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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Euroscepticism? Relaunching the Conceptual Debate About a Contested Term 当我们谈论欧洲怀疑主义时，我们在谈论什么？重新启动关于有争议术语的概念辩论

Contemporary European Politics Pub Date : 2025-11-26 DOI: 10.1002/cep4.70026

Patrick Bijsmans, Luca Mancin

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Peaceful Cooperation and Reluctant Europeanisation in the Border Region of Schleswig 石勒苏益格边境地区的和平合作与不情愿的欧洲化

Contemporary European Politics Pub Date : 2025-10-13 DOI: 10.1002/cep4.70020

Steen Bo Frandsen

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The Partnership Principle in Times of Crisis: Between Europeanisation and (Dis-) Integration of Subnational Government 危机时期的伙伴关系原则：在欧洲化与地方政府（非）一体化之间

Contemporary European Politics Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1002/cep4.70025

Marius Guderjan, Mario Kölling

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Cross-Border Horizontal Europeanization From a Municipal Perspective: The Example of the German-French-Luxembourg Border Region Saarlorlux 城市视角下的跨界横向欧洲化：以德国-法国-卢森堡边境地区萨罗勒克斯为例

Contemporary European Politics Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1002/cep4.70024

Julia Dittel, Florian Weber

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European Green Industrial Policy at a Crossroads? A Pilot Set of Conjoint Experiments Among Policy Experts 欧洲绿色产业政策走到了十字路口？一套政策专家联合试验的试点

Contemporary European Politics Pub Date : 2025-09-28 DOI: 10.1002/cep4.70022

Francesco Nicoli, Marie-Sophie Lappe

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Political Contestation Through Salience? Parliamentary Written Questions on Turkey in the European Parliament (2009–2024) 通过突出表现进行政治竞争？欧洲议会关于土耳其的书面提问（2009-2024）

Contemporary European Politics Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1002/cep4.70021

Yunus Barış Ertürk

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The Securitization and Eurocentric Narratives in the European Union's Climate Policy and Diplomacy 欧盟气候政策与外交中的证券化与欧洲中心叙事

Contemporary European Politics Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/cep4.70019

Amlan Mishra

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European Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Bridging Uncertainty With Evidence-Informed Policy Making 欧洲人工智能治理：以证据为依据的政策制定弥合不确定性

Contemporary European Politics Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1002/cep4.70016

Richard von Maydell

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Softly Does It? Changing Patterns of Opposition to European Integration in Ireland 温柔吗？爱尔兰反对欧洲一体化的模式变化

Contemporary European Politics Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1002/cep4.70014

Michael Holmes, Kathryn Simpson

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Progressive and Far-Right Parties: Between Demands for and Supply of Civic Political Engagement—Qualitative-Comparative Case Study of Poland 进步与极右翼政党：公民政治参与的需求与供给之间——波兰定性比较案例研究

Contemporary European Politics Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1002/cep4.70018

Anna Pacześniak, Maciej Bachryj

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