The trade relations between the EU and China have nowadays a fundamental importance in the global trade. Why the EU and China cannot reach a free trade agreement? Given the… Read more »
Sino-European relations, shaken by the events of Tiananmen (1989) and the subsequent imposition of economic sanctions and an arms embargo on Beijing, evolved since the mid-90s within a very constructive… Read more »
To be a global actor one can defend it implies the need for a grand strategy that allows that kind of power actorness. But is the EU (already) a great… Read more »
The concept of Normative Power Europe (NPE), as developed by Ian Manners, conceives the Europe Union (EU) as an actor with an ideational nature, embodying common principles and shaping norm… Read more »
A very popular concept in the late 20th century, especially after the fall of Soviet Communism left only one superpower standing on the international system, a middle power can be… Read more »
This study aims to understand the process of building Euroscepticism, resorting to the case of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and its positioning towards a set of dimensions of the… Read more »
Even the dominant theoretical model in Eurosceptic studies, ‘hard / soft’ approach recognises no a priori reason for the existence of Euroscepticism except as a means of political differentiation of… Read more »
Ever since 2009, Euroscepticism has become a reality in the European Parliament (EP), something reflected in the emergence of Eurosceptic party groups, such as the European Reformists and Conservatives (ECR)… Read more »
This article is a study on the reactionary appropriation of the concept of nation in interwar Continental Europe. It shows how this takeover occurred in political theory by examining the… Read more »
The systemic crisis the International Liberal Order (ILO) is undergoing has resulted in, and been amplified by, the unilateral turn taken by the United States (US) under Trump at the… Read more »