Journal of Contemporary European Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary European Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction18
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?17
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 201917
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism16
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit15
The rising fear of terrorism and the emergence of a European security governance space: citizen perceptions and EU counterterrorism cooperation14
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance12
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy12
Institutional quality convergence in the Euro area countries: a note and further evidence12
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective12
European transnationalism between successes and shortcomings: threats, strategies and actors under the microscope11
Framing the Eastern Partnership in the European Union’s and Russia’s institutional discourse10
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’10
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states9
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism9
Same rights different outcomes? Decomposition of differences in over-qualification among mobile EU workers9
The role of (rule of law) conditionality in MFF 2021-2027 and Next Generation EU, or the stressed budget8
Policing protest: the post-democratic state and the figure of black insurrection8
Homelands and dictators: migration, memory, and belonging between Southeastern Europe and Chile8
Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference8
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world8
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses8
Connectivity of the EU’s Eastern Partnership region: contestation between liberal and illiberal approaches8
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU8
Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal7
Counter-terrorism and the repression of Islamic activism: Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain and Denmark7
Is the rule of law really a European concern? Mediatized rule of law conflicts and the contestation of the independence of the judiciary in France and Italy7
EU-Turkey Relations: Theories, Institutions, and Policies7
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment7
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control7
Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states6
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric6
Pax Transatlantica; America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era6
Immigration policy and right-wing populism in Western Europe6
Integration or exclusion? Assimilation of non-Irish nationals into the Irish labour market6
Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support6
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures6
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign5
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU5
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia5
Conflicting dynamics of public attitudes toward austerity: evidence from Europe (2010–2011)5
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?5
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union5
All roads lead to Rome? Analysing the electoral performance of populist radical left parties in Europe (2008-2018): a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis5
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature5
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action5
China’s discourse on the belt and road initiative: a hidden threat to European security logic?5
The art of securitising. Orbán’s handling of the European refugee crisis5
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing5
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union5
European identity and European political parties5
Coping, struggling, or just getting by? Brexit and its implications for Czech and Slovak security and defence policies5
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?4
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe4
Centrist and Radical Right Populists in Central and Eastern Europe: Divergent Visions of History and the EU4
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe4
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space4
The role of European and national identity and threat perceptions in attitudes towards immigrants4
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland4
Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor4
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis4
EU Fiscal Capacity – Legal Integration after COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine EU Fiscal Capacity – Legal Integration after COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine , by Federico F4
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)4
EUPD performance in Latin America: Assessing the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia4
EU regional trade agreements. An instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states4
Europe and the decline of social democracy in Britain: from Attlee to Brexit4
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation3
Going back and forth: European Union resilience-building in Moldova between 2014 and 20203
French attitude to Ukraine’s EU membership: from indifference through securitisation to alternatives3
Negotiations in the Council of the EU under a new institutional setting: the case of the asylum policy3
EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety3
A reluctant European? The Czech Republic’s EU membership experience read through the EU Council Presidency3
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change3
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups3
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning3
Mapping party support for EU referendums after Brexit: results from an expert survey3
Ambiguous identities in crisis-ridden Greece: ‘us’ and/against ‘Europe’3
The nested games of the UK’s EU referendum: ruptures, reconfigurations and lessons for Europe3
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war3
Shaping European Union’s global health initiatives. What role for the European Parliament?3
Post-peasant progressivism as a kind of populism3
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe3
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture3
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland3
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education3
Globalizing regionalism and international relations3
The Russia-Ukraine war of 2022: faces of modern conflict The Russia-Ukraine war of 2022: faces of modern conflict , edited by Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka and Karolina Pał3
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy3
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India3
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?3
English Nationalism and Its Ghost Towns English Nationalism and Its Ghost Towns , by Luke TELFORD, Routledge, Abingdon, 2022, 166 pp., £130.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978103203
Choosing among the chosen? Electoral lists and party primaries in Europe3
The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany3
Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states3
Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction3
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)3
Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia3
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania3
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe3
Evolving populist rhetoric: how public approval shapes its employment2
Europeanization of citizens vis-á-vis regional politicians: the case of the German-speaking Community of Belgium in the Euregio Maas-Rhine2
Germany’s benchmark status in the Eurozone2
Ontological insecurity and securitization dynamics: the co-constitution of borders between Italy and the EU after the refugee crisis of 20152
The anxious and resilient European Union: experiencing FOMO in the increasingly geopolitical world order2
Moral policy entrepreneurship: the role of NGOs in the EU’s external human rights policy towards China2
The ‘migrant other’ as a security threat: the ‘migration crisis’ and the securitising move of the Polish ruling party in response to the EU relocation scheme2
(Br)exit citizenship: belonging, rights and participation2
Partial democratization and healthcare reforms in a hybrid regime: the case of Georgia2
Historical preparation and ideological legitimisation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: a critical discourse2
When do football fans tend to acquire a more Europeanised mind-set? The impact of participation in European club competitions2
The sense of nations for cooperation. How threat perception and ideology influence counterterrorism cooperation between EU members2
EU socio- economic governance in central and Eastern Europe: the European semester and national employment policies2
Covid-19 and free movement restrictions in the Nordic countries – how did Finnish and Swedish MPs justify and criticise border controls?2
Does federalism enhance representative democracy? Perpetual reform and shifting power in a divided Belgium2
Spain as the EU’s ‘champion’ in Latin America: elites, government trustworthiness, and free trade2
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: a case study of Belarus2
Coping with an EU and Domestic Crisis: Ireland’s Approach to Brexit2
Representing the radical right of the Grande Nation in the Grand Duchy: the viral ‘fortress Europe’, the contagious ‘borderless Europe’ and the non-communicable ‘cross-border regional Europe’2
Facts, values and the policy world2
Generational differences in the identification of Europeans: the role of the great recession2
Brexit and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement in comparison: EU principles and practices of governing the neighbourhood2
What makes democratic institutions resilient to crises? Applying a novel analytical framework to the case of Finland2
Civil society and populism in Europe: outbreak or cure?2
Informal compliance mechanisms in the EU ‘development’ and ‘integration without membership’ association agreements: a quest for capacity and ownership?2
Crises of European integration. Joining together or falling apart?2
Debating irregular migration in the European Parliament: a ‘parliament without a public’ or the voice of the people?2
The Akademik Lomonosov and the Arctic legal regime: geopolitics versus international law?2
Introduction: resilient states versus resilient societies? Whose security does the EU protect through the Eastern Partnership in times of geopolitical crises?1
Two decades of changing dependency on Russian gas in Central and Eastern Europe: strategies versus achievements1
Understanding the EU as a good global actor ambitions, values and metrics Understanding the EU as a good global actor ambitions, values and metrics , by Alina Carrozzini1
European union as a road to serfdom: The Alt-Right’s inversion of narratives on European integration1
The staging of the Brexit rhetoric inside the European Parliament: The case of Nigel Farage1
Is Alt-Europe possible? Populist radical right counternarratives of European integration1
Feet of clay: five cultural vulnerabilities of the Russian state in the face of the war in Ukraine1
Public Discourses and Attitudes in Greece during the Crisis. Framing the Role of the European Union, Germany and National Governments1
Game of frames: a content analysis of politicians’ framing of public service media on Facebook and Instagram in the Czech Republic1
The continuing significance of the council of the EU presidency for small states: agenda setting or painting-by-numbers?1
The Western Ideology and Other Essays; After Brexit and Other Essays1
Margarita M. Balmaceda “Russian energy chains: the remaking of technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union”1
Fundamental right or political value? The evolution of ‘freedom of religion or belief’ in the European Union’s legitimation and public action1
Publishers Note1
Discursive strategies for citizen participation in the EU: a normative assessment of the Conference on the Future of Europe1
OK Google: is (s)he guilty?1
Democratic decay and authoritarian resurgence1
A disruptive moment? Parliaments, Brexit, and the future of European integration1
Struggle and banality of belonging to Europe. Cultural Europeanization from the perspective of the Central and East European citizens1
The uncertainty of waiting: the liminality of the Western Balkans in the process of EU enlargement1
Finland’s responses to Brexit: seeking shelter while hedging against changing risks1
The use of the OSCE Moscow mechanism and international humanitarian law in the Russian aggression against Ukraine1
Public diplomacy and the persistence of the conflict and cooperation dichotomy in EU-Russia relations1
The Energy Community and Europeanization of South East Europe and beyond: a rational choice - historical institutionalist explanation1
Polarization of gender role attitudes across Europe1
Franco-German leadership in the context of EU defence policy: from Brexit to the strategic compass1
Credit positive or negative? Credit rating agencies’ framing of Brexit’s implications for the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the EU, and the Northern Ireland peace process1
EU Eastern Partnership, Ontological Security and EU- Ukraine/Russian warfare1
Are European social spending policies effective in the fight against gender inequality?1
The Brexit effect: what leaving the EU means for British politics1
How the traumatic past influences the vote of the populist radical right parties in Germany, Poland, and Spain1
Serbia’s hybrid warfare: consequences for neighboring countries1
Radical right populism in Germany: AfD, Pegida, and the Identitarian movement1
Fanning the flames? An exploration of EU discourse on culture in the Eastern Partnership1
Different sides, same story. Common factors that contributed to the success of the populist radical parties in Spain1
Contesting cosmopolitan Europe: Euroscepticism, crisis and borders1
Europeanization as a hegemonic process: the counter-hegemonic coal phase-out struggle in Turkey1
From an amplifier to a silencer: the Slovak EU presidency and energy policy1
Heroisation and victimisation: populism, commemorative narratives and National Days in Hungary and Poland1
A tale of two memberships: analysing post-2004 official governmental discourse on the EU in Czechia and Slovakia1
Society and territory: making sense of Italian populism from a historical perspective1
Renewable energy and its financing instruments in the European Union: new trends in development?1
Belonging to the nation, belonging to Europe? Varieties of particularism and universalism in migrant identity negotiation1
EU climate diplomacy towards the IMO and ICAO1
The European Union’s ‘never again’ Arctic narrative1
Entrenching positions? The dynamics of Brexit negotiations mirrored in British, Irish, and EU executives’ speeches1
The societal foundations of German nation-centred economic policies: trade surplus, energy transition, and Eurozone debt1
Gender and work in Europe: towards the end of inequality?1
How to approach state capture in post-communist Europe. A new research agenda1
Rivals in Arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the Twenty-first century1
The EU’s Response to Brexit: United and Effective1
Poland as an emigration and an immigration country – dynamics of change from the local and individual perspective1
Implementation in the European Union. A concept structural meta-study of environmental and social policy1
Does left populism short-circuit itself? Podemos in the labyrinths of cultural elitism and radical leftism1
Show me how to live: transactional advocacy organizations, managerial populism, and the EU1
Europol and cybercrime: Europol’s sharing decryption platform1
European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times1
Institutional convergence and a lingering two-speed Euro area: a response1
Baltic democracies beyond the EU accession: media as a bearer of democratic culture and means of resilience in navigating uncertainties1
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