Journal of Contemporary European Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary European Studies is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction39
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit29
“The cultural war is declared”: The Front National’s cultural policy and the resistance it provoked in France between 1995 and 200228
The limits of strategic narratives: the EU–US relationship between emotive polarization and uncertain times26
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance22
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 201921
Populist performances and the normalisation of the far right: the case of the ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory in France and Germany21
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism20
Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine18
Alternative media and political divides: understanding system-critical and elite-challenging sentiments in Czech politics17
Influencing the general public? The self-perceived communicative roles of Norwegian and Danish far-right anti-immigration actors15
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy15
A case of far-right mainstreaming beyond electoral performance: far-right memory politics in Albania15
Growth model dependencies and the digital sovereignty agenda: comparative analysis of Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia14
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU14
The past as resource – memory and emotions in Russia’s war on Ukraine13
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states13
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’12
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism12
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 Italy11
Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal11
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control11
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment11
Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference11
State positioning in European military AI networks: a social network analysis of European partnerships in military AI11
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing10
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world10
Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support10
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures10
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric10
Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states9
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union8
Media leaning in Romania: an audience-centric study8
All roads lead to Rome? Analysing the electoral performance of populist radical left parties in Europe (2008-2018): a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis8
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action8
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature8
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU8
Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor7
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)7
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign7
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia7
Correction7
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe7
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union7
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?7
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe7
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland7
European identity and European political parties7
The elephant in the room: the European Council’s dominance in core state powers during times of crisis7
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?7
Emotions and memories of peace and war in EU defence policy6
Delineating the profile of the Eurosceptic citizen6
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 Pał6
Challenging the mainstream in times of crisis: evidence from legislative speeches in Italy (2013–2018)6
The power of semantic flexibility: resilience and cohesion in Sweden’s and Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plans6
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 F6
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)6
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation6
Ukraine and the willingness to fight for one’s country6
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space6
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis6
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe6
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 Copernican revolution in Portugal’s image and interests during transition (1974–1976): from alternative projects to the European option5
Whatever happened to Red Belt rural communism in Western Europe? A comparative perspective on the Finnish case5
Populism and emotional campaigning: the strategic use of emotions in the 2021 Czech general election campaign5
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning5
EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety5
Understanding the normalization of the far right: populism, mass media, and politainment5
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture5
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?5
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India5
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe4
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups4
Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction4
Narrowing the ‘expectations deficit’? Evolving Japanese expectations of the EU as an Indo-Pacific security actor (2020–2022)4
(Pro)-Russian (dis)information in Moldova: eroding vertical trust in Sandu and the PAS government?4
Post-peasant progressivism as a kind of populism4
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: a case study of Belarus4
The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany4
Returning Back or to Self: Reluctance and Compatibility of Third space and EU Enlargement to the Inner Other4
Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states4
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland4
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war4
French attitude to Ukraine’s EU membership: from indifference through securitisation to alternatives4
Spain as the EU’s ‘champion’ in Latin America: elites, government trustworthiness, and free trade4
Choosing among the chosen? Electoral lists and party primaries in Europe4
A reluctant European? The Czech Republic’s EU membership experience read through the EU Council Presidency4
Excluding the evil Neighbour? A Lacanian ontological security approach to Reform UK and Rassemblement Nationa l’s discourse on immigration4
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine4
Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia4
No to the ‘mad’ Green Deal, yes to ‘quality’ Czech food: how the far-right populist Freedom and Direct Democracy messages on environmental issues4
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
Tunisia’s multiple roles as a gatekeeper of (Im)mobility: the case of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding4
Generational differences in the identification of Europeans: the role of the great recession3
What makes democratic institutions resilient to crises? Applying a novel analytical framework to the case of Finland3
The sense of nations for cooperation. How threat perception and ideology influence counterterrorism cooperation between EU members3
(Br)exit citizenship: belonging, rights and participation3
Covid-19 and free movement restrictions in the Nordic countries – how did Finnish and Swedish MPs justify and criticise border controls?3
International political economy of Türkiye-Russia relations: three asymmetries3
Brexit and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement in comparison: EU principles and practices of governing the neighbourhood3
Refugee flows and the economic-security nexus in Europe: evidence from military spending, growth, and political stability3
Negotiating Ukraine’s Soviet past (2014–2021): mnemonic actors in the politics of memory amid Europeanization and war3
Money, gender, and political alignment: determinants of mayoral re-election in post-transition Poland3
Ukrainian refugees in Montenegro and Serbia: political position and decision to settle3
Masculinist identity politics as a strategy for normalizing authoritarian-right narratives. The cases of Germany and Austria3
Coping with an EU and Domestic Crisis: Ireland’s Approach to Brexit3
Normalization through transnationalization? Far right international coordination and cooperation3
The anxious and resilient European Union: experiencing FOMO in the increasingly geopolitical world order3
Civil society and populism in Europe: outbreak or cure?3
Informal compliance mechanisms in the EU ‘development’ and ‘integration without membership’ association agreements: a quest for capacity and ownership?3
Weaponized interdependence and the China–EU electric vehicles dispute: insights from multi-agent simulations using LLMs3
Evolving populist rhetoric: how public approval shapes its employment3
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
Publishers Note3
Historical preparation and ideological legitimisation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: a critical discourse3
Continuity amidst crisis? Examining the state-market nexus in the EU gas sector pre- and post- 2022 invasion of Ukraine3
Frontiers of digital sovereignty: drones and military security in the Baltic States3
Europeanization of citizens vis-á-vis regional politicians: the case of the German-speaking Community of Belgium in the Euregio Maas-Rhine3
Between strategy and integrity: political consultants and the ethics of data-driven campaigning in Central Europe3
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
Crises of European integration. Joining together or falling apart?3
The end of thick security and the normalization of the European nationalist right: a historical Analysis3
We, the … elites? Anti-elitism of governing populist parties in Poland, Greece, and Ukraine3
Poland as an emigration and an immigration country – dynamics of change from the local and individual perspective3
Asian expectations of the EU at a time of global disruption: a cross-country comparative study3
Renewal in time of global disruption: Asia’s expectations of the EU3
Bringing defence back home: security imaginaries of Polish and German shift to territorial defence3
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
Contesting cosmopolitan Europe: Euroscepticism, crisis and borders2
Different sides, same story. Common factors that contributed to the success of the populist radical parties in Spain2
The roots of liberal and illiberal democracy: political theory, collective memory and conflicting visions of sovereignty in Europe2
Migration and populism in Bulgaria2
Gender and unpolitics in the European Parliament: untangling radical right populist opposition to EU rules on violence against women2
Digital sovereignty and Central and Eastern Europe: agency, structural disadvantage and digital politics at EU’s (semi-)periphery2
EU Eastern Partnership, Ontological Security and EU- Ukraine/Russian warfare2
Struggle and banality of belonging to Europe. Cultural Europeanization from the perspective of the Central and East European citizens2
How to approach state capture in post-communist Europe. A new research agenda2
Review of routledge handbook of populism and foreign policy2
Ukraine’s cities during and after the war: formal and informal institutions in regional governance2
Does left populism short-circuit itself? Podemos in the labyrinths of cultural elitism and radical leftism2
The continuing significance of the council of the EU presidency for small states: agenda setting or painting-by-numbers?2
Heroisation and victimisation: populism, commemorative narratives and National Days in Hungary and Poland2
Serbia’s hybrid warfare: consequences for neighboring countries2
The societal foundations of German nation-centred economic policies: trade surplus, energy transition, and Eurozone debt2
We Were In! The Czech Parliament and the EU Council Presidency of 20222
Entrenching positions? The dynamics of Brexit negotiations mirrored in British, Irish, and EU executives’ speeches2
Feet of clay: five cultural vulnerabilities of the Russian state in the face of the war in Ukraine2
European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times2
The Brexit effect: what leaving the EU means for British politics2
The European Union’s ‘never again’ Arctic narrative2
Doomscrollers by day, gamers by night: patching digital sovereignty in the Western Balkan states amid US-China technological rivalry2
Spillover terrorism? Exploring the effects of the Israel-Hamas war on jihadist violence in Europe2
Two decades of changing dependency on Russian gas in Central and Eastern Europe: strategies versus achievements2
Belonging to the nation, belonging to Europe? Varieties of particularism and universalism in migrant identity negotiation2
Renewable energy and its financing instruments in the European Union: new trends in development?2
The EU’s Response to Brexit: United and Effective2
The use of the OSCE Moscow mechanism and international humanitarian law in the Russian aggression against Ukraine2
From an amplifier to a silencer: the Slovak EU presidency and energy policy2
Game of frames: a content analysis of politicians’ framing of public service media on Facebook and Instagram in the Czech Republic2
A tale of two memberships: analysing post-2004 official governmental discourse on the EU in Czechia and Slovakia2
Franco-German leadership in the context of EU defence policy: from Brexit to the strategic compass2
Show me how to live: transactional advocacy organizations, managerial populism, and the EU2
Gender and work in Europe: towards the end of inequality?2
Challenges to energy policy in the context of the Russian–Ukrainian conflict. An overview of the case of Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey2
Public Discourses and Attitudes in Greece during the Crisis. Framing the Role of the European Union, Germany and National Governments2
European security: from Ukraine to Washington2
The staging of the Brexit rhetoric inside the European Parliament: The case of Nigel Farage2
The uncertainty of waiting: the liminality of the Western Balkans in the process of EU enlargement2
Eroding democracy from the outside in: international organizations and democratic backsliding2
Baltic democracies beyond the EU accession: media as a bearer of democratic culture and means of resilience in navigating uncertainties2
Polarization of gender role attitudes across Europe2
Social media solidarity in times of polycrisis. The case of Twitter2
Introduction: resilient states versus resilient societies? Whose security does the EU protect through the Eastern Partnership in times of geopolitical crises?2
Comparative perceptions of the EU in the Indo-Pacific: India, Japan and Indonesia2
Finland’s responses to Brexit: seeking shelter while hedging against changing risks2
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
Implementation in the European Union. A concept structural meta-study of environmental and social policy2
Are European social spending policies effective in the fight against gender inequality?2
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