through Jacques Derrida's theory of sovereignty as particularly per Rogues – Two Essays on Reason and The Beast and the Sovereign. Derrida's notions of wheel and ipseity display ontological prerogatives and evolutionary limits of political revolutions possibly coinciding with reversals hard to turn into linear evolutions, excluding rather than reaffirming circularity. Political revolutions show such incapacity to become evolutionary for politics when lacking ontological substance and resting upon formal contingencies such as new techniques. An 'alturnative' notion of sovereignty is proposed as a heuristic criterion to gauge political events' 'revolutionary' quality. This undermines the (r)evolutionary nature of political turns, like those associated with the contemporary digitalisation of politics. The Italian Five Stars Movement's parable is a case in point of digital political turns whose effect is non-evolutionary for politics.