Edited by Marta Iñiguez de Heredia, Research Fellow Marie Skłodowska-Curie at IBEI, and Zubairu Wai, this book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of IR and world politics. Published by Palgrave Macmillan. Buy

The 2016 EU Global Strategy and the 2015 European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) review have made stabilisation of the ENP area one of their main priorities. The article by Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Associate Professor at IBEI, employs narrative analysis to explore how insecurity in the EU and in the ENP area is affecting the EU’s relation to the neighbourhood-other and its understanding of the EU-self. Published at the SAGE Jorunal on Cooperation and Conflict. Read

Jacint Jordana, IBEI's director and Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, toghether with Yves Steinebach and Christoph Knill, analyse how economic crisis affect social regulation. The analysis is based on an innovative dataset that covers policy output changes in 13 European countries over a period of 34 years (1980–2013). Published in Regulation & Governance journal. Read

Laia Mestres, Postdoctoral Researcher and Academic Internship Coordinator at IBEI, jointly with Eduard Soler, IBEI Affiliated Professor, co-authored a book chapter at the Series: Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration by the editors Werner Weidenfeld and Wolfgang Wessels. Published by Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Nomos Verlag. Buy