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The European Parliament's Political Leadership: The Case Study of EU Foreign Policy towards Turkey

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 61, Issue 5, Page 1377-1393, September 2023., 2023
Abstract This article presents an empirical analysis of how the European Parliament's eighth legislature mobilised to shape European Union (EU) foreign policy towards Turkey during the refugee crisis. On a conceptual and methodological level, we propose an analytical framework based on the mechanism of political leadership to trace the EP's role in two
Elena Baracani, Lorenzo Santini
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Plurinational democracies in Europe: the quest for a profane constitutionalism

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 50, Issue S1, Page S140-S156, September 2023., 2023
Abstract How should we understand the claims on the right to decide on status made within plurinational member states of the European Union by actors and institutions seeking to protect the self‐government of sub‐state nations or peoples, or at least their right to consent to their ascribed status?
JOXERRAMON BENGOETXEA
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Uncovering Power Dynamics: Feeling Rules in European Policy‐making

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 526-544, March 2023., 2023
Abstract While feeling rules have been found to be highly relevant in social research and international relations, little is known about their role in European policy‐making. This article explores how emotions have been understood by Commission and Council officials and by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) across policy areas over a long time ...
Rosa Sanchez Salgado
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Reassembling the Political: The PKK and the project of Radical Democracy

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Turkish Studies, 2013
One of the most important secular political movements in the Middle East, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) underwent a profound transformation in the 2000s.
Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya, Joost Jongerden
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Beyond Orientalism: Exploring the Distinctive Feminism of Democratic Confederalism in Rojava [PDF]

open access: yesGeopolitics, 2018
Women have been central to the revolution in Rojava, leading to widespread interest in the Kurdish women’s movement across Western contexts. Yet Western mass media representations of women combatants tend to be objectifying and superficial, glossing over the unique variety of feminism, known as “jineology,” that is core to the political system of ...
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Introduction - Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics and Theoretical Perspectives

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto
This editorial positions Kurdish politics at a turning point initiated by the PKK's 2025 decision to dissolve its armed wing and by concomitant institutional realignments in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Davide Grasso, Andrea Novellis
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Democratic Confederalism and the Theory of History: Historical Ontologies of Political Alternative in Bookchin, Öcalan, and Graeber

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto
This paper aims to discuss the "historical ontology of political alternative" emerging from the work of Abdullah Öcalan by comparing it to the ones of two other authors: Murray Bookchin, who has notoriously influenced his thought, and David Graeber ...
Bernardo Paci
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Women, Space, Resistance: Kurdish Refugee‐Migrants' Narratives From Lavrio and Skaramagas Camps in Greece

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Refugee camps have long been theorized as spaces of exception, where sovereign power reduces displaced people to what Agamben terms ‘bare life’. While this frame captures the violence of camp governance, it depicts refugee‐migrants as passive and says little about how camp space is inhabited, contested and remade in everyday life, least of all
Orkide Izci
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Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 286-298, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long‐standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, understood as an increase in employers’ discretion.
Vincenzo Maccarrone
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