Geopolitics vs. Globalization in the Balkans: The New Rivalries in the Energy and Transport Sectors
The research focuses on how present Balkan political elites declare that they would adhere to the values of integrating and globalizing Europe in their Balkan policy, while de facto employing the ‘arsenal’ of geopolitical egoistic planning.
Klimov, Blagoy
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Beyond Formal Agreements: EU Agencies' Cooperation with Third Countries
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Third countries' participation in European Union (EU) agencies is attracting increasing attention as venues for differentiated European integration. Research has started to vest into the host of formal agreements regulating this cooperation. However, regulatory outreach by EU agencies may be more important than it is stated de jure, as many ...
Thibaud Deruelle +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Croatian Strategy of Multilateralism: Investment in Becoming a Regional Leader towards the EU
Međunarodne Studije, 2014 Should Croatia focus significant efforts of its foreign policy towards neighbouring countries and their accession process to the EU membership? Could the potential turn towards pro-active politics of helping Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro ...
Amar Rešić
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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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The Agencies of the European Union: A Glimmer of Hope for Enlargement?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years, the process of EU enlargement has become increasingly difficult. The longer the process drags on and the less likely accession appears, the more the candidate states are discouraged and the less influential the EU becomes. A different approach to integration must therefore be used.
Matis Poussardin
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Female rulers of Medieval Balkans- gamified VR experience
The history of the medieval Western Balkans region is complex, and its feminine side is almost unknown to the wider audience. Although living and acting in dominantly patriarchal societies, it seems hard to believe that there were women who actually ...
Ramic-Brkic, Belma +7 more
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Scrutinising Frontex: The European Parliament and Accountability through Discharge
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how the European Parliament (EP) has leveraged the budgetary discharge procedure to enhance the political accountability of the EU's Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. Whilst the procedure is formally limited to budget implementation, the EP has used it as an accountability tool that goes far beyond financial ...
Magnus G. Schoeller, Peter Slominski
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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Kidney Transplantation in Western Balkans: A Regional Blueprint for Access, Capacity, and Equity. [PDF]
Transpl IntRista E +16 more
europepmc +1 more source
From spectator to walk-on to actor: An exploratory study of the internationalisation of Greek firms since 1989 [PDF]
The article follows the evolution of the Greek business activities in foreign countries. Based on two unique databases, the article acknowledges the existence of two sub-periods.
Athanasios Kalogeresis, Lois Labrianidis
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