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Approaching EU Citizenship from the Perspective of Young People in the East Central European Double Periphery: Introduction
What does it mean for young people in very remote areas of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania to be citizens of the EU? What...
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Africa in the Study of International Relations: The (Double) Realist Bias of Global IR
The Global IR research agenda lays emphasis on the marginalised, non-Western forms of power and knowledge that underpin today’s international system....
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Rising Illiberalism in the European Periphery and the EU’s Application of Membership Conditionality for Democratic Governance
Illiberalism has recently risen both within the EU and in the European periphery following a global trend of democratic recession, which includes...
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The Technocratic Populist Loop: Clashes Between Parliamentary and Popular Sovereignty in EU’s Eastern and Southern Periphery
This chapter starts from an apparent paradox. Key policy competences in economic governance have shifted to the supranational level within the...
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Introduction
The modern states of the Middle East and North Africa are the product of at least a century of dynamics at the local, regional, and international...
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Drugs, Livelihoods, and the Limits of Social Transformation in a Highland Periphery of Myanmar
This chapter discusses historical and contemporary insurgency and opium cultivation in Myanmar, I first analyse the factors that lend to the...
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No Common Ground: A Spatial-Relational Analysis of EU-China Relations
It is no secret that EU member states cannot come to terms on a unified China-policy. Most studies on EU-China relations come to the conclusion that...
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Malta–Russia Relations and the Libyan Civil War
The benefit of being on Europe’s periphery is that other parts of Europe can seem extremely distant, as with Russia, but this does not preclude...
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Not All Member States Are Created Equal
This chapter analyses how the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its follow-on initiatives have led to an EU divided into a core and a periphery...
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Data and Methodology in the Twitter EP2019 Analysis
The chapter introduces the data collection process and methods used in the study. The main dataset was assembled form material collected from seven...
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Introduction
While many of the most critical issues facing the EU in the first 20 years of the twenty-first century related to the Euro, for the next 20 years the...
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China, Portugal and the Atlantic: The Shifting Geopolitics
In a context in which energy resources are scarce on the planet, the Atlantic emerges as a space of growing competition not only in terms of food...
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The Suez Canal: Forthcoming Strategic and Geopolitical Challenges
The Suez Canal is a strategic narrow route (chokepoint), and a geostrategic link between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, en route to the Indian...
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The Political Economy of Dependency and Class Formation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Since 1967
This chapter argues that an appropriate framework to understand the Palestinian economy is through a dependency lens, accompanied by an understanding...
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The State in the Capitalist Periphery: From the Structuralist Vacuum to the Neo-Structuralist Deviations and Beyond
This chapter contains a discussion that is a product of the lack of a systematic treatment of the state by Latin American structuralism, and of the...
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Language and Religion Within Cultural Autonomy Arrangements: An Exercise in Minority Agency?
Given the, often, abstract conceptual understanding of NTA, the aim of this chapter is not to provide an analysis of the ideal type(s) of cultural...
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Who Will Win in the Climate Crisis? A Reinterpretation of the Interaction Between Climate Change and Security Issues in the Arctic
This chapter analyzes how the major Arctic powers are responding to the conventional and unconventional challenges posed by climate change in the...
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Economic and Monetary Union and Beyond: Differentiation in the EU
This chapter looks at foreign exchange market developments in the EU from the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system to the introduction of the Euro,...
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The Global Order Debate and Africa
This book explores global order changes from a non-traditional perspective, the periphery instead of the centre. It will be shown that Africa...