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Vol. 29/4: Analysing biofuels, hydropower, wind, nuclear and solar, Sarah Bufano explores whether there are new opportunities for EU-Brazil cooperation in renewable energy to meet the Strategic Partnership’s objectives. 👉 tinyurl.com/3r6m9jvf

Natasha Georgio uses the new dynamics of EU-Russia energy relations, following the invasion of Ukraine, to engage in a theoretical debate about the conceptualizations of the EU as a liberal actor versus the perception of the EU as a realist actor. 👉 tinyurl.com/2y8nrpms

@MarineBardou1 distinguishes 6 practices + 3 types of EP-Commission interactions in negotiating int’l agreements to demonstrate the value of analysing inter-institutional dynamics, rather than focusing solely on the perspective of the EP’s assertion. 👉 tinyurl.com/47fjh82v

Prof. Elaine @faheye examines the EU-US Trade and Technology Council’s overtly legalistic framing yet heavily delegalized outcomes using soft law to raise questions about the place of global law-making goals in the complex transatlantic relationship 👉 tinyurl.com/35twxa2p

Tessa Sophie Hoffmann examines the complications of the new EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation’s interaction with state aid law & WTO subsidy law. She evaluates the German Monopoly Commission’s proposal to identify potential solutions for these challenges 👉 tinyurl.com/mthxy5zm

Dr @viktorszep @univgroningen shows that, since the ‘geopolitical Commission’, the traditional legal boundaries of the CFSP and the CCP have been blurred to the extent that it no longer makes sense to draw a strict line between these external policies. 👉 tinyurl.com/3traajfc

The pre-publication of Issue 4 is out online, prefaced by Zagreb University Professor Iris Goldner’s editorial. 👉 kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle…

Vol 29/SI: @Mariusz_Antonow argues, inter alia, that the @EU_Commission, together with Lithuania’s main allies, imposed an interpretation of EU sanctions against Russia that left the 🇱🇹-🇷🇺 border more open than Vilnius had wished for: tinyurl.com/2drwajca

Social (dis)trust. In Vol 29/SI Katarzyna @Stokłosa3 examines how post-WW2 slowly acquired cross-border contacts & co-operation across the EU’s longest border 🇫🇮 with Russia were quickly lost after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine 👉 tinyurl.com/2fd7zhjb

The Russian-speaking & economically challenged region of Latgale🇱🇻 is often seen as a flashpoint for 🇷🇺 destabilisation. @Maris_Andzans studies Latgale’s transformation since 2022 from an almost ordinary borderland to a frontline region: tinyurl.com/yc55ucke 📸 ©A. Rampazzo

Vol 29/SI: Prof Andrey Makarychev & @GlebYarovoy find that the vernacular geopolitics of Russian speakers living in Narva 🇪🇪 & 🇫🇮 is changing from subaltern to oppositional geopolitics in order to acquire political agency in the borderlands they inhabit 👉tinyurl.com/54tub87p

As part of the Special Issue about the impact of the war in Ukraine on Europe-Russia borderlands, Dr. @BKartveit guides the reader through the 🇳🇴Norwegian town of Kirkenes to re-imagine cross-border relations in the high North 👉 tinyurl.com/2yfznh8y

Vol 29/SI explores the implications of Russia’s war on 🇺🇦 on the borderlands from 🇳🇴to🇱🇹: transformation into a zone of confrontation, impacting cross-border interactions, regional security & normative frameworks. Eds: Profs Makarychev, Stoklosa & Yarovoy: tinyurl.com/4tce744t

Issue 3: Do third states have access to the ECJ in order to seek annulment of an EU legal act that potentially violates their international agreement with the EU? @BrackeMatthias analyses the Venezuela v. Council judgment 👉 tinyurl.com/mrexbmrx

Issue 3: Towards a ‘Eurodeterrent’? @W_Verstraete argues that as the world is entering an era of nuclear disorder, Europeans should start a strategic dialogue on the necessity of nuclear weapons without undermining transatlantic relations 👉 tinyurl.com/325scuwf

Issue 3: Laura Govaert @ugent analyses the European Commission’s trade and sustainable development (TSD) discourse over the past 20 yrs and concludes that it enabled neocolonial practices to become deeper and more prevalent 👉 tinyurl.com/yhkzestn

Issue 3: Prof Fulvio Attinà & Associate Prof Marcello Carammia @unict_it assess the views of EU foreign policymakers on rules-based order, multipolarity & multilateralism to understand the EU’s position in the current transition phase of global order 👉 tinyurl.com/yvxtdrts