Pub Date : 2023-02-26DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2183182
C. Kaunert, Joana de Deus Pereira
ABSTRACT This article aims to analyse security within Europe’s Eastern Partnership as perceived from the outside – notably by Russia. It analyses the impact of Russia’s security on European security thinking in its Eastern Partnership through the lens of ontological security. Russia’s relationship with the West, based on its ontological security fears, is characterised by the collective trauma and stigma of USSR disintegration. Europe’s ontological security anxiety and fear in its relationship with Russia is caused by the wars in Georgia and Ukraine, as well as Russia’s hybrid warfare. The ontological security interaction in the Eastern Neighbourhood has had two effects: (1) it heightened Putin’s emphasis on the protection of spiritual, cultural and national identity and how the stigma of territorial loss plays a strategic role on the ability to build Russian collective identity reflexively; and (2) Russia has aimed at a re-construction of Europe along different geopolitical lines, whereby Dugin’s Eurasian views have shaped Putin’s discourse. This article analyses the EU’s policy and practices following the war in Ukraine (in two phases in 2014 and 2022) in the Eastern Neighbourhood.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-20DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2179978
J. Maliszewska-Nienartowicz
{"title":"Renewable energy and its financing instruments in the European Union: new trends in development?","authors":"J. Maliszewska-Nienartowicz","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2179978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2179978","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"36 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90534785","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 : 2023-02-19DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2177836
Taru Haapala
{"title":"Disrupting European politics? Rhetorical analysis of MEP Manon Aubry’s politicising strategies in Twitter","authors":"Taru Haapala","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2177836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2177836","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88344205","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 : 2023-02-19DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2177841
A. Szpak, Julia Kołodziejska
{"title":"The use of the OSCE Moscow mechanism and international humanitarian law in the Russian aggression against Ukraine","authors":"A. Szpak, Julia Kołodziejska","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2177841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2177841","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78543306","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 : 2023-02-16DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2177838
F. Bordignon
ABSTRACT The Covid-19 pandemic has given further centrality to science within the public debate. But it has also acted as a great multiplier for pseudoscientific (conspiracy) theories. This exploratory study investigates the determinants of pseudoscientific beliefs in five European countries, using data from a survey conducted in May 2021. The concept of pseudoscience is theoretically framed and then operationalised by constructing a Pseudo-scientific Beliefs Index (PBI). Results show that exposure to scientific information does not ‘protect’ against unsound scientific claims, if not complemented by a correct understanding of the division of scientific labour. Pseudoscientific views are strongly associated with distrust of official science. But, in the context of today’s information abundance, even more relevant is the spread of epistemological populism, which fosters reliance on alternative sources and the pseudo-expertise of ‘alternative scientific authorities’. The embrace of ‘alternative scientific facts’ is also associated with electoral support for populist parties.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-15DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2177840
Emily Loucas
ABSTRACT On the ninth of August, 2020, mass protests broke out across Belarus following the undemocratic election of Alyaksandr Lukashenka. Lukashenka responded swiftly to the protests with extreme violence and repression, and as the protest movement, led by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, called for the EU to intervene, the EU’s response was notably restrained. In the context of the EU’s values-centred articulation of its subjectivity, as a normative power that has a responsibility to the world beyond its own borders, this discrepancy between articulation and praxis raises questions about the current state of normative power in EU foreign policy discourses. This article will draw on Ernesto Laclau, Aletta Norval, and Jenny Edkins to investigate the discursive structures that construct the EU’s subjectivity as a foreign policy actor in the crisis in Belarus, discuss the meaning of articulating the crisis as a ‘women’s movement’, and explore how the EU justifies its chosen response in relation to the severity of the crisis.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-15DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2177835
Johanna Neuhauser, Thais França, Almudena Cortés
ABSTRACT The main aim of this paper is to shed light on the link between ‘onward migration’ and ‘onward precarity’ as an experience of continuous precariousness by paying attention to crisis/post-crisis contexts and how these contexts have led to precarity becoming structurally embedded in migrant labour markets in Europe. Onward migration studies have centrally focused on crisis contexts, but very little attention has been paid to post-crisis contexts. Thus, this article contributes to complementing the previous research on onward migration and onward precarity. The paper follows a qualitative and multi-sited approach based on in-depth interviews and discussion groups with Latin American migrants living in Madrid, Lisbon, and London. Our empirical analysis elucidates that labour mobility and onward migration are embedded in intersectional dynamics of exclusion which entail a continuous experience of multifaceted precarity.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-15DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2175469
Catarina Silva
The European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times is the most recent work in the emerging studies of the European Parliament (EP) under the pressure of the post-2008 decade of crises. While the content is dense, ranging from theoretical debates to empirical discussions of the EP’s political groups, the findings of the 12 chapters greatly contribute to mitigating the limited existing studies involving the political groups of the European Parliament over the last decade or so. The authors were invited to develop their research according to the formal or informal institu-tional practices regarding inter - or intra -group interactions and inter-institutional activities (p. 8–10). The result was a collection of chapters analysing the internal democratic practices of the EP groups (chapters 2 to 4), the behaviour of Euroscepticism and radical right populist actors within the EP (chapters 5 to 7) and the role of political groups in transmitting EU values (chapter 9 to 10). Concerning democratic practices at the EP’s political groups, chapters 2 to 4 have provided some important insights on intra-groups activities by focusing on groups’ formation (chapter 2), the institutionalisation of the political groups (chapter 3) and the practices behind policy formation within the political groups (chapter 4). In terms of democracy, the general conclusions of these chapters unveil that democratic practices within EP’s political groups are quite divergent among mainstream and institutionalised political groups and new and less institutionalised radical right populist groups. For example, that could be seen in Ahrens and Kantola’s chapter, in which the authors analysed the issue of political groups’ formation throughout the 8 th and 9 th legislative terms. According to the authors, in almost all the groups, group formation practices were supported by democratic functioning, to a lesser extent in radical right populist groups, where the practices of group formation are a bit more ad hoc . Almost along the same line, the chapter by Elomäki, Gaweda and Berthet sheds light on differences between
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Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2177837
Á. Oleart
{"title":"The political construction of the ‘citizen turn’ in the EU: disintermediation and depoliticisation in the Conference on the Future of Europe","authors":"Á. Oleart","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2177837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2177837","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76924907","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 : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2171968
Gian Hernandez, Jolanta Drzewiecka, S. Greco
ABSTRACT We examine how the EU integration is narrated in news about asylum seekers. While extant research has examined representations of refugees in media, little attention has been paid to how the EU integration is imagined in such representations. Narration is of key importance to the ongoing EU integration and its contestation. The area of migration and asylum-seeking, in particular, generates terse conflicts between integration measures and individual member states over authority and power. As the EU attempted to coordinate a response to asylum seeking in 2015, ’media became the locus for institutional and intergovernmental clashes’ (Maricut-Akbik, 2020, p.1). We demonstrate the differences and entanglements between ideological ideas in the representation of governments’ and the EU’s debate about the refugee distribution schema by newspapers in Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK, each differently positioned in respect to the EU and the asylum seekers. Further, we demonstrate the utility of Greimas’ (1983) actantial schema to explicating ideological motivators in news narratives shaped by different state interests. We compare and tease out finer ideational points in representation of relations between governments and the EU as well as among the governments themselves and the ideological views informing these representations.
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