Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War Finland

This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland’s Cold War cultural diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the country’s foreign relations, the link between culture and politics, small states’ autonomy during the Cold War, and the porosity of the East-West divide. The book offers a historical survey of the development of Finland’s cultural dip…

Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway, and Sweden

This is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license The history of Charismatic Christianity in the Nordic countries reaches as far back as Pentecostalism itself. The bounds of these categories remain a topic of discussion, but Nordic countries have played a vital role in developing this rapidly spreading form of world-wide Christianity. Until now, research on global Charismatic Christianity has lar…

EU Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting International Order

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-031-64060-5

Collation

-

Series Title

The European Union in International Affairs

Call Number

XII, 292

European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Order

This is an open access book. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. However, the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differenti…

The Non-radicalisation of Muslims in Southern Europe

This open access book explains why southern European countries with significant Muslim communities have experienced few religiously inspired violent attacks – or have avoided the kind of securitised response to such attacks seen in many other Western states. The authors provide a unique contribution to the literature on violent extremism – which has traditionally focused on countries such a…

Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France

This book investigates the recently accelerated phenomenon of mainstream French film and serial television’s remarkable popularity not only within but – more novelly for European audiovisual narratives – outside the domestic context. Treating changes that have taken place in France's production landscape during the mass rollout of global streaming platforms as revelatory of broader tenden…

Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU

This interdisciplinary book takes stock of Ukraine’s thorny European integration path in the last two decades. Engaging many Ukrainian academics and practitioners, the book seeks to offer a first-hand insight into how Ukraine moves towards EU membership, while in war with Russia, and which ‘stumbling blocks’ it encounters.

European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times

This open access book provides the first ever authoritative collection of scholarly insights, based upon original research, into the political groups of the EP tackling the fundamental changes since the Lisbon Treaty and the upsurge of radical right parties. It analyses political groups and their importance from multiple perspectives critically assessing their role and significance in EU polit…

Taking the EU to Court

This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and decision-making …

Semantic Systems. The Power of AI and Knowledge Graphs; 15th International Co…

Buku akses terbuka ini merupakan rangkaian prosedur yang telah direview dari Konferensi Internasional ke-15 tentang Sistem Semantik, SEMANTiCS 2019, yang diadakan di Karlsruhe, Jerman, pada September 2019. 20 makalah penuh dan 8 makalah pendek yang disajikan dalam volume ini telah ditinjau dengan cermat dan dipilih dari 88 pengajuan. Topik yang dibahas mencakup: semantik web dan data terhubung …