George Christou
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1158413 |
|---|---|
| NOME | George Christou |
| PRENOMES | George |
| SOBRENOME | Christou |
| ASSINATURA | CHRISTOU G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3964-6645 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Framing conditionality in times of crisis
How consistent is the European Union’s (EU) response to the growing democratic decline in its neighbourhood? While existing research has examined the domestic drivers of autocratisation in the neighbourhood and its impact on the EU’s transformative power, the variability and contestation within the EU’s institutional response remain underexplored. In this article, we aim to address this gap by analysing how the European Commission, the European P…
Cleaning” Exarchia
The article tackles the emerging issue of urban bordering by exploring its racializing and securitizing discourses and practices. These frame minoritized subjects as evictable, contributing to the gentrification of their areas of shelter and refuge. The key processes of contemporary urban governance are examined in the neighborhood of Exarchia in central Athens, Greece, an area of great political and historical significance for anti‐authoritarian…
All in this Together? Communities of Practice in UK–EU Cybersecurity Relations Post‐Brexit and Differentiated Re‐engagement
Whilst formative work on characterising UK‐EU cybersecurity cooperation points to re‐engagement rather than disengagement, we seek to take this as our starting point in order to build a more complex picture on how Brexit has impacted practitioners at policy and operational levels. The article argues that while UK‐EU collaboration in cybersecurity has historically been robust, the politics of withdrawal/ Brexit have had varying effects on engageme…
The European Union’s Approaches to Cyber Diplomacy
The European union
This article investigates the EU's global potential leadership and actorness in the development and diffusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the EU, AI has raised societal and policy concern due to persisting evidence of the technology disregarding ethical principles and fundamental rights. To address these risks, European institutions and politicians project leadership claims for global norms underpinned by a human-centric and rights-based …
The Future is Now From Before
This paper draws on data from a qualitative study of youth climate activists in Cyprus to explore the notion of temporality implied in how youth interrogate intergenerational relations in the context of their struggle against climate change and the tensions therein. Acknowledging the structural age inequalities that limit their actions, youth activists drew on multiple temporal frames of present, future, and past to delineate a sense of urgency f…
Refusing to Grow Old
Through registering the chronopolitics of Cypriot teenage antiauthoritarian activists, this article explores the antichronocratic labour of children as a way to engage with processes of degrowth and to create dissident everyday temporalities through which to build alternative communities and relations in the present. It is argued that paying attention to such labour unsettles the hegemonic temporality of linear development and the individualized …
The US Intelligence Community, Global Security, and AI
This article examines the ways in which the US intelligence community is leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for national security purposes. Drawing on declassified intelligence records, it contends that this community has been fascinated by AI for decades. This is important to acknowledge because this historical context has shaped contemporary projects and thinking within the community. It has given the United States a first-mov…
Crafting futures with hope
This article explores the future imaginaries of young climate activists in Cyprus in the light of the unfolding climate crisis and the uncertainty and urgency it engenders. We analyse young people's imagined futures and their struggles to manage fear and despair through the cultivation of a collective sense of hope which allows them to act as future‐makers and to work towards creating more just and sustainable futures. Through our empirical illus…
The slow pandemic’
Pandemic conditions have affected social movement activity in various ways. In this article, we explore how young Cypriot climate activists, associated with the global Fridays for Future movement, attempt to integrate pandemic conditions in their mobilizing tactics, as well as how such conditions affect their collective youth agency. We first look into the strategic antagonistic framings they develop to counter dominant discourses of the pandemic…
Interest group lobbying in the European Union
Bridging the gap between cyberwar and cyberpeace
The conceptual debate around the term cyber warfare has dominated the cybersecurity discipline over the last two decades. Much less attention has been given during this period to an equally important question: what constitutes cyber peace? This article draws on the literatures in peace and conflict studies and on desecuritization in critical security studies, to suggest how we might begin to rearticulate the cybersecurity narrative and shift the …
Agitative pauses, intentional moorings
Stasis has reemerged in recent accounts of resistance. In this paper that draws from ethnographic research with a youth antiauthoritarian community in Cyprus and their long-term occupation of a city square, I provide a broader theorization of this multi-semantic concept that has hitherto been missing from accounts on stasis commonly found in literature on the squares movement(s). I argue that stasis constitutes a key form of resistance to modern …
The collective securitisation of cyberspace in the European Union
Reflecting a central premise of the collective securitisation model, it is argued in this article that both specific events and longer-term trends have galvanised and reinforced the EU discourse of increasing threat and risk around cybersecurity, at different points in time. Thus, whilst major cyberattacks have caused the EU to reflect with some urgency on the increasing threat and review its approach, new policy initiatives evolved incrementally…
The challenges of cybercrime governance in the European Union
Information and Communications Technologies, in particular the Internet, have been an increasingly important aspect of global social, political and economic life for two decades, and are the backbone of the global information society today. Their evolution and development has brought many benefits but also the threat and practice of serious cyber attacks, cyber espionage and cybercrime within the virtual, networked ecosystem that we live in. In t…
The Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on National Foreign Policy
This article investigates the impact of the eurozone crisis on the foreign policy of an EU Member State, Cyprus. Drawing on the literature on Europeanization of national foreign policies, it is argued that Cypriot foreign policy, despite the general frustration caused by the financial crisis within broader society, has actually undergone further Europeanization. We show that leadership is a critical intervening variable in this enhanced Europeani…
Has the human security agenda come of age? Definitions, discourses and debates
The concept of human security (HS) and its accompanying agenda, 20 years after the publication of the Human Development Report (1994), are still in a state of flux. This article summarises the extent to which, based on an in-depth analysis of the original HS dimensions in the articles in this Special Issue, the HS agenda has evolved, to the extent that it has become a clearly articulated concept both in academic terms and as a guide to concrete p…
The Cyprus Presidency of the EU
Shaping the global communications milieu
The European Commission as an Actor in the Cyprus Conflict
The European Commission is an important actor in and of itself, with a distinct role in conflict transformation. There is much academic work on the EU's role in the Cyprus conflict, and more broadly, on the EU as an actor in conflict prevention and resolution. There is much less work examining the specific role of the European Commission through an exploration of the discourse it constructs, produces and sustains. It is the intention of this arti…
An Island in Europe
Bilateral Relations with Russia and the Impact on EU Policy
This article aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how two EU Member States, Greece and Cyprus, have influenced the evolution of common EU positions on Russia. Moreover, it exposes how the policies and positions taken up by Greece and Cyprus inside the EU have either undermined or reinforced a common European approach towards Russia across different policy themes
The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet
Whilst the global governance architecture of the Internet has evolved \nat pace in the last 10 years, the European Union’s (EU) role and influence in its \ndevelopment has been relatively understudied. This article contributes to closing \nthis gap in the literature through an exposition of how the EU has sought to \nshape the emerging environment for Internet governance in the context of its \nquest for ‘effective multilateralism’. It identifies…
The European Union, borders and conflict transformation
Much of the existing literature on the European Union (EU), conflict transformation and border dynamics has been premised on the assumption that the nature of the border determines EU intervention and the consequences that flow from this in terms of EU impact. The article aims to transcend this literature through assessing how domestic interpretations influence EU border transformation in conflict situations, taking Cyprus as a case study. Moreov…
The constitutive power of outsiders
The collective securitisation of cyberspace in the European Union
Reflecting a central premise of the collective securitisation model, it is argued in this article that both specific events and longer-term trends have galvanised and reinforced the EU discourse of increasing threat and risk around cybersecurity, at different points in time. Thus, whilst major cyberattacks have caused the EU to reflect with some urgency on the increasing threat and review its approach, new policy initiatives evolved incrementally…
The constitutive power of outsiders
The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet
Whilst the global governance architecture of the Internet has evolved \nat pace in the last 10 years, the European Union’s (EU) role and influence in its \ndevelopment has been relatively understudied. This article contributes to closing \nthis gap in the literature through an exposition of how the EU has sought to \nshape the emerging environment for Internet governance in the context of its \nquest for ‘effective multilateralism’. It identifies…
New Governance, the Internet, and Country Code Top‐Level Domains in Europe
Much academic work on governance in recent years has explored responses that states have made to sectors of the economy, usually historically well rooted nationally, that have been subject to globalizing pressures. Less work exists on responses that are being made to new parts of the economy emerging outside the nation state with inherently global characteristics. The Internet—and specifically its naming and addressing system—provides an example …
The Internet and Public–Private Governance in the European Union
The EU plays a significant role in public policy aspects of Internet governance, having created in the late 1990s the dot eu Internet Top Level Domain (TLD). This enables users to register names under a European online address label. This paper explores key public policy issues in the emergent governance system for dot eu, because it provides an interesting case of new European transnational private governance. Specifically, dot eu governance is …
Has the human security agenda come of age? Definitions, discourses and debates
The concept of human security (HS) and its accompanying agenda, 20 years after the publication of the Human Development Report (1994), are still in a state of flux. This article summarises the extent to which, based on an in-depth analysis of the original HS dimensions in the articles in this Special Issue, the HS agenda has evolved, to the extent that it has become a clearly articulated concept both in academic terms and as a guide to concrete p…
The slow pandemic’
Pandemic conditions have affected social movement activity in various ways. In this article, we explore how young Cypriot climate activists, associated with the global Fridays for Future movement, attempt to integrate pandemic conditions in their mobilizing tactics, as well as how such conditions affect their collective youth agency. We first look into the strategic antagonistic framings they develop to counter dominant discourses of the pandemic…
Agitative pauses, intentional moorings
Stasis has reemerged in recent accounts of resistance. In this paper that draws from ethnographic research with a youth antiauthoritarian community in Cyprus and their long-term occupation of a city square, I provide a broader theorization of this multi-semantic concept that has hitherto been missing from accounts on stasis commonly found in literature on the squares movement(s). I argue that stasis constitutes a key form of resistance to modern …
The challenges of cybercrime governance in the European Union
Information and Communications Technologies, in particular the Internet, have been an increasingly important aspect of global social, political and economic life for two decades, and are the backbone of the global information society today. Their evolution and development has brought many benefits but also the threat and practice of serious cyber attacks, cyber espionage and cybercrime within the virtual, networked ecosystem that we live in. In t…
The European Union, borders and conflict transformation
Much of the existing literature on the European Union (EU), conflict transformation and border dynamics has been premised on the assumption that the nature of the border determines EU intervention and the consequences that flow from this in terms of EU impact. The article aims to transcend this literature through assessing how domestic interpretations influence EU border transformation in conflict situations, taking Cyprus as a case study. Moreov…
The European union
This article investigates the EU's global potential leadership and actorness in the development and diffusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the EU, AI has raised societal and policy concern due to persisting evidence of the technology disregarding ethical principles and fundamental rights. To address these risks, European institutions and politicians project leadership claims for global norms underpinned by a human-centric and rights-based …
The US Intelligence Community, Global Security, and AI
This article examines the ways in which the US intelligence community is leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for national security purposes. Drawing on declassified intelligence records, it contends that this community has been fascinated by AI for decades. This is important to acknowledge because this historical context has shaped contemporary projects and thinking within the community. It has given the United States a first-mov…
Interest group lobbying in the European Union
Gaining a Stake in Global Internet Governance
The global governance of the Internet and the influence that the EU is able to exert in international governance institutions are two important topics that this article brings together in the context of the EU's relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), created in 1999 to manage strategically valuable technical resources and functions of the Internet. Employing Schimmelfennig's model of rational action in …
All in this Together? Communities of Practice in UK–EU Cybersecurity Relations Post‐Brexit and Differentiated Re‐engagement
Whilst formative work on characterising UK‐EU cybersecurity cooperation points to re‐engagement rather than disengagement, we seek to take this as our starting point in order to build a more complex picture on how Brexit has impacted practitioners at policy and operational levels. The article argues that while UK‐EU collaboration in cybersecurity has historically been robust, the politics of withdrawal/ Brexit have had varying effects on engageme…
The Cyprus Presidency of the EU
An Island in Europe
Bilateral Relations with Russia and the Impact on EU Policy
This article aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how two EU Member States, Greece and Cyprus, have influenced the evolution of common EU positions on Russia. Moreover, it exposes how the policies and positions taken up by Greece and Cyprus inside the EU have either undermined or reinforced a common European approach towards Russia across different policy themes
A Sectoral Analysis of Disaggregated Trade Flows in the Central American Common Market 1962–1970
A Sectoral Analysis of Disaggregated Trade Flows in the Central American Common Market 1962–1970
Trade Intensification in the Central American Common Market
The movement toward regional integration is one of the more important features of international economic relations between developing nations during the past decade, and none has been more ambitious in the developing world than the attempt of the five countries of Central America to band together in the Central American Common Market (CACM). The CACM was a dominant force in Central American economic development throughout the decade of the 1960s,…
The Internet and Public–Private Governance in the European Union
The EU plays a significant role in public policy aspects of Internet governance, having created in the late 1990s the dot eu Internet Top Level Domain (TLD). This enables users to register names under a European online address label. This paper explores key public policy issues in the emergent governance system for dot eu, because it provides an interesting case of new European transnational private governance. Specifically, dot eu governance is …
Gaining a Stake in Global Internet Governance
The global governance of the Internet and the influence that the EU is able to exert in international governance institutions are two important topics that this article brings together in the context of the EU's relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), created in 1999 to manage strategically valuable technical resources and functions of the Internet. Employing Schimmelfennig's model of rational action in …
The Politics of Regional Identity
The Europeanization of Cyprus
New Governance, the Internet, and Country Code Top‐Level Domains in Europe
Much academic work on governance in recent years has explored responses that states have made to sectors of the economy, usually historically well rooted nationally, that have been subject to globalizing pressures. Less work exists on responses that are being made to new parts of the economy emerging outside the nation state with inherently global characteristics. The Internet—and specifically its naming and addressing system—provides an example …
The European Union, borders and conflict transformation
Much of the existing literature on the European Union (EU), conflict transformation and border dynamics has been premised on the assumption that the nature of the border determines EU intervention and the consequences that flow from this in terms of EU impact. The article aims to transcend this literature through assessing how domestic interpretations influence EU border transformation in conflict situations, taking Cyprus as a case study. Moreov…
The constitutive power of outsiders
Bilateral Relations with Russia and the Impact on EU Policy
This article aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how two EU Member States, Greece and Cyprus, have influenced the evolution of common EU positions on Russia. Moreover, it exposes how the policies and positions taken up by Greece and Cyprus inside the EU have either undermined or reinforced a common European approach towards Russia across different policy themes
The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet
Whilst the global governance architecture of the Internet has evolved \nat pace in the last 10 years, the European Union’s (EU) role and influence in its \ndevelopment has been relatively understudied. This article contributes to closing \nthis gap in the literature through an exposition of how the EU has sought to \nshape the emerging environment for Internet governance in the context of its \nquest for ‘effective multilateralism’. It identifies…
Shaping the global communications milieu
The European Commission as an Actor in the Cyprus Conflict
The European Commission is an important actor in and of itself, with a distinct role in conflict transformation. There is much academic work on the EU's role in the Cyprus conflict, and more broadly, on the EU as an actor in conflict prevention and resolution. There is much less work examining the specific role of the European Commission through an exploration of the discourse it constructs, produces and sustains. It is the intention of this arti…
An Island in Europe
The Cyprus Presidency of the EU
Has the human security agenda come of age? Definitions, discourses and debates
The concept of human security (HS) and its accompanying agenda, 20 years after the publication of the Human Development Report (1994), are still in a state of flux. This article summarises the extent to which, based on an in-depth analysis of the original HS dimensions in the articles in this Special Issue, the HS agenda has evolved, to the extent that it has become a clearly articulated concept both in academic terms and as a guide to concrete p…
The Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on National Foreign Policy
This article investigates the impact of the eurozone crisis on the foreign policy of an EU Member State, Cyprus. Drawing on the literature on Europeanization of national foreign policies, it is argued that Cypriot foreign policy, despite the general frustration caused by the financial crisis within broader society, has actually undergone further Europeanization. We show that leadership is a critical intervening variable in this enhanced Europeani…
The collective securitisation of cyberspace in the European Union
Reflecting a central premise of the collective securitisation model, it is argued in this article that both specific events and longer-term trends have galvanised and reinforced the EU discourse of increasing threat and risk around cybersecurity, at different points in time. Thus, whilst major cyberattacks have caused the EU to reflect with some urgency on the increasing threat and review its approach, new policy initiatives evolved incrementally…
The challenges of cybercrime governance in the European Union
Information and Communications Technologies, in particular the Internet, have been an increasingly important aspect of global social, political and economic life for two decades, and are the backbone of the global information society today. Their evolution and development has brought many benefits but also the threat and practice of serious cyber attacks, cyber espionage and cybercrime within the virtual, networked ecosystem that we live in. In t…
Interest group lobbying in the European Union
Bridging the gap between cyberwar and cyberpeace
The conceptual debate around the term cyber warfare has dominated the cybersecurity discipline over the last two decades. Much less attention has been given during this period to an equally important question: what constitutes cyber peace? This article draws on the literatures in peace and conflict studies and on desecuritization in critical security studies, to suggest how we might begin to rearticulate the cybersecurity narrative and shift the …
Agitative pauses, intentional moorings
Stasis has reemerged in recent accounts of resistance. In this paper that draws from ethnographic research with a youth antiauthoritarian community in Cyprus and their long-term occupation of a city square, I provide a broader theorization of this multi-semantic concept that has hitherto been missing from accounts on stasis commonly found in literature on the squares movement(s). I argue that stasis constitutes a key form of resistance to modern …
Crafting futures with hope
This article explores the future imaginaries of young climate activists in Cyprus in the light of the unfolding climate crisis and the uncertainty and urgency it engenders. We analyse young people's imagined futures and their struggles to manage fear and despair through the cultivation of a collective sense of hope which allows them to act as future‐makers and to work towards creating more just and sustainable futures. Through our empirical illus…
The slow pandemic’
Pandemic conditions have affected social movement activity in various ways. In this article, we explore how young Cypriot climate activists, associated with the global Fridays for Future movement, attempt to integrate pandemic conditions in their mobilizing tactics, as well as how such conditions affect their collective youth agency. We first look into the strategic antagonistic framings they develop to counter dominant discourses of the pandemic…
The Future is Now From Before
This paper draws on data from a qualitative study of youth climate activists in Cyprus to explore the notion of temporality implied in how youth interrogate intergenerational relations in the context of their struggle against climate change and the tensions therein. Acknowledging the structural age inequalities that limit their actions, youth activists drew on multiple temporal frames of present, future, and past to delineate a sense of urgency f…
Political science (27 obras) · Law (18 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Politics (16 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · European union (15 obras) · European Union Policy and Governance (14 obras) · Business (13 obras) · International trade (13 obras) · Economics (12 obras)