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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A case of far-right mainstreaming beyond electoral performance: far-right memory politics in Albania24
Growth model dependencies and the digital sovereignty agenda: comparative analysis of Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia21
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction21
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 201920
“The cultural war is declared”: The Front National’s cultural policy and the resistance it provoked in France between 1995 and 200217
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit16
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism15
Influencing the general public? The self-perceived communicative roles of Norwegian and Danish far-right anti-immigration actors14
“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
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?13
The limits of strategic narratives: the EU–US relationship between emotive polarization and uncertain times13
European transnationalism between successes and shortcomings: threats, strategies and actors under the microscope12
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective12
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism12
Framing the Eastern Partnership in the European Union’s and Russia’s institutional discourse11
Homelands and dictators: migration, memory, and belonging between Southeastern Europe and Chile11
Same rights different outcomes? Decomposition of differences in over-qualification among mobile EU workers11
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses10
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states10
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU10
State positioning in European military AI networks: a social network analysis of European partnerships in military AI9
Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference9
The role of (rule of law) conditionality in MFF 2021-2027 and Next Generation EU, or the stressed budget9
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’9
Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal9
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control8
Pax Transatlantica; America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era8
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric8
Connectivity of the EU’s Eastern Partnership region: contestation between liberal and illiberal approaches8
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world8
Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support8
Integration or exclusion? Assimilation of non-Irish nationals into the Irish labour market8
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 Italy8
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment8
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures8
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign7
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing7
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature7
All roads lead to Rome? Analysing the electoral performance of populist radical left parties in Europe (2008-2018): a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis7
Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states7
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU6
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action6
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union6
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union6
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia6
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?6
The elephant in the room: the European Council’s dominance in core state powers during times of crisis6
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe5
Conflicting dynamics of public attitudes toward austerity: evidence from Europe (2010–2011)5
China’s discourse on the belt and road initiative: a hidden threat to European security logic?5
EUPD performance in Latin America: Assessing the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia5
Correction5
Centrist and Radical Right Populists in Central and Eastern Europe: Divergent Visions of History and the EU5
Ukraine and the willingness to fight for one’s country5
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe5
Coping, struggling, or just getting by? Brexit and its implications for Czech and Slovak security and defence policies5
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland5
The role of European and national identity and threat perceptions in attitudes towards immigrants5
EU regional trade agreements. An instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states5
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space5
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?5
European identity and European political parties5
Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor5
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)5
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis5
Challenging the mainstream in times of crisis: evidence from legislative speeches in Italy (2013–2018)4
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 Pał4
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning4
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe4
EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety4
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 F4
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture4
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy4
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change4
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India4
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation4
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)4
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education4
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania4
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?4
Choosing among the chosen? Electoral lists and party primaries in Europe3
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe3
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war3
Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states3
Debating irregular migration in the European Parliament: a ‘parliament without a public’ or the voice of the people?3
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups3
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland3
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
Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction3
No to the ‘mad’ Green Deal, yes to ‘quality’ Czech food: how the far-right populist Freedom and Direct Democracy messages on environmental issues3
Narrowing the ‘expectations deficit’? Evolving Japanese expectations of the EU as an Indo-Pacific security actor (2020–2022)3
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: a case study of Belarus3
Whatever happened to Red Belt rural communism in Western Europe? A comparative perspective on the Finnish case3
French attitude to Ukraine’s EU membership: from indifference through securitisation to alternatives3
A reluctant European? The Czech Republic’s EU membership experience read through the EU Council Presidency3
Negotiations in the Council of the EU under a new institutional setting: the case of the asylum policy3
Spain as the EU’s ‘champion’ in Latin America: elites, government trustworthiness, and free trade3
(Pro)-Russian (dis)information in Moldova: eroding vertical trust in Sandu and the PAS government?3
Mapping party support for EU referendums after Brexit: results from an expert survey3
Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia3
English Nationalism and Its Ghost Towns English Nationalism and Its Ghost Towns , by Luke TELFORD, Routledge, Abingdon, 2022, 166 pp., £130.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978103203
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine3
Post-peasant progressivism as a kind of populism3
The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany3
Are European social spending policies effective in the fight against gender inequality?2
Show me how to live: transactional advocacy organizations, managerial populism, and the EU2
Historical preparation and ideological legitimisation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: a critical discourse2
EU socio- economic governance in central and Eastern Europe: the European semester and national employment policies2
Renewal in time of global disruption: Asia’s expectations of the EU2
When do football fans tend to acquire a more Europeanised mind-set? The impact of participation in European club competitions2
Ukrainian refugees in Montenegro and Serbia: political position and decision to settle2
Frontiers of digital sovereignty: drones and military security in the Baltic States2
Germany’s benchmark status in the Eurozone2
Coping with an EU and Domestic Crisis: Ireland’s Approach to Brexit2
Evolving populist rhetoric: how public approval shapes its employment2
Does federalism enhance representative democracy? Perpetual reform and shifting power in a divided Belgium2
Brexit and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement in comparison: EU principles and practices of governing the neighbourhood2
Does left populism short-circuit itself? Podemos in the labyrinths of cultural elitism and radical leftism2
We Were In! The Czech Parliament and the EU Council Presidency of 20222
Generational differences in the identification of Europeans: the role of the great recession2
The societal foundations of German nation-centred economic policies: trade surplus, energy transition, and Eurozone debt2
Game of frames: a content analysis of politicians’ framing of public service media on Facebook and Instagram in the Czech Republic2
What makes democratic institutions resilient to crises? Applying a novel analytical framework to the case of Finland2
How the traumatic past influences the vote of the populist radical right parties in Germany, Poland, and Spain2
Masculinist identity politics as a strategy for normalizing authoritarian-right narratives. The cases of Germany and Austria2
Publishers Note2
The sense of nations for cooperation. How threat perception and ideology influence counterterrorism cooperation between EU members2
The anxious and resilient European Union: experiencing FOMO in the increasingly geopolitical world order2
(Br)exit citizenship: belonging, rights and participation2
Informal compliance mechanisms in the EU ‘development’ and ‘integration without membership’ association agreements: a quest for capacity and ownership?2
Representing the radical right of the Grande Nation in the Grand Duchy: the viral ‘fortress Europe’, the contagious ‘borderless Europe’ and the non-communicable ‘cross-border regional Europe’2
Facts, values and the policy world2
Franco-German leadership in the context of EU defence policy: from Brexit to the strategic compass2
Rivals in Arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the Twenty-first century2
Poland as an emigration and an immigration country – dynamics of change from the local and individual perspective2
We, the … elites? Anti-elitism of governing populist parties in Poland, Greece, and Ukraine2
Asian expectations of the EU at a time of global disruption: a cross-country comparative study2
Normalization through transnationalization? Far right international coordination and cooperation2
Radical right populism in Germany: AfD, Pegida, and the Identitarian movement2
Ontological insecurity and securitization dynamics: the co-constitution of borders between Italy and the EU after the refugee crisis of 20152
Europeanization of citizens vis-á-vis regional politicians: the case of the German-speaking Community of Belgium in the Euregio Maas-Rhine2
The Akademik Lomonosov and the Arctic legal regime: geopolitics versus international law?2
Civil society and populism in Europe: outbreak or cure?2
Covid-19 and free movement restrictions in the Nordic countries – how did Finnish and Swedish MPs justify and criticise border controls?2
Crises of European integration. Joining together or falling apart?2
Partial democratization and healthcare reforms in a hybrid regime: the case of Georgia2
EU climate diplomacy towards the IMO and ICAO2
A European Union? Europe’s political integration and the formulation of policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1971–19721
EU Eastern Partnership, Ontological Security and EU- Ukraine/Russian warfare1
European security: from Ukraine to Washington1
Introduction: resilient states versus resilient societies? Whose security does the EU protect through the Eastern Partnership in times of geopolitical crises?1
Belonging to the nation, belonging to Europe? Varieties of particularism and universalism in migrant identity negotiation1
Public Discourses and Attitudes in Greece during the Crisis. Framing the Role of the European Union, Germany and National Governments1
Addressing the paradox of tolerance in liberal democracies: why do France and Germany respond differently to right-wing radicalism?1
Heroisation and victimisation: populism, commemorative narratives and National Days in Hungary and Poland1
Illiberal challenges to the European Union’s legitimacy from within and without: the rule of law and refugee crises1
A tale of two memberships: analysing post-2004 official governmental discourse on the EU in Czechia and Slovakia1
Translating the complexity of EU differentiation: a comparative analysis of news coverage in Germany, Denmark, and the UK1
Europol and cybercrime: Europol’s sharing decryption platform1
Towards a common vision? Populist radical right parties’ positions on the EU common foreign and security policy towards Russia1
The War in Ukraine’s Donbass – Origins, Context, and the Future1
Comparative perceptions of the EU in the Indo-Pacific: India, Japan and Indonesia1
The (changing) concept of democracy in (transforming) European populist radical right discourses: the case of Polish Law and Justice1
Discursive strategies for citizen participation in the EU: a normative assessment of the Conference on the Future of Europe1
Renewable energy and its financing instruments in the European Union: new trends in development?1
Margarita M. Balmaceda “Russian energy chains: the remaking of technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union”1
European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times1
Credit positive or negative? Credit rating agencies’ framing of Brexit’s implications for the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the EU, and the Northern Ireland peace process1
Doomscrollers by day, gamers by night: patching digital sovereignty in the Western Balkan states amid US-China technological rivalry1
Feet of clay: five cultural vulnerabilities of the Russian state in the face of the war in Ukraine1
Social media solidarity in times of polycrisis. The case of Twitter1
Public diplomacy and the persistence of the conflict and cooperation dichotomy in EU-Russia relations1
The use of the OSCE Moscow mechanism and international humanitarian law in the Russian aggression against Ukraine1
Europeanization as a hegemonic process: the counter-hegemonic coal phase-out struggle in Turkey1
How to approach state capture in post-communist Europe. A new research agenda1
Polarization of gender role attitudes across Europe1
Actors and Sites for Knowledge Production on Radicalisation in Europe and Beyond1
Two decades of changing dependency on Russian gas in Central and Eastern Europe: strategies versus achievements1
FortressEurope integrating through division: an actantial narrative analysis1
Struggle and banality of belonging to Europe. Cultural Europeanization from the perspective of the Central and East European citizens1
In search of an appropriate channel for voicing political concerns: political participation among radicalised youth in Europe1
The Brexit effect: what leaving the EU means for British politics1
No longer sidelined? Football fandom, belonging, and the boundaries of Europe1
Invasion of Ukraine: Frames and sentiments in Zelensky’s Twitter communication1
The European Union’s ‘never again’ Arctic narrative1
Different sides, same story. Common factors that contributed to the success of the populist radical parties in Spain1
The uncertainty of waiting: the liminality of the Western Balkans in the process of EU enlargement1
Implementation in the European Union. A concept structural meta-study of environmental and social policy1
Baltic democracies beyond the EU accession: media as a bearer of democratic culture and means of resilience in navigating uncertainties1
Brexit and Malta’s coping strategies: diverging shelters1
The EU’s Response to Brexit: United and Effective1
The global actorness of the EU seen from the Korean media and elites: a capability-expectations gap or an expectations deficit?1
Entrenching positions? The dynamics of Brexit negotiations mirrored in British, Irish, and EU executives’ speeches1
The ‘pure polish people’ vs the ‘European elite’ – how do populism and Euroscepticism interact in Polish politics?1
Spillover terrorism? Exploring the effects of the Israel-Hamas war on jihadist violence in Europe1
Fanning the flames? An exploration of EU discourse on culture in the Eastern Partnership1
The staging of the Brexit rhetoric inside the European Parliament: The case of Nigel Farage1
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 Carrozzini1
When identity becomes strategy: elite narratives and the road to war in Ukraine1
Gender and work in Europe: towards the end of inequality?1
Ukraine: remedial secession and Russian aggression1
Serbia’s hybrid warfare: consequences for neighboring countries1
Central Europe thirty years after the fall of communism. A return to the margins?1
Ukraine’s cities during and after the war: formal and informal institutions in regional governance1
Drivers of domestic politicisation of European issues: explaining low politicisation of differentiated integration in Czechia1
Challenges to energy policy in the context of the Russian–Ukrainian conflict. An overview of the case of Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey1
The roots of liberal and illiberal democracy: political theory, collective memory and conflicting visions of sovereignty in Europe1
The political construction of the ‘citizen turn’ in the EU: disintermediation and depoliticisation in the Conference on the Future of Europe1
From an amplifier to a silencer: the Slovak EU presidency and energy policy1
Contesting cosmopolitan Europe: Euroscepticism, crisis and borders1
Finland’s responses to Brexit: seeking shelter while hedging against changing risks1
Migration and populism in Bulgaria1
The continuing significance of the council of the EU presidency for small states: agenda setting or painting-by-numbers?1
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