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by Laura Mastroianni (University of Bologna) On April 10th, 2024, the European Parliament voted to endorse the European Commission's proposal on a 'New Pact on Migration and Asylum'. After nearly ten years since the so-called 2015 'refugee crisis' and the first proposal for the amendment of the Common European Asylum System with the 'European Agenda […]
The post How Do Crises Affect Policy Subsystems? The Evolution of Policy Core Beliefs in the EU Asylum Policy appeared first on The JCMS Blog.

by Laura Mastroianni (University of Bologna) On April 10th, 2024, the European Parliament voted to endorse the European Commission's proposal on a 'New Pact on Migration and Asylum'. After nearly ten years since the so-called 2015 'refugee crisis' and the first proposal for the amendment of the Common European Asylum System with the 'European Agenda […]
The post How Do Crises Affect Policy Subsystems? The Evolution of Policy Core Beliefs in the EU Asylum Policy appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

by Monika Brusenbauch Meislová (Masaryk University) My article, recently published in JCMS, looks into how ongoing policy processes are discursively legitimated. It argues that that in order to satisfy complex demands on their legitimacy, policy makers tend to legitimate them not only by referring to the status quo (the current – new – state of […]
The post Spinning Brexit as a success story: Three temporal regimes of Brexit legitimation by Boris Johnson's government appeared first on The JCMS Blog.

by Monika Brusenbauch Meislová (Masaryk University) My article, recently published in JCMS, looks into how ongoing policy processes are discursively legitimated. It argues that that in order to satisfy complex demands on their legitimacy, policy makers tend to legitimate them not only by referring to the status quo (the current – new – state of […]
The post Spinning Brexit as a success story: Three temporal regimes of Brexit legitimation by Boris Johnson's government appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

The enduring romanticized notion that border regions serve as the quintessential embodiment of European identity has long captured our collective imagination. However, recent scholarly inquiry challenges this assumption, suggesting that the emotional attachment to Europe among individuals residing in border regions is not significantly different from those living inland.
The post Debunking the Myth: Exploring the Role of Border Regions in European Identity Formation appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

by Dr Moritz Rehm, Prof. Dr. Martin Schröder, and Prof. Dr. Georg Wenzelburger (Saarland University) The enduring romanticized notion that border regions serve as the quintessential embodiment of European identity has long captured our collective imagination. However, recent scholarly inquiry challenges this assumption, suggesting that the emotional attachment to Europe among individuals residing in border […]
The post Debunking the Myth: Exploring the Role of Border Regions in European Identity Formation appeared first on The JCMS Blog.

The EU has aimed to support democratization in Arab countries for decades, yet the region is still one of the most authoritarian in the world. What is most striking is that the EU has apparently not learnt from its past ineffective democracy support (DS) attempts but continuously reproduces DS malpractices.
The post Why does the EU not learn how to improve its democracy support practices? appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

by Christian Achrainer & Michelle Pace, Roskilde University (RUC) The EU has aimed to support democratization in Arab countries for decades, yet the region is still one of the most authoritarian in the world. What is most striking is that the EU has apparently not learnt from its past ineffective democracy support (DS) attempts but […]
The post Why does the EU not learn how to improve its democracy support practices? appeared first on The JCMS Blog.

Changes underway in the global political economy, including Sino-American tensions and the Covid-19 pandemic, are increasingly identified as creating new challenges and raising difficult questions about the role of prominent traders like the European Union (EU).
The post Frames and Issue Linkage: EU Trade Policy in the Geoeconomic Turn appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

by Andrea Christou (University of Edinburgh) and Chad Damro (University of Edinburgh) Changes underway in the global political economy, including Sino-American tensions and the Covid-19 pandemic, are increasingly identified as creating new challenges and raising difficult questions about the role of prominent traders like the European Union (EU). While trade policy has long been connected […]
The post Frames and Issue Linkage: EU Trade Policy in the Geoeconomic Turn appeared first on The JCMS Blog.

The global economic order has shifted dramatically over the past decade, moving from a business-centred liberal logic of trade and commerce to a politicised logic of conflict and power maximisation. This geoeconomic turn, the theme of a Special Issue forthcoming with JCMS, has also materialised in the European Union (EU) and the Single European Market (SEM), and has far-reaching implications for the world of business where policymakers replace companies as the main manager of economic interconnectedness.
The post Business Power and Geoeconomics in the European Union appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

by Sandra Eckert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) The global economic order has shifted dramatically over the past decade, moving from a business-centred liberal logic of trade and commerce to a politicised logic of conflict and power maximisation. This geoeconomic turn, the theme of a Special Issue forthcoming with JCMS, has also materialised in the European Union (EU) […]
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Global shifts in power distribution and successive international crises have challenged key ideas and policies underpinning European Union (EU) external action and led to the formulation of a new narrative in which geopolitical considerations have come back to centre stage.
The post The ideational power of strategic autonomy in EU security and external economic policies appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

by Ana E. Juncos, Bristol University and Sophie Vanhoonacker, Maastricht University EU Strategic autonomy: different trajectories in security and external economic relations Global shifts in power distribution and successive international crises have challenged key ideas and policies underpinning European Union (EU) external action and led to the formulation of a new narrative in which geopolitical […]
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The EU's response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 has been unprecedented, displaying rare unity among its member states, especially during the first four months following the invasion. The EU agreed on far-reaching economic and financial sanctions, the most severe sanctions ever imposed by the EU on a third country.
The post The EU’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Invoking norms and values appeared first on Ideas on Europe.