🚨 Hot off the press! Our new @geopower-eu.bsky.social study on #EU enlargement reform is live. It highlights key reform pathways—including an unconventional "three-track model" to bypass unanimity bottlenecks in interim accession stages. Read it here: geo-power.eu/wp-content/u...

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How can the EU reform #EUenlargement policy? #GEOPOWEREU report (D2.5) proposes: 🔹 A three-track decision-making model for accession talks 🔹 Gradual integration tying priority reforms to tangible rewards 🔹 Full legal equality for new members 📥 bit.ly/4y8KDcB

Out now! 📢My new work: "The EU and authoritarian norm diffusion in the Western Balkans" Proud to be featured alongside a group of distinguished experts in this new volume edited by Igor Vidačak. 🔓Read it here (it's Open Access): doi.org/10.4324/9781... @biepag.bsky.social @geopower-eu.bsky.social

The Western Balkans and the Challenges of EU Accession | The Resilient

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the transformation of Western Balkan candidate countries as they move toward European Union

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Read our (open-access) article offering an agency-structure perspective to EU enlargement towards the Western Balkans and let us know what you think. Link: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... 1/2 @jmc-eufp-wb.bsky.social

The Jean Monnet Chair in EU Foreign Policy and the Western Balkans launches a series of short tutorial videos. Brilliant colleagues explain analytical approaches, concepts, & ideas in clear terms. #IR #EUStudies 1/6

Our article with Eleni Vasdoka on Serbia’s strategic hedging towards the EU, US, Russia and China has just been released. It may be downloaded for free here: journalse.com/great-powers... @geopower-eu.bsky.social @jmc-eufp-wb.bsky.social @biepag.bsky.social

Great Powers and Gatekeepers in the Western Balkans: Serbia’s Strategic Hedging - Studia Europejskie - Studies in European Affairs

Great-power interest in the Western Balkans has risen over the last few years, and while the West, China, and Russia have been competing for influence, Western

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Antonis Klapsis, Research Fellow at @jmc-eufp-wb.bsky.social, published an article in European Politics and Society. He examines Greece’s response to the Briand Plan, which sought to establish a federal union of European states. The article may be downloaded here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Greece and the Briand Plan for the establishment of a federal European Union

This paper examines Greece’s response to the Briand Plan, a proposal introduced by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in 1930, which sought to establish a federal union of European states. Foc...

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