Bremain or Brexit? Graduate Students as ‘Multipliers’
If turnout is below 60%, Brexit is most likely to happen, while a turnout above 60% will work in favour of Bremain. A major component in this calculation is the behaviour of younger voters.
Revisiting Turkey’s Protean Self vs. ‘Other’
‘Ontological insecurity’ provides a more accurate analysis of Turkey’s Europeanization project as an alternative theoretical perspective to realism and constructivism.
The EU Challenge: Teaching an Institution in Crisis
While ongoing crises present challenges in the classroom, they also provide opportunities to demonstrate that EU politics is important for students
The Way We Were: Studying Europe Forty Years Ago
Reflecting on masters courses in the 1970s, questions emerge on whether these courses help or hinder England understand its view of itself in the world.
Implications of the Securitisation of Migration
The securitization of migration reinforces a politics of fear and racism.
Turkey and the EU: Strategic Rapprochement in the Shadow of the Refugee Crisis
At the present juncture, EU-Turkey relations seem to be evolving towards a strategic partnership rather than Turkey’s full integration into the Union.
European Response to Security Threats: Limitations and An Alternative
Hard-line security actions could be necessary to reassure the public and to prevent further strikes. However, they have proven their limits in the very recent past.
Fortress Europe? Porous Borders and EU Dependence on Neighbour Countries
EU borders cannot be understood without understanding the relations with its neighbours and the stability in its borderlands. The image of Fortress Europe is too naïve.
The EU’s Normative Nature and Its Sanction Regime Against Russia: An Oxymoron?
Sanctions per se are not irreconcilable with normative behaviour, as they may perform the function of conveying a normative argument rather than merely coerce the other.
National Religions: How to be Both Under God and Under the European Union?
Religion may appear elusive in a European Union criticised for its abstraction, but the European context reinforces the national character of religions.
