Marco Siddi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Siddi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Siddi |
| SIGNATURE | SIDDI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finnish Institute of International Affairs |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5881-5574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
From role change to policy change: EU member states and change in EU foreign policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Russia’s war against Ukraine has led to a fundamental rethinking of EU foreign policy, including enlargement, security and defense, and energy policy. The nature and depth of the shift, as well as the agency driving it, remain largely unexplored. Drawing on role theory, this article examines the agency of member states in shaping the policy shift in a co-constitutive process of resolving role conflicts and adjusting roles. Based on original inter…
From middle power to subordinate ally? Meloni’s foreign policy in the aftermath of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war
Italy has been described as a ‘middle power’ in international politics. While middlepowerness is an ambiguous term, in Italian self-conceptions it refers to a middle-ranking power with limited resources that can achieve its foreign policy goals by expanding its influence in international organisations and through bilateral relations with larger powers. The relationship with the United States, Italy’s main ally, is particularly important, but coop…
Nuclear energy and international relations: The external strategy of Russia’s Rosatom
This article analyses the role of nuclear energy in global politics today through the perspective of three International Relations theories: realism, liberalism and dependency theory. It contends that concepts developed to investigate oil and gas geopolitics do not always apply to the nuclear sector due to its greater complexity. The supply chain for nuclear power involves different, interrelated stages—notably the provision of natural uranium, o…
The 2022 Italian Elections and Gender+ Equality
Bibliographie: Gaweda, Barbara/Siddi, Marco: The 2022 Italian Elections and Gender+ Equality, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 1-2023, S. 120-124. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v32i1.12 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 12.06.2025 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zur Lizenz und den Nutzungsbed…
Europe’s Energy Dilemma
An energy crisis has unfolded in the European Union since the autumn of 2021. The crisis has worsened due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine and climate change. The EU reacted by launching the REPowerEU agenda, which aims at cutting imports of Russian fossil fuels by diversifying trade partners, increasing energy efficiency, and accelerating the energy transition. But there are complications, especially European countries’ quest for new and more pollu…
Governing the EU’s Energy Crisis: The European Commission’s Geopolitical Turn and its Pitfalls
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been promoting the concept of a “geopolitical Commission” since her appointment in late 2019. Since then, successive crises—the Covid-19 pandemic, the ever-worsening climate crisis, and the war in Ukraine—have tested the Commission’s intention to turn the concept into practice. This is particularly evident in the field of energy politics following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. When the war star…
What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament
Far-right and populist right-wing political parties have garnered significant scholarly attention in recent years. They have acquired importance also in European political institutions such as the European Parliament (EP). We explore this issue by focusing on the European Conservatives and Reformists’ (ECR) group in the EP. We analyse its current and former main national party delegations – the British Conservative Party, the Polish Law and Justi…
Differentiated Cooperation in the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy: Effectiveness, Accountability, Legitimacy
European Union (EU) treaties have introduced legal frameworks for differentiated integration in European foreign and security policy, but they have rarely been used. Instead, member states have engaged in informal practices of differentiated cooperation. Based on an analysis of effectiveness, accountability and legitimacy of differentiated cooperation in the Western Balkans, the Middle East Peace Process, negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme …
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine
Between 2014 and 2021, the EU’s relationship with Russia oscillated between the ever more elusive quest for a mutually acceptable geopolitical balance and increasing conflict. The conflict focused primarily on the future of Ukraine . Three new books analyse essential parts of this conundrum: the changing nature of the EU’s power in the context of the Ukraine conflict, the long-standing EU-Russia business and energy relationship, and the self-imag…
A socio-technical lens on security in sustainability transitions: Future expectations for positive and negative security
A transition to net-zero carbon energy systems, imperative to combat climate change, is unfolding around the world. Other socio-technical systems also face the need to transition to become more environmentally and socially sustainable. We argue that such transitions will have both positive and negative security implications on numerous issues which deserve attention but have been little addressed in transition studies. We take a socio-technical l…
Coping With Turbulence: EU Negotiations on the 2030 and 2050 Climate Targets
This article analyses European Union (EU) negotiations on the European Climate Law and the 2030 Climate Target Plan in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Adopting Ansell and Trondal’s (2018) conceptualisation of turbulence, it argues that the pandemic intensified the environmental turbulence within which European policy makers had been operating following Brexit, the rule of law dispute with Poland and Hungary, and the election of Donald Tru…
A Green Revolution? A Tentative Assessment of the European Green Deal
In this article the main aspects of the European Green Deal proposed by the European Commission in December 2019 are analyzed, putting the Green Deal into the broader context of European Union (EU) climate governance in order to assess whether and how it advances the EU’s climate agenda. Four broad and interrelated categories to evaluate the Green Deal are proposed. Its performance depends on whether it is and will remain a policy priority, despi…
From a liberal to a strategic actor: The evolution of the EU’s approach to international energy governance
Most scholars have described the European Union (EU) as a liberal actor in its approach to international climate and energy governance. This paper argues that the EU has shifted to a strategic approach, including the use of legislation and the adoption of negotiating positions that promote a political agenda. This is illustrated through an analysis of the EU’s evolving stance on multilateral energy governance and its handling of the Nord Stream 2…
Exploring the link between historical memory and foreign policy: An introduction
Silencing history: Forgetting Italy’s past during the refugee crisis in Europe
German Leadership in the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union
The 2020s promise to be a challenging decade for Germany in international affairs. The model of international relations that developed after the Cold War, based on multilateral cooperation and diplomacy, is coming under further pressure. As the US relative power is in decline and other actors, especially China and Russia, are increasing their international influence, the world enters a decade of growing international competition. Unlike the US, C…
A Contested Hegemon? Germany’s Leadership in EU Relations with Russia
This article investigates Germany’s role in the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy towards Russia. It argues that Germany has been a leader in EU relations with Russia since the late 2000s, most notably through attempts to upload its long-standing policy of dialogue and cooperation with Moscow – known as Ostpolitik – to the EU level. During the Ukraine crisis, German leadership in this field became hegemonic. Economic and institutional power, t…
The national agents of transnational memory and their limits: The case of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk
This article examines the drivers and limiting factors of the transnationalisation of Second World War memory by focusing on the recently opened Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. The creators of the museum presented it as an attempt to internationalise the memory of the conflict through the inclusion of East-Central European perspectives. The article contends that large parts of the exhibition foregrounded Polish narratives of the conflic…
Russian–European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region. Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe
Vsevolod Samokhvalov's book offers a useful in-depth analysis of Russia's evolving great power identity and representations of Europe, with an empirical focus on European–Russian interaction in the
The EU’s Botched Geopolitical Approach to External Energy Policy: The Case of the Southern Gas Corridor
This article argues that the European Union (EU) has pursued a geopolitical approach to its external energy policy in the Caspian region, with the aim of importing gas via routes that bypass Russia. This approach treats energy as a strategic good that governments need to secure through political, diplomatic and economic involvement in energy trade. The geopolitical approach differs from the traditional EU stance to energy policy, which focuses on…
Theorising conflict and cooperation in EU-Russia energy relations: Ideas, identities and material factors in the Nord Stream 2 debate
Relations between the European Union and Russia have been framed around a conflict/cooperation dichotomy. Following the Ukraine crisis, confrontation has extended to the economic arena, which had previously epitomised the post-Cold War rapprochement between Russia and the EU. Nevertheless, the cooperative side of the dichotomy has not disappeared. The paper argues that ideational factors, notably different conceptualisations of Russia in the nati…
German Foreign Policy towards Russia in the Aftermath of the Ukraine Crisis: A New Ostpolitik?
This essay investigates the shift in Germany's Ostpolitik approach to Russia as a result of the latter's increasing domestic authoritarianism and assertive foreign policy, particularly its violations of international law in the Ukraine crisis. This prompted Germany to take the initiative in formulating EU sanctions against Russia. However, Germany has attempted to reconcile the sanctions policy with a diplomatic approach to resolving the Ukraine …
The Role of Power in EU–Russia Energy Relations: The Interplay between Markets and Geopolitics
Energy trade is an essential factor in EU–Russia relations. This essay argues that Russia and the European Union have deployed two types of power in their post-Cold War energy relationship. Russia has predominantly exerted geopolitical power through the sale of its vast energy resources and selected strategies to channel them to partners. With a large market but lacking fossil fuels, the EU attempted to achieve its aims mostly through regulatory …
An evolving Other: German national identity and constructions of Russia
This article shows that national constructions of the Other are not fixed, but evolve as a result of policy makers’ agency, the domestic contestation among different identity narratives and their interaction with international structures. This is illustrated through an interpretive Social Constructivist approach and the Discourse-Historical Analysis (DHA) of narratives of Russia as an Other in German national identity. The article investigates th…
EU-Russia Energy Relations: From a Liberal to a Realist Paradigm
Energy trade has been an important and largely cooperative field of the EU -Russia relationship for nearly five decades. After the Cold War, liberal theories of international relations, which highlighted the two sides’ interdependence, became entrenched as an explanatory framework for EU -Russia energy relations. From the late 2000s, Russia’s increasingly assertive foreign policy, culminating in the annexation of Crimea in 2014, changed dramatica…
The Ukraine crisis and European memory politics of the Second World War
In Europe, commemorations of the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War have reiterated the existence of different national narratives of the historical event. These narratives can be grouped into four distinct memory discourses. Each discourse is dominant in a particular European country or region: Russia, post-communist East-Central Europe, Germany and the Western European countries that fought against the Third Reich. On 8–9…
German Foreign Policy towards Russia in the Aftermath of the Ukraine Crisis: A New Ostpolitik
This essay investigates the shift in Germany’s Ostpolitik approach to Russia as a result of the latter’s increasing domestic authoritarianism and assertive foreign policy, particularly its violations of international law in the Ukraine crisis. This prompted Germany to take the initiative in formulating EU sanctions against Russia. However, Germany has attempted to reconcile the sanctions policy with a diplomatic approach to resolving the Ukraine …
From a liberal to a strategic actor: The evolution of the EU’s approach to international energy governance
Most scholars have described the European Union (EU) as a liberal actor in its approach to international climate and energy governance. This paper argues that the EU has shifted to a strategic approach, including the use of legislation and the adoption of negotiating positions that promote a political agenda. This is illustrated through an analysis of the EU’s evolving stance on multilateral energy governance and its handling of the Nord Stream 2…
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine
Between 2014 and 2021, the EU’s relationship with Russia oscillated between the ever more elusive quest for a mutually acceptable geopolitical balance and increasing conflict. The conflict focused primarily on the future of Ukraine . Three new books analyse essential parts of this conundrum: the changing nature of the EU’s power in the context of the Ukraine conflict, the long-standing EU-Russia business and energy relationship, and the self-imag…
The Role of Power in EU–Russia Energy Relations: The Interplay between Markets and Geopolitics
Energy trade is an essential factor in EU–Russia relations. This essay argues that Russia and the European Union have deployed two types of power in their post-Cold War energy relationship. Russia has predominantly exerted geopolitical power through the sale of its vast energy resources and selected strategies to channel them to partners. With a large market but lacking fossil fuels, the EU attempted to achieve its aims mostly through regulatory …
Exploring the link between historical memory and foreign policy: An introduction
An evolving Other: German national identity and constructions of Russia
This article shows that national constructions of the Other are not fixed, but evolve as a result of policy makers’ agency, the domestic contestation among different identity narratives and their interaction with international structures. This is illustrated through an interpretive Social Constructivist approach and the Discourse-Historical Analysis (DHA) of narratives of Russia as an Other in German national identity. The article investigates th…
A socio-technical lens on security in sustainability transitions: Future expectations for positive and negative security
A transition to net-zero carbon energy systems, imperative to combat climate change, is unfolding around the world. Other socio-technical systems also face the need to transition to become more environmentally and socially sustainable. We argue that such transitions will have both positive and negative security implications on numerous issues which deserve attention but have been little addressed in transition studies. We take a socio-technical l…
A Contested Hegemon? Germany’s Leadership in EU Relations with Russia
This article investigates Germany’s role in the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy towards Russia. It argues that Germany has been a leader in EU relations with Russia since the late 2000s, most notably through attempts to upload its long-standing policy of dialogue and cooperation with Moscow – known as Ostpolitik – to the EU level. During the Ukraine crisis, German leadership in this field became hegemonic. Economic and institutional power, t…
The EU’s Botched Geopolitical Approach to External Energy Policy: The Case of the Southern Gas Corridor
This article argues that the European Union (EU) has pursued a geopolitical approach to its external energy policy in the Caspian region, with the aim of importing gas via routes that bypass Russia. This approach treats energy as a strategic good that governments need to secure through political, diplomatic and economic involvement in energy trade. The geopolitical approach differs from the traditional EU stance to energy policy, which focuses on…
Theorising conflict and cooperation in EU-Russia energy relations: Ideas, identities and material factors in the Nord Stream 2 debate
Relations between the European Union and Russia have been framed around a conflict/cooperation dichotomy. Following the Ukraine crisis, confrontation has extended to the economic arena, which had previously epitomised the post-Cold War rapprochement between Russia and the EU. Nevertheless, the cooperative side of the dichotomy has not disappeared. The paper argues that ideational factors, notably different conceptualisations of Russia in the nati…
What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament
Far-right and populist right-wing political parties have garnered significant scholarly attention in recent years. They have acquired importance also in European political institutions such as the European Parliament (EP). We explore this issue by focusing on the European Conservatives and Reformists’ (ECR) group in the EP. We analyse its current and former main national party delegations – the British Conservative Party, the Polish Law and Justi…
Governing the EU’s Energy Crisis: The European Commission’s Geopolitical Turn and its Pitfalls
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been promoting the concept of a “geopolitical Commission” since her appointment in late 2019. Since then, successive crises—the Covid-19 pandemic, the ever-worsening climate crisis, and the war in Ukraine—have tested the Commission’s intention to turn the concept into practice. This is particularly evident in the field of energy politics following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. When the war star…
Silencing history: Forgetting Italy’s past during the refugee crisis in Europe
German Leadership in the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union
The 2020s promise to be a challenging decade for Germany in international affairs. The model of international relations that developed after the Cold War, based on multilateral cooperation and diplomacy, is coming under further pressure. As the US relative power is in decline and other actors, especially China and Russia, are increasing their international influence, the world enters a decade of growing international competition. Unlike the US, C…
Coping With Turbulence: EU Negotiations on the 2030 and 2050 Climate Targets
This article analyses European Union (EU) negotiations on the European Climate Law and the 2030 Climate Target Plan in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Adopting Ansell and Trondal’s (2018) conceptualisation of turbulence, it argues that the pandemic intensified the environmental turbulence within which European policy makers had been operating following Brexit, the rule of law dispute with Poland and Hungary, and the election of Donald Tru…
The national agents of transnational memory and their limits: The case of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk
This article examines the drivers and limiting factors of the transnationalisation of Second World War memory by focusing on the recently opened Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. The creators of the museum presented it as an attempt to internationalise the memory of the conflict through the inclusion of East-Central European perspectives. The article contends that large parts of the exhibition foregrounded Polish narratives of the conflic…
From middle power to subordinate ally? Meloni’s foreign policy in the aftermath of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war
Italy has been described as a ‘middle power’ in international politics. While middlepowerness is an ambiguous term, in Italian self-conceptions it refers to a middle-ranking power with limited resources that can achieve its foreign policy goals by expanding its influence in international organisations and through bilateral relations with larger powers. The relationship with the United States, Italy’s main ally, is particularly important, but coop…
Nuclear energy and international relations: The external strategy of Russia’s Rosatom
This article analyses the role of nuclear energy in global politics today through the perspective of three International Relations theories: realism, liberalism and dependency theory. It contends that concepts developed to investigate oil and gas geopolitics do not always apply to the nuclear sector due to its greater complexity. The supply chain for nuclear power involves different, interrelated stages—notably the provision of natural uranium, o…
EU-Russia Energy Relations: From a Liberal to a Realist Paradigm
Energy trade has been an important and largely cooperative field of the EU -Russia relationship for nearly five decades. After the Cold War, liberal theories of international relations, which highlighted the two sides’ interdependence, became entrenched as an explanatory framework for EU -Russia energy relations. From the late 2000s, Russia’s increasingly assertive foreign policy, culminating in the annexation of Crimea in 2014, changed dramatica…
German Foreign Policy towards Russia in the Aftermath of the Ukraine Crisis: A New Ostpolitik
This essay investigates the shift in Germany’s Ostpolitik approach to Russia as a result of the latter’s increasing domestic authoritarianism and assertive foreign policy, particularly its violations of international law in the Ukraine crisis. This prompted Germany to take the initiative in formulating EU sanctions against Russia. However, Germany has attempted to reconcile the sanctions policy with a diplomatic approach to resolving the Ukraine …
The Ukraine crisis and European memory politics of the Second World War
In Europe, commemorations of the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War have reiterated the existence of different national narratives of the historical event. These narratives can be grouped into four distinct memory discourses. Each discourse is dominant in a particular European country or region: Russia, post-communist East-Central Europe, Germany and the Western European countries that fought against the Third Reich. On 8–9…
EU-Russia Energy Relations: From a Liberal to a Realist Paradigm
Energy trade has been an important and largely cooperative field of the EU -Russia relationship for nearly five decades. After the Cold War, liberal theories of international relations, which highlighted the two sides’ interdependence, became entrenched as an explanatory framework for EU -Russia energy relations. From the late 2000s, Russia’s increasingly assertive foreign policy, culminating in the annexation of Crimea in 2014, changed dramatica…
Transnational Gas Markets and Euro–Russian Energy Relations
Transnational Gas Markets and Euro–Russian Energy Relations." Europe-Asia Studies, 69(5), pp. 849–850
German Foreign Policy towards Russia in the Aftermath of the Ukraine Crisis: A New Ostpolitik?
This essay investigates the shift in Germany's Ostpolitik approach to Russia as a result of the latter's increasing domestic authoritarianism and assertive foreign policy, particularly its violations of international law in the Ukraine crisis. This prompted Germany to take the initiative in formulating EU sanctions against Russia. However, Germany has attempted to reconcile the sanctions policy with a diplomatic approach to resolving the Ukraine …
The Role of Power in EU–Russia Energy Relations: The Interplay between Markets and Geopolitics
Energy trade is an essential factor in EU–Russia relations. This essay argues that Russia and the European Union have deployed two types of power in their post-Cold War energy relationship. Russia has predominantly exerted geopolitical power through the sale of its vast energy resources and selected strategies to channel them to partners. With a large market but lacking fossil fuels, the EU attempted to achieve its aims mostly through regulatory …
An evolving Other: German national identity and constructions of Russia
This article shows that national constructions of the Other are not fixed, but evolve as a result of policy makers’ agency, the domestic contestation among different identity narratives and their interaction with international structures. This is illustrated through an interpretive Social Constructivist approach and the Discourse-Historical Analysis (DHA) of narratives of Russia as an Other in German national identity. The article investigates th…
The national agents of transnational memory and their limits: The case of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk
This article examines the drivers and limiting factors of the transnationalisation of Second World War memory by focusing on the recently opened Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. The creators of the museum presented it as an attempt to internationalise the memory of the conflict through the inclusion of East-Central European perspectives. The article contends that large parts of the exhibition foregrounded Polish narratives of the conflic…
Russian–European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region. Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe
Vsevolod Samokhvalov's book offers a useful in-depth analysis of Russia's evolving great power identity and representations of Europe, with an empirical focus on European–Russian interaction in the
The EU’s Botched Geopolitical Approach to External Energy Policy: The Case of the Southern Gas Corridor
This article argues that the European Union (EU) has pursued a geopolitical approach to its external energy policy in the Caspian region, with the aim of importing gas via routes that bypass Russia. This approach treats energy as a strategic good that governments need to secure through political, diplomatic and economic involvement in energy trade. The geopolitical approach differs from the traditional EU stance to energy policy, which focuses on…
Theorising conflict and cooperation in EU-Russia energy relations: Ideas, identities and material factors in the Nord Stream 2 debate
Relations between the European Union and Russia have been framed around a conflict/cooperation dichotomy. Following the Ukraine crisis, confrontation has extended to the economic arena, which had previously epitomised the post-Cold War rapprochement between Russia and the EU. Nevertheless, the cooperative side of the dichotomy has not disappeared. The paper argues that ideational factors, notably different conceptualisations of Russia in the nati…
Exploring the link between historical memory and foreign policy: An introduction
Silencing history: Forgetting Italy’s past during the refugee crisis in Europe
German Leadership in the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union
The 2020s promise to be a challenging decade for Germany in international affairs. The model of international relations that developed after the Cold War, based on multilateral cooperation and diplomacy, is coming under further pressure. As the US relative power is in decline and other actors, especially China and Russia, are increasing their international influence, the world enters a decade of growing international competition. Unlike the US, C…
A Contested Hegemon? Germany’s Leadership in EU Relations with Russia
This article investigates Germany’s role in the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy towards Russia. It argues that Germany has been a leader in EU relations with Russia since the late 2000s, most notably through attempts to upload its long-standing policy of dialogue and cooperation with Moscow – known as Ostpolitik – to the EU level. During the Ukraine crisis, German leadership in this field became hegemonic. Economic and institutional power, t…
Coping With Turbulence: EU Negotiations on the 2030 and 2050 Climate Targets
This article analyses European Union (EU) negotiations on the European Climate Law and the 2030 Climate Target Plan in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Adopting Ansell and Trondal’s (2018) conceptualisation of turbulence, it argues that the pandemic intensified the environmental turbulence within which European policy makers had been operating following Brexit, the rule of law dispute with Poland and Hungary, and the election of Donald Tru…
A Green Revolution? A Tentative Assessment of the European Green Deal
In this article the main aspects of the European Green Deal proposed by the European Commission in December 2019 are analyzed, putting the Green Deal into the broader context of European Union (EU) climate governance in order to assess whether and how it advances the EU’s climate agenda. Four broad and interrelated categories to evaluate the Green Deal are proposed. Its performance depends on whether it is and will remain a policy priority, despi…
From a liberal to a strategic actor: The evolution of the EU’s approach to international energy governance
Most scholars have described the European Union (EU) as a liberal actor in its approach to international climate and energy governance. This paper argues that the EU has shifted to a strategic approach, including the use of legislation and the adoption of negotiating positions that promote a political agenda. This is illustrated through an analysis of the EU’s evolving stance on multilateral energy governance and its handling of the Nord Stream 2…
Differentiated Cooperation in the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy: Effectiveness, Accountability, Legitimacy
European Union (EU) treaties have introduced legal frameworks for differentiated integration in European foreign and security policy, but they have rarely been used. Instead, member states have engaged in informal practices of differentiated cooperation. Based on an analysis of effectiveness, accountability and legitimacy of differentiated cooperation in the Western Balkans, the Middle East Peace Process, negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme …
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine
Between 2014 and 2021, the EU’s relationship with Russia oscillated between the ever more elusive quest for a mutually acceptable geopolitical balance and increasing conflict. The conflict focused primarily on the future of Ukraine . Three new books analyse essential parts of this conundrum: the changing nature of the EU’s power in the context of the Ukraine conflict, the long-standing EU-Russia business and energy relationship, and the self-imag…
A socio-technical lens on security in sustainability transitions: Future expectations for positive and negative security
A transition to net-zero carbon energy systems, imperative to combat climate change, is unfolding around the world. Other socio-technical systems also face the need to transition to become more environmentally and socially sustainable. We argue that such transitions will have both positive and negative security implications on numerous issues which deserve attention but have been little addressed in transition studies. We take a socio-technical l…
The 2022 Italian Elections and Gender+ Equality
Bibliographie: Gaweda, Barbara/Siddi, Marco: The 2022 Italian Elections and Gender+ Equality, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 1-2023, S. 120-124. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v32i1.12 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 12.06.2025 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zur Lizenz und den Nutzungsbed…
Europe’s Energy Dilemma
An energy crisis has unfolded in the European Union since the autumn of 2021. The crisis has worsened due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine and climate change. The EU reacted by launching the REPowerEU agenda, which aims at cutting imports of Russian fossil fuels by diversifying trade partners, increasing energy efficiency, and accelerating the energy transition. But there are complications, especially European countries’ quest for new and more pollu…
Governing the EU’s Energy Crisis: The European Commission’s Geopolitical Turn and its Pitfalls
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been promoting the concept of a “geopolitical Commission” since her appointment in late 2019. Since then, successive crises—the Covid-19 pandemic, the ever-worsening climate crisis, and the war in Ukraine—have tested the Commission’s intention to turn the concept into practice. This is particularly evident in the field of energy politics following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. When the war star…
What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament
Far-right and populist right-wing political parties have garnered significant scholarly attention in recent years. They have acquired importance also in European political institutions such as the European Parliament (EP). We explore this issue by focusing on the European Conservatives and Reformists’ (ECR) group in the EP. We analyse its current and former main national party delegations – the British Conservative Party, the Polish Law and Justi…
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