By KUNLING ZHANG | Slowbalization is the result of a deliberate political choice by right-wing populist governments. Economic and geoeconomic factors have certainly played a role too.
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Defining the “European Defence Technological Industrial Base”: The Emergence of a Transnational Field under Dependencies
By SAMUEL B. H. FAURE | Arms production in Europe is mainly carried out by private companies, due to the liberalization of all national armament policies there.
By GRIGORI KHISLAVSKI | In the run-up to and aftermath of the annexation of Crimea, Putin’s rhetoric started featuring theological imagery that ultimately found its way into the constitution via amendments.
The Wider Impact of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Insights from Georgia’s Contested Borderland with Abkhazia
By GAËLLE LE PAVIC | Contested borders constitute a particularly pronounced phenomenon in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus, where unresolved conflicts and wars after the collapse of the Soviet Union have generated enduring disputes over sovereignty and statehood.
By MAGALI CHESNEL | Camargue’s salt marshes and ponds have become oases for the greater flamingo. This series is a minimalist immersion into the intimacy of this emblematic bird, which feeds there and flies above landscapes of fragile beauty.
GlobalEurope looks back and picks its favorite literary translations published in 2025.
Translated by TESS LEWIS | Horsetails swayed on the bank, stretching their heads toward the water and behind them, barberries glowed on the hedge through the dark tree trunks.
By PAUL O’KEEFFE and CLAIRE MacEVILLY | Education is increasingly being called upon to foster ecological literacy, social cohesion, and community resilience.
By POMPEO DELLA POSTA | The EU is uniquely situated to play a moderating role in the confrontation between the US and China, given its geopolitical influence, economic power, and commitment to multilateralism.
By DAVID BERRIDGE | The books discussed here chart a shift from the individual photograph to a reckoning with the “cacophonous energy” of our historical and contemporary image worlds.
Translated by OLIVIA OLSEN | listen to / open beaks / open wounds / their terror in the nets / in the steel wire snares…
This month’s recent book recommendations by GlobalEurope editors Oksana Ermolaeva and Edina Paleviq
By HÉLÈNE B. DUCROS | The Russian invasion was made possible because of our very system of production and resource use.
By JULIA KHREBTAN-HÖRHAGER | Throughout modern history, the indoctrination and militarization of young people have proven central to the consolidation of non-democratic regimes.
By LIEVEN ENGELEN | Like silent witnesses of a present rooted in one of the darkest days of Europe.
Trade Policy as an Assertion of National Power: Reading Hirschman to Understand the Donald Trump Administration
By PETER DEBAERE and MANUELA ACHILLES | Trade policy can serve as a deliberate instrument of political power even when it runs counter to the economic interests of the country imposing it.
By BEE LEHMAN and TOM VAN NUENEN | Scholars must understand the scope of what exists in a digital environment to be conscious of inherent biases and interpretative limitations in their research.
By METEHAN TEKINIRK | Europe’s pivotal moment is part of a broader process, a fundamental shift in world politics.
Translated by LISA HOFMANN-KURODA | Perhaps the desire to learn another language as an adult is simply a nostalgic yearning for that time in infancy when we had completely unrestricted movement over our tongue and lips.
Translated by AQIIL M. GOPEE with JEFFREY DITEMAN | A milky glow, the gauze of dawn, had begun to appear, vaguely wafting over the edges of the Orient.
This month’s recent book recommendations by GlobalEurope editors Nick Ostrum, Hélène B. Ducros, Edina Paleviq, and Oksana Ermolaeva.
Religious Leadership and Practice in the Eyes of the Soviet Political Police: A Review of The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR
By SOPHIA KALASHNIKOVA HOROWITZ | The volume assesses informer effectiveness in controlling and limiting religious life in the USSR.
By CRAIG WILLIS | Every European league contains clubs situated in areas with regional or minority language contexts.
By ANDREW MARTINO | At what point does an author, especially one of tremendous renown, sacrifice a right to privacy?
Silent Architects of Empire: A Review of Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire
By EDINA PALEVIQ | Women found power even within constraint. They shared not status or fame, but action.
