Blog posts published on the JCMS blog are based on articles published in the journal. The authors are all guest authors.
by Lucia Quaglia (University of Bologna) and Amy Verdun (University of Victoria) The European Union (EU) has created a Single Market in financial services, the evolution of which has become entangled with geoeconomics, i.e., ‘the systematic use of economic instruments to accomplish geopolitical objectives’ (Blackwill and Harris 2016, p. 1). The main rationale of geoeconomic […]
by Laura Mastroianni (University of Bologna) On April 10th, 2024, the European Parliament voted to endorse the European Commission’s proposal on a ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’. After nearly ten years since the so-called 2015 ‘refugee crisis’ and the first proposal for the amendment of the Common European Asylum System with the ‘European Agenda […]
by Monika Brusenbauch Meislová (Masaryk University) My article, recently published in JCMS, looks into how ongoing policy processes are discursively legitimated. It argues that that in order to satisfy complex demands on their legitimacy, policy makers tend to legitimate them not only by referring to the status quo (the current – new – state of […]
by Dr Moritz Rehm, Prof. Dr. Martin Schröder, and Prof. Dr. Georg Wenzelburger (Saarland University) The enduring romanticized notion that border regions serve as the quintessential embodiment of European identity has long captured our collective imagination. However, recent scholarly inquiry challenges this assumption, suggesting that the emotional attachment to Europe among individuals residing in border […]
by Christian Achrainer & Michelle Pace, Roskilde University (RUC) The EU has aimed to support democratization in Arab countries for decades, yet the region is still one of the most authoritarian in the world. What is most striking is that the EU has apparently not learnt from its past ineffective democracy support (DS) attempts but […]
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