The national identity argument holds that a shared national identity is necessary to motivate
citizens in democratic societies to pursue a number of goals, especially social justice. We …

In recent years, two apparently contradictory but, in fact, complementary socio-political
phenomena have reinforced each other in the European urban realm: the re-scaling of …

The Central and East European (CEE) part of the Eurasian landmass is often overlooked in
the conversations on contemporary geopolitics. Yet, owing to China's investment in the CEE …

This Ph. D. dissertation inquires into an often-neglected dimension of radical left politics: the
relation with national identity. Although the scholarly literature on party politics has mostly …

Why do we need European integration in increasingly fragmented and antagonised
European societies? How can European integration relate to the national stories we carry …

This article examines the literature on Europeanization in the context of enlargement to the
Balkans. It was inspired by a puzzling empirical observation: more rather than less …

Abstract Albania, a European Union (EU) candidate country since 2014, has struggled with
a turbulent post-communist period (1991-present) defined by civil unrest, political corruption …

In 1989, in the same year as the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War came to an end, the
economic historian Harold James published a slim book that drew attention to the long-term …

This work discusses how the Western imaginary or the way “the West looks East” reinforces
the construction of “unstable” or ambivalent identities in the new European countries, as well …