Southeast European & Black Sea Studies
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Southeast Europe & Black Sea Studies, a Taylor&Francis area studies journal affiliated with @eliamepgr. Editor in Chief I. N. Grigoriadis. Retweet ≠ endorsement
Athens, Greece
Joined January 2015
🏛️ How does imperial nostalgia shape urban change in post-socialist Balkan cities?. New research by Miloš Jovanović explores Europeanization, city branding & gentrification in Rijeka, Belgrade, Vienna & Istanbul. 🔗 #SEEBSS #UrbanStudies #PostSocialism.
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This paper discusses the spatial restructuring of Balkan cities and their imperial metropoles in relation to imperial nostalgia during early twenty-first century processes of Europeanization. Emerg...
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🌍 How does China challenge the EU’s normative influence?. 📚 @gozdehyilmaz examines Chinese engagement with Türkiye & the Western Balkans, revealing how China fills gaps left by the EU’s hesitant enlargement policy. 🔗 #SEEBSS.
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The EU has been challenged as a norm exporter both internally and externally in recent years. However, studies focused on the external dimensions of this contestation, such as the rise of China, ha...
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🏙 How do cities in Southeast Europe shape , not just receive , Europeanization?. 📚@pajvana & Dorian Jano introduce a special issue on urban transformation, from spatial planning to gender dynamics. 🔗 #SEEBSS.
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This special issue challenges prevailing Europeanization frameworks in Southeast Europe by addressing analytical gaps created by methodological nationalism and state-centric approaches that focus p...
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🏙 Can cross-border cooperation heal decades of division?. 📚 Nuri Korkmaz explores how Europeanization unfolds in the Bulgarian-Greek borderland—where Kardzhali & Komotini reconnect urban spaces once split by the Cold War. 🔗 #SEEBSS.
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Europeanization and its impact on Southeast Europe remain subjects of ongoing debate. Each round of European Union enlargement has introduced new challenges, as macro-political agendas often failed...
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🗺 How are liberal norms reinterpreted through an anti-Western lens?. 📚 @kuyumoz examines Türkiye’s engagement in the Horn of Africa, merging anti-colonial rhetoric with Ottoman-inspired humanitarianism. 🔗 #SEEBSS.
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This paper investigates how Türkiye, as a regional actor, penetrated the Horn of Africa by adopting an anti-Western approach and reinterpreting liberal norms. Türkiye appealed to an anti-colonial d...
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RT @sinemacikmese: 📌Our new article is out! .We explored how Zelenskyy's securitization via twitter during Russia-Ukraine war influenced in….
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This article explores the link between social media and securitization in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war, post-February 2022, by employing the main tenets of the Copenhagen and Paris Schools...
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🌊What happens when the state fails to protect both workers and water?. 📚 New political-ecological study by @NitaLuci and @lindagusia explores #Kosovo's enduring struggles linking past and present - mining and hydropower, resistance and hope. 🔗 #SEEBSS.
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Social and political movements in Kosovo present a complex interplay of struggles over political rights and sovereignty. This article focuses on two instances of such activism, the 1989 Trepça mine...
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📢 New in #SEEBSS:. 🌍 How effective is the #EU at diffusing liberal democratic norms amid populist backlash?. 🇪🇺 @cenkerozek & @didem_ci show the EU’s liberal bias slows democratic consolidation in #Hungary, #Poland & candidate states like #Türkiye. 🔗
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This study explores the extent to which the EU has diffused liberal and democratic norms across its new members and its periphery in a context of the EU’s liberal norm diffusion on the one hand, an...
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📢 New in #SEEBSS:. 🕊️ How is de-Europeanization shaping Roma rights in Turkey?. 🇹🇷@OnursalBesgul & Gökçe-Kızilkaya show norms are renegotiated—not rejected—in evolving national policies. 🔗 #RomaRights #TurkeyEU #NormContest #MinorityRights.
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This article examines the historical development of Roma rights in Turkey through the dual lenses of Europeanization and de-Europeanization, with a focus on normative contestation. Rather than disa...
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📢 New in #SEEBSS:. ⚖️ How do volatile party systems drive electoral reforms?. 🇹🇷🇱🇹 @es_ekinci compares Turkey & Lithuania, showing reforms reflect strategic party responses to competition shifts. 🔗
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Electoral reform literature consistently finds that electoral volatility increases the likelihood of electoral system changes. However, the mechanisms through which political parties develop their ...
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📢 New in #SEEBSS. 🌍 How strong is the EU’s influence on Türkiye’s climate policy?. 🇪🇺🇹🇷 Karakir & @gozdee_kyaa examine EU efforts to diffuse climate norms in Türkiye, showing both normative impact and limitations through a 10-year policy analysis. 🔗
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This study aims to assess EU’s performance as a normative power in promoting climate change norms in a candidate state, Türkiye. Normative actors are expected to internalize the norms themselves fi...
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📢 New in #SEEBSS. 🗳️ Can preferential voting foster intra-party democracy?. 🇽🇰🇧🇦 @ZlatkoVujovic & Savic examine Kosovo & BiH—finding that strong party control over candidate selection limits the democratizing effects of electoral personalization. 🔗
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This study investigates the correlation between the personalization of electoral systems and the personalization of political parties, analysing its effects on intra-party democracy in Kosovo and B...
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📢 New in #SEEBSS. 🇪🇺 Can #Turkish civil society help restore the EU’s normative power?. @TabakHusrev , @KaanRenda & Özçelik show how EU-engaged CSOs push for norm diffusion and hold the EU accountable as a normative anchor. 🔗
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This paper examines the evolving role of civil society in sustaining the European Union’s (EU) normative influence amid the Union’s diminishing capacity to drive change in the European periphery, w...
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📢 New in #SEEBSS. 🌊 How does geography continue to shape Turkish-Russian power dynamics over the Straits?. 🇷🇺🇹🇷 Morgado & Varga apply neoclassical geopolitics to analyze the Bosphorus in 3 key conflicts, revealing persistent strategic patterns. 🔗
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This paper analyses the Turkish and Russian interests in the Turkish Straits. The paper’s main argument tests the traditional theoretical principle of the permanence of geography through a framewor...
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📚 New in #SEEBSS. 🌈Ayşenaz Fındık reviews Maryna Shevtsova’s #LGBTI Politics and Value Change in #Ukraine and #Turkey - a comparative analysis of #queerness, #activism, and #resistance. 🔗 #BookReview #PrideDay #PrideMonth.
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📢New in #SEEBSS. ⚖️ How do international actors respond to norm contestation?. 🇪🇺🇹🇷@burcuneretva & @marbodur examine the reactions of #CouncilofEurope to #Turkey’s withdrawal from the #IstanbulConvention - and the role of containment. 🔗
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This article contributes to research on norm contestation by examining the types of responses to norm contesters that might preserve, strengthen or undermine norm robustness. It focuses on the Coun...
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📢New in #SEEBSS. ✊ How do civil society and social movements contest the EU in migration governance?. 🇹🇷 @BosnakBuke examines activism in #Turkey - showing how EU externalization policies and shrinking civic space challenges migrant rights advocacy. 🔗
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Civil society and social movements have played a crucial role in the EU’s external relations, yet studies on EU contestation by civic actors remain varied. Drawing on framing theory, this article e...
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📢New in #SEEBSS. 🏙️ How do street names reflect patriarchy in Niš, Serbia?. @hipicik explores the gendered politics of urban toponymy, revealing enduring patriarchal ideology across regimes. 🔗#Toponymy #Patriarchy #UrbanStudies #genderbender.
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The paper deals with the street names in the city of Niš from a gender perspective. As Niš is the third largest city in Serbia and the centre of the southeastern region of the country, its space is...
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📚 New in #SEEBSS. ⌛️Ensar Kıvrak reviews Against the Liberal Order by Samuel J. Hirst — an incisive study of statist internationalism between 1919–1939. A must-read for scholars of #IR, #globalideologies, & early #Republican #Turkey. 🔗 #BookReview.
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