The Adriatic as the European internal sea which penetrates most deeply toward the centre of the European continent has one of the strategic roles in the processes of the European integration. Through decline of the European ideological and political distribution, the shift of the European...

A study conducted by the European Parliamentary Research Service (2023) notes that the European Union's (EU) relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries are being affected by changes in global power, economic uncertainty, and security threats. The current working paper...

Now that the European Council has given the green light to opening EU accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, it is clear that the Union is no longer simply showing symbolic solidarity with neighbours invaded or threatened by Russia. Rather, a new chapter of enlargement policy is...

In this article, we study the effects of geopolitical risks and world uncertainty on time-varying fiscal and external sustainability coefficients. We use Schlicht’s (2021) methodology to estimate time-varying fiscal and external sustainability coefficients for the EU for 27 economies between...

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- ONE: The Size of States -- TWO: The Rise of the East -- THREE: The Decline and Resurgence of the West -- FOUR: The Unification of the United States and the Integration of the West -- FIVE: The Trauma of Power Transition -- SIX: Market Clusters Augment Size --...