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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction36
“The cultural war is declared”: The Front National’s cultural policy and the resistance it provoked in France between 1995 and 200226
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit25
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism22
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?21
Growth model dependencies and the digital sovereignty agenda: comparative analysis of Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia18
Influencing the general public? The self-perceived communicative roles of Norwegian and Danish far-right anti-immigration actors17
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 201917
The limits of strategic narratives: the EU–US relationship between emotive polarization and uncertain times15
A case of far-right mainstreaming beyond electoral performance: far-right memory politics in Albania15
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective15
Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine14
Alternative media and political divides: understanding system-critical and elite-challenging sentiments in Czech politics14
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance14
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy13
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU13
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism13
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses12
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’11
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states11
The past as resource – memory and emotions in Russia’s war on Ukraine11
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 Italy10
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world10
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment10
Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference10
Pax Transatlantica; America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era9
Integration or exclusion? Assimilation of non-Irish nationals into the Irish labour market9
Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal9
Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support9
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control9
Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states9
State positioning in European military AI networks: a social network analysis of European partnerships in military AI9
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing8
The elephant in the room: the European Council’s dominance in core state powers during times of crisis8
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric8
All roads lead to Rome? Analysing the electoral performance of populist radical left parties in Europe (2008-2018): a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis8
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia8
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures8
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature8
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU8
Media leaning in Romania: an audience-centric study7
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign7
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action7
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union7
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union7
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?7
Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor6
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe6
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland6
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?6
European identity and European political parties6
China’s discourse on the belt and road initiative: a hidden threat to European security logic?6
EUPD performance in Latin America: Assessing the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia6
Correction6
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)6
Ukraine and the willingness to fight for one’s country5
The power of semantic flexibility: resilience and cohesion in Sweden’s and Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plans5
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 Pał5
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning5
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education5
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation5
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space5
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 F5
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe5
Narrating Europe’s future history through collective memory and emotions: the EU and NATO’s enlargement decisions after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 20225
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?5
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis5
Emotions and memories of peace and war in EU defence policy5
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe5
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture5
Challenging the mainstream in times of crisis: evidence from legislative speeches in Italy (2013–2018)5
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)5
Excluding the evil Neighbour? A Lacanian ontological security approach to Reform UK and Rassemblement Nationa l’s discourse on immigration4
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe4
Post-peasant progressivism as a kind of populism4
English Nationalism and Its Ghost Towns English Nationalism and Its Ghost Towns , by Luke TELFORD, Routledge, Abingdon, 2022, 166 pp., £130.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978103204
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland4
A reluctant European? The Czech Republic’s EU membership experience read through the EU Council Presidency4
Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia4
Narrowing the ‘expectations deficit’? Evolving Japanese expectations of the EU as an Indo-Pacific security actor (2020–2022)4
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups4
Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction4
The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany4
(Pro)-Russian (dis)information in Moldova: eroding vertical trust in Sandu and the PAS government?4
EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety4
Whatever happened to Red Belt rural communism in Western Europe? A comparative perspective on the Finnish case4
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine4
Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states4
French attitude to Ukraine’s EU membership: from indifference through securitisation to alternatives4
Returning Back or to Self: Reluctance and Compatibility of Third space and EU Enlargement to the Inner Other4
No to the ‘mad’ Green Deal, yes to ‘quality’ Czech food: how the far-right populist Freedom and Direct Democracy messages on environmental issues4
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India4
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war4
The end of thick security and the normalization of the European nationalist right: a historical Analysis3
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: a case study of Belarus3
EU socio- economic governance in central and Eastern Europe: the European semester and national employment policies3
Continuity amidst crisis? Examining the state-market nexus in the EU gas sector pre- and post- 2022 invasion of Ukraine3
Brexit and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement in comparison: EU principles and practices of governing the neighbourhood3
Masculinist identity politics as a strategy for normalizing authoritarian-right narratives. The cases of Germany and Austria3
Crises of European integration. Joining together or falling apart?3
(Br)exit citizenship: belonging, rights and participation3
Spain as the EU’s ‘champion’ in Latin America: elites, government trustworthiness, and free trade3
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 scheme3
Evolving populist rhetoric: how public approval shapes its employment3
Coping with an EU and Domestic Crisis: Ireland’s Approach to Brexit3
What makes democratic institutions resilient to crises? Applying a novel analytical framework to the case of Finland3
Generational differences in the identification of Europeans: the role of the great recession3
The sense of nations for cooperation. How threat perception and ideology influence counterterrorism cooperation between EU members3
Informal compliance mechanisms in the EU ‘development’ and ‘integration without membership’ association agreements: a quest for capacity and ownership?3
Choosing among the chosen? Electoral lists and party primaries in Europe3
International political economy of Türkiye-Russia relations: three asymmetries3
Civil society and populism in Europe: outbreak or cure?3
Covid-19 and free movement restrictions in the Nordic countries – how did Finnish and Swedish MPs justify and criticise border controls?3
Normalization through transnationalization? Far right international coordination and cooperation3
Frontiers of digital sovereignty: drones and military security in the Baltic States3
Ontological insecurity and securitization dynamics: the co-constitution of borders between Italy and the EU after the refugee crisis of 20153
When do football fans tend to acquire a more Europeanised mind-set? The impact of participation in European club competitions3
The anxious and resilient European Union: experiencing FOMO in the increasingly geopolitical world order3
Debating irregular migration in the European Parliament: a ‘parliament without a public’ or the voice of the people?3
Serbia’s hybrid warfare: consequences for neighboring countries2
Finland’s responses to Brexit: seeking shelter while hedging against changing risks2
Belonging to the nation, belonging to Europe? Varieties of particularism and universalism in migrant identity negotiation2
We Were In! The Czech Parliament and the EU Council Presidency of 20222
The roots of liberal and illiberal democracy: political theory, collective memory and conflicting visions of sovereignty in Europe2
Heroisation and victimisation: populism, commemorative narratives and National Days in Hungary and Poland2
The European Union’s ‘never again’ Arctic narrative2
Does left populism short-circuit itself? Podemos in the labyrinths of cultural elitism and radical leftism2
Historical preparation and ideological legitimisation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: a critical discourse2
Public diplomacy and the persistence of the conflict and cooperation dichotomy in EU-Russia relations2
Asian expectations of the EU at a time of global disruption: a cross-country comparative study2
Entrenching positions? The dynamics of Brexit negotiations mirrored in British, Irish, and EU executives’ speeches2
Renewal in time of global disruption: Asia’s expectations of the EU2
Polarization of gender role attitudes across Europe2
Europeanization of citizens vis-á-vis regional politicians: the case of the German-speaking Community of Belgium in the Euregio Maas-Rhine2
Public Discourses and Attitudes in Greece during the Crisis. Framing the Role of the European Union, Germany and National Governments2
Spillover terrorism? Exploring the effects of the Israel-Hamas war on jihadist violence in Europe2
A tale of two memberships: analysing post-2004 official governmental discourse on the EU in Czechia and Slovakia2
The EU’s Response to Brexit: United and Effective2
Show me how to live: transactional advocacy organizations, managerial populism, and the EU2
Gender and work in Europe: towards the end of inequality?2
EU climate diplomacy towards the IMO and ICAO2
Discursive strategies for citizen participation in the EU: a normative assessment of the Conference on the Future of Europe2
The societal foundations of German nation-centred economic policies: trade surplus, energy transition, and Eurozone debt2
Ukraine’s cities during and after the war: formal and informal institutions in regional governance2
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 Carrozzini2
Publishers Note2
The use of the OSCE Moscow mechanism and international humanitarian law in the Russian aggression against Ukraine2
Money, gender, and political alignment: determinants of mayoral re-election in post-transition Poland2
Fanning the flames? An exploration of EU discourse on culture in the Eastern Partnership2
Radical right populism in Germany: AfD, Pegida, and the Identitarian movement2
The Brexit effect: what leaving the EU means for British politics2
Refugee flows and the economic-security nexus in Europe: evidence from military spending, growth, and political stability2
Poland as an emigration and an immigration country – dynamics of change from the local and individual perspective2
How to approach state capture in post-communist Europe. A new research agenda2
Two decades of changing dependency on Russian gas in Central and Eastern Europe: strategies versus achievements2
Struggle and banality of belonging to Europe. Cultural Europeanization from the perspective of the Central and East European citizens2
Rivals in Arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the Twenty-first century2
Feet of clay: five cultural vulnerabilities of the Russian state in the face of the war in Ukraine2
Game of frames: a content analysis of politicians’ framing of public service media on Facebook and Instagram in the Czech Republic2
Comparative perceptions of the EU in the Indo-Pacific: India, Japan and Indonesia2
Are European social spending policies effective in the fight against gender inequality?2
Franco-German leadership in the context of EU defence policy: from Brexit to the strategic compass2
The continuing significance of the council of the EU presidency for small states: agenda setting or painting-by-numbers?2
Negotiating Ukraine’s Soviet past (2014–2021): mnemonic actors in the politics of memory amid Europeanization and war2
Introduction: resilient states versus resilient societies? Whose security does the EU protect through the Eastern Partnership in times of geopolitical crises?2
How the traumatic past influences the vote of the populist radical right parties in Germany, Poland, and Spain2
Gender and unpolitics in the European Parliament: untangling radical right populist opposition to EU rules on violence against women2
Ukrainian refugees in Montenegro and Serbia: political position and decision to settle2
EU Eastern Partnership, Ontological Security and EU- Ukraine/Russian warfare2
We, the … elites? Anti-elitism of governing populist parties in Poland, Greece, and Ukraine2
The staging of the Brexit rhetoric inside the European Parliament: The case of Nigel Farage2
Right-wing populist education policy in a social democratic welfare state context1
Renewable energy and its financing instruments in the European Union: new trends in development?1
Factors affecting Russian elites’ perceptions of civil protests: evidence from the survey of Russian elites, 2016 and 20201
Review of routledge handbook of populism and foreign policy1
Towards a common vision? Populist radical right parties’ positions on the EU common foreign and security policy towards Russia1
The international and regional dimensions of the environmental actorness of the European Union1
Ukraine: remedial secession and Russian aggression1
The War in Ukraine’s Donbass – Origins, Context, and the Future1
Baltic democracies beyond the EU accession: media as a bearer of democratic culture and means of resilience in navigating uncertainties1
Rick Fawn. Castle on a Hill. The Visegrad Group, regionalism, and the remaking of Europe . Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 337 p1
Threatening inequality and far-right support in Europe: the worsening condition of the poor and widespread fears of decline1
Central Europe thirty years after the fall of communism. A return to the margins?1
Identity management by multiple identification – religious leaders and EU integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina1
When identity becomes strategy: elite narratives and the road to war in Ukraine1
Populism and social capital in structurally disadvantaged regions and the 2023 Czech presidential election: making democracy work again?1
The global actorness of the EU seen from the Korean media and elites: a capability-expectations gap or an expectations deficit?1
Environmental sensitivity in the 27 National Roma Integration Strategies of the European Union member states1
The uncertainty of waiting: the liminality of the Western Balkans in the process of EU enlargement1
EU foreign policy in a fragmenting international order1
Social media solidarity in times of polycrisis. The case of Twitter1
For things to remain the same, everything must change? Studying National front’s and National rally’s platforms on education1
Migration and populism in Bulgaria1
Who accepts electoral clientelism? The role of personality traits in Romania1
Doomscrollers by day, gamers by night: patching digital sovereignty in the Western Balkan states amid US-China technological rivalry1
Power and protest in central and Eastern Europe1
European Union defensive democracy’s responses to disinformation1
Implementation in the European Union. A concept structural meta-study of environmental and social policy1
Is a sense of community based on similarity? The perception of shared values and citizens’ EU identity1
Challenges to energy policy in the context of the Russian–Ukrainian conflict. An overview of the case of Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey1
A European Union? Europe’s political integration and the formulation of policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1971–19721
No longer sidelined? Football fandom, belonging, and the boundaries of Europe1
The political construction of the ‘citizen turn’ in the EU: disintermediation and depoliticisation in the Conference on the Future of Europe1
Same but different: Rosatom as the Kremlin’s upcoming leverage?1
The (changing) concept of democracy in (transforming) European populist radical right discourses: the case of Polish Law and Justice1
Dreaming the active citizenship: a debate on the Roma/Gypsy opening and its news media coverage in Turkey1
Illiberal challenges to the European Union’s legitimacy from within and without: the rule of law and refugee crises1
Examining EU action and actorness through external perceptions: a comparative study of Asian media coverage1
In search of an appropriate channel for voicing political concerns: political participation among radicalised youth in Europe1
“Letting everyone in”? A Gramscian evaluation of opposing responsibility-sharing strategies in Hungary1
Different sides, same story. Common factors that contributed to the success of the populist radical parties in Spain1
Anti-conspiracism as anti-populism under La République En Marche! (2020–2022)1
European security: from Ukraine to Washington1
Turning the sock inside out: history of Basque studies from a transnational perspective1
Towards European securitization press processes? A comparison of Sahel news coverage in Southern European countries1
Contesting cosmopolitan Europe: Euroscepticism, crisis and borders1
Historical legacies and the political mobilization of national nostalgia: Understanding populism’s relationship to the past1
Digital sovereignty and Central and Eastern Europe: agency, structural disadvantage and digital politics at EU’s (semi-)periphery1
Towards a fruitful concept of radicalisation: a synthesis1
The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence1
From an amplifier to a silencer: the Slovak EU presidency and energy policy1
Drivers of domestic politicisation of European issues: explaining low politicisation of differentiated integration in Czechia1
The ‘pure polish people’ vs the ‘European elite’ – how do populism and Euroscepticism interact in Polish politics?1
The normative power of Europe? Indonesian perspective of the EU1
Invasion of Ukraine: Frames and sentiments in Zelensky’s Twitter communication1
20th anniversary of the EU Eastern enlargement: Stocktaking of the membership experience, challenges, and opportunities1
Translating the complexity of EU differentiation: a comparative analysis of news coverage in Germany, Denmark, and the UK1
‘The more populism types you know, the better political scientist you are?’ Machine-learning based meta-analysis of populism types in the political science literature1
FortressEurope integrating through division: an actantial narrative analysis1
From norms to security in Lithuania’s Belarus policy after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine1
Normative navigation: the Belarusian opposition’s adaptive strategies in international engagement1
The politics of regional cooperation and the impact on the European Union. A study of Nordic Cooperation and the Visegrad Group1
European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times1
Navigating politicization dynamics: Czechia and Slovakia’s role in advancing functional integration through rebalancing EU’s four freedoms1
Europeanization as a hegemonic process: the counter-hegemonic coal phase-out struggle in Turkey1
Strategic voting in two-round elections: confirming the learning hypothesis in the Czech presidential elections of 2013–2023?1
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