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Article Published online: 12 Jun 2026 Understanding the normalization of the far right: populism, mass media, and politainment Paula Diehl👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Understanding the normalization of the far right: populism, mass media, and politainment

This article examines the normalization of the far right by considering the role of populism and politainment in this process. I argue that populism facilitates far-right normalization by, first, c...

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Article Published online: 07 Jun 2026 ‘Backsliding lobbying’: how can post-communist interest groups better navigate democratic regression? Michael Dobbins👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

‘Backsliding lobbying’: how can post-communist interest groups better navigate democratic regress...

This article examines how interest groups sustain political inclusion under democratic backsliding. While existing research documents how organized interests respond to a shrinking civic space, evi...

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Article Published online: 29 May 2026 Delineating the profile of the Eurosceptic citizen José Luis Gómez-Barroso, Raquel Marbán-Flores, Ainara Rodríguez-Sánchez & Cristina Miragaya-Casillas👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Delineating the profile of the Eurosceptic citizen

The article examines the characteristics of the Eurosceptic European citizen, utilising data from rounds 8, 9 and 10 of the European Social Survey. The dependent variables employed are the response...

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Article Published online: 28 May 2026 Weaponized interdependence and the China–EU electric vehicles dispute: insights from multi-agent simulations using LLMs Guiyu Song & Wei Shen👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Weaponized interdependence and the China–EU electric vehicles dispute: insights from multi-agent...

With shifts in the global geopolitical landscape, trade frictions have intensified, making weaponized interdependence an increasingly important concept. In the China-EU electric vehicles (EVs) disp...

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Article Published online: 27 May 2026 The authoritarian playbook: media capture and the normalisation of populism Mojca Pajnik👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The authoritarian playbook: media capture and the normalisation of populism

Across contemporary democracies, authoritarian populism is increasingly operating through media systems that combine traditional and digital platforms, yet research is failing to pay sufficient att...

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Article Published online: 27 May 2026 When ideology stops at the water’s edge. Italy’s centre-right parties, US–China competition and Taiwan Lorenzo Termine👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

When ideology stops at the water’s edge. Italy’s centre-right parties, US–China competition and...

Why did Italian centre-right parties moderate their stance on Taiwan after entering government in October 2022? This article argues that the shift reflects the constraints of intensifying US – Chin...

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Article Published online: 26 May 2026 Ex post gatekeeping and the fiction of border control: pushbacks as a technology of migration governance at the Greek–Turkish Border Chiara Maritato👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Ex post gatekeeping and the fiction of border control: pushbacks as a technology of migration...

Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Edirne and surrounding areas along the Greek – Turkish land borders, including ethnographic observations and interviews with migrants, civil society acto...

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Article Published online: 20 May 2026 Yes, no, maybe? Explaining the positions of political parties on EU enlargement in the 2024 EP elections Maartje van Diest & Markus 👇Haverlandhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14782804.2026.2677129
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Book Review Democracy and its enemies in Europe: successes and failures in combating autocratic threats Democracy and its enemies in Europe: successes and failures in combating autocratic threats. Daria Krasovskaia👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Democracy and its enemies in Europe: successes and failures in combating autocratic threats

Published in Journal of Contemporary European Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Article online👇 Populist performances and the normalisation of the far right: the case of the ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory in France and Germany Lena Weige & Théo Aiolfi👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Populist performances and the normalisation of the far right: the case of the ‘great replacement’...

This article examines the role of radical-right actors as bridges between far-right conspiracy theories and public discourse. One of the most influential of these conspiracy theories is the ‘great ...

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Article online👇 Excluding the evil Neighbour? A Lacanian ontological security approach to Reform UK and Rassemblement Nationa l’s discourse on immigration Catherine MacMillan👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Excluding the evil Neighbour? A Lacanian ontological security approach to Reform UK and Rassemble...

This paper explores the discourse of two radical right populist parties, the British Reform UK and the French Rassemblement National, on immigration from the perspective of ontological security – t...

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Article online👇 Negotiating Ukraine’s Soviet past (2014–2021): mnemonic actors in the politics of memory amid Europeanization and war Tetiana Nahirniak👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Negotiating Ukraine’s Soviet past (2014–2021): mnemonic actors in the politics of memory amid...

This article explores how mnemonic actors in post-Euromaidan Ukraine interpret and mobilize the Soviet past amidst Europeanization and war. Since 2014, Ukraine’s memory politics have undergone sign...

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Article online👇 (Dis-)united in diversity: the European Parliament’s response to Russia’s war against Ukraine Stefano Braghiroli👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

(Dis-)united in diversity: the European Parliament’s response to Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has generated the most significant challenge to European security since the end of the Cold War. The European Parliament (EP) emerged as the...

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Book Review👇 online Rick Fawn. Castle on a Hill. The Visegrad Group, regionalism, and the remaking of Europe. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Aliaksei Kazharski👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Rick Fawn. Castle on a Hill. The Visegrad Group, regionalism, and the remaking of Europe. Washing...

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Calling 📣Authors and Reviewers📣who need to update their affiliation/contact details on our database. Email me with your new details👇 jcesEdAssist@gmail.com Mary Cenci
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Article online👇 A narrative analysis of the memory-emotion nexus: Germany’s ontological security and foreign policy Beyza Çağatay Tekin & Yusuf Gökhan Atak👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A narrative analysis of the memory-emotion nexus: Germany’s ontological security and foreign policy

Using a multi-layered approach and an ontological security perspective, this article examines qualitative data from Bundestag plenary sittings and interviews with political elites to identify speci...

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Book Review online 👇 Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine Denys Gorbach👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Published in Journal of Contemporary European Studies (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2026)

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Article online👇 International political economy of Türkiye-Russia relations: three asymmetries Serhan Ünal👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

International political economy of Türkiye-Russia relations: three asymmetries

This article examines the international political economy of Türkiye-Russia relations by identifying three asymmetries in their bilateral interactions. These are: the primacy of geo-economics over ...

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Article online 👇 Continuity amidst crisis? Examining the state-market nexus in the EU gas sector pre- and post- 2022 invasion of Ukraine Moniek de Jong👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Continuity amidst crisis? Examining the state-market nexus in the EU gas sector pre- and post- 2022...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine marked a pivotal moment in the EU gas market, breaking long-standing energy ties with Russia. Research suggests that the crisis also reshaped the dynamics between st...

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Article online👇 Narrating Europe’s future history through collective memory and emotions: the EU and NATO’s enlargement decisions after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Özlem Terzi & Seda Gürkan👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Narrating Europe’s future history through collective memory and emotions: the EU and NATO’s...

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU granted candidacy status to Ukraine, Moldova, and later Georgia. NATO decided to expand to Finland and Sweden. In this article, we explain how...

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