Geopolitical EU? The EU's wartime assistance to Ukraine

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• dc.contributor.author Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth
• dc.contributor.author Leso, Francesca
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-02T10:35:47Z
• dc.date.available 2024-09-02T10:35:47Z
• dc.date.issued 2025
• dc.description.abstract This article explores the European Union's (EU's) assistance to Ukraine through the lens of critical geopolitics with a view to ascertaining whether the EU has become more geopolitical in its thinking and actions towards Eastern Europe. Our findings point to a mixed picture. Whilst the EU ‘mindscape’ appears to have shifted in relation to Eastern Europe, Ukraine and itself as an actor in the region, it is less apparent that the EU's foreign and security policy action has become geopoliticised. The 2022 Russian invasion has certainly seen a step change from the hesitant and self-conscious approach that characterised the EU's engagement with Eastern Europe prior to 2022. However, declarations such as that by the High Representative and Vice President of the European Commission (HRVP) around the ‘birth of geopolitical Europe’ appear to be somewhat premature, as there is limited evidence at this stage that the EU is willing to provide leadership on the geospatial (re)ordering of the region.
• dc.description.sponsorship The authors wish to acknowledge financial support for this work from the National Grant research project Institutional responses to the changing European security order (inRESPONSE), PID2022-140133NB-I00, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Spain.
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• dc.identifier.citation Johansson-Nogués E Leso F. Geopolitical EU? The EU's wartime assistance to Ukraine. J Common Mark Stud. 2025 Jan;63(1):127-42. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13613
• dc.identifier.issn 0021-9886
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60978
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Common Market Studies. 2025 Jan;63(1):127-42
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PE/PID2022-140133NB-I00
• dc.rights © 2024 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Assistance
• dc.subject.keyword EU
• dc.subject.keyword Geopolitical
• dc.subject.keyword Mindscape and geospatial ordering
• dc.subject.keyword Ukraine
• dc.subject.keyword War
• dc.title Geopolitical EU? The EU's wartime assistance to Ukraine
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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