The research on the 'normative power Europe'has uncovered the rationale and mechanisms
behind the export of EU norms, yet without a deeper understanding of how and why the EU …

Recent scholarship has exposed the “eu's pathological power”, which has undermined the
creation of the rule of law in South Eastern Europe (see) and beyond. This paper discusses …

This chapter reviews the existing literature on the rule of law in Central and Eastern Europe
(CEE) and focuses on the literature which has tried to account for uneven rule of law …

This article examines the fall of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych as a failure of
authoritarian learning. When confronted by the Euromaidan protests in November 2013 …

This chapter aims to reveal the EU's governmentality in its neighbourhood through a
poststructuralist analysis of its foreign policy in general and the revised ENP, in particular. Its …

In the last decade, Ukraine has significantly strengthened its aspirations of integration with
the European Union and implemented reforms designed to transform its political and …

The European Union (EU) and domestic “change agents” have promoted the rule of law in
post-Soviet Europe with varying results. While the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) …

This chapter provides a literature review of the state and its indirect influence in marine
fisheries governance. In most societies, the state remains the most important social …

The resilience approach has recently emerged as a new topic of EU foreign policy debates
and research. This paper adopts a complexity theory perspective to analyze the …

This article focuses on judicial recruitment in post-communist countries and highlights gaps
between law and practice which are due to intervening informal dynamics. The case study …