Geopolitics on a Shoestring? Unpacking the EU'S Geopolitical External Assistance to Central Asia
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1473-1495, July 2026.ABSTRACT The paper examines how the European Union's (EU) increasingly emphasised geopolitical ambitions are reflected in the practice of its external assistance policy. An analysis of EU documents around various policy initiatives and funding instruments reveals that in the Commission's understanding, geopolitical external assistance increases EU ...
Balázs Szent‐Iványi, Dóra Piroska
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Security in translation securitization theory and the localization of threat
, 2014 "Security in Translation proposes an innovative way to capture the evolution, spread and local transformation of threat images in world affairs. Reworking traditional securitization theory, this book develops a coherent new framework for analysis that ...
Stritzel, Holger
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"They don't care about people; they only care about the money": the effects of border enforcement, commodification and migration industries on the mobility of migrants in transit through Mexico. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2023 Willers S.
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1334-1358, July 2026.Abstract This study aims to provide a better understanding of how policy‐making changes when an issue is framed as an emergency. Literature on emergency politics provides different views on policy‐making changes resulting from emergency frames, where ordinary and exceptional policy‐making overlap in different ways.
Emma Leenders +3 more
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Loan sales under asymmetric information [PDF]
Loans are illiquid assets that can be sold in a secondary market even that buyershave no certainty about their quality. I study a model in which a lender has accessto new investment opportunities when all her assets are illiquid.
Mónica Vargas
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Invoking Security to Bypass Procedure: The European Union's Critical Medicines Act
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1616-1623, July 2026.Abstract The European Union's recently proposed Critical Medicines Act (CMA) was published without recourse to standard democratic policy‐making procedures. Framed by the European Commission as an urgent response to a pressing security threat, the CMA was not subject to an impact assessment, and the stakeholder consultation designed to inform its ...
Eleanor Brooks, Charlotte Godziewski
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Trauma‐Informed Language Teaching: Considerations, Challenges and Possibilities
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT Trauma has been front of mind for many language teachers in the tumultuous first decades of the 21st century, but until quite recently, language teaching research that names trauma as such has been relatively scarce. In this short paper, I give a brief overview of different understandings of trauma, and draw on orienting principles and ...
Ava Becker
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Quantum technologies and geopolitics: comparing parliamentary rhetoric. [PDF]
EPJ Quantum TechnolSuter V, Pöhlmann G, Ma C, Meckel M.
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Misaligned Incentives and Mortgage Lending in Asia
This paper provides a conceptual basis for the price discovery potential for tradable market instruments and specifically the development of mortgage securitization in Asia and the potential dangers of such markets. Nonetheless we argue for the potential
Susan Wachter +3 more
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Securitization as a means to pay for cell and gene therapies for orphan diseases: a simulation study. [PDF]
Gene TherLu JM +3 more
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