Dr Cristian Surubaru has guest edited a Special Issue (SI) of the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) on the topic of the East-West divide within the European Union (2024, Volume 31, Issue 3).
He has co-edited this SI together with Clara Volintiru (Bucharest University of Economic Studies), Rachel Epstein (University of Denver) and Adam Fagan (King’s College London).
JEPP is one of the most influential outlets in the world in the area Political Science, Public Administration, and European Studies.
Date posted
20 February 2024
Dr Cristian Surubaru has guest edited a Special Issue (SI) of the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) on the topic of the East-West divide within the European Union (2024, Volume 31, Issue 3).
He has co-edited this SI together with Clara Volintiru (Bucharest University of Economic Studies), Rachel Epstein (University of Denver) and Adam Fagan (King’s College London).
JEPP is one of the most influential outlets in the world in the area Political Science, Public Administration, and European Studies.
The Special Issue brings together several renowned political science, sociology, and international relations scholars to investigate the sources, variation, and nature of cultural, (geo)political, and cross-border economic divisions found within the European Union.
The authors call for more resolve from European Institutions in terms of striving for more political accountability and in dealing with socio-economic inequalities across and within EU countries, as to improve Europe’s internal and external governance.
The full line up of the SI is the following:
1. Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European
Union by Clara Volintiru, Neculai-Cristian Surubaru, Rachel A. Epstein and Adam Fagan.
2. Cultural liberalism in Eastern and Western Europe: societal antidote to democratic backsliding? by Aurelia Ananda (Royal Holloway University of London) and James Dawson (Coventry University).
3. Is there an East–West divide on democracy in the European Union? Evidence from democratic backsliding and attitudes towards rule of law interventions by Ulrich Sedelmeier (London School of Economics and Political Science).
4. Core-periphery divisions in the EU? East-west and north-south tensions compared by Laszlo Bruszt (Central European University) and Visnja Vukov (Universität Wien).
5. Economic nationalists, regional investment aid, and the stability of FDI-led growth in East Central Europe by Gergő Medve-Bálint (Corvinus University of Budapest) & Andrea Éltető (HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest).
6. External democracy promotion in times of internal rule-of-law crisis: the EU and its neighbourhood by Olga Burlyuk (University of Amsterdam), Assem Dandashly (Maastricht University) and Gergana Noutcheva (Maastricht University).
Most articles are free to access and are available here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/current