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Correction to “Gouvernement Économique, but Not Like in the 1990s: The Commission and the ECB's Policies Advancing the ‘Green Transition’” JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-16
Spendzharova, A. (2023) Gouvernement Économique, but Not Like in the 1990s: The Commission and the ECB's Policies Advancing the ‘Green Transition’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 61: 136–146. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13541 [… and NGEU accounts for €806.9 million to supplement the regular EU budget. Furthermore, NGEU funding has been earmarked to top up the following MFF budgetary headings
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Beyond the Heaven–Hell Binary and the One‐Way Traffic Paradigm: The European Union, Africa and Contested Human Rights in the Negotiations of the Samoa Agreement JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Maurizio Carbone
This article, drawing on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and embracing the decentring agenda in European Union (EU) external relations, discusses the substance of human rights promotion in the negotiations of the Samoa Agreement. It documents how the EU has concentrated on civil and political rights, whereas Africa has advanced an innovative approach to economic, social and cultural
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How Have EU Legislators Established EU Agencies With Enforcement Tasks? Case Studies of the European Aviation Safety Agency and the European Medicines Agency JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Laurens van Kreij
European Union (EU) policies were long enforced according to a well‐established framework in which member state governments made legislative, administrative and operational arrangements for realizing policies made in Brussels. EU legislators, however, are increasingly creating EU agencies to help enforce EU policies. This article attempts to explain this puzzling development, as it examines how the
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Border Regions as Nuclei of European Integration? Evidence From Germany JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Moritz Rehm, Martin Schröder, Georg Wenzelburger
What role do border regions play in fostering a European identity? The European Union considers them relevant places of integration and has dedicated €10 billion to cross‐border co‐operation between 2014 and 2020. This action relies on the idea that border regions are hot spots of integration, as they allow citizens to engage in transnational activities, stimulating a sense of cross‐border community
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Small‐State Influence in EU Security Governance: Unveiling Latvian Lobbying Against Disinformation JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Sophie L. Vériter
Counter‐disinformation policies have become a prominent subject of study in Europe. The story of their early development in the European Union (EU) reveals the surprising influence of small states, in particular Latvia. This article exposes how, as a first mover in a growing coalition of like‐minded states, Latvia shaped the development of counter‐disinformation policies in the EU starting with the
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The EU's Geoeconomic Turn: From Policy Laggard to Institutional Innovator JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Sarah Bauerle Danzman, Sophie Meunier
Heightened geopolitical tensions and the growing securitization of economic exchange over the past decade have prompted many countries to adopt new geoeconomic tools. Long resistant to this geoeconomic turn, the European Union (EU) has since 2017 created a panoply of innovative policy tools that blend trade and investment with essential security concerns. This article asks why and how the EU has been
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Business Power and the Geoeconomic Turn in the Single European Market JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Sandra Eckert
Building on the existing literature on business power that has evolved against the background of a liberal economic world order, this article develops a novel analytical framework to capture business strategies in an altered, geoeconomic context. It addresses the research question whether and how business power has been affected by the more recent turn of European policy‐makers to adopt geoeconomic
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Where Have All the ‘Exiters’ Gone? Contextualising the Concept of Hard Euroscepticism JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Vratislav Havlík, Vít Hloušek
The article analyses the impact of Brexit on hard Eurosceptic discourses in the Visegrád Group countries from 2015 to 2023. As the negative implications of Brexit for the UK economy became clear, many hard Eurosceptics softened their rhetoric, using the referendum as a proxy for a ‘hard’ exit. Whilst the classical soft–hard typology remains dominant amongst scholars in the study of Euroscepticism,
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When Foreign Policy Becomes Trade Policy: The EU's Anti‐Coercion Instrument JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Christian Freudlsperger, Sophie Meunier
The European Union (EU) has taken a geoeconomic turn since 2017 by creating a series of new unilateral instruments designed to preserve European autonomy and adjust to the progressive unravelling of the liberal international economic order. The most controversial of these instruments is the 2023 Anti‐Coercion Instrument (ACI), designed to deter third countries from targeting the EU and its member states
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How and Why Do Economic Operators Comply With EU Law? Analysis of Firm‐Level Responses to the EU Timber Regulation in Germany JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Margret Köthke, Metodi Sotirov
The European Union (EU) Timber Regulation (EUTR) formally requires EU operators to conduct due diligence along their supply chains to prevent illegally sourced timber products from entering the European market. Little is known about the regulatory behaviour and motivations of operators to comply with this regulation. We explore the regulatory behaviour of companies by applying a synthesis of behavioural
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From Liberalisation to Industrial Policy: Towards a Geoeconomic Turn in the European Defence Market? JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Daniel Fiott
The European defence market can be described as a geoeconomically relevant sector that forms part of Europe's overall economy, not least in the way that it is a producer of military capabilities and technologies and a repository of scientific skills. Traditionally, European Union (EU)‐level steps to support and liberalise the sector have reflected a regulatory approach marked by soft law, but in recent
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The Ideational Power of Strategic Autonomy in EU Security and External Economic Policies JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Ana E. Juncos, Sophie Vanhoonacker
This article undertakes a comparative analysis of European Union security and external economic policies to explore the different trajectories of strategic autonomy (SA) in these two domains. In so doing, it contributes to a better understanding of endogenous drivers of policy change in response to geopoliticising pressures. Drawing on discursive institutionalism, it analyses three dimensions of ideational
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Making Markets Through Coalitions: The European Union and the Debate Over Ukraine's National Resources JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Aron Buzogány, Mihai Varga
This article studies how the European Union (EU) influences the dynamics between supporters and opponents of market liberalization in partner countries. We focus on Ukraine's attempts to safeguard timber trade and agricultural land sales from international markets through moratoria before 2022. We find that the EU intervenes in domestic debates both directly and through domestic pro-market coalitions
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Correction to ‘Quid Pro Quo. The Effect of Issue Linkage on Member States' Bargaining Success in European Union Lawmaking’ JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-22
Kirpsza, A. (2023) Quid Pro Quo. The Effect of Issue Linkage on Member States' Bargaining Success in European Union Lawmaking. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 61: 323–343. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13369 The following details should be added in the Acknowledgements section of this article: The open access fee has been financed by a grant from the Faculty of International and Political Studies
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Issue Information JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15
No abstract is available for this article.
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EU Geoeconomic Power in the Clean Energy Transition JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Tomasz Jerzyniak, Anna Herranz-Surrallés
The energy transition is affected by a ‘double geopoliticisation’: global competition for hydrocarbons has increased, due to the sudden turmoil in the energy markets, whilst the urgency to clean energy transition has exacerbated competition for green technological leadership. This article investigates whether the EU has adapted its goals and instruments to these intertwined geopoliticisation pressures
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Failing Forward in European Economic Governance: The Cyclicality of European Integration and Institutional Competition in the COVID-19 Crisis JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Joscha Abels
The European Union's (EU's) response to the pandemic has been accompanied by reconfigurations in its institutional hierarchy, affecting the sites where institutional reforms are prepared and implemented. Whereas the Eurogroup drove reform during the euro crisis, the Commission had a more pronounced role in the development and implementation of pandemic instruments. This article ties in with failing-forward
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Organizational Overlap and Bureaucratic Actors: How EU–NATO Relations Empower the European Commission JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Catherine Hoeffler, Stephanie C. Hofmann
Organizational overlap is a ubiquitous feature in regional governance. Most studies have focused on member states, demonstrating that overlap enables states differently. We still know little about whether and how overlapping organizations impact international bureaucracies and how this shapes the relationship between bureaucratic actors within organizations. We argue that overlap can empower international
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Non-documents for Big Decisions: The Commission and the EEC–Japan Automotive Agreement (1991) JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Alice Milor
This article highlights some material aspects of informal governance by analysing the unsigned confidential documents intended to drive the future of the European automotive sector in 1991. Whilst it was long thought that the EEC–Japan agreement had been unwritten, this study reveals that it was a combination of oral and written statements, bilateral decisions and unilateral interpretations. These
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Conditionality as an Instrument of European Governance – Cases, Characteristics and Types JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Peter Becker
The principle of conditionality has evolved in the European Union from a European foreign policy tool to an instrument of European governance. European conditionality developed as a hard mode of soft governance. This article describes the different forms and cases of using conditionality in European policy so far. Based on this analysis, it elaborates characteristics and patterns of European conditionality
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The EU's Autonomous Sanctions Against Russia in 2014 Versus 2022: How Does the Bureaucratic Politics Model Bring in the Institutional ‘Balance of Power’ Within the EU? JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Ekin Sanus, Sinem Akgül-Açıkmeşe, H. Emrah Karaoguz
The European Union (EU) has been more incensed over Russian aggression towards Ukraine in 2022, when compared to Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014. This article questions this shift by looking at the EU's sanctions towards Russia. It argues that the relative unwillingness of the European Commission, and accordingly the imbalance or lopsided distribution of power within and amongst the relevant EU
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Thought Communities and Pre-conditions for Polity Formation in the European Union: Evidence From Six EU Member States JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Jozef Bátora, Pavol Baboš
How do citizens in European Union (EU) member states think about the EU? And what are the implications of different ‘thinking styles’ for citizens' preferences regarding formation of policies, politics and polity in the EU? The current article uses relational class analysis (RCA) and analyses perceptions of the EU as a political order by citizens in six selected member states. These are France, Germany
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From the 2014 Annexation of Crimea to the 2022 Russian War on Ukraine: Path Dependence and Socialization in the EU–Ukraine Relations JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Maryna Rabinovych, Anne Pintsch
Decisions the EU took in response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine have been assessed in scholarship as ‘unprecedented’ and ‘unthinkable before’. The Union's response to the 2022 full-scale invasion has thus been much stronger than the one linked to the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The difference between the 2014 and 2022 responses can be attributed to many factors, particularly differences in
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Debating Legitimacy and Solidarity in the European Parliament: Patterns of Opposition and Conflict During the Pandemic JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Eugenio Salvati
To cope with the socio-economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU has adopted a new approach by launching an instrument aimed at promoting cross-national solidarity, called Next Generation EU. This could trigger major changes in terms of EU power and authority, calling into question the polity's legitimacy, and the kind of solidarity to be embodied in the European system. As part of the
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The EU's Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Invoking Norms and Values in Times of Fundamental Rupture JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Giselle Bosse
The European Union's response to the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has been widely perceived as unprecedented. This article examines how this could be, considering the long track record of disagreement amongst EU member states over foreign policy vis-à-vis Russia. It is argued that whilst the Russian invasion had a decisive impact on member states' security threat perceptions
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Institutional Quality and Geography of Discontent in the EU JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Burhan Can Karahasan, Mehmet Pinar
There has been a significant rise in anti-establishment votes in the European Union (EU). The decline in socio-economic outcomes and migration played an important role in understanding the rising discontent. However, none of the existing studies analysed the effect of socio-economic factors in different institutional settings. Our findings confirm that institutional quality is of paramount importance
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Issue Information JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13
No abstract is available for this article.
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Supranational Self-Empowerment Through Bricolage: The Role of the European Commission in EU Security and Defence JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Patrick Müller, Peter Slominski, Wolfgang Sagmeister
This article provides a novel conceptualization of bricolage as a strategy for incremental supranational self-empowerment. It argues that the cumulative effects of different bricolage tools employed by the Commission have been central for progressively strengthening its role in EU security and defence, which culminated in the establishment of the European Defence Fund (EDF) and the Commission's Directorate-General
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How Do European Countries Use EU-Funded Food Aid and How Important Is It for the Most Deprived? JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Karen Hermans, Bea Cantillon
The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) aims at providing food and (non-)material assistance to the most vulnerable European citizens. Linking macro and micro data on the importance of FEAD resources shows, however, a mixed picture of targeting the most deprived: although FEAD budgets accrue more to countries with greater social needs, when the budgets are compared with the number of
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The Limits of EU Market Power in Migration Externalization: Explaining Migration Control Provisions in EU Preferential Trade Agreements JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Sandra Lavenex, Philipp Lutz
The European Union (EU) increasingly seeks cooperation with transit and sending countries to prevent irregular migration and enforce returns. Yet, these countries have little incentives to engage in such cooperation. To overcome interest asymmetries, the EU has sought to link trade and migration control in its preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Drawing on a comprehensive dataset of migration provisions
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Money Makes the World Go Round: How Much Difference Do Recovery and Resilience Plans Make to EU Reform Governance? JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Joan Miró, Marcello Natili, Waltraud Schelkle
The Next Generation EU (NGEU) package transformed European economic governance. This article examines the implications of this change in terms of EU polity formation and in terms of social policy content. It asks whether the temporary availability of large funds increases the leverage of the Commission in the European Semester and how this innovation affects sensitive policies. In the tradition of
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Equal Focus on Inequality? Approaches to Distributional Impact Assessment in the National Budget Process Across the EU JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Nicola Bazoli, Carlo Fiorio, Sonia Marzadro, Jonathan Pycroft, Loris Vergolini
After four decades of increasing within-country income inequality in many EU Member States, this study first aims to understand to what extent and how EU Member States make use of distributional impact assessments (DIAs) for budgetary measures. The second aim is to understand the factors that constrain the use of DIA, leading us to propose strategies for how it could be used more widely. To these ends
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Mechanisms of the Effect of Individual Education on Pro-European Dispositions JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Juan J. Fernández, Céline Teney, Juan Díez Medrano
A burgeoning empirical literature on attitudes towards Europe shows that highly educated individuals are more likely to hold pro-European dispositions than non-highly educated individuals. The literature provides structural and cultural accounts for this relationship. The structural account highlights that formal education contributes to earning higher incomes and attaining an upper-class occupation
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A European Public Sphere United by Football: A Comparative Quantitative Text Analysis of German, Norwegian, Polish and Spanish Football Media JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Jonas Biel, Tobias Finger, Arne Niemann, Vincent Reinke, Radosław Kossakowski, Jens Jungblut, Dobrosław Mańkowski, Ramón Llopis-Goig
The ability of the European community to respond to the multiple crises threatening the European Union and Europe depends in part on citizens' shared European identity giving legitimacy and support to communal action. Men's elite European club football is an example of a cultural practice that is highly Europeanised, reaches diverse audiences and is a known carrier of collective identities. This article
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Regulating Disinformation and Big Tech in the EU: A Research Agenda on the Institutional Strategies, Public Spheres and Analytical Challenges JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Luis Bouza García, Alvaro Oleart
The growing influence of social media platforms, and the disinformation that circulates in them, has transformed the public spheres. How to deal with disinformation is an open normative, empirical and political question in contemporary democracies. In this article, we outline an agenda on the institutional strategies pursued in the European Union (EU), the normative understandings of the public sphere
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The Powers of the Presidency of the Council of the EU to Shape the Rule of Law Enforcement Agenda: The Article 7 Case JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Gisela Hernández
Research on enforcing compliance with the European Union's (EU's) rule of law value has focused on the roles of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Court of Justice of the EU. However, the Council of the EU has attracted less attention. Existing scholarship has convincingly established that the rotating Presidency can crucially influence the functioning of the Council, and, accordingly
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Issue Information JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-19
No abstract is available for this article.
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Latest developments in Social Europe: Promising steps in need for future monitoring JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Beatrice Carella
After 2 years of dealing with the social consequences of the pandemic, European citizens and policy-makers entered 2022 with glimpses of hope regarding the prospects for economic, labour market and social recovery. Despite cross-country and within-country variation, the real output in the European Union (EU) had returned to its 2019 level by 2021. By spring of the same year, the average EU unemployment
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Firms and Trade Policy Lobbying in the European Union JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Marcel Hanegraaff, Arlo Poletti, Emile Van Ommeren
Our understanding of the role of firms in the making of European Union (EU) trade policy remains partial. This article contributes to expanding this literature by investigating under what conditions we observe more firm-centric lobbying, compared to business associational lobbying, in EU trade policy. We advance the arguments that firm-centric political lobbying in EU trade policy-making is a function
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The Ripple Effects of Compliance: Reconfiguring EU Policy Effectiveness in Transboundary Environmental Governance JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Teresa Lappe-Osthege
Research on EU policy effectiveness focuses on implementation and compliance within the EU; however, there is a need for a greater understanding of how and why transboundary socio-ecological issues challenge policy effectiveness beyond the EU's borders. This article introduces the innovative concept of ‘ripple effects’ of compliance, which are harms perpetuated by structural inequalities, and discusses
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A Spoonful of Sugar: Deference at the Court of Justice JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Lucía López Zurita, Stein Arne Brekke
This article analyses the European Court of Justice's strategic use of deference as a resilience technique in the preliminary reference procedure. It focuses on the strategic potential of using deference in two scenarios: first, when the Court uses teleological interpretation or expands the scope of the EU legal order and, second, when it declares national measures incompatible with EU law. The findings
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European Integration and the War in Ukraine: Just Another Crisis? JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Tanja A. Börzel
After the sovereign debt, migration, Brexit and pandemic crises (to name but a few), the European Union (EU) again faces a crisis of – as yet – unknown proportions. Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine violates every principle of the European security order that emerged with the end of the Cold War. It also contests the liberal model for organizing societies the EU and its member states have been
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Strange Bedfellows: Consumer Protection and Competition Policy in the Making of the EU Privacy Regime JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Charlotte Rommerskirchen
How was the European Union's privacy regime built? Drawing on regime theory and carrying out qualitative document analysis, we present the evolution of the privacy regime across the three decades from the 1995 European Data Protection Directive to the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation, the 2022 Data Governance Act and finally the 2022 Digital Markets package. Our analysis focuses on the European
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Lobbying Across Policy Stages: Different Tales of Interest Group Success JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Frederik Stevens
This article examines interest groups' lobbying success across the agenda-setting and policy formulation stages of the European Union's policy process. On the basis of its exclusive right of initiative, the European Commission plays a pivotal role in both stages. I argue that interest groups relying mostly on pressure politics are more likely to achieve agenda-setting success because the Commission
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The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Tom Casier
Introduction The significance of Russia's war against Ukraine can hardly be overestimated. This is the biggest interstate war in Europe since the Second World War. On the 24th of February 2022, the largest country in Europe, Russia, attacked the second largest, Ukraine, on three different fronts, with massive military force, with the clear purpose of territorial control and at an immense human cost
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Problematising EU Cybersecurity: Exploring How the Single Market Functions as a Security Practice JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Tobias Liebetrau
This article furthers the debate between European Studies and Critical Security Studies by demonstrating how European Union (EU) single market integration functions as a security practice in the area of cybersecurity. It explores how the EU has rendered digitisation as a security concern and cybersecurity emerged as an object of EU governance by developing an analytical approach based on problematisation
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Security-as-Service in the Management of European Border Data Infrastructures JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Eileen Murphy Maguire
Today, large-scale IT systems play a central role in the management of European borders. These systems not only support and enable the management of mobility but also require expert management as complex data infrastructures. Drawing on fieldwork carried out at the headquarters of the European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and
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Correction to “Examining the EU Reaction to a Humanitarian Emergency from a Network Perspective: The Response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth” JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-21
Bravo-Laguna, C. (2023) Examining the EU Reaction to a Humanitarian Emergency from a Network Perspective: The Response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 61: 673–691. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13402 Table 3 was presented incorrectly in the published article. Some data in Table 3 were mixed up, with many of the indicators in Models II and III being transferred to
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Preference Constellations in EU–Russian Crisis Bargaining over Syria and Ukraine JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Jonas J. Driedger, Ulrich Krotz
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and the ensuing EU–Russian clash over the fate of Ukraine highlight the importance of explaining the outcomes of EU–Russian crisis bargaining. Complementing existing accounts, we argue that favourable preference constellations are key: The more determined, united and focused side prevails over its less interested, divided or unfocused counterpart. We first
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Reframing Civil–Military Relations in the EU: Insights From the Drone Strategy 2.0 JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Chantal Lavallée, Bruno Oliveira Martins
In November 2022, the European Commission presented its Drone Strategy 2.0 with two main objectives: to build the European Union's (EU's) drone service market and to strengthen the Union's civil, security and defence industry capabilities and synergies. From the Commission's perspective, accelerating the integration of drones in Europe's airspace has the potential to enable progress on numerous policy
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Parochialism and Non-co-operation: The Case of Poland's Opposition to EU Migration Policy JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Karin Vaagland, Oskar Chmiel
EU policy responses to the migration crisis caused by the Russian war against Ukraine challenge existing explanations of EU migration policy, which have typically leaned on economic rationales. This study leans on public attitudes to shed light on Poland's opposition to migration co-operation across three recent European migration crises: Syria (2015), Belarus (2021) and Ukraine (2022). Throughout
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The External Incentives Model Embedded: Evidence From the European Union's Eastern Neighbourhood JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Sergiu Buscaneanu, Andrew X. Li
The external incentives model (EIM) proved highly compelling in explaining Europeanization and rule adoption in countries from Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe. Building on the EIM, the present article seeks to contribute along three key objectives. First, it proposes to re-evaluate the EIM for the Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
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Capturing Women's Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies: The Evolution of Gendered Publication and Citation Patterns JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Rahİme Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, Ebru Turhan
Starting from the ‘gender problem’ in European studies, we scrutinize the gendered knowledge production patterns in a least likely case to be gendered, EU–Turkey studies, due to the overrepresentation of women in the field and its feminine image. We utilize feminist standpoint theory and apply research synthesis and citation analysis techniques to two original datasets comprising 300 articles in 26
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The Politics of the European Minimum Wage: Overcoming Ideological, Territorial and Institutional Conflicts in the EU Multi-level Arena JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Marcello Natili, Stefano Ronchi
Until recently, the idea of a European minimum wage (EMW) policy had never taken concrete shape, due to the heterogeneity of national wage-setting and collective bargaining institutions, uncertain EU competence on the matter, and widespread scepticism amongst political actors. In 2022, however, the EU adopted a directive on adequate minimum wages. How did this make it to the EU agenda, despite the
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Victim of Its Own Success (?) – The European Union's Anti-corruption Policy Advice in Ukraine Between Grand Visions and (Geo)political Realities JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Michael Martin Richter
The European Union's (EU) external governance enjoys significant attention in the literature. Yet its outcomes are usually assessed with reference to strategic documents or scholars' self-designed criteria. This article contributes to the ongoing debate with a discourse analysis focusing on the perceptions of anti-corruption reform outcomes in Ukraine by actors on different levels in the EU. Simultaneously
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The EU Energy Crisis and a New Geopolitics of Climate Transition JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Andreas C. Goldthau, Richard Youngs
Introduction In 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine had a profound effect on EU energy and climate policies. The EU redesigned its approach to the geopolitics of energy security as it sought alternatives to Russian supplies with accelerated urgency. It upgraded its commitments to energy transition internally and through external actions too, whilst member states balanced these with the domestic politics
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Gouvernement Économique, but Not Like in the 1990s: The Commission and the ECB's Policies Advancing the ‘Green Transition’ JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Aneta Spendzharova
Introduction Drawing on an integrated analysis of the latest European Union (EU) economic and financial governance reforms in the 2020s, we glean a new European economic governance paradigm. This article unpacks the main features of this new form of European gouvernement économique. The article focuses particularly on the set of policies adopted by two key actors in European economic and financial
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European Parliament Elections in the Dutch Press and the Mainstreaming of Euroscepticism: Outsiders Becoming Insiders? JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Patrick Bijsmans
Euroscepticism has become prominent across the European Union, also in countries that were originally seen as pro-integrationist such as the Netherlands. Based on a qualitative analysis of claims in three major Dutch newspapers, I examine the mainstreaming of Euroscepticism in the Netherlands in the context of the 2009, 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections. Mainstreaming refers to a process
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Institutional Inertia and Change: Explaining the Czech and Portuguese Engagement in European Defence Market Integration JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Tomáš Weiss, Sandra Fernandes, Miroslava Pisklová
The Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence (PESCO) and the European Defence Fund (EDF) constitute another attempt to consolidate the European defence market. In this article, we explain the different engagements of Czechia and Portugal in the two initiatives until 2021 through the evolution and reform of the domestic institutions governing their defence industrial policies. We trace how the institutions
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Pushing the EU's Boundaries: Enlargement and Foreign Policy Actorness after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine JCMS J. Common Mark. Stud. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Nicole Scicluna, Stefan Auer
Introduction On 23 June 2022, the European Council, acting on the Commission's recommendation, granted Ukraine the status of a candidate for European Union (EU) membership. This decision came only 4 months after Ukraine submitted its application, which, in turn, came less than a week after Russia's full-scale invasion of the country on 24 February 2022. The granting of candidate status was emblematic