Pan‐Europe Revisited: Inter‐War Debates and the EU's Pursuit of Geopolitical Power
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) transformation from a peace project to an assertive geopolitical actor reflects enduring tensions in integration theory dating back to the inter‐war period. This paper develops a comparative framework distinguishing territorial integration logic, which emphasises bounded political communities and collective defence ...
Kamil Zwolski
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External Actors, Pressures and Influences: European Integration and the Outside World
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The European Union (EU) increasingly faces external pressures, ranging from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine to an economically and politically assertive China to deep changes in the transatlantic relationship with the United States.
Christian Freudlsperger, Lucas Schramm
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From the Ground to the Stars: The Vertical Politics of the EU Drone Wall and Airspace Defence
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This research note analyses the European Commission's Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 as a manifestation of a new spatial and technological logic of European defence: the vertical territorialisation of security. Moving beyond traditional perimeter‐based understandings of territorial defence, the Roadmap constructs a multi‐layered continuum ...
Justinas Lingevicius +2 more
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Porous organizational boundaries and associated states: introducing memberness in international organizations. [PDF]
Eur J Int Relat, 2023 Hofmann SC +3 more
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The ‘Geopolitical Commission’: 40 Years in the Making?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised MEPs she would deliver a ‘Geopolitical Commission’ during the five years of her term in office, unbeknown that the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were around the corner.
Robert Kissack
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'A very different kind of challenge'? NATO's prioritization of China in historical perspective. [PDF]
Int Polit (Hague), 2022 Michaels JH.
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The article contributes to the emerging scholarly literature on how European democracies respond to foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), whilst focusing on a single case study of France. It asks how France responded to Russian FIMI and why this response has become more forceful and comprehensive over time.
Agnieszka K. Cianciara
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
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Cultural and Economic Grievances and the Political Salience of Secessionism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why does secessionism become politically salient at some times but recede at others? Existing work highlights how cultural and economic grievances can shape secessionism, but it explains less well when these claims elevate the salience of secessionism and why similar grievances matter in some contexts but not others.
Kevin Gatter
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Testing the world order: strategic realism in Russian foreign affairs. [PDF]
Int Polit (Hague), 2021 Feinstein SG, Pirro EB.
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