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East West Street
Summary: A uniquely personal exploration of the origins of international law, centring on the Nuremberg Trials, the city of Lviv and a secret family history.
2016
Euroconstitutionalism and Its Discontents
Summary: This book addresses the question of social constitutionalism, especially with regard to its role in the contemporary European project.
2018
The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit
Summary: This book provides answers to those who want to understand the bitter arguments that occurred over Brexit, what might have been handled better, and the role that parliament played.
2023
Putin’s Plan to Stop Ukraine Turning to the West Has Failed: Our Survey Shows Support for Nato is at an All-time High
Summary: Survey data tracing the attitudes of the same people prior to and after the invasion shows that Ukrainians who once saw their future oriented towards Russia are now increasingly looking to the West for support.
2023
How Reliable Are Wartime Polls in Ukraine?
Summary: This memo draws on a unique longitudinal survey to highlight the methodological challenges that may affect studies on Ukrainian public opinion in wartime. Such challenges warrant caution in the interpretation of public opinion data, especially on politically sensitive questions and preferences of Ukraine as a whole
2023
Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space
Summary: How do citizens in the former Soviet Union find themselves in an information competition over their own past? This article explores whether and why ordinary people’s perceptions of historical events and figures in their country’s past are in line with a Russian-promoted narrative that highlights World War II as a glorious Soviet victory and Stalin as a great leader.
2023
Brexit: Past – Present – Future
Summary: Half a decade after the referendum, the authors in this special issue of Global Policy set out to consider Brexit from a wide diachronic perspective to examine not only its complicated present, but also its past and possible future(s).
2022
The making of landmark rulings in the European Union: the case of national judicial independence
Summary: This article shows how the European Court of Justice (ECJ), with implicit support from the majority of the Member States, strategically exploited suitable characteristics of an inconspicuous case to produce a landmark ruling that enabled unprecedented enforcement action against democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary.
2022
Lex-Atlas: Covid-19: A Comparative Study of National Legal Responses to COVID-19
Summary: This global academic project provides a scholarly report and analysis of national legal responses to Covid-19 around the world, with attention to their socio-political contexts. It is supported by several UK and German universities, as well as the AHRC and the Leverhulme Trust.
2020-22
Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?
Summary: This book explores the many and divisive dimensions of Alexei Navalny’s political life, from his pioneering anti-corruption investigations to his ideas and leadership of a political movement. It also looks at how his activities and the Kremlin’s strategies have shaped one another.
2022
Singing Truth to Power: Politics, Opera, and the Russian State
Summary: This fifteen-minute video short explores the themes of artistic representation, truth and political assassination in Putin's Russia. It focuses on the opera The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko by Anthony Bolton (music) and Kit Hesketh-Harvey (libretto), which premiered in 2021 at Grange Park Opera.
2022
Narrative Ju-jitsu: counter-narratives to European union
Summary: Recent scholarship has increasingly recognised the crucial role of political narratives in and for European integration. We demonstrate that in a narrative ju-jitsu, opponents of European union take up the themes of key pro-integration narratives and return their force against the EU.
2022
Environmental Groups and Legal expertise: Shaping the Brexit Process
Summary: This book explores the use and understanding of law and legal expertise by environmental groups. Rather than the usual focus on the court room, it scrutinises environmental NGO advocacy during the extraordinarily dramatic Brexit process, from the 2016 referendum to the debate around the new Environment Bill in 2020.
2021
Business Lobbying in the EU
Summary: At a time when Europe and business stand at crossroads, this study provides a perspective into how business representation in the EU has evolved and valuable insights into how to organize lobbying strategies and influence policy-making.
2021
Why Religious Freedom Matters for Democracy
Summary: By looking at cases involving clashes between religious freedoms and competing rights in the workplace, this book defends a democratic approach, which is conducive to a more democratic understanding of our vivre ensemble.
2020
The Politics of Climate Change Loss and Damage (CCLAD)
Summary: This project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), seeks to shed new light on how norm construction, conveyance and contestation are influenced by social and political practices both at the international and national level.
2019-2024
The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost?
Summary: This book focuses on the highly charged relationships between Greece and Germany during the 2009-15 Euro crisis and explores the many ways in which Greeks and Germans represented one another, how their self-understanding shifted in the process, and how this in turn affected their respective appraisal of the EU.
2018
