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Bulgaria’s struggle at the frontline
Bulgaria has struggled to deal appropriately with mass irregular migration. It has also failed to address integration.
Eleanor E Roberts
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament
ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
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Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia
ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina +2 more
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The Balkans in the New Millennium: In The Shadow of Peace and War
NoCan the Balkans ever become a peaceful penisula like that of Scandinavia? With enlightened backing, can it ever make common cause with the rest of Europe rather than being an arena of periodic conflicts, political misrule, and economic misery?
Gallagher, Tom G.P.
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"Regional Public Goods or Philanthropy? A Critical Assessment of the EU-Balkans Economic Relations" [PDF]
This paper examines the European Union’s (EU’s) economic relations with the Western Balkans (WB) in the light of the emerging debate on international public goods.
Ugur, Mehmet.
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(Non)belonging and (un)freedom
Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
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Europeanisation Through Mobility:Visa Liberalisation and Citizenship Regimes in the Western Balkans [PDF]
This paper examines the implications of the visa liberalisation dialogues which took place between the European Commission and national governments of the Western Balkans for the citizenship regimes of the countries concerned.
Kacarska, Simonida
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change
Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
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The effects of transition and political instability on foreign direct investment inflows: Central Europe and the Balkans [PDF]
This paper examines the effect of transition and of political instability on FDI flows to the transition economies of Central Europe, the Baltics and the Balkans.
Yigit, Taner M. +2 more
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