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- 59:3 (2024) - Eugenia Baroncelli and Daniela Irrera
The Triple Nexus and the Future of Multilateral Governance: Rethinking Coordination between Humanitarian, Development and Peacebuilding Efforts
- 59:3 (2024) - Daniela Nascimento and José Manuel Pureza
Refugees as Entrepreneurs? A Challenge to HDP Programmes
- 59:3 (2024) - Maria do Céu Pinto Arena
The US and EU Response to Tunisia’s Democratic Backsliding: Promoting Democracy or Protecting Interests?
- 59:2 (2024) - Polina Zavershinskaia
State’s Legitimisation of Violence through Strategic Narration: How the Kremlin Justified the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- 59:2 (2024) - Ruoxi Wang, Chi Zhang and Yaxiong Lei
Justifying a Privacy Guardian in Discourse and Behaviour: The People’s Republic of China’s Strategic Framing in Data Governance
- 59:2 (2024) - Frank Maracchione, Giulia Sciorati and Claudia Roberta Combei
Changing Images? Italian Twitter Discourse on China and the United States during the First Wave of COVID-19
- 59:1 (2024) - Riccardo Alcaro and Hylke Dijkstra
Re-imagining EU Foreign and Security Policy in a Complex and Contested World
- 59:1 (2024) - Pol Bargués, Assem Dandashly, Hylke Dijkstra and Gergana Noutcheva
Engagement against All Odds? Navigating Member States’ Contestation of EU Policy on Kosovo
- 59:1 (2024) - Kristi Raik, Steven Blockmans, Anna Osypchuk and Anton Suslov
EU Policy towards Ukraine: Entering Geopolitical Competition over European Order
- 59:1 (2024) - Sinem Akgül-Açıkmeşe and Soli Özel
EU Policy towards the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Limitations of Mitigation Strategies
- 59:1 (2024) - Caterina Bedin, Tiffany Guendouz and Agnès Levallois
From Conflict Management to Shielding EU Stability: How Syria’s Fragmentation Diverted the EU(FSP) from Action to Reaction
- 59:1 (2024) - Riccardo Alcaro
Weathering the Geopolitical Storms: The Ever-elusive Success of EU Policy towards Iran
- 59:1 (2024) - Francesca Caruso and Jesutimilehin O. Akamo
EU Policy towards Ethiopia amidst the Tigray War: The Limits of Mitigating Fragmentation
- 59:1 (2024) - Anna Ayuso, Tiziano Breda, Elsa Lilja Gunnarsdottir and Marianne Riddervold
Constraints, Dilemmas and Challenges for EU Foreign Policy in Venezuela
- 59:1 (2024) - Zachary Paikin
Multipolar Competition and the Rules-based Order: Probing the Limits of EU Foreign and Security Policy in the South China Sea
- 58:3 (2023) - Rebecca Sanders and Laura Dudley Jenkins
Patriarchal Populism: The Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) and the Transnational Politics of Authoritarian Anti-Feminism
- 58:3 (2023) - Stefan A. Schirm
Alternative World Orders? Russia’s Ukraine War and the Domestic Politics of the BRICS
- 58:3 (2023) - Hussam Hussein and Matyas Knol
The Ukraine War, Food Trade and the Network of Global Crises
- 58:3 (2023) - Marco Giuli and Sebastian Oberthür
Assessing the EU’s Evolving Position in Energy Geopolitics under Decarbonisation
- 58:2 (2023) - Emidio Diodato and Veronica Strina
Olympic Diplomacy as Contestation: The Legacy of the Beijing Olympics
- 58:2 (2023) Jan Busse and René Wildangel
The Rebellious Game: The Power of Football in the Middle East and North Africa between the Global and the Local
- 58:2 (2023) - Francesco Belcastro
A Game of Politics? International Sport Organisations and the Role of Sport in International Politics
- 58:1 (2023) - Leo Goretti and Daniela Huber
Editorial
- 58:1 (2023) - Sophia Kalantzakos, Indra Overland and Roman Vakulchuk
Decarbonisation and Critical Materials in the Context of Fraught Geopolitics: Europe’s Distinctive Approach to a Net Zero Future
- 58:1 (2023) - Armenuhi Ananyan and Kerry Longhurst
Amidst an Ambition-Reality Gap: The UN’s Women, Peace and Security Agenda
- 58:1 (2023) - Brendon J. Cannon and Federico Donelli
Rwanda’s Military Deployments in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Neoclassical Realist Account
- 57:4 (2022) - Jonathan Fulton
Systemic Change and Regional Orders: Asian Responses to a Gulf in Transition
- 57:4 (2022) - Florian Trauner
The Great Covid Paper Wall: European Strategies to Deal with Chinese Visa Restrictions
- 57:4 (2022) - Vasile Rotaru
Change or Continuity in Russia’s Strategy towards Secessionist Regions in the ‘Near Abroad’?
- 57:3 (2022) - Xuechen Chen and Yifan Yang
Contesting Western and Non-Western Approaches to Global Cyber Governance beyond Westlessness
- 57:3 (2022) - Xinchuchu Gao
An Attractive Alternative? China’s Approach to Cyber Governance and Its Implications for the Western Model
- 57:3 (2022) - Saeme Kim
Roles and Limitations of Middle Powers in Shaping Global Cyber Governance
- 57:3 (2022) - Louise Marie Hurel
Interrogating the Cybersecurity Development Agenda: A Critical Reflection
- 57:2 (2022) - Vahid Nick Pay and Przemysław Postolski
Power and Diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council: The Influence of Elected Members
- 57:2 (2022) - Meriel Hahn and Peter Harris
The Hobbled Peacemaker: America's Inability to Satisfy North Korea
- 57:1 (2022) - Nicoletta Pirozzi and Matteo Bonomi
Governing Differentiation and Integration in the European Union: Patterns, Effectiveness and Legitimacy
- 57:1 (2022) - Marco Brunazzo
The Politics of EU Differentiated Integration: Between Crises and Dilemmas
- 57:1 (2022) - Sandra Lavenex and Ivo Križić
Governance, Effectiveness and Legitimacy in Differentiated Integration: An Analytical Framework
- 56:1 (2021) - Pier Domenico Tortola and Stefan Couperus
Differentiated Cooperation through Local Authority Networks: Challenges and Opportunities
- 57:1 (2022) - Funda Tekin and Vittoria Meissner
Political Differentiation as the End of Political Unity? A Narrative Analysis
- 57:1 (2022) - Andreas Eisl and Eulalia Rubio
What Makes Economic Differentiation Effective? Insights from the EU Energy Sector, Banking Union and Third-Country Access to the Single Market
- 57:1 (2022) - Marco Siddi, Tyyne Karjalainen and Juha Jokela
Differentiated Cooperation in the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy: Effectiveness, Accountability, Legitimacy
- 57:1 (2022) - Emmanuel Comte and Sandra Lavenex
Differentiation and De-Differentiation in EU Border Controls, Asylum and Police Cooperation
- 57:1 (2022) - Jannike Wachowiak and Fabian Zuleeg
Brexit and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Implications for Internal and External EU Differentiation
- 57:1 (2022) - Nicoletta Pirozzi and Matteo Bonomi
Differentiation and EU Governance: Key Elements and Impact
- 56:4 (2021) - Olivia Glombitza and Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Between the Domestic and the International: Ideational Factors, Peacebuilding and Foreign Policy in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf
- 56:4 (2021) - Simon Mabon, Samira Nasirzadeh and Eyad Alrefai
De-securitisation and Pragmatism in the Persian Gulf: The Future of Saudi-Iranian Relations
- 56:4 (2021) - Nesibe Hicret Battaloglu
Ideational Factors in Turkey’s Alignment with Qatar and Their Impact on Regional Security
- 56:4 (2021) - James Worrall
“Switzerland of Arabia”: Omani Foreign Policy and Mediation Efforts in the Middle East
- 56:4 (2021) - Gertjan Hoetjes
The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Failure of Peacebuilding in Yemen
- 56:3 (2021) - Rosa Fernandez, Jonas J. Schoenefeld, Thomas Hoerber and Sebastian Oberthür
Europe’s Transition to Sustainability: Actors, Approaches and Policies
- 56:3 (2021) - Frauke Ohler and Tom Delreux
Role Perceptions in Global Environmental Negotiations: From Reformist Leaders to Conservative Bystanders
- 56:3 (2021) - Jonas J. Schoenefeld, Kai Schulze, Mikael Hildén and Andrew J. Jordan
The Challenging Paths to Net-Zero Emissions: Insights from the Monitoring of National Policy Mixes
- 56:3 (2021) - Thomas Hoerber, Kristina Kurze and Joel Kuenzer
Towards Ego-Ecology? Populist Environmental Agendas and the Sustainability Transition in Europe
- 56:3 (2021) - Matúš Mišík
When the Accession Legacy Fades Away: Central and Eastern European Countries and the EU Renewables Targets
- 56:3 (2021) - Rosa Fernandez
Community Renewable Energy Projects: The Future of the Sustainable Energy Transition?
- 56:3 (2021) - Simona Davidescu and Aron Buzogány
Cutting Deals: Transnational Advocacy Networks and the European Union Timber Regulation at the Eastern Border
- 56:2 (2021) - Riccardo Alcaro and Nathalie Tocci
Navigating a Covid World: The European Union’s Internal Rebirth and External Quest
- 56:2 (2021) - Stefania Panebianco
Towards a Human and Humane Approach? The EU Discourse on Migration amidst the Covid-19 Crisis
- 56:2 (2021) - Meliha Altunışık
Pandemic Regionalism or Not? The MENA Region in the Shadow of Covid-19
- 56:2 (2021) - Salvador Santino F. Regilme, Jr and Obert Hodzi
Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers
- 56:1 (2021) - Riccardo Alcaro
Europe’s Defence of the Iran Nuclear Deal: Less than a Success, More than a Failure
- 56:1 (2021) - Giovanna Maletta
Seeking a Responsible Arms Trade to Reduce Human Suffering in Yemen
- 56:1 (2021) - Anna Maria Pinna and Luca Lodi
Trade and Global Value Chains at the Time of Covid-19
- 55:4 (2020) - Morten Bøås and Francesco Strazzari
Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel: A Hybrid Political Order in the Making
-- 55:4 (2020) - Kari M. Osland and Henriette U. Erstad
The Fragility Dilemma and Divergent Security Complexes in the Sahel
- 55:4 (2020) - Alessio Iocchi
The Dangers of Disconnection: Oscillations in Political Violence on Lake Chad
- 55:4 (2020) - Luca Raineri
Gold Mining in the Sahara-Sahel: The Political Geography of State-making and Unmaking
- 55:4 (2020) - Morten Bøås, Abdoul Wahab Cissé and Laouali Mahamane
Explaining Violence in Tillabéri: Insurgent Appropriation of Local Grievances?
- 55:3 (2020) - Sophia Kalantzakos
The Race for Critical Minerals in an Era of Geopolitical Realignments
- 55:2 (2020) - Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh
The GCC in Crisis: Explorations of ‘Normlessness’ in Gulf Regionalism
- 55:2 (2020) - Larbi Sadiki
Regionalism in Crisis: GCC Integration without Democracy
- 55:2 (2020) - Ibrahim Fraihat
Superpower and Small-State Mediation in the Qatar Gulf Crisis
- 55:1 (2020) - Nicola Casarini
Rising to the Challenge: Europe's Security Policy in East Asia amid US-China Rivalry
- 54:4 (2019) - Alper Kaliber and Esra Kaliber
From De-Europeanisation to Anti-Western Populism: Turkish Foreign Policy in Flux
- 54:4 (2019) - Linus Hagström and Magnus Lundström
Overcoming US-North Korean Enmity: Lessons from an Eclectic IR Approach
- 54:3 (2019) - Silvia D'Amato and Sonia Lucarelli
Talking Migration: Narratives of Migration and Justice Claims in the European Migration System of Governance
- 54:2 (2019) - Bertjan Verbeek and Andrej Zaslove
Contested Issues Surrounding Populism in Public and Academic Debates
- 54:1 (2019) - Olga Burlyuk and Gergana Noutcheva
Unintended Consequences of EU External Action
- 54:1 (2019) - Natasja Reslow
Horizontal and Vertical Diversity: Unintended Consequences of EU External Migration Policy
- 54:1 (2019) - Dimitris Bouris
Unintended Consequences of State-building Projects in Contested States: The EU in Palestine
- 54:1 (2019) - Assem Dandashly and Gergana Noutcheva
Unintended Consequences of EU Democracy Support in the European Neighbourhood
- 54:1 (2019) - Frank de Zwart and Karolina Pomorska
EU External Action, Intention and Explanation
- 53:4 (2018) - Agustín Rossi
How the Snowden Revelations Saved the EU General Data Protection Regulation
- 53:3 (2018) - Paolo Foradori, Serena Giusti and Alessandro Giovanni Lamonica
Reshaping Cultural Heritage Protection Policies at a Time of Securitisation: France, Italy, and the United Kingdom
- 53:2 (2018) - Matthew Willner-Reid
The Rise of Referendums: A Death Sentence for Multilateralism?
- 53:2 (2018) - Lindy Newlove-Eriksson, Giampiero Giacomello and Johan Eriksson
The Invisible Hand? Critical Information Infrastructures, Commercialisation and National Security
- 53:1 (2018) - Riccardo Alcaro
Contestation and Transformation. Final Thoughts on the Liberal International Order
- 52:4 (2017) - Milan Babic, Jan Fichtner and Eelke M. Heemskerk
States versus Corporations: Rethinking the Power of Business in International Politics
- 52:4 (2017) - Ruth Hanau Santini
A New Regional Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa: Regional Security Complex Theory Revisited
- 52:3 (2017) - Francesco Marone
Ties that Bind: Dynamics of Group Radicalisation in Italy’s Jihadists Headed for Syria and Iraq
- 52:2 (2017) - Silvia Colombo and Eman Ragab
Editorial Note: Foreign Relations of the GCC Countries amid Shifting Global and Regional Dynamics
- 52:2 (2017) - Babak Mohammadzadeh
Status and Foreign Policy Change in Small States: Qatar’s Emergence in Perspective
- 52:1 (2017) - Jonathan Holslag
How China's New Silk Road Threatens European Trade
- 52:1 (2017) - Benedict Wilkinson, Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré and Erin Montague
Navigating the Unknown: Barriers to Evidence-Based Defence and Security Policy in the European Union
- 51:4 (2016) - David C. Unger
The Foreign Policy Legacy of Barack Obama
- 51:3 (2016) - Nathalie Tocci
Interview on the Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy
- 51:3 (2016) - Joyeeta Gupta
The Watercourses Convention, Hydro-hegemony and Transboundary Water Issues
- 51:2 (2016) - Sam Sussman and Kalypso Nicolaïdis
R2P: “State of Play”
- 51:1 (2016) - Federico Romero
Rethinking Italy's Shrinking Place in the International Arena
- 50:4 (2015) - Altiero Spinelli
The Outlook for Italian Foreign Policy
- 50:3 (2015) - Linda Basile and Pierangelo Isernia
The US Rebalancing to Asia and Transatlantic Public Opinion
- 50:2 (2015) - Pavel K. Baev
Russia as Opportunist or Spoiler in the Middle East?
- 50:1 (2015) - Steven Vanderheiden
Justice and Climate Finance: Differentiating Responsibility in the Green Climate Fund
- 49:4 (2014) - Jean-Pierre Cassarino
A Reappraisal of the EU's Expanding Readmission System
- 49:3 (2014) - Hassan Mneimneh
Can the World Afford to Condone the 'Divided States of Syria'?
- 49:2 (2014) - Robert Dover
The World's Second Oldest Profession: The Transatlantic Spying Scandal and its Aftermath
- 49:1 (2014) - Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
Austerity, a Threat to Democracy?
- 48:4 (2013) - Daniela Pioppi
Playing with Fire. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian Leviathan
- 48:4 (2013) - Raffaele Marchetti
"Forgotten" Directions in the Study of Transnational Networks
- 48:3 (2013) - Philip Hanson
Fear of the Future: Russia in the Global Economy in the Next Few Years
- 48:2 (2013) - Bassel F. Salloukh
The Arab Uprisings and the Geopolitics of the Middle East
- 48:1 (2013) - Erik Jones and Saskia van Genugten
Editorial Note
- 48:1 (2013) - Oliver Roy
Secularism and Islam: The Theological Predicament
- 47:4 (2012) - Gabriel Goodliffe and Stéphan Sberro
The G20 after Los Cabos: Illusions of Global Economic Governance
- 47:3 (2012) - Daniel M. Kliman
The West and Global Swing States
- 47:2 (2012) - Nicola Casarini
Editorial Note
- 47:2 (2012) - Michael Yahuda
China's Recent Relations with Maritime Neighbours
- 47:1 (2012) - Lorenzo Fioramonti
Editorial Note
- 47:1 (2012) - Henk Overbeek
Sovereign Debt Crisis in Euroland: Root Causes and Implications for European Integration
- 46:4 (2011) - Roberto Aliboni
The International Dimension of the Arab Spring
- 46:3 (2011) - Robert Springborg
Whither the Arab Spring? 1989 or 1848?
- 46:2 (2011) - Namrata Patodia Rastogi
Winds of Change: India's Emerging Climate Change Strategy
- 46:1 (2011) - Maxi Schoeman
Of BRICs and Mortar: The Growing Relations Between Africa and the Global South
- 45:4 (2010) - Daniel S. Hamilton
Forging Networked Security in a Nobody-in-Charge World
- 45:3 (2010) - Harald Müller
The 2010 NPT Review Conference: Some Breathing Space Gained, But No Breakthrough
- 45:3 (2010) - Hakim Darbouche
'Energising' EU-Algerian Relations
- 45:2 (2010) - James Sherr
The Russia-EU Energy Relationship: Getting it Right
- 45:1 (2010) - Marco Onado
Is the Larosière Proposal on European Financial Regulation on the Right Path?
- 44:4 (2009) - Radha Kumar
New Potential for US-India Relations Under Obama
- 44:3 (2009) - Muriel Asseburg and Volker Perthes
Is the EU up to the Requirements of Peace in the Middle East?
- 44:2 (2009) - Nicola Casarini
Editorial Note - Evolving Dynamics in the Asia-Pacific
- 44:2 (2009) - Seongho Sheen
To Be or Not To Be: South Korea's East Asia Security Strategy and the Unification Quandary
- 44:1 (2009) - Masahiko Asada
Strengthening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Proposals and Problems