“Homo Europaeus” A cultural construct
Starting with the assumption that culture is fundamental for the building of a healthy and tolerant society and for the creation of symbols, rituals and traditions, which develop a common… Read more »
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China’s “Polar Silk Road”: challenges and opportunities for the EU
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) published its Arctic Policy white paper in 2018 as a series of guidelines on how to exploit climate change by creating a “new” route… Read more »
Public Perception of the EU in Global South
The pronounced focus by the EU foreign policy institutions on development, trade, and good governance, what realists call soft issues, has rightfully gained the EU a label as a normative… Read more »
Towards an EU Climate-Resilient Peacebuilding
The endorsement of resilience strategies by the EU Global Strategy (2016) and the European External Action Service (2017) has fostered a “pragmatic” approach concerned with the promotion of locally driven… Read more »
Dealing(s) with a Rogue: Comparing US and EU Strategic Narratives vis-à-vis North Korea
The present paper seeks to contribute to the literature on strategic narratives that claims that social constructions constrain the behaviour of the political actors. Drawing on the work of Alister… Read more »
(In)securitization practices in the Mediterranean: an analysis of EU Operations
Border management at the EU level experienced different processes and trends, including significant openness and de-securitization inside the Schengen area, and growing securitization at the EU’s external frontiers. This paper… Read more »
Right-wing extremism and the new dimension of terror in Europe
Over the past few years, many European countries have experienced a revival of Far-Right extremist violence, with a surge of anti-immigration and Islamophobic incidents, as well as attacks on LGBT… Read more »
Political Strategies in a Multi-Polar World. Where is EU in all this story?
A number of scholars have argued that the concept of hegemony is outdated. At the same time, in a world where both inequality and development are often found between conflict… Read more »
Russia vs. EU: Confrontation in a Contested Neighbourhood. A Challenge to the Helsinki Accords
The Helsinki Final Act of 1975, that concluded the first Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, reaffirmed the fundamental principle of renouncing the threat or use of force against… Read more »
The EU’s resilience in security and defence: a critical geopolitical perspective
We propose to study the EU’s securitization of the European way of life through discourse from a Critical Geopolitical perspective. CG seeks to deconstruct the spatialization of international politics on… Read more »