Concern and hostility towards populism has become a distinctive feature of contemporary
political culture. In Europe such concerns are frequently directed at Eurosceptics, whose …

For something that is often described as a faceless Brussels bureaucracy, the European
Union (EU) surprises in its ability to provoke contradictory public emotions, ranging from …

While there exists a large body of literature investigating the European Union's intervention
in the western Balkans, and in particular the influence of so-called 'enlargement fatigue' …

In this article, I adopt a structural approach to Russian soft power, switching focus from the
supposed agent of power (Russia), towards the subjects of power (Ukrainians). I outline the …

This paper discusses the significance and potential consequences of illiberal politics for the
Visegrád Group's (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) role as a regional integration …

Research on the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has been notoriously
uncritical of the justification systems that underpin both CSDP practices and the production …

This article unpacks the ways Eastern Europe (broadly conceived) has featured as a space,
trope, and scholarly origin in major International Security Studies (ISS) and International …

Europe's Economic and Monetary Union was presented in terms of an idealized, teleological
narrative of 'ever closer union'that obscured substantive conflicts within and among the …

This paper investigates boundary spaces and agents in one social field: the socialization of
diplomatic and European Union (EU) professionals in Europe. Theoretically, I combine the …

Some 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain,'Western'and 'Eastern'Europe have seemingly
merged into one unit. As a result, the popularity of post-socialism as a conceptual tool and …