Spyros Economide
Biographic Data
| ID | 1100645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Spyros Economide |
| GIVEN NAMES | Spyros |
| FAMILY NAME | Economide |
| SIGNATURE | ECONOMIDE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9526-3772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Changing Discourses of EU Enlargement
Domestic support for EU enlargement across existing member states is understood to have shifted significantly since 2004. But, how? Here, we explore how enlargement has been framed discursively in the national parliaments of eight member states. Our dataset comprises over 18,000 statements from 1989 to 2019. We link our exploration to alternative explanations for change: IR‐based shifts in how applicant states are perceived and, from comparative …
A history of Yugoslavia
A history of Yugoslavia A history of Yugoslavia. By Marie-Janine Calic. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 2019. 478pp. Pb.: £48.80. Isbn978 1 55753 838 3. Spyros Economides Spyros Economides London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Corresponding author: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 2, March 2020, Pages 541–542, https:/…
Explaining the European Union's foreign policy
The basic premise of this ambitious book is that we know little of why the EU acts the way it does internationally, and current theoretical debates do little to help. To remedy this, Magnus Ekengren proposes ‘a practice theory of translocal action’ as the way forward. Practice theory, originating in sociology, and especially the work of Pierre Bourdieu, he argues, can help us overcome the ‘superficial representations of interests and norms’ which…
Framing the EU Global Strategy
The EU's foreign, security and defence policy has been a desolate space in the last few years in terms of innovation and development, as well as being bereft of purpose, vision and unity. The two recent and bright exceptions are the EU Global Strategy (EUGS), published in June 2017, and more recently the activation of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in the field of defence in December 2017. Framing the EU Global Strategy is a revealing, …
The European External Action Service and national foreign ministries
The European External Action Service and national foreign ministries: convergence or divergence? Edited by Rosa Balfour, Caterina Carta and Kristi Raik. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. 2015. 258pp. £70.00. ISBN 978 1 47244 243 7. Available as e-book. EU foreign policy through the lens of discourse analysis: making sense of diversity. Edited by Caterina Carta and Jean-Frédéric Morin. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. 2014. 272pp. £95.00. ISBN 978 1 40946 375 7.…
Pre‐Accession Europeanization
This article argues that there is much confusion surrounding Serbia's landmark decision to engage in a process of normalization with Kosovo. Rather than undergoing a process of Europeanization, whereby a fundamental transformation in the underlying rationale and processes of decision‐making occurred, as some have argued, the changes in Serbia's policy are in fact based on material concerns. By tracing relations in the EU‐Serbia‐Kosovo triangle, t…
Kosovo, Self-Determination and the International Order
Yugoslavia's wars provide a rich example of the range of challenges posed to international stability and fundamental principles of international relations since 1989. Within this context, Kosovo's independence has now become a cause celebre of the use of the principle of self-determination in state-creation. In addition, the case of Kosovo is an important development in the practice of humanitarian intervention and by implication the evolution of…
Standards before Status before Accession
Although Kosovo has been recognized by most members of the European Union, there are still five states that refuse to accept its unilateral declaration of independence. Kosovo's ‘European perspective’ would therefore appear to be hampered by its contested status. However, this paper argues that while the dispute over its independence is significant, and certainly makes establishing relations with the EU more difficult than might otherwise have be…
Kosovo
The recent opinion by the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence has not provided a definitive answer to Kosovo's status. The International community remains divided. For this reason, a political solution will need to be found. Possible scenarios for the future of Kosovo include continuation of the status quo; enforcing Pristina's full authority across all of Kosovo; partition or partial territorial…
The Europeanisation of Greek Foreign Policy
The Europeanisation of national foreign policy through EU membership is a widely accepted process. How and why this process takes place is more debatable. In the context of Greek foreign policy, the process of Europeanisation has been long and tortuous, and has been primarily driven from within. EU membership has had a Europeanising influence on Greek foreign policy through adaptation to practices, norms and behaviour, and Greek policy-makers hav…
The Myth of Ethnic War
The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s. By V. P. Gagnon, Jr. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 217p. $35.00 Publications focusing on Yugoslavia's collapse and the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo abound. One of the key category errors committed in much of this work—and especially in the mountains of journalistic output throughout the 1990s—has been to classify Yugoslavia's wars merely as wars of rival ethnicities and…
Balkan security
(2003). Balkan security: What security? Whose security? Southeast European and Black Sea Studies: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 105-129
The International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) came into effect on 1 July 2002. This article gives an account of the historical background to the ICC and an overview of the Court's Statute, remit and powers. It is argued that the ICC is a highly politicized legal institution which will only be effective through inter-state cooperation. Despite its lengthy historical antecedents and legal precedents, prudence suggests that — due to the nature of internati…
The Greek and Spanish civil wars
In contemporary Europe, the complacent consensus of the victory of liberal democratic values and principles in international relations has been shattered by the tragic and bloodthirsty conflicts of ex‐Yugoslavia, which at least in part could be characterized as civil wars. Similarly, in the short timespan of 10 years at the middle of the twentieth century, and straddling the Second World War, civil conflict in Spain and Greece shattered many illu…
Pre‐Accession Europeanization
This article argues that there is much confusion surrounding Serbia's landmark decision to engage in a process of normalization with Kosovo. Rather than undergoing a process of Europeanization, whereby a fundamental transformation in the underlying rationale and processes of decision‐making occurred, as some have argued, the changes in Serbia's policy are in fact based on material concerns. By tracing relations in the EU‐Serbia‐Kosovo triangle, t…
The Europeanisation of Greek Foreign Policy
The Europeanisation of national foreign policy through EU membership is a widely accepted process. How and why this process takes place is more debatable. In the context of Greek foreign policy, the process of Europeanisation has been long and tortuous, and has been primarily driven from within. EU membership has had a Europeanising influence on Greek foreign policy through adaptation to practices, norms and behaviour, and Greek policy-makers hav…
The Changing Discourses of EU Enlargement
Domestic support for EU enlargement across existing member states is understood to have shifted significantly since 2004. But, how? Here, we explore how enlargement has been framed discursively in the national parliaments of eight member states. Our dataset comprises over 18,000 statements from 1989 to 2019. We link our exploration to alternative explanations for change: IR‐based shifts in how applicant states are perceived and, from comparative …
Kosovo
The recent opinion by the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence has not provided a definitive answer to Kosovo's status. The International community remains divided. For this reason, a political solution will need to be found. Possible scenarios for the future of Kosovo include continuation of the status quo; enforcing Pristina's full authority across all of Kosovo; partition or partial territorial…
Kosovo, Self-Determination and the International Order
Yugoslavia's wars provide a rich example of the range of challenges posed to international stability and fundamental principles of international relations since 1989. Within this context, Kosovo's independence has now become a cause celebre of the use of the principle of self-determination in state-creation. In addition, the case of Kosovo is an important development in the practice of humanitarian intervention and by implication the evolution of…
The International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) came into effect on 1 July 2002. This article gives an account of the historical background to the ICC and an overview of the Court's Statute, remit and powers. It is argued that the ICC is a highly politicized legal institution which will only be effective through inter-state cooperation. Despite its lengthy historical antecedents and legal precedents, prudence suggests that — due to the nature of internati…
The Greek and Spanish civil wars
In contemporary Europe, the complacent consensus of the victory of liberal democratic values and principles in international relations has been shattered by the tragic and bloodthirsty conflicts of ex‐Yugoslavia, which at least in part could be characterized as civil wars. Similarly, in the short timespan of 10 years at the middle of the twentieth century, and straddling the Second World War, civil conflict in Spain and Greece shattered many illu…
Balkan security
(2003). Balkan security: What security? Whose security? Southeast European and Black Sea Studies: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 105-129
The International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) came into effect on 1 July 2002. This article gives an account of the historical background to the ICC and an overview of the Court's Statute, remit and powers. It is argued that the ICC is a highly politicized legal institution which will only be effective through inter-state cooperation. Despite its lengthy historical antecedents and legal precedents, prudence suggests that — due to the nature of internati…
The Europeanisation of Greek Foreign Policy
The Europeanisation of national foreign policy through EU membership is a widely accepted process. How and why this process takes place is more debatable. In the context of Greek foreign policy, the process of Europeanisation has been long and tortuous, and has been primarily driven from within. EU membership has had a Europeanising influence on Greek foreign policy through adaptation to practices, norms and behaviour, and Greek policy-makers hav…
The Myth of Ethnic War
The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s. By V. P. Gagnon, Jr. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 217p. $35.00 Publications focusing on Yugoslavia's collapse and the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo abound. One of the key category errors committed in much of this work—and especially in the mountains of journalistic output throughout the 1990s—has been to classify Yugoslavia's wars merely as wars of rival ethnicities and…
Kosovo
The recent opinion by the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence has not provided a definitive answer to Kosovo's status. The International community remains divided. For this reason, a political solution will need to be found. Possible scenarios for the future of Kosovo include continuation of the status quo; enforcing Pristina's full authority across all of Kosovo; partition or partial territorial…
Standards before Status before Accession
Although Kosovo has been recognized by most members of the European Union, there are still five states that refuse to accept its unilateral declaration of independence. Kosovo's ‘European perspective’ would therefore appear to be hampered by its contested status. However, this paper argues that while the dispute over its independence is significant, and certainly makes establishing relations with the EU more difficult than might otherwise have be…
Kosovo, Self-Determination and the International Order
Yugoslavia's wars provide a rich example of the range of challenges posed to international stability and fundamental principles of international relations since 1989. Within this context, Kosovo's independence has now become a cause celebre of the use of the principle of self-determination in state-creation. In addition, the case of Kosovo is an important development in the practice of humanitarian intervention and by implication the evolution of…
Pre‐Accession Europeanization
This article argues that there is much confusion surrounding Serbia's landmark decision to engage in a process of normalization with Kosovo. Rather than undergoing a process of Europeanization, whereby a fundamental transformation in the underlying rationale and processes of decision‐making occurred, as some have argued, the changes in Serbia's policy are in fact based on material concerns. By tracing relations in the EU‐Serbia‐Kosovo triangle, t…
The European External Action Service and national foreign ministries
The European External Action Service and national foreign ministries: convergence or divergence? Edited by Rosa Balfour, Caterina Carta and Kristi Raik. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. 2015. 258pp. £70.00. ISBN 978 1 47244 243 7. Available as e-book. EU foreign policy through the lens of discourse analysis: making sense of diversity. Edited by Caterina Carta and Jean-Frédéric Morin. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. 2014. 272pp. £95.00. ISBN 978 1 40946 375 7.…
Framing the EU Global Strategy
The EU's foreign, security and defence policy has been a desolate space in the last few years in terms of innovation and development, as well as being bereft of purpose, vision and unity. The two recent and bright exceptions are the EU Global Strategy (EUGS), published in June 2017, and more recently the activation of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in the field of defence in December 2017. Framing the EU Global Strategy is a revealing, …
Explaining the European Union's foreign policy
The basic premise of this ambitious book is that we know little of why the EU acts the way it does internationally, and current theoretical debates do little to help. To remedy this, Magnus Ekengren proposes ‘a practice theory of translocal action’ as the way forward. Practice theory, originating in sociology, and especially the work of Pierre Bourdieu, he argues, can help us overcome the ‘superficial representations of interests and norms’ which…
A history of Yugoslavia
A history of Yugoslavia A history of Yugoslavia. By Marie-Janine Calic. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 2019. 478pp. Pb.: £48.80. Isbn978 1 55753 838 3. Spyros Economides Spyros Economides London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Corresponding author: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 2, March 2020, Pages 541–542, https:/…
The Changing Discourses of EU Enlargement
Domestic support for EU enlargement across existing member states is understood to have shifted significantly since 2004. But, how? Here, we explore how enlargement has been framed discursively in the national parliaments of eight member states. Our dataset comprises over 18,000 statements from 1989 to 2019. We link our exploration to alternative explanations for change: IR‐based shifts in how applicant states are perceived and, from comparative …
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