Special Issue: 'Contention in the age of austerity in Europe: the emergence of new alternatives?'

Articles of this Special Issue are now available to read online in advance of their print publication. Please see the articles below:

Challenging the age of austerity: Disruptive agency after the global economic crisis


From dissent to resistance: Locating patterns of horizontalist self-management crisis responses in Spain


Constructing solidarity as resistive and creative agency in austerity Greece


New immigrant struggles in Italy’s logistics industry


Social movements, the European crisis, and EU political opportunities


Imagining another Europe: Building a pan-European counter-hegemonic bloc around an anti-austerity master frame


The battle for hegemony: Resistance and neoliberal restructuring in post-crisis Europe


January 2017

Special Issue: 'External Images of the EU - Energy Power Across the Globe'

Guest Editors: Natalia Chaban, Michèle Knodt and Amy Verdun

Articles of this Special Issue are now available to read online in advance of their print publication. Please see the articles below:

‘Talking with’ not ‘talking at’? Perceptions of the EU as a global normative energy actor in the eyes of BRICS and EU ‘Big 3’


Brazil: (Future) green energy power and strategic partner for the EU?


Russia and EU cooperation in energy policy – Sending and receiving messages?


Challenging the EU’s normative power: Media views on the EU in India


How China views the EU in global energy governance: A norm exporter, a partner or an outsider?


South Africa’s perceptions of the EU in energy governance: A partner in decline?


A polyphonic marketplace: Images of EU external energy relations in British, French and German media discourses


An emerging EU strategic narrative? Twitter communication during the EU’s sustainable energy week

March 2016

Special Issue 'National Parliaments and the Politicization of European Integration'

Guest editors: Sandra Kröger & Richard Bellamy

Articles of this Special Issue are now available to read online in advance of their print publication. Please see the articles below:

The politicization of European integration: National parliaments and the democratic disconnect


Beyond a constraining dissensus: The role of national parliaments in domesticating and normalising the politicization of European integration


From constraining to catalysing dissensus? The impact of political contestation on parliamentary communication in EU affairs


National parliaments in the European Union: Moving towards more ‘cooperative’ institutions?


The politicization of interparliamentary relations in the EU: Constructing and contesting the ‘Article 13 Conference’ on economic governance


Parliamentary scrutiny and partisan conflict in the Euro crisis. The case of the German Bundestag


The politicization of EU affairs in the Finnish Eduskunta: Conflicting logics of appropriateness, party strategy or sheer frustration?​​​​​​​