Julia Langbein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4377207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Langbein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Langbein |
| SIGNATURE | LANGBEIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for East European and International Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0849-1727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Collision, Competition or Cooperation? China's BRI and the EU's Development Policies Towards Eastern Europe
Against the backdrop of China's growing engagement in Eastern Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to challenge the European Union (EU) approach to promoting development in the region. We take issue with this claim by making three interrelated arguments. First, if at all, the BRI challenges the EU approach to development on the programmatic rather than on the implementation level. The BRI's proclaimed “no strings attached” policy st…
Building a Transnational Developmental State in Europe
Zehn Jahre Neue Seidenstraße
It has been said that the New Silk Road allows China to assert its interests by financing and implementing major infrastructure projects. Further, within its partner countries, China raised expectations of “win-win” situations that were not fulfilled. Results in Hungary, Serbia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan show that local actors and conditions influence Chinese engagement more than was previously assumed. China is expanding its presence in countries …
EU trade liberalisation, sectoral coalitions and development
This paper contributes to the literature on EU trade policy by introducing insights from the political economy literature on development to the study of how EU trade liberalisation affects development in trading partners.Drawing on a comparison of EU trade liberalisation with Moldova and Georgia, we argue that the type of coalition between public and private actors in partner countries' top export sectors determines which firms benefit from bette…
Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus
For more than two decades a key pillar of regime stability in Belarus was legitimation through economic stability and security, prompting experts to speak of a "social contract" between the state and its citizens. The 2020 protests, however, convey significant dissatisfaction with the Lukashenka regime across a broad social and generational base. By comparing survey data from late 2020 with data from 2011 and 2018, we examine changing attitudes t…
Trade liberalisation and opening in post-soviet limited access orders
How does trade liberalisation shape post-Soviet Limited Access Orders (LAOs) where dominant elites restrict access to political and economic resources for the sake of private gains? By drawing on the case of trade liberalisation between the EU and Ukraine, this paper argues that in post-Soviet LAOs the effect of trade liberalisation largely depends on the quality of the pre-existing alliance between political and economic elites in exporting sect…
Manufacturing development
According to the dominating perspective in the literature, transnational market integration has the uniform effect of decreasing the room for development in peripheral economies that do not have the economic and political power of countries like China or Russia. Challenging this perspective, this Special Issue (SI) contrasts different integration strategies yielding dramatically different effects on developmental opportunities and capacities. By …
To the Memory of Wade Jacoby
We dedicate this special issue to the memory of Wade Jacoby, the great scholar and wonderful friend whose works have inspired us, who played a major role in the birth of the project that lead to th
Varieties of Limited Access Orders
This article advances our understanding of differences in hybrid stability by going beyond existing regime typologies that separate the study of political institutions from the study of economic institutions. It combines the work of Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast (NWW) on varieties of social orders with the literature on political and economic regime typologies and dynamics to understand hybrid regimes as Limited Access Orders (L…
Shallow market integration and weak developmental capacities
How do transnational integration regimes (TIRs) shape domestic developmental capacities to benefit from trade integration? Some scholars acknowledge the passive influence TIRs can have on domestic capacities to spur development. Others conceive of TIRs as active agents of change but disagree as to whether their effects are positive or negative. This paper takes issue with some of these approaches and reveals important caveats of others by investi…
Changing modes of market integration, domestic developmental capacities and state-business alliances
This article investigates how different modes of transnational integration shape developmental state capacities in peripheral economies. The Turkish automotive industry serves as an ideal case to investigate this question. Turkey is a country that was exposed to different integration strategies, and we can trace the effects of these changing strategies on the evolution of developmental state capacities in a strategic sector. We make two arguments…
Illustration as Pleasure and Problem
Two recent books take contrasting approaches the field of nineteenth-century French graphic culture, one a sweeping panorama and one a deep, synchronic cut. The subject of nineteenth-century illustration is characterised by anonymity, pseudonymity and collaborative authorship, the vastness of the archive, problems of uneven preservation, the dilation of significance across multiples and series, and the ephemeral and contingent nature of comic and…
Core–periphery disparities in Europe
This contribution examines whether and how economic divergence between the EU core and its southern and eastern peripheries relates to the emerging political divergence within the EU. Data show that persistent and growing economic disparities are linked to EU member states moving apart with regard to their democratic quality, but not as straightforwardly as the literature claims. This gives rise to two puzzles: first, economic divergence does not…
Varieties of dis-embedded liberalism. EU integration strategies in the Eastern peripheries of Europe
In contrast to the post-1945 integration of Western Europe in the global economic system, coined by John Ruggie as embedded liberalism, the integration of the Eastern peripheries happens in the framework of a new liberal regional settlement. The latter takes large parts of the management of the economy out of the hands of states and compensates the dis-embedding of markets from national control to various degrees. This contribution compares the E…
(Dis-)integrating Ukraine? Domestic oligarchs, Russia, the EU, and the politics of economic integration
How do the politics of economic integration pursued by the European Union (EU) and Russia in their shared neighborhood affect domestic change in these countries? Do the two external powers further economic integration with one or the other, and how do their strategies shape the survival of rent-seeking domestic elites? Examining the case of Ukraine's car industry, the paper reveals a considerable degree of disengagement by both the EU and Russia.…
Introduction
This Introduction discusses the conventional wisdoms dominating the scholarship on policy change in the EU's Eastern neighbourhood countries and summarises the major findings of this collection. Drawing upon the empirical evidence underpinning the contributions to our collection, we argue that compliance with or convergence to EU policies happens despite high costs, limited capacities and the lack of EU membership prospects. We also challenge cou…
Unpacking the Russian and EU Impact on Policy Change in the Eastern Neighbourhood
Russia is usually considered as being obstructive to European integration in the EU's Eastern neighbourhood, while the EU is portrayed as being the key promoter of convergence with EU rules. Thus, strong economic dependence on Russia and EU active leverage should account for cross-policy variation in convergence with EU rules. By comparing convergence in Ukraine's telecommunications and food safety regulations, I show that active leverage exerted…
E uropean U nion Governance towards the Eastern Neigbourhood
How does the E uropean U nion ( EU ) shape the integration of non‐member states in transnational markets and why are other external actors more effective than the EU in fostering regulatory change in such a context? Examining the case of U kraine, the article finds that international financial institutions and donors are better at eliciting reform than the EU because they empower state and non‐state domestic actors, who in turn demand and enforce…
Convergence without membership? The impact of the European Union in the neighbourhood
How does the European Union (EU) affect change in neighbouring countries? The article explores this question, using Ukraine as a case study. So far Ukraine has attracted contradictory assessments of the impact of the EU on the country's domestic transformation. To explain this puzzle, the process of Ukraine's convergence with EU rules is analysed in terms of rule selection, adoption and application. The article focuses on the mechanisms which the…
Convergence without membership? The impact of the European Union in the neighbourhood
How does the European Union (EU) affect change in neighbouring countries? The article explores this question, using Ukraine as a case study. So far Ukraine has attracted contradictory assessments of the impact of the EU on the country's domestic transformation. To explain this puzzle, the process of Ukraine's convergence with EU rules is analysed in terms of rule selection, adoption and application. The article focuses on the mechanisms which the…
Introduction
This Introduction discusses the conventional wisdoms dominating the scholarship on policy change in the EU's Eastern neighbourhood countries and summarises the major findings of this collection. Drawing upon the empirical evidence underpinning the contributions to our collection, we argue that compliance with or convergence to EU policies happens despite high costs, limited capacities and the lack of EU membership prospects. We also challenge cou…
Manufacturing development
According to the dominating perspective in the literature, transnational market integration has the uniform effect of decreasing the room for development in peripheral economies that do not have the economic and political power of countries like China or Russia. Challenging this perspective, this Special Issue (SI) contrasts different integration strategies yielding dramatically different effects on developmental opportunities and capacities. By …
Varieties of dis-embedded liberalism. EU integration strategies in the Eastern peripheries of Europe
In contrast to the post-1945 integration of Western Europe in the global economic system, coined by John Ruggie as embedded liberalism, the integration of the Eastern peripheries happens in the framework of a new liberal regional settlement. The latter takes large parts of the management of the economy out of the hands of states and compensates the dis-embedding of markets from national control to various degrees. This contribution compares the E…
Varieties of Limited Access Orders
This article advances our understanding of differences in hybrid stability by going beyond existing regime typologies that separate the study of political institutions from the study of economic institutions. It combines the work of Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast (NWW) on varieties of social orders with the literature on political and economic regime typologies and dynamics to understand hybrid regimes as Limited Access Orders (L…
E uropean U nion Governance towards the Eastern Neigbourhood
How does the E uropean U nion ( EU ) shape the integration of non‐member states in transnational markets and why are other external actors more effective than the EU in fostering regulatory change in such a context? Examining the case of U kraine, the article finds that international financial institutions and donors are better at eliciting reform than the EU because they empower state and non‐state domestic actors, who in turn demand and enforce…
Unpacking the Russian and EU Impact on Policy Change in the Eastern Neighbourhood
Russia is usually considered as being obstructive to European integration in the EU's Eastern neighbourhood, while the EU is portrayed as being the key promoter of convergence with EU rules. Thus, strong economic dependence on Russia and EU active leverage should account for cross-policy variation in convergence with EU rules. By comparing convergence in Ukraine's telecommunications and food safety regulations, I show that active leverage exerted…
Changing modes of market integration, domestic developmental capacities and state-business alliances
This article investigates how different modes of transnational integration shape developmental state capacities in peripheral economies. The Turkish automotive industry serves as an ideal case to investigate this question. Turkey is a country that was exposed to different integration strategies, and we can trace the effects of these changing strategies on the evolution of developmental state capacities in a strategic sector. We make two arguments…
Core–periphery disparities in Europe
This contribution examines whether and how economic divergence between the EU core and its southern and eastern peripheries relates to the emerging political divergence within the EU. Data show that persistent and growing economic disparities are linked to EU member states moving apart with regard to their democratic quality, but not as straightforwardly as the literature claims. This gives rise to two puzzles: first, economic divergence does not…
Trade liberalisation and opening in post-soviet limited access orders
How does trade liberalisation shape post-Soviet Limited Access Orders (LAOs) where dominant elites restrict access to political and economic resources for the sake of private gains? By drawing on the case of trade liberalisation between the EU and Ukraine, this paper argues that in post-Soviet LAOs the effect of trade liberalisation largely depends on the quality of the pre-existing alliance between political and economic elites in exporting sect…
(Dis-)integrating Ukraine? Domestic oligarchs, Russia, the EU, and the politics of economic integration
How do the politics of economic integration pursued by the European Union (EU) and Russia in their shared neighborhood affect domestic change in these countries? Do the two external powers further economic integration with one or the other, and how do their strategies shape the survival of rent-seeking domestic elites? Examining the case of Ukraine's car industry, the paper reveals a considerable degree of disengagement by both the EU and Russia.…
Building a Transnational Developmental State in Europe
EU trade liberalisation, sectoral coalitions and development
This paper contributes to the literature on EU trade policy by introducing insights from the political economy literature on development to the study of how EU trade liberalisation affects development in trading partners.Drawing on a comparison of EU trade liberalisation with Moldova and Georgia, we argue that the type of coalition between public and private actors in partner countries' top export sectors determines which firms benefit from bette…
Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus
For more than two decades a key pillar of regime stability in Belarus was legitimation through economic stability and security, prompting experts to speak of a "social contract" between the state and its citizens. The 2020 protests, however, convey significant dissatisfaction with the Lukashenka regime across a broad social and generational base. By comparing survey data from late 2020 with data from 2011 and 2018, we examine changing attitudes t…
Shallow market integration and weak developmental capacities
How do transnational integration regimes (TIRs) shape domestic developmental capacities to benefit from trade integration? Some scholars acknowledge the passive influence TIRs can have on domestic capacities to spur development. Others conceive of TIRs as active agents of change but disagree as to whether their effects are positive or negative. This paper takes issue with some of these approaches and reveals important caveats of others by investi…
Convergence without membership? The impact of the European Union in the neighbourhood
How does the European Union (EU) affect change in neighbouring countries? The article explores this question, using Ukraine as a case study. So far Ukraine has attracted contradictory assessments of the impact of the EU on the country's domestic transformation. To explain this puzzle, the process of Ukraine's convergence with EU rules is analysed in terms of rule selection, adoption and application. The article focuses on the mechanisms which the…
Introduction
This Introduction discusses the conventional wisdoms dominating the scholarship on policy change in the EU's Eastern neighbourhood countries and summarises the major findings of this collection. Drawing upon the empirical evidence underpinning the contributions to our collection, we argue that compliance with or convergence to EU policies happens despite high costs, limited capacities and the lack of EU membership prospects. We also challenge cou…
Unpacking the Russian and EU Impact on Policy Change in the Eastern Neighbourhood
Russia is usually considered as being obstructive to European integration in the EU's Eastern neighbourhood, while the EU is portrayed as being the key promoter of convergence with EU rules. Thus, strong economic dependence on Russia and EU active leverage should account for cross-policy variation in convergence with EU rules. By comparing convergence in Ukraine's telecommunications and food safety regulations, I show that active leverage exerted…
E uropean U nion Governance towards the Eastern Neigbourhood
How does the E uropean U nion ( EU ) shape the integration of non‐member states in transnational markets and why are other external actors more effective than the EU in fostering regulatory change in such a context? Examining the case of U kraine, the article finds that international financial institutions and donors are better at eliciting reform than the EU because they empower state and non‐state domestic actors, who in turn demand and enforce…
(Dis-)integrating Ukraine? Domestic oligarchs, Russia, the EU, and the politics of economic integration
How do the politics of economic integration pursued by the European Union (EU) and Russia in their shared neighborhood affect domestic change in these countries? Do the two external powers further economic integration with one or the other, and how do their strategies shape the survival of rent-seeking domestic elites? Examining the case of Ukraine's car industry, the paper reveals a considerable degree of disengagement by both the EU and Russia.…
Varieties of dis-embedded liberalism. EU integration strategies in the Eastern peripheries of Europe
In contrast to the post-1945 integration of Western Europe in the global economic system, coined by John Ruggie as embedded liberalism, the integration of the Eastern peripheries happens in the framework of a new liberal regional settlement. The latter takes large parts of the management of the economy out of the hands of states and compensates the dis-embedding of markets from national control to various degrees. This contribution compares the E…
Shallow market integration and weak developmental capacities
How do transnational integration regimes (TIRs) shape domestic developmental capacities to benefit from trade integration? Some scholars acknowledge the passive influence TIRs can have on domestic capacities to spur development. Others conceive of TIRs as active agents of change but disagree as to whether their effects are positive or negative. This paper takes issue with some of these approaches and reveals important caveats of others by investi…
Changing modes of market integration, domestic developmental capacities and state-business alliances
This article investigates how different modes of transnational integration shape developmental state capacities in peripheral economies. The Turkish automotive industry serves as an ideal case to investigate this question. Turkey is a country that was exposed to different integration strategies, and we can trace the effects of these changing strategies on the evolution of developmental state capacities in a strategic sector. We make two arguments…
Illustration as Pleasure and Problem
Two recent books take contrasting approaches the field of nineteenth-century French graphic culture, one a sweeping panorama and one a deep, synchronic cut. The subject of nineteenth-century illustration is characterised by anonymity, pseudonymity and collaborative authorship, the vastness of the archive, problems of uneven preservation, the dilation of significance across multiples and series, and the ephemeral and contingent nature of comic and…
Core–periphery disparities in Europe
This contribution examines whether and how economic divergence between the EU core and its southern and eastern peripheries relates to the emerging political divergence within the EU. Data show that persistent and growing economic disparities are linked to EU member states moving apart with regard to their democratic quality, but not as straightforwardly as the literature claims. This gives rise to two puzzles: first, economic divergence does not…
Manufacturing development
According to the dominating perspective in the literature, transnational market integration has the uniform effect of decreasing the room for development in peripheral economies that do not have the economic and political power of countries like China or Russia. Challenging this perspective, this Special Issue (SI) contrasts different integration strategies yielding dramatically different effects on developmental opportunities and capacities. By …
To the Memory of Wade Jacoby
We dedicate this special issue to the memory of Wade Jacoby, the great scholar and wonderful friend whose works have inspired us, who played a major role in the birth of the project that lead to th
Varieties of Limited Access Orders
This article advances our understanding of differences in hybrid stability by going beyond existing regime typologies that separate the study of political institutions from the study of economic institutions. It combines the work of Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast (NWW) on varieties of social orders with the literature on political and economic regime typologies and dynamics to understand hybrid regimes as Limited Access Orders (L…
Trade liberalisation and opening in post-soviet limited access orders
How does trade liberalisation shape post-Soviet Limited Access Orders (LAOs) where dominant elites restrict access to political and economic resources for the sake of private gains? By drawing on the case of trade liberalisation between the EU and Ukraine, this paper argues that in post-Soviet LAOs the effect of trade liberalisation largely depends on the quality of the pre-existing alliance between political and economic elites in exporting sect…
Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus
For more than two decades a key pillar of regime stability in Belarus was legitimation through economic stability and security, prompting experts to speak of a "social contract" between the state and its citizens. The 2020 protests, however, convey significant dissatisfaction with the Lukashenka regime across a broad social and generational base. By comparing survey data from late 2020 with data from 2011 and 2018, we examine changing attitudes t…
Zehn Jahre Neue Seidenstraße
It has been said that the New Silk Road allows China to assert its interests by financing and implementing major infrastructure projects. Further, within its partner countries, China raised expectations of “win-win” situations that were not fulfilled. Results in Hungary, Serbia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan show that local actors and conditions influence Chinese engagement more than was previously assumed. China is expanding its presence in countries …
EU trade liberalisation, sectoral coalitions and development
This paper contributes to the literature on EU trade policy by introducing insights from the political economy literature on development to the study of how EU trade liberalisation affects development in trading partners.Drawing on a comparison of EU trade liberalisation with Moldova and Georgia, we argue that the type of coalition between public and private actors in partner countries' top export sectors determines which firms benefit from bette…
Building a Transnational Developmental State in Europe
Collision, Competition or Cooperation? China's BRI and the EU's Development Policies Towards Eastern Europe
Against the backdrop of China's growing engagement in Eastern Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to challenge the European Union (EU) approach to promoting development in the region. We take issue with this claim by making three interrelated arguments. First, if at all, the BRI challenges the EU approach to development on the programmatic rather than on the implementation level. The BRI's proclaimed “no strings attached” policy st…
Political science (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · International trade (11 works) · Economic system (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · European union (8 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Market economy (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)