Thesis and Research Topics. Doctorate America

In the admission process, the Supervisor of the Doctorate will assign a tutor to the Doctoral Student, who will be the responsible to coordinate the student activities in the Doctoral programme.

1. Furthermore, a Director (Thesis Supervisor) is assigned
2. Thesis Supervisor will guide the student in thesis planning; he is the ultimately responsible for the consistency and novelty of the thesis
3. Tutor and Supervisor (Director) can match
4. Co-direction of the thesis is also allowed

Research Work and Thesis Plan (40 ECTS).

With Thesis Supervisor (Director) support, Doctoral Student must perform the appropriate research that will lead to the realization of his thesis plan.

Doctoral Student must prepare and submit a thesis plan, which, as a minimum, should include the provisional thesis title, objectives pursued, methodology to be used, the means and schedule.

Doctoral Student must study the “Research methodology” module, which will introduce to the thesis preparation method.

EENI highly appreciates that the thesis results could benefit the development of the American continent.

Thesis and Thesis Defense (120 ECTS) of the Doctorate

Under the supervision of Thesis Supervisor, Doctoral Student develops and presents the research results.

1. Doctoral Student can select their subject areas within the research parameters proposed by EENI, creating a thesis that must be completely original and own, which will be published on the EENI platform set up for this purpose
2. The Directorate may authorise the thesis deposit like a compendium of publications if the requirements established by the Directorate are fulfilled

Thesis Defense by video conference.

Examples of research topics related to America

1. American Economic Areas of Western Civilization
2. Christianity and Business in America
3. Latin American strategic sectors
4. Production in Hispanic America (Iberian America)
5. Strengths and weaknesses of  Hispanic America Countries
6. American regional integration
7. Regional integration blocs (MERCOSUR, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement...)
8. Intra-American trade
9. Latin American economic institutions
10. Interconnections among Hispanic American Markets
11. Customs in America
12. Information technology and trade
13. Logistics and transport in America
14. Investment in America
15. American value chains
16. Role of American private sector
17. International relations of Hispanic America Countries
18. The United States and global market
19. The United States in the new economy
20. American emerging markets
21. Economic governance in America
22. Corruption in America
23. America's relations with Asia (Africa, China, India, BRICS Countries, Arab countries)
24. Latin America and Globalization
25. African Diaspora in America
26. Central states of Latin America