Publications

[INTERVIEW] T. Chopin dans M. Dancer, “Face au coronavirus, c’est l’identité européenne qui est en jeu”, La Croix, 29 mars 2020

Thierry Chopin, professeur à l’Université catholique de Lille et conseiller spécial à l’Institut Jacques-Delors, pointe les risques de dérive nationaliste si la solidarité européenne ne...

[PRESS ARTICLE] T. Haute, C. Kelbel & M. Neihouser, “Le premier tour des municipales vu par trois chercheurs-spécialistes”, DailyNord, 20 mars 2020

Trois chercheurs-spécialistes du CERAPS (Centre d’études et de recherches administratives politiques et sociales – Université de Lille) et de l’ESPOL (European school of political and social...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bertoncini, Y. et Chopin, T. (2020), « Macron l’Européen : de l’Hymne à la joie à l’embarras des choix », Le Débat n°208, Gallimard, janvier-février 2020, p. 114-129.

Nul n’a pu mieux symboliser l’engagement européen d’Emmanuel Macron que les échos de l’Hymne à la joie diffusé le 7 mai 2017 pour célébrer son...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Close, C., et Kelbel C., “Whose primaries? Grassroots’ views on candidate selection procedures”, Acta Politica, 2019

Opening-up processes of candidate selection is often viewed as a means for political parties to regain legitimacy, and perhaps more crucially, members and voters. Despite...

[INTERVIEW] Thierry Chopin in Laurent L. “Europeans Should Say Thank You to Boris Johnson”, Bloomberg Opinion & The Washington Post, February 4, 2020

One surprising knock-on effect of the U.K.’s departure from the European Union, which became official last week, was to bind the bloc’s 27 remaining members closer together. The...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Chopin T. & Lequesne C., “Disintegration reversed: Brexit and the cohesiveness of the EU27”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2020

This contribution analyses the political impact of Brexit on the EU27. The main argument is that Brexit is not just about disintegration. The UK policy...

[PRESS ARTICLE] Chopin T. (2020), “Le Brexit va-t-il réussir ? Probablement pas”, Les Echos, 30 janvier

Les Brexiters ont gagné la bataille du Brexit, mais le Brexit va-t-il réussir ? Trois raisons permettent d’en douter. Première raison, l’aveuglement des Brexiters qui...

[PRESS ARTICLE] Chopin T. & Lequesne C. (2020), “L’Europe des 27 ne veut surtout pas imiter le Brexit”, The Conversation, 29 janvier

Le Brexit n’est pas une bonne nouvelle pour l’Union européenne : il représente une amputation, en termes de poids commercial, politique et stratégique. Il rend aussi...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Kelbel, C. (2019). Waiting for the green light: tracing candidate selection by the French Green party in the 2014 European elections. French Politics (online first).

A widespread assumption is that national political parties use candidate selection for European elections to promote unexperienced politicians or to offer a luxury retirement home...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Greco, E., “Global value relations and local labour regimes in rice farming in Uganda and Tanzania”. Organization (IF 2.7), 2019

This study presents evidence on the organisation of farm work in rice farming areas in Uganda and Tanzania, where farms of different scale co-exist, drawing...

[PRESS ARTICLE] Bertoncini, Y. et Chopin, T. (2019), “Le choix des gouvernants de l’Union, pour un meilleur équilibre entre démocratie et diplocratie”, Le Grand Continent, Ecole normale supérieure, 20 novembre

La fin de la séquence politique ouverte par les élections européennes de mai 2019, puis le choix des titulaires des postes de responsabilité au sein...

[PRESS ARTICLE] Chopin, T. et Macek, L. (2019), “Trente ans après, retenons les leçons de 1989”, Les Echos, 15 novembre

L’année de la chute du mur de Berlin symbolise l’échec du totalitarisme et la promesse d’un avenir libre et démocratique pour tous les Européens. Promesse...

[PRESS ARTICLE] Chopin, T. (2019), “Brexiteers might have succedeed, but Brexit will fail”, LSE Brexit Blog, London School of Economics, November 15th

In 2016, a majority of eligible voters, in particular in England, decided that their country should leave the European Union. The deal that was patiently...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bornemann, Basil / Weiland, Sabine, “Empowering people—Democratising the food system? Exploring the democratic potential of food-related empowerment forms”, Politics and Governance, 2019.

The current food system, characterised by considerable concentrations of economic and political power, is widely regarded as undemocratic and in many respects unsustainable in its...

[PUBLICATION EDITED] Bornemann, B / Weiland, S (dir.) New Perspectives on Food Democracy. Special issue of Politics and Governance 7(4), 2019

With the overall intention of stimulating the debate on food democracy, this thematic issue aims to shed fresh light on the complex relationship between food...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Grzybowski, J. “The paradox of state identification: De facto states, recognition, and the (re-)production of the international”, International Theory, 2019

The literature on de facto states challenges the conventional identification of states by legal recognition, proposing to identify states based on their effectiveness instead. Yet,...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Greco, E., Wiegratz J. and Zeilig L., « Not quite post-political » in Review of African Political Economy, vol. 46 (160), 2019

The urgent tasks to undertake now … revolve centrally around inventing new modes and practices of collective political organisation … and the mobilisation of a wide range of new...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Greco, E., « Value, rent and nature: the centrality of class » in Review of African Political Economy, 2019

Welcoming the renewed interest in value among geographers, we engage with the arguments that Kay and Kenney-Lazar (2017) put forward in their article, ‘Value in...

[ACADEMIC REPORT] Chopin, T. and Sandri, G., “The 2019 European Parliament elections in France: Second (dis)order elections?”, Bolin, N., Falaska, K., Grusell, M., Nord, L. (eds.), EuroFlections. Leading Academics on the European Elections 2019, 2019.

The 2019 European elections were characterized by higher turnout than usual in most Member States and also in France. The participation went up for the...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Bourcier, Benjamin, « Trois enjeux de la déontologie publique chez Jeremy Bentham », dans Tusseau, G (dir.), La déontologie publique : trajectoire et présence d’une notion ambigüe, 2019

L’exigence de déontologie est présente de toutes parts. Doit-on disqualifier ce discours comme une rhétorique creuse, qui se déploie de manière erratique, notamment au gré...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Calligaro, O., « Une solidarité par la culture ou par les valeurs ? La politique culturelle de l’Union européenne, entre patrimoine culturel et dialogue interculturel » in Coman, Ramona, Fromont, Louise, Weyembergh, Anne dir.) La solidarité européenne : enjeux et perspectives, 2019

La solidarité est l’une des valeurs fondamentales sous-tendant le processus d’intégration européenne. Au centre des discours politiques depuis le début des années 1950, elle a...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Prelz Oltramonti, G., and Tanasescu, M., « The Criminalisation of Informal Practices in the Danube Delta: how and why ». In Russo, A., Polese, A. & Strazzari F. (Eds.), Governance Beyond the Law. The Illegal, the Immoral, the Criminal, 2019

In the Romanian Danube Delta, many activities involve some degree of concealment from state authorities. Residents live off strategies that are largely illegal, and authorities...

[PUBLICATION EDITED] Bourcier, B (dir.) Théories politiques du transhumanisme, dans Raisons Politiques, Presses de Science Po, n°74, 2019/2

Le transhumanisme a fait une entrée remarquée en philosophie et science politique lorsque, dans un bref article, Francis Fukuyama affirmait que ce nouveau mouvement social...

[PUBLICATION EDITED] Bonditti, P, Macleod, A (dir.) Relations internationales. Théories et concepts, 2019.

Fruit d’une collaboration franco-québécoise, cette quatrième édition revue et augmentée de Relations internationales. Théories et concepts offre près de soixante-dix nouvelles entrées qui reflètent l’évolution de...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Bolleyer, N., von Nostitz, F.-C., & Bormann, N.-C, Judicial decision-making within political parties: A political approach, Party Politics, 2019

How do German intra-party tribunals manage internal conflicts? More specifically, why do they accept some cases for trial but reject others? Required by law to...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Kelbel, C., Sandri, G., and van Haute, E. 2018. Who framed the party? The perception of political organisations. in Kris Deschouwer (ed.) Mind the Gap. Political Participation and Representation in Belgium, Rowman & Littlefield International, pp. 35-50.

Belgium is characterised by profusion and centrality of parties. The Belgian party system is split in two, it is highly fragmented and the effective number...

[BOOK] Tomini, L., and Sandri, G. (eds.) 2018. Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century: Concepts, Methods, Causality and the Quality of Democracy. London: Routledge.

The effectiveness and capacity of survival of democratic regimes has been recently and widely questioned in the public and political debate. Both democratic institutions and...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Sandri, G., and Seddone, A. 2018. The Democratic Party between change and settlement. Chronicle of a particular year. Contemporary Italian Politics, 10(4), pp. 315-329.

The year 2017 represents a key moment in the political life of the PD. The party celebrated 10 years of existence and did so by...

[REPORT] Chopin, T. and Foucher M. (eds) 2018, Schuman Report on Europe. The State of the Union 2018. Paris: Marie B. Editions / Lignes de repères.

This book seeks to analyse the political situation in the EU. Europeans face major challenges: between the risk of populist contagion and Brexit internally, migration...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Vang Rasmussen, L., Coolsaet, B., Martin, A., Mertz, O., Pascual, U., Corbera, E., Dawson, N. Fisher, J., Franks, P. and Ryan, C.M. 2018. Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification. Nature Sustainability 1, pp. 275-282, DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0070-8.

Land-use intensification in agrarian landscapes is seen as a key strategy to simultaneously feed humanity and use ecosystems sustainably, but the conditions that support positive...

[BOOK] Foret, F. and Calligaro, O., eds. (2018) European Values. Challenges and Opportunities for EU Governance. London; New York: Routledge.

Redefinitions of EU borders (enlargements, Brexit), geopolitical challenges (conflicts, migrations, terrorism, environmental risks) and the economic and financial crises have triggered debates on the common...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Calligaro O. (2018). Une figure paradoxale : Alan S. Milward, promoteur des études européennes et historien critique de l’intégration européenne. In: Larat F., Mangenot M., Schirmann S. (eds) (2018) Les études européennes. Genèses et institutionnalisation. Paris : L’Harmattan, pp. 89-110.

Alan S. Milward a très tôt dans sa carrière engagé une réflexion sur les méthodes et les cadres universitaires les plus adéquats pour penser, étudier...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Alvarez L and Coolsaet B. 2018. Decolonising Environmental Justice Studies: A Latin-American perspective. Capitalism Nature Socialism.

The “environment” and “justice” of environmental justice are often defined through Western ways of thinking. Empirical environmental justice research, however, increasingly takes place in the...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Zafra-Calvo N., E. Garmendia, U. Pascual, I. Palomo, N. Gross-Camp, D. Brockington, J.A. Cortes-Vazquez, B. Coolsaet, N. Burgess. (2019) Progress toward Equitably Managed Protected Areas in Aichi Target 11: A Global Survey. BioScience biy 143.

The Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Target 11 requires its 193 signatory parties to incorporate social equity into protected area (PA) management by 2020. However,...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Feindt, P.H. and Weiland, S. (2018) Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 20(6), pp. 661-674, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2018.1532562.

Elaborated in publications on transition management, sustainability governance and deliberative environmental governance, ‘reflexive governance’ addresses concerns about social-ecological vulnerabilities, flawed conceptualisations of human-nature relations fragmented...

Weapons of Mass Destruction and Global Security

Séminaire général ESPOL-LAB Paolo Foradori – Associate Professor, University of Trento

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Zafra-Calvo N., E. Garmendia, U. Pascual, I. Palomo, N. Gross-Camp, D. Brockington, J.A. Cortes-Vazquez, B. Coolsaet, N. Burgess, « Progress toward Equitably Managed Protected Areas in Aichi Target 11: A Global Survey. » BioScience 69(3). 2019

The Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Target 11 requires its 193 signatory parties to incorporate social equity into protected area (PA) management by 2020. However,...

[JOURNAL ARTICLE] Foret, F. and Calligaro, O. 2018. Governing by prizes: how the European Union uses symbolic distinctions in its search for legitimacy. Journal of European Public Policy. DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2018.1523221

Since their creation and with an increasing intensity since the 1980s, European institutions have used prizes, labels and other distinctions as political resources to perform...

[BOOK CHAPTER] Calligaro O. (2018). Une figure paradoxale : Alan S. Milward, promoteur des études européennes et historien critique de l’intégration européenne. In: Larat F., Mangenot M., Schirmann S. (eds) (2018) Les études européennes. Genèses et institutionnalisation. Paris : L’Harmattan, pp. 89-110.

Alan S. Milward a très tôt dans sa carrière engagé une réflexion sur les méthodes et les cadres universitaires les plus adéquats pour penser, étudier...

The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science

New publication : The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science An edited volume on ‘The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science’, edited by Thomas Hickmann, Lena Partzsch, Philipp...