GARLICK, Jeremy (2023) China’s Hedged Economic Diplomacy in Saudi Arabia and Iran: A Strategy of Risk Mitigation. In KIM, Young-Chan (ed.) China’s Engagement with the Islamic Nations: A Clash or Collaboration of Modern Civilisation? Cham: Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-31041-6. The Persian Gulf is a key area for the regional implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Middle […]
Michal Strnad (2023) In search for more ‘authentic’ EU attitudes: re-evaluating regionalist parties’ EU positioning from sub-state parliamentary debates, Territory, Politics, Governance, DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2204910 This paper responds to the tendency of past scholarship to reduce European Union (EU) attitudes of regionalist parties to one general position. It undertakes a comprehensive analysis of regionalist parties’ EU attitudes from sub-state parliamentary debates. […]
Kateřina Kočí, Marianna Gladysh & Oksana Krayevska (2023) Do the EU and Ukraine speak the same language? The various notions of resilience before the military intervention, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2163991 The concept of resilience has become a leitmotif for the current foreign policy narrative and practices of most Western states and international organisations. It has been more […]
Jakub Eberle, Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay, International Studies Review, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 2023, viad007, https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viad007 This essay reviews four recent books on Germany’s foreign policy with emphasis on the era of Angela Merkel. The evaluation is based on their (a) added value to scholarship on German foreign policy, (b) theoretical […]
Jaroslav Weinfurter, Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic, International Political Sociology, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2023, olad003, https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olad003 This article explores the limitations of the oft-used biopolitical frameworks of interpreting the regulatory emergency measures that have been enacted worldwide in the face of the spreading pandemic of COVID-19. Not only […]
The Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence announces the fourth edition of its summer academy, which will take place on 4-8 September 2023. It offers talented master’s students in the social sciences, coming from all over Europe, a week of full immersion into the stimulating intellectual […]
Prague University of Economics and Business successfully conducted its first Blended Intensive Program (BIP). The BIPs financed by Erasmus+ are short, intensive programs which promote innovative ways of learning, teaching and training for students and staff and combine the online and offline cooperation between at least three universities from different countries. This BIP was coordinated […]
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