Issues

The fourth issue of the YJEA (2024) opens with an interview with Prof Jessica Fortin-Rittberger, PhD, professsor of comparative politics and former co-lead editor of the European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG). Building on insights from her research, she talked to us about gender diversity in academia, the progress we have made over the years and ongoing, deep-rooted and structural inequities that persist. The interview is being followed by three elaborate student research articles. The first by Yannis Grabbe questions the longstanding assumption that Euroscepticism is equally high at each end of the political spectrum. Our second contribution by Linus Hormuth analyses the effect of labour immigration on the vote share for radical right parties and seeks to understand if this effect differs for different qualification levels of those entering a country’s labour market. Our third and last contribution by Nelson Tang investigates the relationship between welfare spending of Western European countries and the electoral support for Populist Radical Right Parties. Feel free to support our initiative by sharing this issue with your friends and colleagues or on social media.

The third issue of the YJEA (2023) starts with an interview with Prof Dr Jeremy Richardson, founder and co-editor of the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP). He shares his insightful experiences from decades of academic publishing and gives advice for young authors who want to get published. Furthermore, this issue consists of three elaborate student research articles. The first paper by Eduard-Alex Ciuhandu centres around the influence of state expenditure and political ideology on inequality in EU countries. Our second contribution by Jonas Engel investigates how the introduction of the Euro as a currency has impacted welfare state generosity. In the third article, Johanna Greiwe analyses the migration crisis through the lens of crisisification. Feel free to support our initiative by sharing this issue with your friends and colleagues or on social media.

Our second issue (2022) includes an interview with Nina Bernarding, Co-Director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP). In conversation with the YJEA, Bernarding speaks about her work in feminist foreign policy and her career up to her current position with the CFFP. This edition also includes an analysis of the effects of Brexit on EU citizens who have been living in the UK for more than five years at the time of the referendum by Louisa Broeg, an explanation of EU public opinion on EU fiscal policy by Anttoni Huiskonen and a piece on the perspective of a joint European military force through the lens of fiscal federalism by Stephan Naumann. In case you would like to help us increase our readership and visibility, feel free to tag us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

In this very first issue of the Young Journal of European Affairs (YJEA), it was our pleasure to publish an interview with Dr Fabian Zuleeg, Chief Executive and Chief Economist of the European Policy Centre (EPC), one of the leading think tanks in Brussels. He spoke about his work both as the head of a think tank but also as a policy advisor to high-ranking political figures in the EU. This interview is a must-read if you are interested in careers in think tanks and are looking at how to get a foot in the door. Four outstanding papers completed the first edition, including an analysis of the EU’s normative foreign policy formulation and implementation in response to the Iranian Nuclear Programm in 2003 by Mostafa Bostani, a comparison of attitudes towards EU integration between EU citizens within and outside their countries of origin by Marc Friedli, an article examining how the formation and the functioning of informal leadership coalitions in EU foreign policy can be explained by Stephan Naumann, and finally, a study enquiring the success of EU democratisation efforts and participation instruments among youth in Tunisia by Philipp Wagner.