🔔 New BiEPAG policy brief
🔹 Mining in the Western Balkans: How to counter authoritarian extractivism?
As the EU secures critical raw materials, mining in the Western Balkans raises concerns over governance, environmental risks, and weak public participation.
📄 Read here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/mrxz77xh
How are the 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇹🇷 perceived across the WB & the EaP?
Our latest study reveals clear regional contrasts. While the 🇪🇺, 🇺🇸, and 🇷🇺 dominate online debates, 🇨🇳 and especially 🇹🇷 show distinct, & in some cases more favourable — sentiment patterns, particularly in EaP countries.
🔗 bit.ly/4aF06rx
*Featured Image: Wikimedia commons
📣New #GEOPOWEREU Case Study!
Research finds that disinformation in 🇧🇦 is largely homegrown and politically weaponised. In Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik uses pro-🇷🇺 rhetoric to deflect corruption allegations and entrench illiberal rule.
🔗https://bit.ly/4aF8mGD
🔔 Seriously Balkans – The BiEPAG Talks ep.22
🔹 The Student Protest Movement in Serbia: What does the Future hold?
🎙️ Our BiEPAG Coordinator @fbieber.bsky.social is hosting his guests:
🔸Marina Vulović
🔸Jelena Vasiljević
🔸 Nikola Burazer
👇 Tune in now 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/1Y48...
🔔New policy brief
✍️J. Marović & O. Barbullushi
🔹How Accession Treaties Can Strengthen Europe
The brief argues for enforceable safeguards, rule-of-law conditionality, and performance-based integration. EU accession treaties must become tools for democratic resilience.
📄https://tinyurl.com/ycbuu8wy
📣 Is the Eastern Partnership still relevant in today’s geopolitical landscape?
Join our online webinar, organised by @eapcsf in partnership with #GEOPOWEREU, on rethinking EU🇪🇺–EaP relations amid war in🇺🇦 & strategic competition.
🗓️ 19 Feb | ⏰ 12:00–13:00 CET
🔗 Register: bit.ly/3ZvgSTv
*Featured image: Deutsche Welle, Image: picture-alliance/dpa/B. von Jutrczenka
📣New publication alert!
Our PI Prof. @tzifakis.bsky.social has published a new co-authored article on EU enlargement and “reversed conditionality” in the Western Balkans.
Read it open access here: bit.ly/4r0WhTl
We apply Jessop’s & Hay’s strategic-relational approach to highlight the underexamined agency, reflexivity & strategic-mindedness of applicant country leaders in accession negotiations & to introduce the term “reversed conditionality” to the debate. 2/2
@geopower-eu.bsky.social, @biepag.bsky.social
Read our (open-access) article offering an agency-structure perspective to EU enlargement towards the Western Balkans and let us know what you think.
Link: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... 1/2
@jmc-eufp-wb.bsky.social
Apply to the @asn-org.bsky.social conference in Belgrade next year organized by ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/12/asn-...
🔔Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG talks ep.19
🔹The predicament of media and press freedom in the Balkans
🎙️Our BiEPAG member Giorgio Fruscione
is hosting his guests:
Lejla Mazlic and @slobageorgiev.bsky.social
#MediaFreedom
👇Tune in for more on this topic👇
open.spotify.com/episode/5thu...
Join us for a discussion on a very interesting topic.
📣 New GEO-POWER-EU Report!
Our new study shows how corrosive capital and #disinformation take hold through co-production between domestic political patrons and foreign actors—using opaque deals and tailored narratives to shield vested interests.
Read here🔗 bit.ly/48rghX0
Evangelia Psychogiopoulou questions whether sustainable development is a constitutional value of the EU: econtent.pedis.uop.gr/jmc-eupf-wb/...
Stay tuned as more videos will be uploaded shortly 6/6.
Hanna L. Mühlenhoff presents the #queerapproach to EU foreign policy: econtent.pedis.uop.gr/jmc-eupf-wb/... 5/6.
@kurtbassuener.bsky.social illustrates the concept of the peace cartel: econtent.pedis.uop.gr/jmc-eupf-wb/...
4/6.
@tenaprelec.bsky.social presents the notion of #corrosivecapital: econtent.pedis.uop.gr/jmc-eupf-wb/... 3/6.
@fbieber.bsky.social explains the concept of #stabilitocracy: econtent.pedis.uop.gr/jmc-eupf-wb/... 2/6.
The @jmc-eufp-wb.bsky.social launches a series of short tutorial videos. Brilliant colleagues explain analytical approaches, concepts, & ideas in clear terms. #IR #EUStudies 1/6
📣How do Serbians view the 🇪🇺, #migration, #security & global actors?
Join us on 7 Oct for the online presentation of 🇷🇸 findings from the 2025 #GEOPOWEREU Public Opinion Survey📊
🗓️Tuesday, 7 Oct | 15:00 CET
📍Online (Zoom)
🔗Info & Participation: shorturl.at/U0bWZ
Featured Image: Reuters/European Commission
📢 How do citizens in the Western Balkans & Associated Trio see global actors, their partners, and their own future?The #GEOPOWEREU project shares fresh results from a Public Opinion Survey across 🇦🇱🇧🇦🇽🇰🇲🇪🇲🇰🇷🇸🇺🇦🇲🇩🇬🇪
A short🧵⤵️
*New & open access*
We draw on our book Indulging Kleptocracy, reflecting on the importance of networks - even more than states, we argue - in today’s global order.
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
@jheathershaw.bsky.social
@britishacademy.bsky.social
journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/13/...
📢 New blog alert! @branim.bsky.social (@wiiw.ac.at) dives into 🇨🇳 investment trends in 🇷🇸 and the wider Western Balkans using the #GEOPOWEREU database.
🔗 Article: shorturl.at/erwh1
📊Database: bit.ly/452UyEN
*Featured image: AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic
New blog alert! Our @dpcglobal.bsky.social colleagues @valeryperry.bsky.social and @kurtbassuener.bsky.social explore 🇪🇺's underused leverage in 🇷🇸 & the Western Balkans in “Rethinking EU Strategy: Squandered Influence”, using #GEOPOWEREU database
🔗Article: bit.ly/453fR9e
📊Database: bit.ly/452UyEN
📣New BiEPAG blog📝
Rama’s Foreign Policy Paradox by Dr. Des. Rigels Lenja
🔹Everyone’s Friend (except Russia)
Read it at👇
tinyurl.com/5hcck9m8
📢On May 26–27, the GEO-POWER-EU consortium held two productive days in Belgrade. Here’s what happened 🧵
1/ A public conference was co-organized with @reunir.bsky.social on the EU’s role in the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership. Full summary here:
🔗 shorturl.at/uBaHO
🚨New blog alert!
Prof N. Džuverović @BelgradeUni analyzes Serbia's 🇷🇸foreign policy balancing act in a new piece published by European Western Balkans, drawing on data from the GEOPOWER EU database.
🔗Read the article: shorturl.at/538A4
📊Explore the database: shorturl.at/jaN2H
Our panel on “The 🇪🇺in the Era of Geopolitics: Power, Strategy & Influence” started, moderated by Dr @filipejdus.bsky.social& featured Prof @tzifakis.bsky.social #UoP, Alexandra Bykova @wiiw.ac.at, Dr Panagiota Manoli #UoP, Björn Fägersten @uisweden.bsky.social &Strahinja Subotić #EPC &InvigoratEU
#interdependence - how linked are #Albania #Bosnia #Kosovo #NorthMacedonia #Montenegro #Serbia #Georgia #Ukraine and #Moldova and the #EU, #Russia, #China #Turkey and the #US is shown in the database created by @geopower-eu.bsky.social consortium.
Check it out at: geo-power.eu/research-out...