Conceptualising Europe’s Market Power: EU Geostrategic Goals Through Economic Means
Due to its economic weight, the assumption of the EU’s predominant economic power is logical. This applies even in security issues such as the Ukraine conflict.
Hungary’s Democratic Backsliding as a Threat to EU Normative Power
There is a significant mismatch between Hungary’s government and the core democratic values of the EU, which poses a considerable threat to the EU’s normative power.
Challenging Historical and Contemporary Notions of Blackness in British Writing
The idea of Blackness has been constantly challenged and revised by Black authors through the presentation of their own life narratives.
Everyday (In)Security: An Autoethnography of Student Life in the UK
An undergraduate education has largely ceased to be one of ontological discovery and has instead become a process of enforcing neoliberal logic on students.
Virtual Invasion: ‘Just War’ and Orientalism in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
The latest game in the Call of Duty franchise is shown to rely on Orientalist caricatures, skewed perceptions of violence, and a narrative of ‘Western’ righteousness.
Sovereignty, Cosmopolitanism, and the Case of Sweden’s Foreign Policy
A cosmopolitan sovereign? Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy offers both an example and conceptualisation of a state shaped by cosmopolitanism.
French Intervention in West Africa: Interests and Strategies (2013–2020)
Recent militancy in West Africa has prompted France to abandon its indirect approach to African security in favor of more forceful military interventions.
Israel-Palestine and the EU’s New ‘Language of Power’ – Plus Ça Change?
For the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is argued that Josep Borrell pay attention to discursive and social factors in the EU’s long-standing foreign policy commitment.
Does War Ever Change? A Clausewitzian Critique of Hybrid Warfare
Does contemporary hybrid warfare represent a fundamental change to the character or nature of war? Revisiting Clausewitz’s theory of war reveals it does not.
From Rivalry to Friendship: The European State Systems and the Cultures of Anarchy
The formation of the European Community after the Second World War represents a clear break with past forms of state systems of Europe.
