Pub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2156486
Weiqing Song, E. Fanoulis
ABSTRACT Public diplomacy has become increasingly important for countries around the world as a source of soft power. However, we still know very little about how international and supranational actors conduct public diplomacy. This Special Issue therefore looks at the public diplomacy of the European Union (EU) as a contribution to filling this research gap. Unlike existing research that has primarily focused on the institutional design and content of EU public diplomacy, the authors in this Special Issue examine the receptiveness of different countries and regions of the world to this specific type of diplomacy. Their key research findings are, firstly, an observed variation in the receptiveness of countries to EU public diplomacy, which correlates with the receiving country or region’s social, economic and political context and past and contemporary experiences with the EU; secondly, a need for EU public diplomacy to be flexible in its application; and thirdly, a need for more extensive research on the effectiveness of EU public diplomacy.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2153240
Zafer Kizilkaya, Sofie Hamdi, Mohammad Salman
ABSTRACT Despite being often recognized as a middle power, Erdoğan and his aides have firmly believed that Turkey was not a real ‘subject’ in international relations and could only become one under Erdoğan’s rule. This paper examines Turkey’s claims to institute itself as a ‘subject’ in regional politics through the concept of ‘actorness’. The article details the two major policy choices that represent Ankara’s emergence as a subject, evaluates them with respect to the key attributes of actorness in international politics and discusses the implications of Turkey’s militarised and assertive policies for its status in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The paper argues that while Turkey’s quest for ‘subjectness’ has provided the country with some hard power capability and autonomy, it has not produced consistent and coherent policies, damaging its credibility and attractiveness in the eyes of the countries in the MENA region.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-29DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2153241
R. Kaiser
{"title":"The budget and European disintegration – what role for the post-2020 MFF?","authors":"R. Kaiser","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2153241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2153241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"278 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73386443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-29DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2153242
Rasa Kamarauskaitė
{"title":"Becoming more and more European: nationhood, Europe, and same-Sex sexualities in the life stories of Lithuanian LGBQ people","authors":"Rasa Kamarauskaitė","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2153242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2153242","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77188356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2146073
Elisabeth Donat, Simon Lenhart
{"title":"Europeanization of citizens vis-á-vis regional politicians: the case of the German-speaking Community of Belgium in the Euregio Maas-Rhine","authors":"Elisabeth Donat, Simon Lenhart","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2146073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2146073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75726154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2146071
Adolfo Calatrava-García, José Manuel Moreno-Mercado, Javier García‐Marín
ABSTRACT This article analyses the role of the media in the processes of securitisation of international policies in Mediterranean countries. To do so, it studies the presence of the ‘security’ and ‘human drama’ frames in seven newspapers in Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal, with the primary objective of measuring these frames to answer questions about the differences found in the newspapers of these countries and the issues discussed in them. Our hypothesis is European Mediterranean press suffers from media securitisation when reporting on the Sahel conflicts. The reason is mainly due to the singularisation of migration issues. Machine learning, specifically unsupervised (LDA) and supervised (SVM) algorithms, were used to locate the frames to analyse the large volume of extracted data. This type of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique gives excellent results for political communication research. The results show that the security frame is in most of the media analysed. In short, security as a discursive element is the central narrative when dealing with the socio-political reality of the Sahel countries.
{"title":"Towards European securitization press processes? A comparison of Sahel news coverage in Southern European countries","authors":"Adolfo Calatrava-García, José Manuel Moreno-Mercado, Javier García‐Marín","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2146071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2146071","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses the role of the media in the processes of securitisation of international policies in Mediterranean countries. To do so, it studies the presence of the ‘security’ and ‘human drama’ frames in seven newspapers in Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal, with the primary objective of measuring these frames to answer questions about the differences found in the newspapers of these countries and the issues discussed in them. Our hypothesis is European Mediterranean press suffers from media securitisation when reporting on the Sahel conflicts. The reason is mainly due to the singularisation of migration issues. Machine learning, specifically unsupervised (LDA) and supervised (SVM) algorithms, were used to locate the frames to analyse the large volume of extracted data. This type of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique gives excellent results for political communication research. The results show that the security frame is in most of the media analysed. In short, security as a discursive element is the central narrative when dealing with the socio-political reality of the Sahel countries.","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84023926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-13DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2146072
Monika Kabata, An Jacobs
ABSTRACT The so-called ‘migration crisis’ facing the EU between 2015 and 2017 divided EU Member States and caused a rise in populist and racist discourses. Countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic refused to participate in the EU relocation scheme. This paper explores what enabled this opposition to the EU. It analyses the securitising move of the Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS) in constructing migrants as a security threat. It studies the adopted discourse and the effectiveness of the securitisation process, applying the Copenhagen School Approach to securitisation theory. Through an in-depth discourse analysis of a wide range of texts, we argue that the PiS discourse enabled the securitisation of migration and the subsequent decision to refuse the EU relocation scheme.
{"title":"The ‘migrant other’ as a security threat: the ‘migration crisis’ and the securitising move of the polish ruling party in response to the EU relocation scheme","authors":"Monika Kabata, An Jacobs","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2146072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2146072","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The so-called ‘migration crisis’ facing the EU between 2015 and 2017 divided EU Member States and caused a rise in populist and racist discourses. Countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic refused to participate in the EU relocation scheme. This paper explores what enabled this opposition to the EU. It analyses the securitising move of the Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS) in constructing migrants as a security threat. It studies the adopted discourse and the effectiveness of the securitisation process, applying the Copenhagen School Approach to securitisation theory. Through an in-depth discourse analysis of a wide range of texts, we argue that the PiS discourse enabled the securitisation of migration and the subsequent decision to refuse the EU relocation scheme.","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73666271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-09DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2141210
M. Murphy
ABSTRACT Following the UK decision to leave the EU (European Union), Ireland was confronted with profound political and economic challenges linked to its relationship with both the EU and the UK. With a view to protecting Irish interests, the Irish government pursued determined efforts to ‘seek shelter’ from the EU and to develop a ‘hedging’ strategy. In contrast, Irish national authorities faced a decidedly more difficult challenge in balancing different logics of action vis-à-vis the EU, to which Ireland remains committed, and the UK, which continues to be an economically and politically important neighbour for Ireland. Largely successful EU-focused coping strategies co-existed alongside a less positive effort at maintaining a cordial and constructive British-Irish bilateral relationship. The sum of Ireland’s coping strategies, however, unleashed a series of Europeanisation dynamics which reflect a shift in the nature of Ireland’s traditional relationship with the EU. Brexit has stimulated and motivated a greater propensity to upload Irish preferences, including in relation to the EU’s foreign policy landscape.
{"title":"Coping with an EU and Domestic Crisis: Ireland’s Approach to Brexit","authors":"M. Murphy","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2141210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2141210","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Following the UK decision to leave the EU (European Union), Ireland was confronted with profound political and economic challenges linked to its relationship with both the EU and the UK. With a view to protecting Irish interests, the Irish government pursued determined efforts to ‘seek shelter’ from the EU and to develop a ‘hedging’ strategy. In contrast, Irish national authorities faced a decidedly more difficult challenge in balancing different logics of action vis-à-vis the EU, to which Ireland remains committed, and the UK, which continues to be an economically and politically important neighbour for Ireland. Largely successful EU-focused coping strategies co-existed alongside a less positive effort at maintaining a cordial and constructive British-Irish bilateral relationship. The sum of Ireland’s coping strategies, however, unleashed a series of Europeanisation dynamics which reflect a shift in the nature of Ireland’s traditional relationship with the EU. Brexit has stimulated and motivated a greater propensity to upload Irish preferences, including in relation to the EU’s foreign policy landscape.","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"590 - 602"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90605349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-30DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2141211
Catherine Macmillan
ABSTRACT This paper explores the two most recent extended manifestos on Europe (2019) of the French populist radical right party Rassemblement National (RN), previously known as the Front National (FN), from a narrative perspective. The perspective used is based on the Narrative Policy Framework’s focus on the setting, plot, characters and moral of the narrative combined with a generic approach. Rather than the ‘classical’ genres of tragedy, comedy, romance and satire, however, this study focuses on the narrative elements of the dystopian genre, and argues that the RN’s narrative on Europe broadly resembles fictional dystopian narratives. In dystopian narratives, the inhabitants find their ontological security threatened by a dehumanising, authoritarian regime, in this case the EU. It is in the ‘green world’, a timeless space outside the limits of the dystopian state, here represented by the RN’s proposed European Alliance of Nations, where the dystopian hero recuperates their sense of autonomy and identity. Such narratives, through exacerbating an already widespread sense of anxiety and ontological insecurity, are potentially powerful attempts to frame continued membership in an unreformed EU as a threat to security.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2134987
R. Foster
{"title":"Imperial Gothic 2.0: Brexit, Brex-Lit, and everyday Euroscepticism in British popular culture","authors":"R. Foster","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2134987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2134987","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"212 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73197083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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