Author: QPol at Queen’s
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FIFA: What can the investigations really achieve?
Professor Jack Anderson looks at the roots of the recent FIFA corruption allegations and considers the prospects of the US and Swiss investigations.
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Brexit: Free Movement of Persons and Equal Treatment
As part of an ongoing series looking at the possible implications of a ‘Brexit’, Professor Dagmar Schiek asks how important the equal treatment of migrants in the host state is for the principle of free movement in the EU. What would be the implications of a ‘minor’ UK exception?
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A Public Private Partnership Revival?
Gail Sheppard and Matthias Beck ask whether Public Private Partnership (PPP) is once again ‘open for business’ in the UK and Ireland.
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Brexit: Implications for Northern Ireland
Dr Lee McGowan asks what the implications of a ‘Brexit’ might be for Northern Ireland. Is this the starting gun to a referendum or a ticking time bomb for Northern Ireland?
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EU Referendum: Brexit Looming?
As the UK moves closer towards a referendum on EU membership, Professor David Phinnemore asks what chance David Cameron has of ‘renegotiating’ the UK’s membership.
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Europe’s Emerging Capital Markets Union (Part 2)
In the second installment of a two-part article, Dr Dieter Pesendorfer examines a new wave of integration and deregulation in Europe and why it might be bad for the ‘real economy’.
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Europe’s Emerging Capital Markets Union (Part 1)
In the first of a two-part article, Dr Dieter Pesendorfer examines a new wave of integration and deregulation and why it might be bad for the ‘real economy’.
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Why the age of criminal responsibility should be raised in Northern Ireland
Dr Nicola Carr argues that the age of criminal responsibility is too low in Northern Ireland and that we need to think beyond criminal justice to protect and support young people at risk of becoming ‘offenders’.
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Can universities contribute to economic development?
Professor Nola Hewitt-Dundas asks whether Northern Ireland needs universities? If it does, then should public money be used to support them? If public money is invested in our Universities, then what role should they play in society and the economy?
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Should 16 year olds be able to vote?
In advance of this week’s Westminster election and the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election, Dr Neil Matthews and Dr John Garry ask whether 16/17 year olds should be allowed to vote.