Giselle Bosse
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giselle Bosse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giselle |
| FAMILY NAME | Bosse |
| SIGNATURE | BOSSE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3099-9412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Policy-learning in EU democracy support: Strategic adaptation and (un)learning in the EU’s response to authoritarian consolidation in Belarus
This article investigates the European Union's (EU) policy-learning processes in democracy support, focusing on its responses to authoritarian consolidation in Belarus from 2004 to 2024. Despite its commitment to democracy and human rights, the EU has struggled to achieve consistent outcomes in engaging with Belarus, a "hard case" of sustained autocracy. The study develops a novel conceptual framework to analyse policy learning, unlearning, and s…
Climate Variability and Development Interventions Influence Migration Aspirations and Capabilities of Project Beneficiaries in Southern Ethiopia
In recent years, the European Union (EU) and other donors have increasingly instrumentalised their development cooperation to meet their own domestic migration policy goals, under the assumption that different development interventions—such as building climate resilience – may result in less outward migration from the recipient country. However, it is not yet understood how increased climate resilience would influence individual migration aspirat…
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: A case study of Belarus
The present article maps and analyses the different meanings of the EU’s resilience narratives in its neighbourhood policy towards authoritarian regimes. While a large part of the existing literature has placed an emphasis on the role of resilience in EU foreign policy more generally, the specific use and representations of resilience in EU policy towards authoritarian regimes remains ill-explored. However, it is specifically in the context of th…
Introduction: Resilient states versus resilient societies? Whose security does the EU protect through the Eastern Partnership in times of geopolitical crises
The European Union (EU) is making strong inroads into areas of security traditionally reserved to states. Security concerns are increasingly triggered by fundamental challenges, such as terrorism, climate change, migration, and many other 'soft security issues'. Resilience has become a term of reference in the EU's official foreign policy discourse, triggering an associated 'resilience. Our contribution aims to analyse the 'many faces of resilien…
The EU's Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Invoking Norms and Values in Times of Fundamental Rupture
The European Union's response to the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has been widely perceived as unprecedented. This article examines how this could be, considering the long track record of disagreement amongst EU member states over foreign policy vis‐à‐vis Russia. It is argued that whilst the Russian invasion had a decisive impact on member states' security threat perceptions, realist explanations of the EU's forceful …
Does the EU Have Moral Authority? A Communicative Action Perspective on Sanctions
The European Union (EU) states in its 2016 Global Strategy that it intends to be a “responsible global stakeholder” and to “act worldwide to address the core causes of war and poverty, as well as to promote the indivisibility and universality of human rights” (European Union Global Strategy, 2016, pp. 5–8, 18). However, the Global Strategy is silent on the credentials or prerequisites that give the EU the authority to act globally and address con…
Values, rights, and changing interests: The EU’s response to the war against Ukraine and the responsibility to protect Europeans
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU has taken dozens of decisions, on which agreement had hitherto been unthinkable due to differences between member states. A norms-based approach is used to better understand the EU’s unexpected agreement on two key measures: the sanctions packages against Russia and the decision to allow Ukrainian nationals the right to live and work in the EU. Congruence among member states over the responsibility t…
Persuading the Giant? Explaining Eastern Partnership States’ (Unexpected) Negotiation Success in Relations with the European Union
In bilateral relations and negotiations with the European Union (EU), smaller and economically weaker states are often unable to express their national preferences. Despite their limited bargaining power, however, some Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries obtained significant concessions from the EU. This article analyzes the factors that explain EaP states’ unexpected negotiation success in the context of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agr…
EU normative performance: A critical theory perspective on the EU’s response to the massacre in Andijon, Uzbekistan
This article introduces a new analytical framework - EU Normative Performance - to examine the European Union's (EU) policy towards autocratic regimes in its wider Eastern neighbourhood. Drawing on critical theory and the writings of Jurgen Habermas, EU Normative Performance does not define measures of a (cost-) efficient conduct of foreign policy, but develops benchmarks of an ideal-type emancipatory policy constrained by normative principles (N…
A Partnership with Dictatorship: Explaining the Paradigm Shift in European Union Policy towards Belarus
The European Union's policies towards autocratic regimes have come under renewed scrutiny following the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the spring of 2011, and the pressure on the EU to revise its approach towards the region has been growing. Over decades, the EU had pursued a policy of pragmatic engagement with autocratic regimes for stability in the region, to the detriment of democracy promotion. This article ex…
The Geopolitics of Energy Supply in the ‘Wider Europe
The EU’s Geopolitical Vision of a European Energy Space: When ‘Gulliver’ meets ‘White Elephants’ and Verdi’s Babylonian King
The article examines the EU's and specifically the European Commission's proposals for an external energy policy. The analysis departs from the assumption that the geographical scope of the Commission's proposals is not the result of ‘geopolitical facts’ but rather of a discursive policy process of geopolitical writing in which geopolitical images and ideas are constantly being created and re-created. I first examine how the Commission is constru…
The EU's Relations with Moldova: Governance, Partnership or Ignorance
This article examines recent EU–Moldova relations under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) in order to assess the EU's policies and their (limited) effectiveness over the past decade. I draw on the ‘external governance approach’ and develop the ‘partnership as cooperation perspective’ to examine which approach prevails in the theory and in the political practice of EU–Moldova relations. Whereas the external …
Changing Belarus: The Limits of EU Governance in Eastern Europe and the Promise of Partnership
Since the end of the Cold War, European Union (EU) efforts in transforming Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been enormously successful. The 2004 enlargement is widely regarded as the single most effective foreign policy strategy in the Union's history, and the recent European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was designed to repeat that success in countries located on the EU's new Eastern borders. Although the ENP has been the subject of substantiv…
Challenges for EU governance through Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern Partnership: The values/security nexus in EU–Belarus relations
Whereas the european union (eu) has had some effect on political and economic reforms in the ukraine and moldova, it almost completely failed to impress the regime and population of belarus. Despite growing consensus at the eu level that the union's policies for eastern europe cannot succeed without belarus, few attempts have been made to account for the failure of eu governance in belarus. Having recalled the current legal and institutional set-…
Lost in translation? Political elites and the interpretative values gap in the EU's neighbourhood policies
We are also committed to developing ever deeper ties and bridges of cooperation with our neighbours and to share the future of this community of values with others beyond our shores.1 European valu
Values, rights, and changing interests: The EU’s response to the war against Ukraine and the responsibility to protect Europeans
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU has taken dozens of decisions, on which agreement had hitherto been unthinkable due to differences between member states. A norms-based approach is used to better understand the EU’s unexpected agreement on two key measures: the sanctions packages against Russia and the decision to allow Ukrainian nationals the right to live and work in the EU. Congruence among member states over the responsibility t…
Changing Belarus: The Limits of EU Governance in Eastern Europe and the Promise of Partnership
Since the end of the Cold War, European Union (EU) efforts in transforming Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been enormously successful. The 2004 enlargement is widely regarded as the single most effective foreign policy strategy in the Union's history, and the recent European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was designed to repeat that success in countries located on the EU's new Eastern borders. Although the ENP has been the subject of substantiv…
A Partnership with Dictatorship: Explaining the Paradigm Shift in European Union Policy towards Belarus
The European Union's policies towards autocratic regimes have come under renewed scrutiny following the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the spring of 2011, and the pressure on the EU to revise its approach towards the region has been growing. Over decades, the EU had pursued a policy of pragmatic engagement with autocratic regimes for stability in the region, to the detriment of democracy promotion. This article ex…
Challenges for EU governance through Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern Partnership: The values/security nexus in EU–Belarus relations
Whereas the european union (eu) has had some effect on political and economic reforms in the ukraine and moldova, it almost completely failed to impress the regime and population of belarus. Despite growing consensus at the eu level that the union's policies for eastern europe cannot succeed without belarus, few attempts have been made to account for the failure of eu governance in belarus. Having recalled the current legal and institutional set-…
The EU's Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Invoking Norms and Values in Times of Fundamental Rupture
The European Union's response to the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has been widely perceived as unprecedented. This article examines how this could be, considering the long track record of disagreement amongst EU member states over foreign policy vis‐à‐vis Russia. It is argued that whilst the Russian invasion had a decisive impact on member states' security threat perceptions, realist explanations of the EU's forceful …
The EU's Relations with Moldova: Governance, Partnership or Ignorance
This article examines recent EU–Moldova relations under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) in order to assess the EU's policies and their (limited) effectiveness over the past decade. I draw on the ‘external governance approach’ and develop the ‘partnership as cooperation perspective’ to examine which approach prevails in the theory and in the political practice of EU–Moldova relations. Whereas the external …
Lost in translation? Political elites and the interpretative values gap in the EU's neighbourhood policies
We are also committed to developing ever deeper ties and bridges of cooperation with our neighbours and to share the future of this community of values with others beyond our shores.1 European valu
Introduction: Resilient states versus resilient societies? Whose security does the EU protect through the Eastern Partnership in times of geopolitical crises
The European Union (EU) is making strong inroads into areas of security traditionally reserved to states. Security concerns are increasingly triggered by fundamental challenges, such as terrorism, climate change, migration, and many other 'soft security issues'. Resilience has become a term of reference in the EU's official foreign policy discourse, triggering an associated 'resilience. Our contribution aims to analyse the 'many faces of resilien…
The EU’s Geopolitical Vision of a European Energy Space: When ‘Gulliver’ meets ‘White Elephants’ and Verdi’s Babylonian King
The article examines the EU's and specifically the European Commission's proposals for an external energy policy. The analysis departs from the assumption that the geographical scope of the Commission's proposals is not the result of ‘geopolitical facts’ but rather of a discursive policy process of geopolitical writing in which geopolitical images and ideas are constantly being created and re-created. I first examine how the Commission is constru…
Policy-learning in EU democracy support: Strategic adaptation and (un)learning in the EU’s response to authoritarian consolidation in Belarus
This article investigates the European Union's (EU) policy-learning processes in democracy support, focusing on its responses to authoritarian consolidation in Belarus from 2004 to 2024. Despite its commitment to democracy and human rights, the EU has struggled to achieve consistent outcomes in engaging with Belarus, a "hard case" of sustained autocracy. The study develops a novel conceptual framework to analyse policy learning, unlearning, and s…
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: A case study of Belarus
The present article maps and analyses the different meanings of the EU’s resilience narratives in its neighbourhood policy towards authoritarian regimes. While a large part of the existing literature has placed an emphasis on the role of resilience in EU foreign policy more generally, the specific use and representations of resilience in EU policy towards authoritarian regimes remains ill-explored. However, it is specifically in the context of th…
Persuading the Giant? Explaining Eastern Partnership States’ (Unexpected) Negotiation Success in Relations with the European Union
In bilateral relations and negotiations with the European Union (EU), smaller and economically weaker states are often unable to express their national preferences. Despite their limited bargaining power, however, some Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries obtained significant concessions from the EU. This article analyzes the factors that explain EaP states’ unexpected negotiation success in the context of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agr…
EU normative performance: A critical theory perspective on the EU’s response to the massacre in Andijon, Uzbekistan
This article introduces a new analytical framework - EU Normative Performance - to examine the European Union's (EU) policy towards autocratic regimes in its wider Eastern neighbourhood. Drawing on critical theory and the writings of Jurgen Habermas, EU Normative Performance does not define measures of a (cost-) efficient conduct of foreign policy, but develops benchmarks of an ideal-type emancipatory policy constrained by normative principles (N…
The Geopolitics of Energy Supply in the ‘Wider Europe
Lost in translation? Political elites and the interpretative values gap in the EU's neighbourhood policies
We are also committed to developing ever deeper ties and bridges of cooperation with our neighbours and to share the future of this community of values with others beyond our shores.1 European valu
Changing Belarus: The Limits of EU Governance in Eastern Europe and the Promise of Partnership
Since the end of the Cold War, European Union (EU) efforts in transforming Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been enormously successful. The 2004 enlargement is widely regarded as the single most effective foreign policy strategy in the Union's history, and the recent European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was designed to repeat that success in countries located on the EU's new Eastern borders. Although the ENP has been the subject of substantiv…
Challenges for EU governance through Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern Partnership: The values/security nexus in EU–Belarus relations
Whereas the european union (eu) has had some effect on political and economic reforms in the ukraine and moldova, it almost completely failed to impress the regime and population of belarus. Despite growing consensus at the eu level that the union's policies for eastern europe cannot succeed without belarus, few attempts have been made to account for the failure of eu governance in belarus. Having recalled the current legal and institutional set-…
The EU's Relations with Moldova: Governance, Partnership or Ignorance
This article examines recent EU–Moldova relations under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) in order to assess the EU's policies and their (limited) effectiveness over the past decade. I draw on the ‘external governance approach’ and develop the ‘partnership as cooperation perspective’ to examine which approach prevails in the theory and in the political practice of EU–Moldova relations. Whereas the external …
The Geopolitics of Energy Supply in the ‘Wider Europe
The EU’s Geopolitical Vision of a European Energy Space: When ‘Gulliver’ meets ‘White Elephants’ and Verdi’s Babylonian King
The article examines the EU's and specifically the European Commission's proposals for an external energy policy. The analysis departs from the assumption that the geographical scope of the Commission's proposals is not the result of ‘geopolitical facts’ but rather of a discursive policy process of geopolitical writing in which geopolitical images and ideas are constantly being created and re-created. I first examine how the Commission is constru…
A Partnership with Dictatorship: Explaining the Paradigm Shift in European Union Policy towards Belarus
The European Union's policies towards autocratic regimes have come under renewed scrutiny following the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the spring of 2011, and the pressure on the EU to revise its approach towards the region has been growing. Over decades, the EU had pursued a policy of pragmatic engagement with autocratic regimes for stability in the region, to the detriment of democracy promotion. This article ex…
EU normative performance: A critical theory perspective on the EU’s response to the massacre in Andijon, Uzbekistan
This article introduces a new analytical framework - EU Normative Performance - to examine the European Union's (EU) policy towards autocratic regimes in its wider Eastern neighbourhood. Drawing on critical theory and the writings of Jurgen Habermas, EU Normative Performance does not define measures of a (cost-) efficient conduct of foreign policy, but develops benchmarks of an ideal-type emancipatory policy constrained by normative principles (N…
Persuading the Giant? Explaining Eastern Partnership States’ (Unexpected) Negotiation Success in Relations with the European Union
In bilateral relations and negotiations with the European Union (EU), smaller and economically weaker states are often unable to express their national preferences. Despite their limited bargaining power, however, some Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries obtained significant concessions from the EU. This article analyzes the factors that explain EaP states’ unexpected negotiation success in the context of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agr…
Does the EU Have Moral Authority? A Communicative Action Perspective on Sanctions
The European Union (EU) states in its 2016 Global Strategy that it intends to be a “responsible global stakeholder” and to “act worldwide to address the core causes of war and poverty, as well as to promote the indivisibility and universality of human rights” (European Union Global Strategy, 2016, pp. 5–8, 18). However, the Global Strategy is silent on the credentials or prerequisites that give the EU the authority to act globally and address con…
Values, rights, and changing interests: The EU’s response to the war against Ukraine and the responsibility to protect Europeans
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU has taken dozens of decisions, on which agreement had hitherto been unthinkable due to differences between member states. A norms-based approach is used to better understand the EU’s unexpected agreement on two key measures: the sanctions packages against Russia and the decision to allow Ukrainian nationals the right to live and work in the EU. Congruence among member states over the responsibility t…
Climate Variability and Development Interventions Influence Migration Aspirations and Capabilities of Project Beneficiaries in Southern Ethiopia
In recent years, the European Union (EU) and other donors have increasingly instrumentalised their development cooperation to meet their own domestic migration policy goals, under the assumption that different development interventions—such as building climate resilience – may result in less outward migration from the recipient country. However, it is not yet understood how increased climate resilience would influence individual migration aspirat…
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: A case study of Belarus
The present article maps and analyses the different meanings of the EU’s resilience narratives in its neighbourhood policy towards authoritarian regimes. While a large part of the existing literature has placed an emphasis on the role of resilience in EU foreign policy more generally, the specific use and representations of resilience in EU policy towards authoritarian regimes remains ill-explored. However, it is specifically in the context of th…
Introduction: Resilient states versus resilient societies? Whose security does the EU protect through the Eastern Partnership in times of geopolitical crises
The European Union (EU) is making strong inroads into areas of security traditionally reserved to states. Security concerns are increasingly triggered by fundamental challenges, such as terrorism, climate change, migration, and many other 'soft security issues'. Resilience has become a term of reference in the EU's official foreign policy discourse, triggering an associated 'resilience. Our contribution aims to analyse the 'many faces of resilien…
The EU's Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Invoking Norms and Values in Times of Fundamental Rupture
The European Union's response to the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has been widely perceived as unprecedented. This article examines how this could be, considering the long track record of disagreement amongst EU member states over foreign policy vis‐à‐vis Russia. It is argued that whilst the Russian invasion had a decisive impact on member states' security threat perceptions, realist explanations of the EU's forceful …
Policy-learning in EU democracy support: Strategic adaptation and (un)learning in the EU’s response to authoritarian consolidation in Belarus
This article investigates the European Union's (EU) policy-learning processes in democracy support, focusing on its responses to authoritarian consolidation in Belarus from 2004 to 2024. Despite its commitment to democracy and human rights, the EU has struggled to achieve consistent outcomes in engaging with Belarus, a "hard case" of sustained autocracy. The study develops a novel conceptual framework to analyse policy learning, unlearning, and s…
Political science (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · European union (8 works) · International trade (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)