Dimitris Bouris

Associate Editor needed for European Security

We are looking for an associate editor to join @jocelynmawdsley.bsky.social @laurachappell.bsky.social & @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social in editing European Security. Interested in getting editorial experience? More info here:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... Deadline 31/10/25.

Performing and (re)producing the contested state:
George Sebastian Fartan &
@dimitrisbouris.bsky.social on the case of Transnistria
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⚠️New #openaccesarticle online!

🗣️ Performing the (Contested) State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of #Transnistria’s Political Elites

🔍 Find out more here: https://shorturl.at/Uky81

✒️ George Sebastian Fartan & @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam)

Delighted to find my article on #RuleofLaw conditionality in the #EU, co-authored with @adamholesch.bsky.social from @ibei.org, in the latest issue of @jcms-eu.bsky.social (incidentally, in the good company of @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social) and many others...

Don’t count on the U.S.: can Russia achieve a rapid breakthrough in central Europe? The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has significantly worsened the European security outlook. Simultaneously, concerns are growing over the United States’ willingness to commit substantial forces ...

7/7 🚩
European NATO can stop Russia without U.S. ground forces—if it acts decisively and prepares.
Our full open-access paper here:
📄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

European Security Volume 34, Issue 2 of European Security

Vol 34 (2) is now available. Interested in military contractors, France, the EU and Tunisia, customs security, EU delegations and crisis management, Sino-Belgian research cooperation , Poland in Iraq, military social media use or OSINT? Click here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/feus20/3...

The European Parliament's foreign policy behaviour: the case of EU foreign policy towards Ukraine following the Russian war of aggression This article sheds light on the foreign policy behaviour of the European Parliament, which is traditionally considered to have a “quite limited” role in this policy domain. It aims to fill a theore...

New OA article: The European Parliament's foreign policy behaviour: the case of EU foreign policy towards Ukraine following the Russian war of aggression by Elena Baracani and Michele Danesi: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to report for the journal metrics fans out there that our CiteScore has gone up to 6.1. We are now ranked by Scopus as 45/738 of Politics and IR journals.

We're very happy to announce that our latest JCR impact factor is 3.6, making us a Q1 journal in Area Studies (1/182), IR (12/169) and Political Science (29/322). Thanks to our editorial board, authors, reviewers and readers for all that you do to help us!

What role does gender equality play in the EU’s civilian Common Security and Defence Policy?

Adopting a feminist institutionalist framework, Eileen Mullen & @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social seek to answer this question by examining three civilian CSDP missions.

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In June 2024, we—the YugoslaWomen+ Collective—held actions at CEE-ISA in Rijeka to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.
A modest intervention turned into one of the weirdest & tensest academic events we've experienced.
Our reflection on organised silence and academic resistance 👇 shorturl.at/Yr8c9

It's not a "situation". It's not "beyond what is necessary". It's crimes, @kajakallas.bsky.social. The worst possible crimes, in fact.

Statements like this only show the EU doesn't even have the "courage" to CALL them for what they are, let alone ACT upon them.

We are sick and tired of this.

Warm congrats, we are honoured to have your paper in this SI!

The article reads Chantal Mouffe's conception of 'consensus' and @bonniehonig.bsky.social 's notion of 'remainders' through the #homonormativity theories of #homonationalism, -colonialism and -capitalism by Jasbir Puar, Momin Rahman and @rahulraothariel.bsky.social.

Global Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the European Union in Times of Dissensus Over LGBT Equality In times of heightened dissensus over the liberal democratic order, normative theories of the EU need to adapt to be able to capture how the promotion and enforcement of values go hand in hand with t...

Happy to see my contribution to the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Special Issue “Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union's Global Role” published.

doi.org/10.1111/jcms...

It was great to be part of the panel "Outsourced Empire? Questioning Norms and Values of EU External Relations" at #EUIA2025 with DFUTURE colleagues.

In times of genocide, we refused to carry on with “conference as usual", a small but necessary act of refusal against complicity.

Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

Friends and colleagues have been asking how to support me and my Politics colleagues caught up in this. You could sign this:
www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

No conferencing as usual during genocides!

Given the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza, we invite you to join us on Thursday (22 May) at 12:45 at The Thinker statue inside VUB’s campus for an action in solidarity with Gaza. #EUIA25

Aid as Pacification: The Encroachment of Counterterrorism Clauses into the Aid Regime of the European Union in the Occupied Palestinian Territories The article engages the European Union's (EU) implementation of counterterrorism clauses as part of its development aid regulations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). The point of departure...

#Aid as Pacification: The Encroachment of Counterterrorism Clauses into the Aid Regime of the European Union in the #OccupiedPalestinian Territories - Mariam Salameh-Puvogel. Already available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Contested Alliances: A Contrapuntal Reading of European (Global) #Gender Agendas @norafisheronar.bsky.social Sarah Wolff and David Gazsi

#Geopolitics, (in)security and #resilience. A #feminist critique of the EU’s engagement in #Armenia after the Second #Nagorno-Karabakh war Laura Luciani

#Decentring European Foreign Policy Analysis: Towards a paradigmatic shift Stephan Keukeleire and Sharon Lecocq

EUropean Identity Construction after the #Russian Full-scale Invasion of #Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others Kateryna Pishchikova

#Queering #European Union #Security Policy: #invisibility, #heteronormativity and #binaries in the EU’s approach to #Women, #Peace and #Security Hanna Muehlenhoff, Saul Kenny and myself. Already available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Towards #Allyship in #Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union’s Role as a #Global Actor @norafisheronar.bsky.social @dhuber.bsky.social and myself.

Global #Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the EU in times of Dissensus over #LGBT equality Malte Breiding

Don’t miss our 2 panels in #EUIA25! We’ll be sharing early findings from the forthcoming SI we've guest edited in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with @norafisheronar.bsky.social and @dhuber.bsky.social "Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the #EU’s role as a Global Actor". @aissr.bsky.social

Check out contributions from the likes of @msanjaume.bsky.social, Lesley-Ann Daniels, Janis Grzybowski, @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social, @irenefmolina.bsky.social, Megan Price, @georgekyris.bsky.social, Maurice Brisland, and Argyro Kartsonaki!

Weekly round-up! 📚

It has been a busy month for JCMS, with new and insightful research being published every week.

Here are some articles you may have missed ➡️ bit.ly/3RAuaKv

@cardwellpj.bsky.social @rguerrina.bsky.social @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social

This is the first article adopting a #queer perspective to the study of EU #CFSP. We analyse the EU’s implementation of the #UN WPS agenda through a queer lens and we hope to open up a broader queer research agenda to study #EUFP by unpacking invisibilities, heteronormativity and binaries.

Queering European Union Foreign and Security Policy: Invisibility, Heteronormativity and Binaries in the EU's Approach to Women, Peace and Security Queer scholarship highlights and analyses how international politics are produced through sexuality and gender norms. Doing so, queer perspectives question and unpack binaries and the assumptions und...

Hot off the press! #Queering #EuropeanUnion #Foreign and #Security policy: #Invisibility, #heteronormativity and #binaries in the EU’s approach to #WPS with Saul Kenny and Hanna Muhlenhoff! @aissr.bsky.social @fmg-uva.bsky.social @jcms-eu.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This Thursday lunchtime Lata Narayanaswamy and I will be discussing the collapse of the liberal world order, humanitarian implications, and the possibilities for doing things differently.

www.kuno-platform.nl/events/the-c...

Always a pleasure to return to the College of Europe in Natolin to teach my course on #EU-#MiddleEast relations.These are challenging times but critical discussion remains more important than ever. A heartfelt thank you to my students—keep striving and fighting for a better, more just world!