Burlyuk, O., & Musliu, V. (Eds.). (2023). The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Journal of International Relations and Development, 26(4). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41268-023-00318-x
ATHENA’s thirteenth thesis “Ignorance is the Mother of Pride: Decentring EU Discourse on Hezbollah” by Lucia Hokayem can be accessed here. This thesis was originally written for the ATHENA Jean Monnet Chair Research Project “The EU and its neighbours: politics, policies, challenges and opportunities” taught by…
ATHENA’s twelfth thesis “Agents of Change or Subjects? EU Youth Engagement in the MENA Region: A Critical Examination of How EU Policies in the MENA Region Function as Mechanisms of Neoliberal Governmentality” by Elise Teunisse can be accessed here.
This thesis was originally written for the ATHENA Jean Monnet Chair Research Project “The EU and its neighbours: politics, policies, challenges and opportunities” taught by Dr. Dimitris Bouris. It is published as part of our mission to showcase peer-leading theses written by students during their studies. This work can be used for background reading and research, but should not be cited as an expert source or used in place of scholarly articles/books.
This year’s Brussels Study Trip, organised by the ATHENA Jean Monnet Chair, was once again a success! During the two-day programme, 23 students from Dr Dimitris Bouris’s and Dr Olga Burlyuk’s research project groups engaged with practitioners and experts at the heart of EU foreign and…
Bouris, D., Fisher-Onar, N., & Huber, D. (2025). Towards allyship in diversity? Critical perspectives on the European Union’s global role. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13763
Bouris, D., Kenny, S., & Mühlenhoff, H. L. (2025). Queering European Union foreign and security policy: Invisibility, heteronormativity and binaries in the EU’s approach to Women, Peace and Security. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13750
Fartan, G. S., & Bouris, D. (2025). Performing the (contested) state: A critical discourse analysis of Transnistria’s political elites. The International Spectator, 60(2), 93–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2025.2472956
Mullen, E., & Bouris, D. (2025). The interrelationship between gender and European Union foreign policy: A feminist institutionalist analysis of EULEX Kosovo, EUPOL COPPS and EUMM Georgia. Journal of International Relations and Development, 28, 154–177. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-025-00347-8
Barbieux, F., & Bouris, D. (2024). Decentring European Union foreign policy: Addressing colonial dynamics in EU-Algeria relations. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 63(4), 1138–1157. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13688
Bouris, D., & Fernandez Molina, I. (2024). The international norm-practice relationship, contested states and the EU’s territorial (un)differentiation towards Palestine and Western Sahara. Global Studies Quarterly, 4(2), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae041
