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Volume 63, month 11, 2025

EU Snapshots 2024 pp. e1-e47

Andrea Pareschi

The European Union in Turbulent Times: Geopolitical Context, Internal Fragilities and Different Visions of Europe pp. 5-19

Gianfranco Baldini, Elena Baracani and Sorina Cristina Soare

Nationalism and War in the 21st‐Century Europe pp. 20-35

Siniša Malešević

The New Intergovernmentalism 10 Years On pp. 39-51

Dermot Hodson and Uwe Puetter

Monnet Reversed: The Intergovernmental Solutions of the Poly‐Crises pp. 52-64

Sergio Fabbrini

Capacity‐Building and the New Intergovernmentalism pp. 65-76

Philipp Genschel and Markus Jachtenfuchs

Party Dynamics in the 2024 European Parliament Elections: How the European People's Party Has Come to Occupy the Centre of Power pp. 80-90

Ben Crum

The Formation of the Second von der Leyen Commission: Nomination, Organisation and Confirmation pp. 91-104

Desmond Dinan and Sophia Russack

The 2024 Belgian and Hungarian Presidencies of the Council of the EU in Comparison: From an Honest Broker to a Dogmatic Disruptor pp. 105-119

Sonja Priebus

How Much Do Experts' Ideas Matter for the European Union's Political Agenda? pp. 123-130

Vivien A. Schmidt

The Letta and Draghi Reports: Economic Efficiency Versus Political Exigency pp. 131-137

Michele Chang

The Draghi and Letta Reports: Overloaded Messages and Limited Impact pp. 138-145

Daniel Gros

Much More Than a Report: The Search for Europe's New Political Identity and the Politics of Competitiveness pp. 146-152

Manuela Moschella and Lucia Quaglia

European Defence and NATO: From Competition to Co‐operation to Replacement? pp. 156-168

Jolyon Howorth

EU Social Policy in 2024: Parliamentary Politics for Social Europe pp. 169-179

Bastian Kenn

Beyond External Incentives: The European Union, Wartime Enlargement and the Candidate Countries in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans pp. 180-192

Alexander Mesarovich and Tobias Schumacher

From Pitch Perfect to Epic Fail: The Green Parties and the Green Deal in the European Elections pp. 193-205

Sergiu Gherghina

Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024 pp. 209-223

Marta Lorimer, Marianna Griffini and Léonie de Jonge

German Politics in Times of Crises: The Success of the Post‐Merkel Conservatives in the 2025 Federal Election pp. 224-236

Manès Weisskircher

Entangled Trajectories: The 2024 Electoral Year in Bulgaria and Romania pp. 237-254

Sorina Soare, Maria Spirova and Claudiu Tufis

‘Turning the Page’? The 2024 UK General Elections and First Implications of Labour's Landslide Victory pp. 255-267

Gianfranco Baldini, Edoardo Bressanelli and Arianna Giovannini

Russia's 2024 Presidential Elections in a Context of War: A New Step in the Autocratisation of the Regime pp. 268-276

Tom Casier

Democratic Contention and the 2024 US Presidential Election pp. 277-290

Amel Ahmed

Europe in the Postgrowth Era: Towards a Sustainable Welfare Deal pp. 1665-1684

Max Koch

The Colonial Imaginary of ‘Europe’ in the EU's Asymmetrical Response to the Russian and Israeli Aggressions: Ukraine as a Member of the ‘Family’ Whilst ‘Othering’ Palestine pp. 1685-1709

Alvaro Oleart and Juan Roch

‘This is Unacceptable in Europe in the 21st Century’: Time, Place and European Identity in the 2013–14 Russia–Ukraine Crisis pp. 1710-1725

Adrian Rogstad

Can Third Country Nationals Be Banned From Schengen? Assessing Member State Unilateral Measures Against Russian Citizens and the Commission's Response pp. 1726-1742

Nicole Scicluna

Conditional Aid Under What Conditions? Exploring Consistency in Performance‐Based Aid Allocation pp. 1743-1763

Karina Shyrokykh and Nea Solander

How the European Parliament Chooses Its Battles: Parliamentary Resolutions on the Negotiation of International Agreements pp. 1764-1782

Marine Bardou and Tom Delreux

Private Military and Security Companies and the European Union as an Enmeshed Security and Defence Actor pp. 1783-1804

Jozef Bátora and Kamila Koníková

Disinformation and Incremental Change in European Union Election Observation: A Field Theoretical Perspective pp. 1805-1821

Leonie Holthaus

The New CAP and the Participative Method in Decision‐Making: A Textual Analysis of the Italian Case pp. 1822-1844

Roberto Henke, Tommaso Pomponi, Marco Vassallo, Giampiero Mazzocchi, Alessandro Monteleone and Alessandro Sorrentino

The Dynamics of De‐Europeanisation in a Multilevel Context: Resistance and Power Politics in Scotland and Wales pp. 1845-1864

Rachel Minto, Carolyn Rowe and Elin Royles

Trauma as a Tool: Hyperinflation Narratives in German Fiscal Policy Debates on European Monetary Integration pp. 1865-1885

David Barkhausen

When Expertise Is Not Enough: Explaining the European Commission's Non‐success in the Integration of Public Sector Accounting pp. 1886-1909

Pascal Horni

Influence Through Co‐operation? Regional Parliaments' Participation in the European Union Subsidiarity Scrutiny pp. 1910-1930

Paul Reimers

Issue Salience in the European Parliament Election: An Analysis of Economic, Environmental and Immigration Issues on Social Media pp. 1931-1948

Nuria Font

Regulation and Governance Gaps in the Detection of Labour Exploitation Within State‐Funded Domestic Services pp. 1949-1965

Caroline Emberson

Minding the Gaps: Solidaristic Transfers and Burden‐Sharing in the European Union and Its Member States' Pandemic Response pp. 1966-1983

Péter Marton and Balázs Szent‐Iványi

Policy Coherence in the Time of Economic Insecurity: Balancing the Sustainable Trade and Development Playbook of the New European Commission pp. 1984-1993

Frederik Stender, Tim Vogel and Niels Keijzer

Brussels‐Based Think Tanks in Times of Crisis: Examining Think Tank Climate Publication and Networking Activities During Brexit pp. 1994-2006

Christopher Crellin

Transregional Europe by William Outhwaite pp. 2007-2009

Isabela Zeberio

Volume 63, month 09, 2025

Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union's Global Role pp. 1393-1419

Dimitris Bouris, Nora Fisher‐Onar and Daniela Verena Huber

The Return of the Repressed: The Colonial History of the EU's Geopolitical Turn pp. 1420-1437

Peo Hansen

‘Europe and the Rest’ in Official EU Discourse: Legitimising ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Through the ‘Jungle’ Analogy and Beyond pp. 1438-1459

Münevver Cebeci

Global Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the European Union in Times of Dissensus Over LGBT Equality pp. 1460-1480

Malte Breiding

Decentring European Foreign Policy Analysis: Towards a Paradigmatic Shift pp. 1481-1508

Stephan Keukeleire and Sharon Lecocq

Queering European Union Foreign and Security Policy: Invisibility, Heteronormativity and Binaries in the EU's Approach to Women, Peace and Security pp. 1509-1527

Dimitris Bouris, Saul Kenny and Hanna L. Mühlenhoff

Contested Alliances: A Contrapuntal Reading of European (Global) Gender Agendas pp. 1528-1551

Nora Fisher‐Onar, David Gazsi and Sarah Wolff

Towards a Critical Democracy Promotion Agenda? Liminal Allyship in EU–Tunisian Relations pp. 1552-1570

Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh

EUropean Identity Construction After the Russian Full‐Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others pp. 1571-1593

Kateryna Pishchikova

Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno‐Karabakh War pp. 1594-1614

Laura Luciani

Aid as Pacification: The Encroachment of Counterterrorism Clauses into the Aid Regime of the European Union in the Occupied Palestinian Territories pp. 1615-1637

Mariam Salameh‐Puvogel

Organized Hypocrisy and the Logic of Coloniality. Explaining the EU's Divergent Response to Grave Violations of International Law in Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine pp. 1638-1660

Daniela Verena Huber

Volume 63, month 07, 2025

The Role of Electoral Interests in the National Distribution of EU Covid‐19 Funds pp. 1027-1051

Romy Hansum

Regional Disparities and the Localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU pp. 1052-1079

Daniel Pop and Iraklis Stamos

The Clash of the Policies: The Joint Effect of EU Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy on the Public Support for European Integration pp. 1080-1098

Nikola Radojičić

Asymmetric Free Trade Agreements and Misalignment of Incentives: Lessons From the European Union–Turkey Customs Union pp. 1099-1118

Zouheir El‐Sahli

Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis pp. 1119-1137

Guillermo Alonso Simón

Decentring European Union Foreign Policy: Addressing Colonial Dynamics in EU‐Algeria Relations pp. 1138-1157

Francois Barbieux and Dimitris Bouris

Enforcement, Information or Socialization? The Role of the European Labour Authority in Protecting Mobile Workers in the EU pp. 1158-1177

Michael Blauberger and Anita Heindlmaier

Money Talks? The Effectiveness of Sanctions in the ‘Rule of Law’ Conflict in the European Union pp. 1178-1196

Adam Holesch and Clara Portela

Building a European Union ‘Treasury’: Explaining the European Commission's New Approach to Debt Issuance and Management pp. 1197-1216

Lukas Spielberger, Dermot Hodson, David Howarth and Iacopo Mugnai

‘You Know, This Conference Has No Legitimacy’: Eurosceptic Contestation of the Conference on the Future of Europe pp. 1217-1235

Jan Kotýnek Krotký

Financial Sustainability Above All Else? Drivers and Types of Pension Reform Recommendations in EU Socio‐economic Governance pp. 1236-1258

Jan Helmdag and Niko Väänänen

Divergent Attitudes of Eurosceptic Parties Towards Intergovernmental and Supranational EU Institutions pp. 1259-1279

Nikolai Gad, Eugénia C. Heldt and Robert Csehi

Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood pp. 1280-1297

Adrià Rivera‐Escartin and Fátima Fernández Fernández

Theorising Bounded Rationality in EU Policy‐Making pp. 1298-1317

Filipa Figueira

Bringing the EU Back In: Rethinking the United Kingdom's Post‐Brexit Bilateralism pp. 1318-1339

Cleo Davies and Hussein Kassim

A Man's World? The Descriptive Representation of Women Inside Europarties pp. 1340-1359

Isabelle Hertner and Wouter Wolfs

Europe's Super‐Rich: Towards Oligarchic Constitutional Order pp. 1360-1375

Salvador Santino Regilme

Do European Capitals of Culture Influence Attitudes Towards and Identification with the European Union? pp. 1376-1389

David Knoll

Volume 63, month 05, 2025

The European Union as a Target: When Do Democratic Backsliders Rhetorically Challenge the EU? pp. 683-703

Kari Waters and Samantha Call

The (De‐)Europeanization of the Political Class in the European Parliament: A Longitudinal Analysis of Members of the European Parliament's Career Patterns (1979–2019) pp. 704-725

Jeremy Dodeigne, François Randour and Sophie Kopsch

Context Matters: Variation in the Shortsightedness of European Climate Policy pp. 726-744

Jana Gheuens

Adaptation, Experimentation or Conservation? The Use of Differentiated Implementation Under the Energy Efficiency Directive pp. 745-764

Alexander Hoppe, Michael Hübner, Sebastiaan Princen and Martin Svec

Doing the Same With Different Results: Variations in EU Presidencies of Austria, Finland, Slovakia and Czechia pp. 765-785

Kateřina Kočí and Jarolím Antal

Northern Realignment? Explaining Nordic Consent to NextGenerationEU pp. 786-803

Johan Ekman, Rune Møller Stahl and Magnus Ryner

Transgovernmental Labour Standards Enforcement in a Pan‐European Labour Market: An Arms Race Between Institutional Alignment and Regulatory Arbitrage pp. 804-820

Nathan Lillie, Anita Brzozowska, Kairit Kall, Justyna Salamońska and Kamil Matuszczyk

A Convincing Narrative to Control the Crisis Response? The Role of the President of the European Commission During the COVID‐19 Pandemic pp. 821-838

Isabel Camisão and Paulo Vila Maior

European Solidarity Takes the Field: The Dimensional Structure of Political Competition in the European Union After the Polycrisis pp. 839-859

Francesco Visconti and Alessandro Pellegata

Everything Everywhere All at Once? Introducing a Field‐Theoretic Model for Party Politics in the European Union pp. 860-879

Gilles Pittoors

EU Industrial Policy and Convergent Development in EU Peripheries: An Assessment of the ‘Important Project of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI) Template pp. 880-896

Henrique Lopes‐Valença

Immigration Policy Preferences in Six EU Countries: The Shadow of Intergovernmental Conflicts in Public Opinion pp. 897-914

Fabio Wasserfallen and Théoda Woeffray

EU Emissions Trading for Transport and Buildings: Saved by Synergistic Institutional Interaction? pp. 915-931

Jørgen Wettestad

Mapping Corporate Investments Between China and Europe in an Era of Geoeconomic Competition pp. 932-963

Milan Babic and Lukas Linsi

Defining and Operationalising Defiant Non‐Compliance in the EU: The Rule of Law Case pp. 964-986

Carlos Closa and Gisela Hernández

Unpacking the European Commission: Cabinet Composition and EU Policy‐Making pp. 987-1007

William T. Daniel and Steffen Hurka

The European Union's Global Health Actorness: A Research Agenda for a New Age of Pandemics pp. 1008-1021

Óscar Fernández

Coming In: Sexual Politics and EU Accession in Serbia, Koen Slootmaeckers (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2023, ISBN 9781526159342); xiii + 234 pp pp. 1022-1023

Bojan Bilić

Volume 63, month 03, 2025

Where Have All the ‘Exiters’ Gone? Contextualising the Concept of Hard Euroscepticism pp. 351-368

Vratislav Havlík and Vít Hloušek

Collective Memory and the Stalling of European Integration: Generational Dynamics and the Crisis of European Leadership pp. 369-384

Peter J. Verovšek

Non‐learning Within a Constellation of Communities of Practice: The Case of the EU and Its Democracy Support in the Arab World pp. 385-401

Christian Achrainer and Michelle Pace

Conditionality as an Instrument of European Governance – Cases, Characteristics and Types pp. 402-419

Peter Becker

When EU Agencies Set Up Advisory Committees: All About Autonomy? pp. 420-437

Torbjørg Jevnaker

The EU Commission During the Covid‐19 Crisis: Attempts at Self‐Empowerment, or Not? pp. 438-466

Gijs Jan Brandsma and Jens Blom‐Hansen

Failing Forward in European Economic Governance: The Cyclicality of European Integration and Institutional Competition in the COVID‐19 Crisis pp. 467-484

Joscha Abels

Border Regions as Nuclei of European Integration? Evidence From Germany pp. 485-506

Moritz Rehm, Martin Schröder and Georg Wenzelburger

Brexit Rhapsody: Exploring Patterns of Issue Salience in the Negotiations pp. 507-525

David Moloney and Mads Dagnis Jensen

Sending Signals or Building Bridges? Digital Sovereignty in EU Communicative and Co‐Ordinative Discourse pp. 526-547

Georg Wenzelburger and Pascal D. König

The EU’s Transactional Approach to Rule of Law Spending Conditionality in the 2020s pp. 548-563

Pauline Thinus

What Do Politicians Think of Technocratic Institutions? Attitudes in the European Parliament Towards the European Central Bank pp. 564-589

Federico M. Ferrara, Donato Masciandaro, Manuela Moschella and Davide Romelli

How Have EU Legislators Established EU Agencies With Enforcement Tasks? Case Studies of the European Aviation Safety Agency and the European Medicines Agency pp. 590-605

Laurens van Kreij

Advocating for the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Against the Odds: Strategies and Legitimation pp. 606-623

Morgane Thorens, Nadia Bernaz and Otto Hospes

Power Through Pressure: How Interconnection Became Part of the EU's Overarching Climate and Energy Policy pp. 624-644

Inga Margrete Ydersbond

Do They Matter? The Perceived Impact of European Administrative Networks pp. 645-666

Ana Carolina Soares, Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen and Reini Schrama

Examination of the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Directive From the Maritime Point of View pp. 667-678

Marcos Julien Alexopoulos, Arto Niemi, Bartosz Skobiej and Frank Sill Torres

A Litmus Test for Democratic Politics in Europe: Parliaments, Brexit and the Future of the European Union, Julien Navarro (London: Routledge, 2022) pp. 679-680

Icoz Gulay

Volume 63, month 01, 2025

A European Public Sphere United by Football: A Comparative Quantitative Text Analysis of German, Norwegian, Polish and Spanish Football Media pp. 3-27

Jonas Biel, Tobias Finger, Arne Niemann, Vincent Reinke, Radosław Kossakowski, Jens Jungblut, Dobrosław Mańkowski and Ramón Llopis‐Goig

Perceptions of a Shared European Culture Increase the Support for the European Union pp. 28-50

Valentina Petrovic, Simon Walo, Jörg Rössel, Tally Katz‐Gerro and Maria Pilar Lopez Belbeze

Cities as Actors in the EU Policy Towards China pp. 51-70

Tomasz Kamiński, Joanna Ciesielska‐Klikowska and Michał Gzik

The European Union's Place in United States–China Strategic Competition: How Role Dynamics Drive Brussels Towards Washington pp. 71-88

Sebastian Biba

Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia pp. 89-107

Małgorzata Jakimów, Filippo Boni and Richard Turcsányi

Making Markets Through Coalitions: The European Union and the Debate Over Ukraine's National Resources pp. 108-126

Aron Buzogány and Mihai Varga

Geopolitical EU? The EU's Wartime Assistance to Ukraine pp. 127-142

Elisabeth Johansson‐Nogués and Francesca Leso

An EU Sustainable Migration: Institutional Discourse and Migration Politics pp. 143-159

Alezini Loxa

The Emigration Conundrum: EU Countries of Origin of Migrants Between Integration and Demarcation pp. 160-178

Christof Roos, Max Nagel, Hanna Kieschnick and Kseniia Cherniak

How Do European Countries Use EU‐Funded Food Aid and How Important Is It for the Most Deprived? pp. 179-196

Karen Hermans and Bea Cantillon

Thought Communities and Pre‐conditions for Polity Formation in the European Union: Evidence From Six EU Member States pp. 197-226

Jozef Bátora and Pavol Baboš

Financial Absorption of Cohesion Policy Funds: How Do Programmes and Territorial Characteristics Influence the Pace of Spending? pp. 227-245

Anabela M. Santos, Andrea Conte and Francesco Molica

A Turn to Export‐Led Growth? Rethinking the Growth Models in Greece and Portugal pp. 246-266

Konstantinos Myrodias

From Menace to Mundane: Moral Hazard and the Politics of the European Central Bank's Government Bond Purchases pp. 267-283

Michele Chang, David Howarth and Laura Pierret

Inside the European Union's Trade Machinery: Institutional Changes in an Age of Geoeconomics pp. 284-301

Sjorre Couvreur

Reassessing Cohesion Policy Through the Lens of the New EU Industrial Policy pp. 302-319

Francesco Molica

Fiscal Rules in the European Union: Less Is More pp. 320-334

Bogdan Căpraru, Anastasios Pappas and Nicu Sprincean

Europe's Coming of Age, Loukas Tsoukalis (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022, ISBN 9781509554553); 246 pp., 25 GBP hardback pp. 335-336

Kamil Ławniczak