Crisis management revisited: A new agenda for research, training and capacity building within Europe 27 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm

Fifteen years ago we presented an agenda for crisis management research and training in Europe, here that article is revisited through a comprehensive review of social science scholarship in the field...

The role of ideas in EU responses to international crises: Comparing the cases of Iraq and Iran 27 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm

This article examines how cognitive and normative ideas influence the ability of the European Union (EU) to formulate common policies in response to international crises such as the 2002–2003 Iraq cri...

Countering adversaries and cultivating friends: Indirect rivalry factors and the allocation of US foreign aid 27 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm

This analysis examines the link between ‘indirect rivalry factors’ – situations in which states are neighbors of direct US rivals, and/or states that share rivalries in common with the US – and alloca...

Failed statebuilding versus peace formation 27 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm

This article outlines the often countervailing forces and norms of state formation, statebuilding and peacebuilding according to their associated theoretical approaches. It introduces a new concept of...

Acculturation and the acceptance of the Genocide Convention 27 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm

This article contributes to the burgeoning literature on why states ratify human rights treaties. It first analyses why Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States did not initially ratify or ac...

The Responsibility to Protect: Added value or hot air? 27 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm

This article argues that the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) adds value to international efforts to protect populations from genocide and mass atrocities, but not in the ways commonly thought. It sug...

EU normative power and regionalism: Ideational diffusion and its limits 4 Jun 2013 | 06:45 pm

The ideational impact captured by Manners’s notion of normative power Europe (NPE) appears most distinct and potentially most consequential in the realm of regionalism. However, empirical research on ...

Normative power as hegemony 4 Jun 2013 | 06:45 pm

This article identifies four key problems in the debate about normative power Europe that may be fruitfully tackled when linking it to the concept of hegemony: the debate about whether EU foreign and ...

The neo-normative turn in theorising the EU's international presence 4 Jun 2013 | 06:45 pm

Introduced by Ian Manners in an article published in 2002, the idea of ‘normative power Europe’ has been very widely debated by scholars in the fields of European studies and international relations. ...

Preface 4 Jun 2013 | 06:45 pm