On February 24, 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine. Here as consequence, Russia was
subjected to a slew of international sanctions aimed at pressuring it to de-escalate the issue …

To a large degree, the tragic events that unfolded in Ukraine in 2013-14 were driven by
developments beyond Ukraine's borders. Of course, domestic factors also played a crucial …

Rising from the margins of EU aid documents, resilience became a centrepiece of the 2016
EU Global Security Strategy, especially in relation to the neighbourhood. While new …

This article rethinks the Eastern Partnership agenda using Edkins' framework of “the
political”. Part of the problem, it argues, is the EU's failure to imagine a new social order …

This article applies the Foucauldian premise of governmentality and the analytics of
government framework to demonstrate how exclusive modalities of power–of the European …

This piece examines practices of the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in dealing with secessionist entities in the post-Soviet …

Secessionist de facto states, by their very nature, sit outside of the international system.
Having unilaterally declared independence from their parent state, they are invariably …

This chapter frames the analysis that follows in this edited volume, discussing European
Union international actorness in a context of increased contestation to the international …

This chapter introduces classification of social constructivism in the study of the European
neighbourhood. Using the labels of thick and thin constructivism (I and II), it shows that how …

Europeanization is an old concept. Its origins go back to the modernization process in the
nineteenth century when it was defined as the desire to emulate the economically well …