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Policy Coherence in the Time of Economic Insecurity: Balancing the Sustainable Trade and Development Playbook of the New European Commission The EU's efforts to integrate sustainability into its trade policy have met with mixed reactions, particularly from developing countries. Previously, the EU has sought to promote relevant autonomous ...

New policy commentary from JCMS 📄

The EU’s security-first shift is straining trade and development ties, especially with the Global South.

Frederik Stender, @timvogel.bsky.social and Niels Keijzer explore tensions and offer policy fixes.

Read more 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Much More Than a Report: The Search for Europe's New Political Identity and the Politics of Competitiveness Click on the article title to read more.

📘🇪🇺 Much more than a report
In our new @jcms-eu.bsky.social piece, Lucia Quaglia and I argue that the Draghi and Letta reports go beyond competitiveness - they mark a shift in the EU’s political identity. But this entails huge challenges!

Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Legal Legacies of Co‐ordinative Europeanisation – EU Crisis Governance Between Political Expedience and Normative Credence This article examines the phenomenon of ‘co-ordinative Europeanisation’, a mode of governance characterised by close collaboration between European Union (EU) institutions and national executives. It...

📘 New article now out with @jcms-eu.bsky.social!

“Legal Legacies of Co-ordinative Europeanisation – EU Crisis Governance Between Political Expedience and Normative Credence”

Read early view here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@groningeneulaw.bsky.social @rechten050.bsky.social

German Politics in Times of Crises: The Success of the Post‐Merkel Conservatives in the 2025 Federal Election Click on the article title to read more.

New article! 📚

"German Politics in #Times of #Crises: The Success of the Post-Merkel Conservatives in the 2025 Federal Election" is out in the @jcms-eu.bsky.social. Not the Scholz government, but the CDU's return may deepen the break with Merkel's legacy.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social:

What can Karl Polanyi's work on the contentious transformations of modern capitalism (still) tell us about European integration? This article examines this long-debated question by zooming in on the EU's recent efforts at labour market (re-)regulation. [1/5]

🚨 New publication alert 🚨

Very happy to share my latest article:

“China as a Catalyst of the European Union's Trade Defence Instruments”

Just published in the Journal of Common Market Studies @jcms-eu.bsky.social

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doi.org/10.1111/jcms...

Check it out!

@ibei.org @csds.bsky.social

JCMS has a new impact factor of 3.3! 📈

According to the 2024 Journal Citation Report by Clarivate:

🔹We’re in Q1 for IR, PoliSci & Econ (16/169, 41/322, 104/617)
🔹72%+ of our content was Open Access

Thank you to our authors, reviewers, readers, and the European Studies Community for your support!

❗New Research❗

"China as a Catalyst of the European Union's Trade Defence Instruments", by Laia Comerma for the Journal of Common Market Studies.

Read🔸 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@laiacomerma.bsky.social @jcms-eu.bsky.social @vubrussel.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

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...

In our @wepsocial.bsky.social piece ‘The EU core executive’ we define #EUCO as a presidential actor in EU politics. This is argument is linked to the new intergovernmentalism. On this read @dermothodson.bsky.social and me @jcms-eu.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks to @jcms-eu.bsky.social & @ces-europe.bsky.social for the honor to give this lecture on the economic, security, & governance crises Europe faces today & what it can (& must) do to meet them going forward. Video hopefully soon & a longer version in print @jcms-eu.bsky.social later this year.

An absolute pleasure to host @mcopelov.bsky.social for his insightful & provocative talk. Lots for EU Studies to learn from IPE! 🎙️A recording will be posted soon and the text 📝 of the lecture will appear next year in the pages of the journal. Thanks also to @ces-europe.bsky.social for hosting!

At last week’s #JCMS Annual Lecture 2025, @mcopelov.bsky.social offered a powerful take on Europe’s role in a shifting world.

Thank you to Prof. Copelovitch for his insight, to @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social for the intro, and to all who joined us for the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference.

Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024 Click on the article title to read more.

📣 New piece out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with the great @mlorimer.bsky.social & Marianna Griffini!

We compare the 2023 🇳🇱 & 2024 🇫🇷 snap elections: different systems, but shared patterns:
➡️ Gov’t instability
➡️ Continued rise and mainstreaming of the far right

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨

Volume 63, Issue 4 of JCMS is out now! 🌍

Explore key debates on EU funding, Euroscepticism, foreign policy and more.

Edited by @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social, and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social 📚

Read the new issue here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...

Did you know that by publishing with JCMS (@jcms-eu.bsky.social) and CEP you are also supporting UACES’ charitable mission?

All journal income is reinvested back into member activities and the broader community.

Submit your research today: www.uaces.org/jcms-and-cep....

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🌍 Want your research to make an impact? Publishing with JCMS offers:

🔸 Higher visibility and citations
🔸 Influence on real-world policy
🔸 Multidisciplinary reach
🔸 A theoretically and methodologically diverse audience

Learn more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

@mcopelov.bsky.social delivering the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Annual Lecture at #CES @ces-europe.bsky.social. Speaking fully to the conference theme of Legacies & Ruptures, we're hearing abt "Europe Adrift: the Future of the EU, the Global Economy & World Order in an Era of Geopolitical Uncertainty".

Looking to publish your research on Europe?

Join leading scholars from around the world in contributing to JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies (@jcms-eu.bsky.social) and Contemporary European Politics (CEP).

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Looking to publish your research on the #EuropeanUnion and comparative regionalism? 🌍

Join leading scholars from around the world in contributing to JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 📚

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Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno‐Karabakh War This article interrogates the EU's ‘geopolitical turn’ by examining its external engagement in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drawing o...

Whose security does a 'geopolitical' European Union serve in Armenia, and how is this received by people on the ground? Happy and proud to see my contribution to the SI "Critical perspectives on the EU's global role" finally published in @jcms-eu.bsky.social 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Now all contributions to this year‘s @jcms-eu.bsky.social AR stocktaking on 10 years of new intergovernmentalism are available on ‘early view’. Also read pieces by Sergio Fabbrini and Genschel & Jachtenfuchs. We debate the commonalities and nuances in our accounts.

New publication in JCMS! 🚨

@mblauberger.bsky.social & Arndt Wonka demonstrate how parties in backsliding EU states frame the Union’s pro-democracy efforts using crisis, polity, and value frames.🧠⚖️

Based on 1,400 articles from Hungary since 2010.

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Democracy Versus Diplomacy? The Involvement of External Actors in Trilogue Negotiations This article examines the role of external actors in shaping trilogue practices, using the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) directive adopted in 2019 as a case study. Building on Roederer...

📄New paper in @jcms-eu.bsky.social!

I’m excited to share my latest publication: "Democracy versus Diplomacy? The involvement of external actors in trilogue negotiations."

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to welcome @mcopelov.bsky.social as keynote speaker for the JCMS Annual Lecture 2025 at the Council for European Studies Conference in Philadelphia! 🎤

Hear what he has to say about this year's topic.

📅 25 June 2025
🕓 4:00 PM (EDT)
📍 CES Conference | Philadelphia

Last week’s 2025 JCMS Annual Review Lecture at LSE saw @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social deliver a powerful talk on how nationalism and war continue to shape Europe today.

The event was hosted with @uaces.bsky.social and @lse-ei.bsky.social.

🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIYz...

@morenstein.bsky.social and @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social warned about Russia's “Trojan horses” within the EU years ago in this @jcms-eu.bsky.social piece ⬇️

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Can Third Country Nationals Be Banned From Schengen? Assessing Member State Unilateral Measures Against Russian Citizens and the Commission's Response Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 led the European Union (EU) to take several measures to support Ukraine and sanction Russia. Still further measures have been discussed, including the qu....

Discover this 2025 article on bans from Schengen area via @jcms-eu.bsky.social and @wiley.com.

Prof. @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social delivers the Annual Review Lecture, exploring grounded nationalism, national identity, and the war in Ukraine.

He says, ‘national identity is less a personal choice and more a reflection of the organisational and ideological realities of the world we live in.’