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Issue 1\Volume 59, 2024

"Re-imagining EU Foreign and Security Policy in a Complex and Contested World"

Guest Editors: Riccardo Alcaro and Hylke Dijkstra

“The European Union (EU) increasingly formulates and implements foreign and security policy under the constraints of internal contestation, regional fragmentation and multipolar competition. While such contextual challenges can inhibit the EU from adopting an ambitious foreign and security policy, this Special Issue shows that the EU and its member states have developed ways of mitigating their impact…”

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Find the Table of Contents below for your convenience:

Essay

• Re-imagining EU Foreign and Security Policy in a Complex and Contested World

Riccardo Alcaro & Hylke Dijkstra

Research Articles

• Engagement against All Odds? Navigating Member States’ Contestation of EU Policy on Kosovo

Pol Bargués, Assem Dandashly, Hylke Dijkstra & Gergana Noutcheva

• EU Policy towards Ukraine: Entering Geopolitical Competition over European Order

Kristi Raik, Steven Blockmans, Anna Osypchuk & Anton Suslov

• EU Policy towards the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Limitations of Mitigation Strategies

Sinem Akgül-Açıkmeşe & Soli Özel

• From Conflict Management to Shielding EU Stability: How Syria’s Fragmentation Diverted the EU(FSP) from Action to Reaction

Caterina Bedin, Tiffany Guendouz & Agnès Levallois

• Weathering the Geopolitical Storms: The Ever-elusive Success of EU Policy towards Iran

Riccardo Alcaro

• EU Policy towards Ethiopia amidst the Tigray War: The Limits of Mitigating Fragmentation

Francesca Caruso & Jesutimilehin O. Akamo

• Constraints, Dilemmas and Challenges for EU Foreign Policy in Venezuela

Anna Ayuso, Tiziano Breda, Elsa Lilja Gunnarsdottir & Marianne Riddervold

• Multipolar Competition and the Rules-based Order: Probing the Limits of EU Foreign and Security Policy in the South China Sea

Zachary Paikin

Book Reviews

• Missed Opportunities? The Anglo-French Entente and Post-War Europe

Tommaso Milani

• Putting the Politics Back into Conflicts: Understanding Armed Orders in Post-colonial South Asia

Nazir Ahmad Mir

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