Culture, Practice & Europeanization

In addition to technological challenges, the energy transition involves societal, political, and economic rearrangements. These rearrangements may exacerbate existing inequalities and injustices or generate new ones. To shed light on how just energy...

Climate change has also become a relevant topic in the financial sector. According to a survey of 33 central banks, 70 percent describe climate change as a major threat to financial market stability. Thus, if climate change threatens the stability...

In 2019, the European Union set a new course for a sustainable Europe with the European Green Deal (EGD), which included not only energy strategies but also mobility or clean water for a green Europe. The European Green Deal policies have...

With the European Green Deal (EGD), the European Commission presented an ambitious roadmap for accelerated “ecological modernisation” in December 2019. Semantically, the EGD is linked to the New Deal and the debates surrounding the Green New...

Why, by whom and how is digitalisation and sustainability twinning presently being driven? The paper asks how political, economic and civil society actors are working to legitimise a digital-green modernisation of the economy. It argues that the...

In his essay, the author presents a stock-taking of the debate on Green Deals. The starting point of this personal assessment is a brief outline of the content and impact of a study in which the author and colleagues published a first outline of a...

In this paper, we explore how the public sphere in Europe changed in the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., under conditions of extensive social isolation and limited physical contact opportunities. Using data from the Eurobarometer from 2020 and 2021, we...

This paper analyses the transformation of identities and institutions of economic experts as politico-economic professionals brought about by the Brexit process between 2016 and 2020. In order to understand the transformation from order to chaos in...

After a critical examination of the rational model of politics, this article discusses an alternative explanatory model in order to better understand and explain state response patterns and decision-making processes for containing the Coronavirus...

We investigate attitudes toward the EU of a sample of students enrolled in a German university by using a mixed-methods data design. We conducted an online survey among students at the University of Göttingen (N=730) and asked them closed questions...

During the Corona-pandemic, restricting mobility became an important means of pandemic policy. Within the European Union, this resulted in stress for the Schengen area. The essay deals with the question of how the Schengen system coped with pandemic...

In 2020, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) publicly announced a prize question: “What can science do in the face of pandemics?” (2021). For this journal article the prize-winning essay submitted by the author was translated, updated and -...