Research activities and selected publications

The European Neighbourhood Policy Chair conducts research into European Union and EU Member States’ foreign and security policy towards the (wider) EU neighbourhood – East and South – with a focus on the transposition of EU norms, values, rules and regulations as well as conflict management, and also works on political and economic transition and conflict in the EU’s 16 eastern and southern neighbours.

Past and current research projects have been concerned with the law and politics of association in the context of the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy and its Eastern Partnership respectively, its impact on neighbourhood partner countries, EU democracy and human rights promotion, EU conflict management, neighbours’ compliance with EU norms and rules, EU and EU Member States’ governance of migration, narratives of EU external relations, the resilience turn in EU foreign policy, the politics of recognition in the EU’s neighbourhood, the politics of disinformation in Eastern Europe, political reform and regime change in Eastern Europe and the Southern Mediterranean.

"The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy"

Tobias SCHUMACHER with Andreas MARCHETTI & Thomas DEMMELHUBER, Oxon, Routledge, 2018.

“Palestinian Political Discourse: Between Exile and Occupation”

Emile BADARIN, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Routledge, 2016.

“States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships”

Lucyna CZECHOWSKA, Andriy TYUSHKA, Agata DOMACHOWSKA, Karolina GAWRON-TABOR and Joanna PIECHOWIAK-LAMPARSKA (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2019.

Recent publications

Tobias SCHUMACHER

'The EU and the Gulf Cooperation Council: An Unlikely Match?', in Dimitris BOURIS, Daniela HUBER, Michele PACE (eds.), The Routledge Handbook on EU-Middle East Relations, London, New York: Routledge, 2020, forthcoming.
The EU, Resilience and the Southern Neighbourhood after the Arab Uprisings, in E. Cusumano (ed.) Projecting Resilience Across the Mediterranean, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2020, pp. 63-87 (with Emile BADARIN).
'Mittelmeerpolitik', in: Werner WEIDENFELD, Wolfgang WESSELS (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2019, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2019, pp. 351-354.
‘Die Europäische Union, die Östliche Partnerschaft und “Assoziierung Plus”: zur Debatte über die Einbindung assoziierter Nachbarn unterhalb einer EU-Mitgliedschaft‘, Integration, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2019: 205-217.
'Crisis, Coordination and Coherence: European Decision-Making and the 2015 European Neighbourhood Policy Review’, The European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2019: 447-468 (with Mark FURNESS and Thomas HENOEKL).
Die Europäische Union, die Östliche Partnerschaft und “Assoziierung Plus”: zur Debatte über die Einbindung assoziierter Nachbarn unterhalb einer EU-Mitgliedschaft integration, Vol. 42, No. 3: 205-217.
The Politics of Flexibility: Exploring the Contested Statehood–EU Actorness Nexus in Georgia, Geopolitics, 2018 (with Madalina DOBRESCU).
The Long-Suffering Europeans Trying to Save the Iran Deal, New Republic, 3 May 2018.
The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy, Oxon, Routledge, 2018 (with Andreas MARCHETTI and Thomas DEMMELHUBER).
The European Neighbourhood Policy: The challenge of demarcating a complex and contested field of study, in: Tobias SCHUMACHER, Andreas MARCHETTI and Thomas DEMMELHUBER (eds.), The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy, Oxon, Routledge, 2018, pp. 3-13.
The EU, Middle Eastern powers and milieu-shaping in the ‘shared’ Arab Mediterranean neighbourhood: a story of mutual neglect, Contemporary Politics, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2018, pp. 46-64.
'Mittelmeerpolitik', in: Werner WEIDENFELD, Wolfgang WESSELS (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2018, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2018, pp. 351-355.
"Mittelmeerpolitik", in: Werner WEIDENFELD, Wolfgang WESSELS (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2017, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2017, pp. 403-406.
EU member states’ representation and positioning and the north-south divide in Euro-Mediterranean affairs, in: Richard GILLESPIE and Frederic VOLPI (eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Mediterranean Politics, Oxon, Routledge, 2017, pp. 85-96.
The EU's Constructions of the Mediterranean (2003-2017), MEDRESET Working Papers 3, 2017 (with Münevver CEBECI).
Southern Europe – Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, Greece, Cyprus in: Amelia HADFIELD, Ian MANNERS, Richard WHITMAN (eds.), The Foreign Policies of European Union Member States, Oxon, Routledge, 2017, pp. 83-98 (with Madalina DOBRESCU and Stelios STAVRIDIS).
"Mittelmeerpolitik", in: Werner WEIDENFELD, Wolfgang WESSELS (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2016, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2016, pp. 377-381.
Differentiation in EU-Neighbourhood Relations, in: IEMED (ed.), Euromed Survey of Experts and Actors. European Neighbourhood Policy Review: The European Union's Role in the Mediterranean, Barcelona, IEMED Press, 2016, pp. 34-41.
The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 306 p., 2017 (with Dimitris BOURIS).
Deconstructing the EU’s Discourse on the Mediterranean, MEDRESET Methodology and Concept Papers, no. 2, October 2016. (with Münevver CEBECI).
Of policy entrepreneurship, bandwagoning and free-riding: EU member states and multilateral cooperation frameworks for Europe’s southern neighbourhood, Global Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 4, 8 Oct 2016 (with Dimitris BOURIS and Maja OLSZEWSKA).
Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: why the ‘black garden’ will not blossom any time soon, Security Policy Briefs, Egmont, 19 April 2016.
Back to the Future: The ‘New’ ENP towards the Southern Neighbourhood and the End of Ambition, College of Europe Policy Brief Series (CEPOB), 1/2016.
"Mittelmeerpolitik", in: Werner WEIDENFELD, Wolfgang WESSELS (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2015, Baden-Baden, NOMOS, 2015, pp. 325-329.
From Survival to Revival: The Riga Summit 2015 and the revised ENP, Security Policy Brief series, Egmont, July 2015 (with Suzana CARP).
How to make the European Neighbourhood Policy fit for purpose, Europe's World, 25 June 2015.
Uncertainty at the EU’s borders: narratives of EU external relations in the revised European Neighborhood Policy towards the southern borderlands, European Security, 2015, Vol. 24.
Russia’s foreign policy towards North Africa in the wake of the Arab Spring, in: Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 20(1), 2015, pp. 97-104 (with Cristian NITOIU).
The EU and Democracy Promotion: Readjusting to the Arab Spring, in: Larbi SADIKI (ed.), The Routledge Handbook on the Arab Spring, Oxon, Routledge, 2015, pp. 559-573.
"Nahost- und Mittelmeerpolitik", in: Werner WEIDENFELD, Wolfgang WESSELS (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2014, Baden-Baden, NOMOS, 2014.
Letter from Tblisi, openDemocracy, 2 December 2014.
"Nahost- und Mittelmeerpolitik", in: Werner WEIDENFELD, Wolfgang WESSELS (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2013, Baden-Baden, NOMOS, 2013, pp. 299-306.
Ukraine, the west, and the issue of strategic thinking, openDemocracy, 5 March 2014.
The EU, North Africa, and Euro-Maghreb Cooperation. Five Considerations in Light of the Revised European Neighborhood Policy, in: Erzsébet N. RÓZSA and Máté SZALAI (eds.): Raising Awareness - Finding Common Ground: The V4 and the Maghreb, Budapest, HIIA, 2014, pp. 7-20.
The EU, GCC Countries and the Mediterranean Neighbourhood. Towards Synergetic Cooperation?, Gulf Research Center, Gulf Papers, 14 August 2013 (with Irene FERNÁNDEZ MOLINA).
The EU becomes assertive in the Middle East peace process, openDemocracy, 25 July 2013 (with Dimitris BOURIS).
Ukraine and the EU: where to?, New Europe, 2 December 2012 (with Michał NATORSKI).

Jean-Pierre CASSARINO

“Beyond the criminalisation of migration: A non-western perspective”, International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 4(4): 397–411, 2018.
« Le gouvernement des migrations en Tunisie : Vers un nouveau paradigme ? », in: Amin ALLAL et Vincent GEISSER (dir.), Tunisie : Une démocratisation au-dessus de tout soupçon ?, Paris: CNRS Éditions, pp. 295-309, 2018.
"The Governance of Migration and Border Controls in the European-North African Context", Menara Papers 13, IAI, Rome, 2018 (with Raffaella DEL SARTO).

Andriy TYUSHKA

States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019 (with L. CZECHOWSKA).
Strategic Partnerships, International Politics and IR Theory, in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 8-43 (with L. CZEWCHOWSKA).
States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships: Theorizing an 'Ideal Model', in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 44-80 (with L. CZECHOWSKA, A. DOMACHOWSKA, K. GAWRON-TABOR, and J. PIECHOWIAK-LAMPARSKA).
Model Specification and Operationalization: The Basic Correlates of Strategic Partnerships, in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 81-165 (with L. CZECHOWSKA, A. DOMACHOWSKA, K. GAWRON-TABOR, and J. PIECHOWIAK-LAMPARSKA).
An Evolving NATO-Ukraine Strategic Partnership in a Turbulent Security Environment, in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 204-233.
The Development vs Geo-economics Nexus in the CAN-China Interactionism, in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 414-439.
Macroeconomic Convergence and Strategic (Ir)relevance Trap in the CAN-Brazilian Interactionism in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 440-465.
Hybrid War(fare): The Challenge of Contagion, Torun International Studies, 12(1), 2019: 5-29.
Middle Power Assertiveness as a Behavioural Model in Foreign Policy, in: T. STRUYE DE SWIELANDE, D. VANDAMME, D. WALTON, and T. WILKINS (eds.), Rethinking Middle Powers in the Asian Century: New Theories, New Cases (pp. 122-134). London: Routledge, 2019.
Semi-Presidential Systems, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (MPECCoL), Oxford University Press, 2019.
The Implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Addressing the Law and Politics of Effective Implementation and Application of the Association acquis. In: ZYGIEREWICZ, Anna (ed.), Association Agreements between the EU and Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, Brussels: European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), 2018, pp. 161-241.
Seeking the Eastern Partnership’s greatest integer, New Eastern Europe magazine, Issue 2, 2018, pp. 87-93.
Russian Geopolitical Narratives from "Geopolitics 101" to Postmodern Revisionism: Implications for the Baltic-Pontic Region, Global Affairs, 2018.
Association-cum-Integration: The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and the ‘Association Law’ as an Institution of Ukraine’s European Integration, Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, Vol 13, 2018, pp. 87-132.
'Hacking' into the West: Russia's 'Anti-Hegemonic' Drive and the Strategic Narrative Offensive, Defence Strategic Communications of NATO StratCom COE, Volume 2, Spring 2017, pp. 35-60 (with James ROGERS).
Aggression against Ukraine, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Vol 4, No 1, 2017, pp. 179-192.
The Concept of 'International Role' in International Relations Theory and Practice: The 'PIPP' Analytical Model and Roles Actors Play in World Politics, Athenaeum: Polish Political Science Studies, vol. 52/2016, pp. 27-53.
From a 'hybrid war' to a 'hybrid peace'? Implications of Russian irregular warfare in Ukraine for international security, Panorama of Global Security Environment 2015-2016, Bratislava, STRATPOL, 2016, pp. 61-70.
Russia's 'anti-hegemonic' offensive: A new strategy in action, Diplomaatia, No. 160, December 2016 (with James ROGERS).
Building the Neighbours: EU’s New Association Agreements and Structural Power in the Eastern Neighbourhood, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 24(2), 2016.
From Constitutional Volatility to Constitutional Stability: Any Chance to Reconcile Constitutionalism and Power Struggle in Ukraine?, Historia i Polityka, 16(23): 57-71, 2016.
Trust, Truth, and Truce Trapped in Hybridity of Modern Inter-State Conflicts: An Early Assessment of the Russo-Western Proxy War in Ukraine, The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies, 7(1): 7-29, 2015.
Association through Approximation: Procedural Law and Politics of Legislative and Regulatory Approximation in the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, Baltic Journal of European Studies, 5(1): 56-72, 2015.
Empowered to Deliver: The Institutional Model and Implementation Arrangements under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 15(1): 5-22, 2015.
Maidan’s doomsday: Fierce laws, farce amnesty and furiously faithful people in Ukraine, GeoPolitika.lt, 27 February 2014.
A liberationist constitution? Maidan’s revolutionary agenda and challenges for constitutional reform in Ukraine, European View, Vol. 13, Issue 1, 2014.

Emile BADARIN

The EU, Resilience and the Southern Neighbourhood after the Arab Uprisings, in E. CUSUMANO (ed.) Projecting Resilience Across the Mediterranean, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 63-87 (with Tobias SCHUMACHER).
States Recognition in Foreign Policy: The Case of Sweden's Recognition of Palestine, Foreign Policy Analysis, 2019.
Nothing can destroy the dream of Palestinian liberation, Middle East Eye, 17 July 2019.
The ‘Deal of the Century’ condemns Palestinians to endless Apartheid, TRT World, 13 May 2019 (with J. WILDEMAN).
Rethinking the nature of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Middle East Eye, 11 April 2019 (with J. WILDEMAN).
EU foreign policy normalises totalitarianism in the Middle East, Middle East Eye, 19 March 2019.
How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East: By trading values for stability the EU is actually creating instability, and countless casualties like Jamal Khashoggi, Aljazeera English, 28 October 2018 (with J. WILDERMAN).