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AbstractAt the current stage of confrontation, interintegration mechanisms are a relevant topic of research, driven by the continuing academic need for a comprehensive political science study of the specifics of relations between the EU and the EaP countries, taking into account the cases of Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. Long-standing political, economic, cultural, and human ties have always underpinned our understanding of the need to ensure European security and stability as a guarantee of the well-being of the EaP countries. This understanding is especially important in conflict situations, when the political elite of the EaP countries has consciously and firmly chosen to actively integrate into the European and global community, as repeatedly stated by the political leadership of these countries. Recently, cooperation between the EaP countries, both with pan-European organizations and with individual European countries, has reached a qualitatively new level and is supported by concrete steps in domestic and foreign policy. This is evidenced by the regular holding of important multilateral and bilateral meetings and negotiations in recent years, including at the highest level, within the EU, OSCE, Council of Europe, and other continental forums. The documents and decisions adopted during these meetings have made it possible to begin building a fundamentally new system of collective security both in Europe and in the EaP countries. Furthermore, cooperation between the EaP countries, the United States, and NATO and EU member states, along with a shared commitment to protecting the world from war, military invasion, and threats, significantly contributed to the improvement of not only bilateral relations but also relations between the EaP countries and the West. Moreover, the very fact of holding negotiations on such key issues as ending war and nuclear deterrence once again demonstrated to the world that the EU and the United States truly strive to become equal strategic partners, recognizing their responsibility for the fate of the world and its security. Therefore, the heads of state, politicians, diplomats, and military personnel who were members of the negotiating delegations sought to ensure maximum and guaranteed security for their countries without infringing on the interests and priorities of their allies and partners, taking into account their opinions, wishes, and proposals. During these negotiations, a new model for the negotiation process itself began to emerge, one that could serve as an example and basis for shaping relations between the EaP countries and other states, primarily European ones. This model is not burdened by narrow-mindedness, mutual mistrust, and outdated approaches, but is aimed exclusively at solving specific problems within established deadlines.
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Challenges of the European Union’s engagement in strategic conflict resolution in the Eastern Partnership region: The cases of Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine
AbstractThis article analyses the EU’s engagement in conflict resolution and peacebuilding in its Eastern Neighbourhood, which is undergoing political transformation. The article highlights that, initially focusing on diplomatic efforts and development assistance, the EU has gradually deepened its engagement in response to the increasing complexity of regional conflicts. In the Eastern Partnership countries, the EU has deployed a range of instruments, from political dialogue and economic sanctions to financial assistance and civilian missions, aimed at stabilising the region and promoting long-term peace. The effectiveness of such EU strategies varies in a number of ways, reflecting the diverse political landscapes and challenges faced by each EaP country. This article analyses three separate case studies to examine the EU’s conflict resolution and peacebuilding strategies. Each of these studies provides a nuanced understanding of EU conflict resolution and peacebuilding strategies in different geopolitical and conflict contexts. In this regard, Georgia’s significant involvement in European integration processes is highlighted, which underscores Georgia’s strategic importance for the EU in promoting democratic governance and regional stability. The article also examines the role of the EU in Georgia’s political and security sector reforms and conflict prevention. The article also examines the geopolitical dimensions of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the context of Armenia’s European integration processes and Armenia’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union. The article analyzes the role of the EU in Ukraine, in particular, after the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s invasion in 2022, which shows a significant shift towards a more proactive and interventionist stance. A comparative analysis of the Ukrainian case provides an opportunity to gain insight into the EU’s strategies to stabilize the Eastern Partnership region, support state-building, and overcome the broader geopolitical consequences of the conflict.
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Regional dimension of geopolitical processes of defense capacity and diplomatic support of the statehoods of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in 1919: A new look at history
AbstractThe article provides a comparative analysis of the geopolitical situation in Transcaucasia during the period of 1919, when Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan declared their independence and began nation-building and state-building. The author focuses on the regional dimension of the geopolitical processes of 1919, arguing for the existential significance of issues of defense capability and diplomatic support for their new statehoods of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Based on the analysis of archival and diplomatic documents, as well as periodical press materials, the article determines the positions of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the formation of independent states. In this context, the article argues the main causes of ethno-territorial contradictions and the role of the Entente states. Based on historical facts, the author comes to the conclusion that, having given priority to issues of delimitation and demarcation in the formation of their own statehood, the Transcaucasian countries relied more on the arbitration of the Entente countries, without seeking to resolve the issue themselves.
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Yemelianova, Galina M. 2023. “The De Facto State of Nagorno-Karabakh: Historical and Geopolitical Perspectives.” Europe-Asia Studies 75 (8): 1336-1359. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2023.2214708.
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Regional Policy
Water Insecurity in the South Caucasus: A Hydro-Strategic Assessment of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
AbstractThe intersection of water security and geopolitical tensions in the South Caucasus is nowhere more evident than in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. This article provides a comparative analysis of the hydrostrategic aspects of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, emphasizing the duality of water resources as a source of conflict and a potential unifying force. Control over river basins such as the Kura-Araks River and the Sarsang Reservoir, vital for both countries, has become a top priority for Armenia and Azerbaijan. In this regard, the Kura-Araks River basin, which supplies vital water resources to both countries, has often been the source of confrontation and struggle for control, determining not only military strategies but also economic and political stability. Similarly, the Sarsang Reservoir, located in the conflict zone, symbolizes a hydropolitical struggle, where access to water determines the survival of local communities and regional security as a whole. Using a hydrostrategic approach, this article examines the multifaceted impact of water scarcity, control over infrastructure, and climate vulnerability on the escalation of hostilities. The potential of water diplomacy and the possibility that shared water resources will ultimately foster cooperation rather than conflict between these two regional powers is also considered.
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Hajihoseini, Mohammadreza, Saeid Morid, Samad Emamgholizadeh et al. 2023. “Conflict and cooperation in Aras International Rivers Basin: status, trend, and future.” Sustainable Water Resources Management 9 (28). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-022-00799-7
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The difficult European path to settling Russian-Georgian relations in post-election Georgia in 2024: a rollback on European integration or the unacceptability of confrontation
AbstractThe article analyzes the trends in the settlement of Russian-Georgian relations after the parliamentary elections in Georgia on October 26, 2024. Attention is paid to how the ruling Georgian Dream party won, as well as to why Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili and the opposition parties refused to recognize the results of the parliamentary elections, calling for civil unrest and protests. The article examines the trends in the settlement of Russian-Georgian relations after 2024 as the beginning of the formation of a new track, which is significantly influenced by historical memory and the Russian war against Ukraine since 2022. In this sense, the Georgian ruling elite actively uses and periodically weaves all this into the modern political agenda, trying to get its domestic and foreign policy dividends. The article notes that the Georgian elite, since the transition of the ruling Georgian Dream party, has begun to create a reality in which a new fundamental historical narrative was formed by returning to the supposedly forgotten past. In this context, the basic actions in implementing this policy are Georgia's transition to a pro-Georgian development course and a demonstrative rejection of its previous orientation toward the EU and European integration.
ReferencesBeacháin, Donnacha Ó. 2025. “Courting Europe: Diplomatic Battlegrounds and the Georgian–Abkhazian Conflict.” Irish Studies in International Affairs 36 (2): 178-218. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/isia.2025.a962916.
Blakkisrud, Helge, Nino Kemoklidze, Tamta Gelashvili, and Pål Kolstø. 2020. “Navigating de Facto Statehood: Trade, Trust, and Agency in Abkhazia’s External Economic Relations.” Eurasian Geography and Economics 62 (3): 347-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2020.1861957.
Civil Georgia. 2020. “Parliament Adopts Foreign Policy Resolution.” December 29, 2020. Accessed March 27, 2025. https://civil.ge/archives/389351.
Civil Georgia. 2023a. “Reactions to Transfer of Occupied Abkhazia’s Bichvinta Dacha to Russia.” December 27, 2023. Accessed March 27, 2025. https://civil.ge/archives/575845.
Civil Georgia. 2023b. “IRI Poll Shows Strong Support of Georgian Citizens for EU and NATO Membership.” November 16, 2023. Accessed March 27, 2025. https://civil.ge/archives/569681.
Euronews. 2024. “Unrest erupts in Abkhazia after opponents of Russian 'investments' agreement are detained.” November 12, 2024. Accessed March 27, 2025. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/11/12/unrest-erupts-in-abkhazia-after-opponents-of-russian-investments-agreement-are-detained.
European Parliament. 2024. European Parliament resolution of 9 October 2024 on the democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia (2024/2822(RSP)). 9 October 2024. Accessed March 27, 2025. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2024-0017_EN.html.
Gabrichidze, Gaga. 2021. “Chapter 10 The Legal Systems of Georgia’s Breakaway Regions: International and European Considerations.” In: Unrecognized Entities: Perspectives in International, European and Constitutional Law, edited by Benedikt C. Harzl and Roman Petrov, 229-248. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004499102_012.
German, Tracey. 2016. “Russia and South Ossetia: Conferring Statehood or Creeping Annexation?” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 16 (1): 155-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2016.1148411.
Hille, Charlotte. 2010. “9. The Recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A New Era in International Law.” In: Exploring the Caucasus in the 21st Century: Essays on Culture, History and Politics in a Dynamic Context, edited by Françoise Companjen, László Marácz, and Lia Versteegh, 195-210. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048511624-012.
Hopmann, Philip Terrence. 2025. Operational Conflict Prevention in Georgia—South Ossetia and Abkhazia, 1991–2008. In: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe at 50: Conflict Management During and After the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 259-275. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86916-7_14.
Hosaka, Sanshiro. 2025. A Mountain to Climb: Russia’s Influence in the South Caucasus and EU Policy Options.” International Centre for Defence and Security. Accessed March 27, 2025. https://icds.ee/static/icds_report_a_mountain_to_climb_sanshiro_hosaka_january_2025.pdf.
House of Commons. 2024. “The impact of Georgia’s ‘foreign influence’ law.” 16 October, 2024. Accessed March 27, 2025. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10047/.
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Jones, Stephen. 2025. “The People vs Georgian Dream: Who Will Win in 2025?” Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, January 21, 2025. Accessed March 27, 2025. https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/insights/people-vs-georgian-dream-who-will-win-2025.
Kikalishvili, Shalva. 2023. “Russian Intervention in the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict: A History of Tensions and Turmoil.” Cogent Arts & Humanities 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2023.2220216.
MFA of the RF. 2024a. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the High-Level Week of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, New York, September 28, 2024. https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1972854/.
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Miklasová, Júlia. 2024. Chapter 13. Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In: Secession in International Law with a Special Reference to the Post-Soviet Space. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp. 479-528. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004702646_020.
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Potier, Tim. 2001b. “Chapter 7. South Ossetia.” In: Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp. 133-141. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004478169_011.
Selivanova, Galina. 2025. “Election Monitoring Civil Society Organizations in Georgia in Times of Democratization and Autocratization.” In: Strategic Disputes in the Black Sea Region: European vs. Regional Perspectives, edited by Wolfram Hilz, and Shushanik Minasyan-Ostermann, 195-232. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-46531-5_11.
Solovyov, Vladimir. 2024. “With a Controversial New Law, Georgia Invites Bids From Russia and the EU.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, June 5, 2024. Accessed March 27, 2025. https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2024/05/georgia-russia-vs-west?lang=en.
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Tsurtsumia, Zura. 2024. “The Issue of Confederation and the Restoration of Territorial Integrity in Georgian, Abkhazian, Ossetian, and Russian Official and Public Discussions” Social Justice Center, December 19, 2024. Accessed March 27, 2025. https://socialjustice.org.ge/en/products/konfederatsiisa-da-teritoriuli-mtlianobis-aghdgenis-sakitkhi-kartul-afkhazur-osur-da-rusul-ofitsialur-da-sazogadoebriv-diskusiebshi.
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Security Policy
The cost of commitment: Understanding the Iran's Intervention in the Israel-Hamas War
AbstractUsing the concept of commitment trap, this article makes the argument that Iran’s indirect war support to the Palestinian Hamas militant group in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war in 2023-2024 should be explained primarily based on the Islamic Republic’s public commitment to Palestinian armed struggle against Israel. This article explains that the need to avoid the costs of abandoning its commitment to support Palestinian armed struggle compelled Iran to provide military support to Palestinian militant forces in Gaza through using its Lebanese proxy group of Hezbollah group to attack Israel from Lebanon despite the Hezbollah’s lack of preparedness to engage in a war with Israel. Thus, the defeat of Hezbollah in the resultant war with Israel weakened the Iran’s own military defense in Syria against Syrian armed opposition. As a result of this power shift, the HTS-led armed opposition succeeded in overthrowing the Iran-backed Assad government in a short war which also ended the Iran’s military-political influence in the country.
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Iran’s political factors towards Afghan refugees: trends of ethnonational consolidation and changing priorities of regionalism
AbstractThe relevance of this article’s research topic lies in the complex multi-polar factors of Iran’s policy toward Afghan refugees. Its significance is predetermined by the scale and nature of Afghan refugees and labor migrants in Iran due to the explosive conflict and political instability. The article notes that, despite a number of ethnonational issues, Iranian authorities still demonstrate confidence that Afghans educated in Iran are already capable of forming a stratum that can play a significant role in the reconstruction of modern Afghanistan. At the same time, it is important to consider the impact of globalization and regionalization on the development of Iranian and Afghan multi-ethnic societies. In this context, we observe how, even despite certain successes of globalization in terms of social and economic progress, these countries are facing fierce resistance to societal modernization; they are retreating, returning to their traditional positions. This resistance appears to be deeply rooted in the very nature of their cultures. This is precisely why, in the current context of the transformation of the global community and the emergence of a new system of international relations, the complex nature of ethnonational processes and the specific nature of relations between Iran and Afghanistan, which are drawn into this process, are of primary concern. The current stage of global development is characterized by the emergence of new values, new orientations, and the formation of a unified social and spiritual global space linking diverse cultures and peoples. At the same time, opposing trends in the search for self-identification in a globalizing world and the desire of peoples to preserve their uniqueness and distinctiveness, expressed in culture, language, religion, and the revival of national traditions, are becoming significant.
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The Impact of Armed Conflicts on Climate Change: Perceptions of Environmental Security and the Search for Ways to Overcome These Risks
AbstractThis article analyzes the impact of armed conflicts on climate change, as well as the perception of environmental security and the search for ways to overcome these risks. Currently, issues related to environmental security and climate change are becoming a particularly significant item on the global political agenda. Modern societies have already witnessed such global phenomena and processes as large-scale natural disasters such as floods, droughts, fires, temperature fluctuations, and hurricanes; the depletion of vital natural resources essential to society; and changes in such vital indicators as the ozone layer, atmospheric gas composition, radiation pollution, and other dramatic changes in the biosphere. In this regard, this article analyzes the impact of war and military conflict on climate change over the past decade. It addresses the following questions: Do wars and conflicts accelerate the impacts of climate change? Why don’t governments mention wars and conflicts as important causes of global warming? To answer these questions, the article describes the increasing number of climate change events that are correlated with war and climate change. To this end, it reveals the lack of interest of national governments in raising awareness of the impact of wars and conflicts on climate change, and finally, some concluding comments are offered.
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Yerushalmy, Jonathan. 2023. “Nova Kakhovka dam: everything you need to know about Ukraine’s strategically important reservoir.” The Guardian, June 6, 2023. Accessed May 21, 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/nova-kakhovka-dam-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ukraines-strategically-important-reservoir.
Gender Politics
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Gender Politics
Gender Dimensions of Verbal Aggression in Modern Media and Political Discourse: Cult of Violence or Playing with Aggressive Content?
AbstractThe article examines gender stereotypes and speech aggression in political discourse, reflecting generalized judgments about the qualities and properties inherent in men and women, and the differences between them in the modern information society. This study is devoted to gender differences in the manifestation of aggression in political television debates, thereby revealing gender differences in aggressive behavior, stereotypes and features of linguistic manifestations, as well as communicative strategies present in the speeches and television debates of female and male politicians.
This article analyzes the problems of gender stereotypes in the modern information society, the academic significance of which is associated with the need to study the factors of political culture and discourse. In this sense, the analysis of the nature of political power, its resources and methods of its legitimacy have not been sufficiently studied in terms of the role of political, social and cultural discourse in maintaining gender stereotypes and the gender agenda of the modern information society. In social terms, the relevance of the problem is associated with the need to study those resources of political power that do not involve open violence, but, nevertheless, act as an effective means of social control and a tool actively used, in particular, in political struggle.
The implementation of a political analysis of the role of gender stereotypes in the modern information society involved studying their properties, content and functions, identifying the conditions and reasons that allow them to act as a factor in political relations and social inequality.
ReferencesAkhtar, Parveen, Anne Jenichen, and Hannah Intezar. 2024. “Gender, Religion, and Political Violence: Lessons from Muslim Women’s Experiences in UK Elections.” Politics & Gender 20 (4): 834-857. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X24000175.
Bennett, Aronté Marie, Rachel A. Connor, Morgan M. Bryant, and Sue McFarland Metzger. 2024. “What is she wearing and how does he lead?: An examination of gendered stereotypes in the public discourse around women political candidates.” Technological Forecasting and Social Change 205 (August): 123454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123454.
Carmines, Edward G., Eric R. Schmidt, and Matthew R. Fowler. 2022. “Clarifying Our Populist Moment(s): Right-Wing and Left-Wing Populism in the 2016 Presidential Election.” In: The Palgrave Handbook of Populism, edited by Michael Oswald, 579-608. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80803-7_36.
Crosbie, Thomas. 2025. “The Rise of Trump: Candidate Trump’s Use of National Security Advisors, June 2015-November 2016.” Society 62: 346-362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-025-01081-0.
Gerrits, Bailey, Linda Trimble, Angelia Wagner, Daisy Raphael, and Shannon Sampert. 2017. “Political Battlefield: Aggressive Metaphors, Gender, and Power in News Coverage of Canadian Party Leadership Contests.” Feminist Media Studies 17 (6): 1088-1103. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1315734.
Greaves, Lorraine. 2025. “How Could a Gender Transformative Lens Foster the Integration of Sex/Gender into More Equitable Policy and Practice?.” In: Sex and Gender: Toward Transforming Scientific Practice, edited by L. Zachary DuBois, Anelis Kaiser Trujillo, and Margaret M. McCarthy, 285-310. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91371-6_14.
Håkansson, Sandra, and Michal Grahn. 2025. “The Cost of Debating Harassment Against Politicians: Are Women and Men Affected Equally?.” Political Behavior: 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-025-10039-1.
Hargrave, Lotte, and Jack Blumenau. 2022. “No Longer Conforming to Stereotypes? Gender, Political Style and Parliamentary Debate in the UK.” British Journal of Political Science 52 (4): 1584-1601. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123421000648.
Hargrave, Lotte. 2023. “A Double Standard? Gender Bias in Voters’ Perceptions of Political Arguments.” British Journal of Political Science 53 (2): 327-345. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123422000515.
Hopkins, Daniel J., and Gall Sigler. 2025. “Not of Primary Concern: Assessing Ideological Voting Over Time in U.S. Primaries, 2008-2024.” Political Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-025-10046-2.
Jardina, Ashley, and Trent Ollerenshaw. 2025. “White Racial Polarization Before and After the Election of Donald Trump.” In: The Changing Character of the American Right, Volume I: Ideology, Politics and Policy in the Era of Trump, edited by Joel D. Aberbach, Bruce E. Cain, Desmond King, and Gillian Peele, 191-221. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73168-6_8.
Knyazyan, Anna, and Liza Marabyan. 2023. “Gender differences in verbal and nonverbal aggression.” Armenian Folia Anglistika 19 (1 (27): 57-68. https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2023.19.1.057.
Knyazyan, Anna, and Varduhi Hakobyan. 2018. “Language and Gender in Political Discourse”. Armenian Folia Anglistika 14 (1-2 (18): 62-70. https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2018.14.1-2.062.
Leonora, Anna Maria, Augusto Gamuzza, Alessandra Scieri, and Gabriele Caruso. 2025. “Genderising Radicalisation: Forms and Pathways of Radicalisation from a Perspective of Gender.” In: Social Roots of Violent Extremism: Pathways and Trends in Europe, edited by Liana Maria Daher, Francesco Antonelli, and Valeria Rosato, 121-132. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93421-6_8.
McDermott, Rose. 2020. “The role of gender in political violence.” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 34 (August): 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.09.003.
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Reneses, María, María Riberas-Gutiérrez, and Nereida Bueno-Guerra. 2025. ““It’s just a joke”: gender, sexuality and trivialisation in adolescent online violence such as cyberhate, cyberbullying, and online grooming.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12 (740): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04928-3.
Roberts, Damon C., and Stephen Utych. 2022. “A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions.” American Politics Research 50 (3): 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X211064884.
Shitrit, Lihi Ben, Julia Elad-Strenger, and Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler. 2017. “Gender Differences in Support for Direct and Indirect Political Aggression in the Context of Protracted Conflict.” Journal of Peace Research 54 (6): 733-747. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48590470.
Van der Pas, Daphne Joanna, and Loes Aaldering. 2020. “Gender Differences in Political Media Coverage: A Meta-Analysis.” Journal of Communication 70 (1), February: 114-143. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqz046.
Weidhase, Nathalie. 2024. ““I Took a Dump on the Glass Ceiling”: Veep, Incompetence, and Populist Political Culture.” In: Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism, edited by Ellie Tomsett, Nathalie Weidhase, and Poppy Wilde, 215-236. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49576-2_10.
Book Review
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Book Review
Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2025. XXXIII, 617 pp.
AbstractThis book explores one of the central issues in contemporary international relations and, simultaneously, the confrontation between Russia and the West: the eastward expansion of the EU. Globally, the eastward expansion of the EU holds the potential for the EU to emerge as a new pole of global politics, capable of significantly influencing the balance of power in the modern world. Regionally, the latest wave of EU enlargement, which has included post-socialist European states, could be decisive in establishing a new type of interstate relations on the continent and in determining the extent to which Eastern European and Baltic countries adapt to EU standards and norms. In other words, it could have a direct impact on reform processes in post-Soviet and post-communist countries. For Eastern European countries, analyzing this process is important not only for determining prospects for further development within the EU political system or for the Eastern Partnership countries. This book analyzes the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe following the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s ongoing, aggressive, full-scale war against Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022. In this context, the authors of various chapters in this book examine the economic, social, institutional, and political instability in the countries of the eastern part of the EU.
ReferencesCrombois, Jean F. 2025. “Resilience and Transformation in the Eastern Neighborhood After the War in Ukraine.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 465-483. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_17.
Dîrdală, Lucian-Dumitru. 2025. “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the EU’s Enhanced Profile in Its New Eastern Neighbourhood.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 357-387. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_13.
Gerasymchuk, Sergiy. 2025. “The Eastern Partnership and the Idea of Europeanisation Challenged in the Age of Hybrid Challenges.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 423-437. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_15.
Holovko-Havrysheva, Oksana. 2025. “Legal and Regulatory Approximation as a Resilience-Ensuring Instrument for Stabilization of the Ukrainian Legal System on the Road to Full Membership in the EU.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 485-521. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_18.
Kruglashov, Anatoliy. 2025. “A Long Way From Ghost of the Failed State to Resistance and Resilience: The Case of Ukraine.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 523-547. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_19.
Maha, LG., Liviu-George, and Oana-Ramona Socoliuc (Guriță). 2025. “EaP Countries at the Crossroads of Ukrainian War and Refugee Crisis: An Economic Analysis.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 109-133. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_5.
Muntele, Ionel, and Alexandru Bănică. 2025. “Migration, Resilience, and Territorial Capital at the Eastern EU Borders of Romania.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 219-241. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_9.
Nitoiu, Cristian. 2025. “The EU’s Approach in the Eastern Neighbourhood in the Context of Growing Instability in the World Order.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 439-463. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_16.
Onofrei, Mihaela, Florin Oprea, and Elena Cigu. 2025. “Reforming Public Administration and Governance Systems in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: What Role for European Neighbourhood Policy?.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 243-267. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_10.
Pascariu, Gabriela Carmen, and Irina Clipca. 2025. “Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Conclusions.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 573-577. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_21.
Pascariu, Gabriela Carmen. 2025. “Resilience: From Theoretical Thinking to a New Paradigm and Normative Approaches in EU’ Foreign and Security Policy.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 17-46. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_2.
Pintilescu, Carmen, and Elena-Daniela Viorica. 2025. “A Vulnerability Analysis of the Eastern Partnership’s Countries’ Exposure to Geopolitical Risks.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 135-161. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_6.
Poz˙arlik, Grzegorz. 2025. “Conceptualising Geopolitical Securitisation of Resilience-Building in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 197-215. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_8.
Rouet, Gilles, and Thierry Côme. 2025. “Politics, Environment of EU and Organizations, Which Resilience?” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 47-72. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_3.
Rouet, Gilles. 2025. “Introduction: Indispensable Resilience.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 1-14. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_1.
Schäffer, Sebastian. 2025. “Transforming the European Neighbourhood: From the Eastern Partnership to a “Greater European Council”.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 549-572. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_20.
Socoliuc (Guriță), Oana-Ramona, and Liviu-George Maha. 2025. “An Economic Outlook of the EaP Countries in the Context of Covid Experience.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 73-107. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_4.
Terem, Peter, and Radovan Gura. 2025. “Participation of the Slovak Republic in Fulfilling Geostrategic Interests of the EU: The Example of Ukraine.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 317-355. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_12.
Ţigănaşu, Ramona, Ema Corodescu-Roşca, and Anatolie Cărbune. 2025. “Institutional Frameworks in Intricate Times and the Path Toward EU Integration of Eastern Partnership and Western Balkans Countries.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 269-315. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_11.
van Gils, Eske. 2025. “Whose Resilience? Increased Resilience and Regime Strength in EU-Azerbaijan Relations, from 2009 to 2023.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 389-419. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_14.
Wojakowski, Dariusz. 2025. “Resilience, At Last! Multiculturalism of the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland in the Face of Pandemic and War.” In: Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Crisis, Transformations and Policies, edited by Gilles Rouet, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, 163-195. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73379-6_7.
