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China’s linkages and leverages in Central and Eastern Europe – a new challenge for EU [PDF]

open access: yesCES Working Papers, 2019
Relying on the linkage and leverage theory, the paper aims at reviewing critical issues related to China’s economic, cultural and political expansion in EU’s Central and Eastern member states.
Bogdan Lucian CUMPĂNAŞU
doaj  

Who Cares: Why the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Matters (More) to Some EU Member States

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract What drives the salience of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict amongst EU member states? This article employs domestic foreign policy theories to explain the factors underlying variation in salience, estimated analysing all country statements made at the United Nations General Assembly between 1993 and 2017.
Valerio Vignoli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal Consolidation and Support for the Common Currency

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The existence of a common currency and further integration within the European Monetary Union crucially depends on public legitimacy. As a response to the Global Financial Crisis and subsequent Sovereign Bond crisis, several European governments have implemented fiscal consolidation policies in an attempt to restore investors' confidence ...
Nicola Nones, Melle Scholten
wiley   +1 more source

‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal ...
ELENA CARUSO
wiley   +1 more source

The Regional Development of Democratization and Civil Society: Transition, Consolidation, Hybridization, Globalization - Taiwan and Hungary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Different starting points, similar processes and different outcomes can be identified when comparing East Central Europe and East and South Asia. The two regions face similar global challenges, follow regional patterns of democratization and face crises.
Szabó, Máté
core   +3 more sources

When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on the role of institutions on the Chinese road to a market economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
At the onset of transformation there has been a close to consensus view that the market system has no alternative. While this insight has found its place in the current mainstream on development economics, the so-called Washington consensus or post ...
Csaba, László
core   +1 more source

Nation‐Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation‐building strategies in post‐Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation‐Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically ...
Emre Amasyalı, Andrei Tarasov
wiley   +1 more source

Introducing a novel method to support polarized citizens to sustain political dialogue

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a novel quasi‐experimental method over two studies for exploring how individuals can navigate politically polarizing discussions to sustain dialogue. Study one (N = 28) involved in‐person, stimulus‐led interviews in England and Scotland to understand the dialogical political positions being adopted on the UK's post‐Brexit ...
Anthony English, Kesi Mahendran
wiley   +1 more source

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