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Combating corruption in Ukraine: Are the country’s parliament and anti-corruption agency up to the task?

Combating corruption in Ukraine: Are the country’s parliament and anti-corruption agency up to the task?

Countries in transition increasingly count on anti-corruption commissions and agencies in the fight against corruption. Franklin De Vrieze and Luka Glušac examine the case of Ukraine, assessing the role of the country’s parliament and anti-corruption agency in combating high-profile corruption.

The establishment of an anti-corruption commission or agency (ACA) is often central to a country’s strategy for tackling corruption or […]

July 28th, 2020|current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Franklin De Vrieze, Luka Glušac|0 Comments|

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Looking beyond 5G: Why Europe is far from naïve when it comes to issues of strategic dependence

Looking beyond 5G: Why Europe is far from naïve when it comes to issues of strategic dependence

The United States has advised countries in Europe to avoid using technology provided by the Chinese company Huawei in their 5G networks. Yet so far, these warnings have had a relatively limited impact on European governments. Vasileios Theodosopoulos argues that despite disagreements over 5G, the United States should not overlook the EU’s efforts elsewhere to develop supply chain security […]

July 20th, 2020|current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Vasileios Theodosopoulos|0 Comments|

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Book Review: Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918 by Meighen McCrae

Book Review: Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918 by Meighen McCrae

In Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War, Meighen McCrae explores the role of the Supreme War Council as a coalition organ for inter-Allied strategic cooperation between 1917 and 1918. As the book encourages readers to consider the 1914-18 conflict from a global perspective and widens understanding of the coalition strategic planning timeline, this is a welcome addition to the […]

July 19th, 2020|Book Reviews, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured|0 Comments|

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Book Review: The New Despotism by John Keane

Book Review: The New Despotism by John Keane

In The New Despotism, John Keane revives this term to examine how the ‘new despotism’ functions today through qualitatively different characteristics and processes to its older forms. As the book skilfully identifies how the new despotism thrives on ambiguity above all, this is a perceptive study that will shift the analytical lens through which despotic regimes are viewed, writes Gergana Dimova, and offers […]

July 5th, 2020|Book Reviews, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Gergana Dimova|0 Comments|

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A looming credibility crisis? Assessing the EU’s role as a peacebuilding power in the aftermath of Covid-19

A looming credibility crisis? Assessing the EU’s role as a peacebuilding power in the aftermath of Covid-19

The Covid-19 outbreak has put many of the EU’s foreign policy objectives on hold. However, as Julia Strasheim writes, the pandemic is not the only obstacle to boosting the European Union’s role as a global peacebuilding power. The bigger structural hurdle is democratic decline within its own borders, and the implications this has for the EU’s credibility abroad.

Before the […]

June 19th, 2020|current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Julia Strasheim|0 Comments|

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What a judicial solution to disputes in the eastern Mediterranean might look like

What a judicial solution to disputes in the eastern Mediterranean might look like

The eastern Mediterranean has seen a number of disputes over gas exploration and maritime boundaries. Moritz Neubert and Umut Yüksel write that jurisdictional ambiguity lies at the heart of the problem. However, despite the legal uncertainty and contradictory interpretations that exist between states, there remains a judicial way out.

Natural gas exploration and exploitation activities carried out by the Republic […]

June 2nd, 2020|current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Moritz Neubert, Umut Yüksel|0 Comments|

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Book Review: Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin

Book Review: Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin

In Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist, Alexander Zevin traces the 177-year history of the Economist newspaper, positioning the Economist not only as a lens for understanding reinterpretations of liberalism across different eras, but also as an active participant in influencing policy and public debate. This is a rigorous and meticulously researched study of the Economist’s history and the […]

May 31st, 2020|Book Reviews, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured|0 Comments|

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How Covid-19 is deepening democratic backsliding and geopolitical competition in the Western Balkans

How Covid-19 is deepening democratic backsliding and geopolitical competition in the Western Balkans

Several countries in the Western Balkans have responded to the Covid-19 outbreak with draconian measures that entail a further erosion of democracy, writes Natasha Wunsch. She argues the pandemic is shining a spotlight on the impact of geopolitical competition in the Western Balkans, where authoritarian forces are undermining the EU’s democracy promotion efforts.

The Western Balkans are facing dire economic […]

May 20th, 2020|current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Natasha Wunsch|0 Comments|

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VE Day and the Covid-19 outbreak: Two historical moments that have shaped the world

VE Day and the Covid-19 outbreak: Two historical moments that have shaped the world

The 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) was marked on 8 May against the backdrop of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Effie G. H. Pedaliu writes that much like the end of the Second World War, Covid-19 will constitute a landmark moment, with future historians likely to draw a line between life before and life after the […]

May 11th, 2020|current-affairs, Effie G. H. Pedaliu, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, LSE Comment|0 Comments|

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Book Review: Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order by Charlie Laderman

Book Review: Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order by Charlie Laderman

On 24 April each year, many communities across the world come together to commemorate the mass killing of the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Grant Golub reviews Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order, in which Charlie Laderman shows how the US and British responses to the atrocities were intimately tied up with […]

May 3rd, 2020|Book Reviews, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Grant Golub, LSE Comment|0 Comments|

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Book Review: The Force of Non-Violence by Judith Butler

Book Review: The Force of Non-Violence by Judith Butler

In The Force of Non-Violence, Judith Butler challenges the prevailing ways in which violence and nonviolence have been understood, arguing that the distinction between the two has been founded on a harmful individualist paradigm. The book inspires a cautious yet hopeful optimism as it calls for a new interpretation of violence, and with it, a new imagining of nonviolence as a collective form […]

April 19th, 2020|Book Reviews, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured|0 Comments|

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Beating Covid-19: The problem with national lockdowns

Beating Covid-19: The problem with national lockdowns

Lockdowns have now become a fact of life for many countries across the world, but even if they succeed in halting the spread of Covid-19, are they sustainable? Martin J. Bull argues that lockdowns pose major challenges for European countries and the approach pursued by South Korea may need to be explored as a long-term solution.

Are ‘authoritarian-style’ lockdowns, involving […]

March 26th, 2020|coronavirus, current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Martin J. Bull|2 Comments|

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Greek-Turkish border crisis: Refugees are paying the price for the EU’s failure to reform its asylum system

Greek-Turkish border crisis: Refugees are paying the price for the EU’s failure to reform its asylum system

At the end of February, Turkey announced that it would no longer enforce a deal reached with the EU in 2016 to block irregular migration routes into Greece. Nicoletta Enria and Sarah Gerwens write that the resulting crisis at the Greek-Turkish border highlights the failure of the EU to effectively reform its asylum system.

In late February, before COVID-19 began […]

March 25th, 2020|current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, LSE Comment, Nicoletta Enria, Sarah Gerwens|0 Comments|

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Despite a clear EU strategy, significant challenges still lie ahead for China-EU relations

Despite a clear EU strategy, significant challenges still lie ahead for China-EU relations

Representatives from 17 Central and Eastern European countries are set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in April at a ‘17+1’ summit. Daniel Quirk writes that the summit might reinvigorate EU concerns over Chinese ambitions in Europe and could motivate EU officials to continue advocating a stricter approach toward China-EU relations.

The last decade saw significant inconsistencies in China-EU […]

February 20th, 2020|current-affairs, Daniel Quirk, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured|0 Comments|

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Five minutes with Katharina Borchert: “Online advertising has created a surveillance economy”

Five minutes with Katharina Borchert: “Online advertising has created a surveillance economy”

The growth of online communication has raised important questions about privacy, free speech and the governance of the internet. In an interview for EUROPP, Katharina Borchert, the former CEO of Spiegel Online and current Chief Innovation Officer at Mozilla, discusses the pressing need for data protection online, and why tech companies have a responsibility to prevent the exploitation of […]

February 14th, 2020|current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Katharina Borchert|0 Comments|

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Book Review: Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers

Book Review: Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers

In Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers, David Scott FitzGerald argues that the rich democracies of the Global North have developed ways to evade the spirit of international humanitarian laws when it comes to migration, whilst simultaneously de jure adhering to them. With a rich empirical basis and a clear, accessible style, this compelling and topical book will appeal to […]

January 26th, 2020|Book Reviews, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured|0 Comments|

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Book Review: The Oxford Handbook on Women, Peace and Security edited by Sara E. Davies and Jacqui True

Book Review: The Oxford Handbook on Women, Peace and Security edited by Sara E. Davies and Jacqui True

In The Oxford Handbook on Women, Peace and Security, editors Sara E. Davies and Jacqui True bring together 93 contributors to capture the ever-growing volume of scholarship that has developed since the passing of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in October 2000. Columba Achilleos-Sarll recommends this as an extensive, timely contribution to the study of the WPS agenda, which maps […]

January 12th, 2020|Book Reviews, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured|0 Comments|

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A mixed record: Assessing Ukraine’s domestic reforms under Volodymyr Zelenskiy

A mixed record: Assessing Ukraine’s domestic reforms under Volodymyr Zelenskiy

The so called ‘Normandy Four’, incorporating the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine, met on 9 December in Paris to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Ryhor Nizhnikau and Arkady Moshes write that alongside the conflict resolution process, it is also vital to assess how Ukraine’s domestic situation has developed since the election of Volodymyr Zelenskiy as President […]

December 12th, 2019|Arkady Moshes, current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Ryhor Nizhnikau|0 Comments|

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Lessons from East Germany: How authoritarian states can use international travellers to promote their interests

Lessons from East Germany: How authoritarian states can use international travellers to promote their interests

Authoritarian regimes typically place restrictions on the ability of citizens to travel abroad. Astrid Hedin maps the bureaucratic procedures of the former East Germany, showing how travel controls were organised to screen travellers, shape political narratives, and harvest information on western counterparts. These travel controls remain part of the institutional heritage and bureaucratic traditions of authoritarian post-communist states today.

Recently, […]

December 9th, 2019|Astrid Hedin, current-affairs, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, Uncategorized|0 Comments|

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Macron closed the door on Albania, but Tirana’s youth has opened a window to Europe

Macron closed the door on Albania, but Tirana’s youth has opened a window to Europe

The city of Tirana has been awarded the title of European Youth Capital for 2022. Epidamn Zeqo, Director of Strategic Planning and Implementation of Priorities for the Municipality of Tirana, explains what the award means for the city and for Albania as a whole. He writes that despite disappointment at the EU’s decision to block the start of membership […]

December 4th, 2019|current-affairs, Epidamn Zeqo, EU Foreign Affairs, EU foreign affairs (including defence, development aid and trade) and the European neighbourhood, featured, LSE Comment|1 Comment|

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