Bulmer, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-0915-1695 (2026) Confronting geopolitics: the EU (and EU studies) at a crossroads? Journal of European Integration, 48 (3). pp. 553-558. ISSN: 0703-6337
Abstract
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 added to the list of crises faced by the EU in the last two decades. However, its impact, when combined with the rise of China, the return of President Trump for a second term and other international developments in multi-polarity, has created new geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges for the European Union (EU). An emerging literature is beginning to get to grips with the implications for the EU and Europe more broadly defined, including for defence, strategic autonomy, enlargement policy and other policy issues.
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Geopolitics; geoeconomics; polycrisis; enlargement; competitiveness |
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| Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2026 15:20 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Aug 2026 15:20 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Identification Number: | 10.1080/07036337.2026.2625643 |
| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:244679 |
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