While the geopolitical rivalry between the European Union (EU) and Russia over their common neighborhood has increasingly attracted academic...

Russia's impact on EU policy transfer to the post-Soviet space has not been as negative as often perceived. EU policies have traveled to...

Secure and well-managed migration and mobility figure prominently in the European Union’s (EU) relations with its Eastern neighbors. In the...

This article advances our understanding of differences in hybrid stability by going beyond existing regime typologies that separate the study...

The Ukraine crisis seems to support the claim that strong socio-economic ties with Russia eventually reduce the effectiveness of the European...

This article addresses how both external democratic and non-democratic actors impact the persistence of non-democratic regimes in third...

Esther Ademmer and Yaroslav Lissovolik examine the challenges for inclusive economic integration in post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia. They note...

In its current approach to achieve an appropriate euro area fiscal stance, the EU Commission asks countries with fiscal space to provide extra...

This article investigates whether different capitalist varieties in Central and Eastern Europe have different records of post-accession...

This paper reconsiders the policy trilemma in an open economy by incorporating political economy concerns. We argue that the impact of...

This policy paper aims at offering suggestions on how to improve the effect of policy conditionality in European Neighbourhood Countries...

The literature on European Union enlargement has identified misfit and membership conditionality as two factors that decisively shape the...

This article revisits institutional constraints to political budget cycles (PBCs) in the enlarged European Union (EU). Based on a panel of 25...

In academic and public debates, external actors have been considered to promote their rules most effectively in third countries in cases of...

In the 2018 MEDAM Assessment Report, we propose a comprehensive strategy for EU asylum and immigration policies that is both politically...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 88: The Schengen Agreement celebrated its 30th birthday on June 14. On this occasion Esther Ademmer, Toman Barsbai,...

Immigration has been considered critical for the emergence of a new cleavage in the European Union that pits the winners of globalisation...

How can the responsibility for refugees be distributed more fairly – globally and within the EU? And how can we curb irregular migration while...