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‘Europe and the Rest’ in Official EU Discourse: Legitimising ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Through the ‘Jungle’ Analogy and Beyond 欧盟官方话语中的“欧洲和其他地区”：通过“丛林”类比及超越使“地缘政治欧洲”合法化

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Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13770

Münevver Cebeci

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Contested Alliances: A Contrapuntal Reading of European (Global) Gender Agendas 有争议的联盟：欧洲（全球）性别议程的对位解读

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Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13773

Nora Fisher-Onar, David Gazsi, Sarah Wolff

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Decentring European Foreign Policy Analysis: Towards a Paradigmatic Shift 分散的欧洲外交政策分析：走向范式转变

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Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-22 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13766

Stephan Keukeleire, Sharon Lecocq

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EUropean Identity Construction After the Russian Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others 俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰后的欧洲身份建构：自我与他者的对话（再）建构

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Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-15 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13760

Kateryna Pishchikova

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Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War 地缘政治，安全和弹性。第二次纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫战争后欧盟介入亚美尼亚事务的女权主义批判

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Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13761

Laura Luciani

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Global Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the European Union in Times of Dissensus Over LGBT Equality 全球酷儿斗争：LGBT平等分歧时期欧盟的规范理论

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Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13758

Malte Breiding

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Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union's Global Role 走向多元化的盟友关系？欧盟全球角色的批判性视角

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Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13763

Dimitris Bouris, Nora Fisher-Onar, Daniela Verena Huber

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Aid as Pacification: The Encroachment of Counterterrorism Clauses into the Aid Regime of the European Union in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 援助即绥靖：反恐怖主义条款对欧盟在巴勒斯坦被占领土援助制度的侵蚀

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Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13762

Mariam Salameh-Puvogel

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Towards a Critical Democracy Promotion Agenda? Liminal Allyship in EU–Tunisian Relations 迈向关键的民主促进议程？欧盟与突尼斯关系中的有限同盟关系

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Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13756

Larbi Sadiki, Layla Saleh

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The Return of the Repressed: The Colonial History of the EU's Geopolitical Turn 被压迫者的回归：欧盟地缘政治转向的殖民史

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Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13757

Peo Hansen

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