Journal of European Integration

Journal of European Integration War Fatigue: The Re-Politicization of the Ukraine War. Volume 48, Issue 2 of Journal of European Integration

📮 Special Issue 48(2) is now available online!
"𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞-𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐫"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/geui20/4...

Journal of European Integration War Fatigue: The Re-Politicization of the Ukraine War. Volume 48, Issue 2 of Journal of European Integration

📮 Special Issue 48(2) is now available online!
"𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞-𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐫"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/geui20/4...

📅 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: JEI Annual Lecture - 2 July 2026

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐠 - "𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠: 𝐸𝑈 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚” 🌍

Event: 13th @ecprsgeu.bsky.social Conference, hosted by Università di Catania

ℹ️ Registration until 19 April:
ecpr.eu/MyEcpr/Forms...

Happy to share our new article in @jei-publication.bsky.social, in which @toinepaulissen.bsky.social, @stevenvanhecke.bsky.social and I examine the extent to which Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine affected enlargement politics in the European Parliament 🇪🇺

⚠️ Conference registration is now open and closes on 19 April!
@ecprsgeu.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social

Following a presentation of bibliometric data based on the journal's history since 1978, panelists will reflect on 4 key dimensions of European integration research:
🔹 EU-level institutional dynamics
🔹 public opinion and cleavages in societies
🔹 economic and monetary union
🔹 transatlantic relations

The discussion will be chaired by Thomas Christiansen @tceuropean.bsky.social and will feature leading scholars as discussants:
Andrea Capati
Alessandra Carraro @alecar.bsky.social
Hussein Kassim @husseinkassim.bsky.social
Theresa Kuhn @theresakuhn.bsky.social
Sophie Meunier
& Marianne Riddervold.

JEI@50 - Reflecting on five decades of academic research on European integration European Consortium for Political Research

🎂 The JEI will turn 50 in 2027!

As part of the lead-up to its 50th anniversary, the JEI will host a roundtable discussion at the 13th SGEU Conference in July, entitled:
𝙅𝙀𝙄@50 - 𝙍𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙣 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

📊 JEI readership is on the rise!

We’re pleased to share that the Journal of European Integration saw a significant increase in annual readership in 2025, with total article downloads exceeding 430,000 - a 38% increase compared to 2024.

@tandfresearch.bsky.social

🚨"A Market for War? The Reinforcing Logics of Europe's Security Turn" is out! What history tells us about the EU's likely political path given today's geopolitics & the emerging European military-industrial complex--& why the EU's new security role urgently requires better democratic accountability.

Is the EU a climate leader? In this @jei-publication.bsky.social piece, @charlesparker.bsky.social, Christer Karlsson & Mattias Hjerpe investigate whether the EU is recognized as a leader in the #UNFCCC negotiations & how it shaped the #ParisAgreement's institutional design.
doi.org/10.1080/0703...

📰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐄𝐈 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭!

📮 A few months after the 𝟏𝟗𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐔𝐒𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 in Philadelphia, the article based on @katemcnamara.bsky.social's keynote is now available online (𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬).

Abstract and link below:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

3 presents in last few days😀 Must have behaved. A chapter on electoral turnout in The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics, a paper on left-authoritarianism & far-right forthcoming in @eepolitics.bsky.social and a paper on war fatigue accepted in
@jei-publication.bsky.social 🤩
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Populism in power and regional (dis-)integration: charting paths of populist regionalism in Europe and Latin America How do populists approach regional integration from the government? Existing research shows that a rhetoric backlash against regional organizations and their bureaucracies is central to contemporar...

My piece proposing a typology of populist regionalism has finally found a home!
Published in @jei-publication.bsky.social (47, 8), it examines how populists manage regional integration once in power, identifying four distinct pathways.
Open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Constitutionalism, federalism and the future of the post-Maastricht EU order Sergio Fabbrini and Ulrich Haltern each have provided bold accounts about the status of contemporary post-Maastricht European Union (EU) integration. They review the reasons for why the EU currentl...

Read my @jei-publication.bsky.social review article on two bold accounts of contemporary European integration by Sergio Fabbrini and Ulrich Haltern. The former calls for a federalist alternative for Europe, the latter remains cautious with regard to treaty reform.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐉𝐄𝐈 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

The Annual Lecture will be delivered by F. Schimmelfennig on 2 July 2026 on the occasion of the 13th SGEU Biennial Conference at Università di Catania, Italy. The title of the lecture is: “Between world orders: EU boundary formation in a changing international system.”

The technocracy-responsiveness nexus in EU policy-making Debates over EU policy-making often depict the EU either as an unresponsive technocracy or as responsive despite constraints. Yet these two images are not unrelated. First, the increased focus of E...

Happy to see the review of the book by @nenaoana.bsky.social @alexmoise.bsky.social and Hanspeter Kriesi on the EU and COVID recently published at Oxford University Press by Reinout van der Veer at the @jei-publication.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📈 Q3 Usage Figures on the Rise

The JEI team is pleased to report a significant increase in Q3 downloads compared to the past three years. Our thanks go to our authors and readers for their continued engagement and support.

⚠️ Don’t miss out — only a few days left to submit your proposal for a special issue!

⏳One month left to submit proposals for special issues! ⬇️

🚨Don’t miss the new paper on European responses to American and Chinese influence over the arms embargo on China and Taiwan by #EISS Founding Director Hugo Meijer and @giuter.bsky.social in @jei-publication.bsky.social !

Read the paper now! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wedging, binding and Europe in the US-China competition: theoretical and policy implications This concluding article aims to derive theoretical and policy implications from this special issue. In doing so, it first points out the fruitfulness of the proposed theoretical framework, develope...

🔸 "Wedging, binding and Europe in the US-China competition: theoretical and policy implications" by Yasuhiro Izumikawa
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The EU’s strategic autonomy in foreign policy: European responses to American and Chinese influence over the arms embargo on China and Taiwan The article examines the European Union’s response to United States and Chinese attempts to influence its foreign policy, focusing on the Indo-Pacific region. It explores how member states balance ...

🔸 "The EU’s strategic autonomy in foreign policy: European responses to American and Chinese influence over the arms embargo on China and Taiwan" by Giulia Tercovich & Hugo Meijer
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Technological underpinnings of European autonomy and US-China competition Technology is a battleground in the geopolitical competition between the US and China. In this context, Europe is both a playground – where the competing ambitions of the two countries intersect – ...

🔸 "Technological underpinnings of European autonomy and US-China competition" by Antonio Calcara, Joris Teer & Ivan Zaccagnini
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Between Scylla and Charybdis: navigating EU strategic autonomy amid US-China trade competition Amid growing Sino-American competition, we would expect the US and China to deploy ‘binding’ and ‘wedging’ strategies to encourage Europe to align with it against the other. As this article shows, ...

🔸 "Between Scylla and Charybdis: navigating EU strategic autonomy amid US-China trade competition" by Kristen Hopewell
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding Chinese influence in Europe: an institutional asymmetry approach As US-China global competition continues to intensify, scholars and policymakers are interested in how Chinese influence plays out in different world regions. Much attention has been paid to how Ch...

🔸 "Understanding Chinese influence in Europe: an institutional asymmetry approach" by Andreea Budeanu & Shaun Breslin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The unbalanced transatlantic relationship: understanding US influence in Europe This article examines US influence on Europe in the context of the geostrategic rivalry with China. We employ the wedging-binding framework and and argue that US influence in Europe does not occur ...

🔸 "The unbalanced transatlantic relationship: understanding US influence in Europe" by Jeffrey Anderson & Federico Steinberg
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cautious optimism: unravelling Chinese views on European strategic autonomy This article explores the Chinese perception of European strategic autonomy (ESA) through a comprehensive examination of Chinese sources (i.e. academic literature and the official website of the Ch...

🔸 "Cautious optimism: unravelling Chinese views on European strategic autonomy" by Ruolin Su & Hongsong Liu
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

European strategic autonomy as a double-edged sword? US perspectives in an Era of Sino-American competition As the United States seeks to prioritise ‘competition with China’, debates have emerged about how this affects US engagements elsewhere. Europe occupies a contested role in this discussion. Traditi...

🔸 "European strategic autonomy as a double-edged sword? US perspectives in an Era of Sino-American competition" by Linde Desmaele
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The three images of EU strategic autonomy: perspectives on wedging, binding and hedging This article considers concepts of European Union Strategic Autonomy in light of the growing scholarly literature on wedging and binding. The article presents three ideal types of strategic autonom...

🔸 "The three images of EU strategic autonomy: perspectives on wedging, binding and hedging" by @danielfiott.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....