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AbstractThe growing number of EU bilateral agreements with non‐member states has led to a proliferation of transversal joint institutional frameworks governing them. The importance of joint bodies with their powers to oversee, facilitate and sometimes even enforce the implementation of agreements should not be underestimated. This particularly applies in cases where joint bodies are endowed with considerable decision‐making powers (for example, amendments to the agreement, binding decisions on furthering integration), as is the case with the 'association bodies' established in the 2010s under the EU's new‐generation association agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. However, to date, the roles and performance of such joint bodies have been largely neglected. This article addresses this gap in the literature by providing a comparative law‐and‐politics account of institutional design, legal aspects of power conferral, and functional and performative aspects of authority exercised by these association bodies.

Book review of Paul Robert Magocsi. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Cartographic design by Geoffrey J. Matthews and Byron Moldovsky, 3rd revised and expanded ed., U of Toronto P, 2018. xiv, 282 pp. Maps. Tables. Map Sources. Bibliography. Index. $57.75, paper.

Whereas scholarly accounts have mushroomed, especially since 2014, on what a 'hybrid warfare' is and is not, the phenomenon has taken a centerstage in international politics, thus confidently entering the everyday political vocabularies and practices in a growing number of states and societies worldwide. Drawing on the recent evidence of spatial and temporal diffusion of hybrid warfare theatres, this article argues that hybrid wars are highly contagious, thus prone to substantially challenge the international order, its normative and structural foundations. It therefore aims to explore the trends in the ideational spread and political uses of both hybrid warfare methods as well as the proliferating instances of hybrid wars fought across the globe. Finally, drawing on the empirical evidence and scholarly achievements in related fields of study, the article offers explanatory account of the mechanisms, conditions and dimension of hybrid war(fare) contagion. Among other featured cases, Russia's hybrid war(fare) campaigns in Ukraine, Europe and further afield are employed as illustrative 'archetypal' cases.

Whereas scholarly accounts have mushroomed, especially since 2014, on what a 'hybrid warfare' is and is not, the phenomenon has taken a centerstage in international politics, thus confidently entering the everyday political vocabularies and practices in a growing number of states and societies worldwide. Drawing on the recent evidence of spatial and temporal diffusion of hybrid warfare theatres, this article argues that hybrid wars are highly contagious, thus prone to substantially challenge the international order, its normative and structural foundations. It therefore aims to explore the trends in the ideational spread and political uses of both hybrid warfare methods as well as the proliferating instances of hybrid wars fought across the globe. Finally, drawing on the empirical evidence and scholarly achievements in related fields of study, the article offers explanatory account of the mechanisms, conditions and dimension of hybrid war(fare) contagion. Among other featured cases, Russia's hybrid war(fare) campaigns in Ukraine, Europe and further afield are employed as illustrative 'archetypal' cases.