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Rubio, E., Akhvlediani, T., & Alcidi, C. (2026, June 8). From myths to reality: Mitigating the impact of enlargement on the EU’s common budget, the CAP and cohesion policy. Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

Lindström, K., & Nagornyak, I. (2026, March 23). Slicing the salami: Ukraine’s sectoral integration into the EU. European Policy Information Center (EPIC)

Melnykovska, I. (2026). Beyond the rent-seeking: resilience and civic transformation of Ukrainian business. East European Politics, 1–33.

Buzogany, A., Mikecz, D., & Kocyba, P. (2026). Differences within global movements: insights from FFF climate protests in Western and Eastern Europe. Environmental Politics, 1–27.

Piroska, D. and Epstein, R.A. (2026) ‘ Out of Many, Many: Variation in East Central Europe Financial Governance Despite the EU’s Single Market’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.

Medve-Balint, G. (2025). Regional Disparities and EU Funding. In: Biro-Nagy, A., Medve-Balint, G. (eds) The Path of Hungary’s EU Membership. Studies in Economic Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Medve-Balint, G. (2025). Sovereign Dependence: Hungarian Market Economy in the European Union. In: Biro-Nagy, A., Medve-Balint, G. (eds) The Path of Hungary’s EU Membership. Studies in Economic Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Bruszt, L. (2025). What Has the European Union Ever Done for Us?. In: Biro-Nagy, A., Medve-Balint, G. (eds) The Path of Hungary’s EU Membership. Studies in Economic Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Biro-Nagy, A., & Medve-Balint, G. (Eds.). (2025). The path of Hungary’s EU membership: Navigating sovereignty, dependence, and economic development (Studies in Economic Transition). Palgrave Macmillan.

Anghel, V. (2025). Why the EU is a geopolitical power: wartime enlargement, integration, and reform. Journal of European Public Policy, 32(12), 2862–2885.

Bruszt, L., & Langbein, J. (2025). Building a Transnational Developmental State in Europe: Lessons from the Big Bang enlargement for the next integration round. Journal of European Public Policy, 32(12), 2973–2998.

Petrovici, N., & Ban, C. (2025). Peri-urban Tides and archipelagos: Labour Flows and Aggregate Demand in Romania’s Foreign Investment-driven Spatial Economy. Cities, 167, 106330.

Melnykovska, I., & Sokhey, S. W. (2025). The local and regional dimension of Ukraine’s resilience during Russia’s full-scale invasion: an introduction. Post-Soviet Affairs, 41(5), 401–410.

Cigna, L., D. Di Carlo, and N. Durazzi. 2025. “The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition: Economic Specializations and Skills Regimes in Europe.” Regulation & Governance 1–16.

Bulfone, F., Ergen, T., & Maggor, E. (2025). Regulating via conditionality: The instruments of the new industrial policy. Regulation & Governance, 0:1-19

Vukov, V. (2025). European integration and state capture: insights from the EU’s earlier Eastern enlargement. Journal of European Public Policy, 32(12), 3059–3084.

Thiemann, M., Mocanu, D., & Piroska, D. (2025). The rise of the European Enlargement State: blended finance, development banks and the new modalities of EU accession. Journal of European Public Policy, 1–37.

Buzogany, A. & Varga, M., 2025. Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine. Journal of European Public Policy, 1-22.

Ban, C., Medve-Balint, G., & Volintiru, C. (2025). The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities. Competition & Change, 29(3-4), 506-526.

Melnykovska, I., Monnet, E., & Thiemann, M. (2025, January 15). How to build a Ukrainian Development Bank: Leveraging European history and Ukraine’s own reform experience. Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Buzogany, A. & Varga, M., 2025. Making Markets Through Coalitions: The European Union and the Debate Over Ukraine’s National Resources. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 63 (1), 108-126.

Di Carlo, D., Eisl A. and Zurstrassen, D. “Together we trade, divided we aid: Mapping the flexibilization of the EU state aid regime across GBER, IPCEIs and Temporary Frameworks”, Policy Paper N°307, Jacques Delors Institute, November 2024

Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policyand Economic Governance (LUHNIP). EU Industrial Policy Report 2024. Coordinator: Donato Di Carlo

Vukov, V. (2024). Strengthening state capacity: Lessons for the EU’s next enlargement (European Policy Analysis No. 2024:19epa). Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS).

Medve-Balint, G. From Rust to High-Tech Hubs: FDI-Led Upgrading of Urban Economies in East Central Europe. St Comp Int Dev 59, 740–766 (2024).

Anghel, V., & Jones, E. (2024). Three Lessons From the 2004 “Big Bang” Enlargement. Politics and Governance, 12, Article 8358.

Anghel, V., & Jones, E. (2024). What Went Wrong In Hungary. Journal of Democracy 35(2), 52-64.

Anghel, V., & Jones, E. (2024). The enlargement of international organisations. West European Politics, 48(1), 1–28.

Anghel, V. (2024, February). From Copenhagen to Kyiv: Rule of Law under Martial Law. In How Can an Enlarging EU Best Protect Rule of Law and Democracy (pp. 1–2). Brussels: TEPSA.

Jones, E.(2024). ‘Enlargement and Institutional Reform: How to Make a Credible Security Commitment.’ Fit for 35 Forum (Stockholm: SIEPS, 27 February).

Bruszt, L. and Vukov, V. (2024) Core-periphery divisions in the EU? East-west and north-south tensions compared, Journal of European Public Policy, 31(3), 850–873.

Anghel, V., et al. (2023). ‘The Future of EU Enlargement: Obstacles and Opportunities.’ Brussels Sprouts Podcast (Washington, D.C.: CNAS, 22 December).

Langbein, J., Cenusa, D., & Guruli, I. (2023). EU trade liberalisation, sectoral coalitions and development: insights from Moldova and Georgia. Journal of European Integration, 46(2), 213–234.

Anghel, V., & Jones, E. (2023). Broken promises diplomacy: The Russia-Ukraine war and the end of enlargement as we know it. In J. Džankić, S. Kacarska, & S. Keil (Eds.), A year later: War in Ukraine and Western Balkan (geo)politics (pp. 6–14). European University Institute.

Anghel, V. (2023). ‘Will Ukraine Rid Europe of Its Colonial Mindset?’ Vox Europe (3 August).

Di Carlo, D., & Schmitz, L. (2023). Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market. Journal of European Public Policy, 30(10), 2063–2096.

Anghel, V., & Džankić, J. (2023). Wartime EU: consequences of the Russia – Ukraine war on the enlargement process. Journal of European Integration, 45(3), 487–501.

Vukov, V. (2023). Growth models in Europe’s Eastern and Southern peripheries: between national and EU politics. New Political Economy, 28(5), 832–848.

Varga, M., 2023. Poverty as Subsistence: The World Bank and Pro-poor Land Reform in Eurasia. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Anghel, V., & Jones, E. (2022). Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war. Journal of European Public Policy, 30(4), 766–786.

Allin, D. H., & Jones, E. (2022). Sleepwalking to Solidarity? Russia, Ukraine and the European Dream. Survival, 64(3), 213–222.

Mylovanov, T. and G. Roland (2022), ‘Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction and governance reforms‘, in Gorodnichenko, Y., I. Sologoub and B. Weder di Mauro (eds.), Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and policies, CEPR Press, Paris & London.

Anghel, V., & Stolle, D. (2022, June 28). In praise of reality, not realism: An answer to Mearsheimer. EUIdeas. (Fiesole: European University Institute, 28 June).

Bulfone, F., Ergen, T., & Kalaitzake, M. (2022). No strings attached: Corporate welfare, state intervention, and the issue of conditionality. Competition & Change, 27(2), 253-276.

Bulfone, F. (2022). Industrial policy and comparative political economy: A literature review and research agenda. Competition & Change, 27(1), 22-43.

Buzogany, A. (2022). Natural Allies? External Governance and Environmental Civil Society Organizations in the EU’s Eastern Partnership. Problems of Post-Communism, 69(4–5), 369–379.

Davidescu, S., & Buzogany, A. (2021). Cutting Deals: Transnational Advocacy Networks and the European Union Timber Regulation at the Eastern Border. The International Spectator, 56(3), 105–118.

Anghel, V., & Jones, E. (2021). Failing forward in Eastern Enlargement: problem solving through problem making. Journal of European Public Policy, 29(7), 1092–1111.

Langbein, J., Gazizullin, I., & Naumenko, D. (2020). Trade liberalisation and opening in post-soviet limited access orders. East European Politics, 37(1), 139–158.

Varga, M., 2020. Poverty Reduction through Land Transfers? The World Bank’s Titling Reforms and the Making of “Subsistence” Agriculture. World Development, 135, 105058.

Vukov, V. (2020). European integration and weak states: Romania’s road to exclusionary development. Review of International Political Economy, 27(5), 1041–1062.

Anghel, V. (2020). Together or Apart? The European Union’s East–West Divide. Survival, 62(3), 179–202.

Vukov, V. (2020). More Catholic than the Pope? Europeanisation, industrial policy and transnationalised capitalism in Eastern Europe. Journal of European Public Policy, 27(10), 1546–1564.

Bruszt, L. and Langbein, J. (co-editors) (2020) “Market integration and room for development in the peripheries”- Special Issue in Review of International Political Economy Volume 27, Issue 5 

Bruszt, L., & Langbein, J. (2020). Manufacturing development: how transnational market integration shapes opportunities and capacities for development in Europe’s three peripheries: Introduction to the special issue . Review of International Political Economy, 27(5), 996–1019.

Bruszt, L., Lundstedt, L., & Munkacsi, Z. (2020). Collateral benefit: the developmental effects of EU-induced state building in Central and Eastern Europe. Review of International Political Economy, 27(5), 1170–1191.

Langbein, J. (2019). Shallow market integration and weak developmental capacities: Ukraine’s pathway from periphery to periphery. Review of International Political Economy, 27(5), 1126–1146.

Bruszt, L., & Karas, D. (2019). Diverging developmental strategies beyond “lead sectors” in the EU’s periphery: the politics of developmental alliances in the Hungarian and Polish dairy sectors. Review of International Political Economy, 27(5), 1020–1040.

Buzogány, A. (2018). Civil Society Organisations beyond the European Union: Normative Expectations and Local Realities. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 14(2), 187–205.

Bruszt, L., & Vukov, V. (2017). Making states for the single market: European integration and the reshaping of economic states in the Southern and Eastern peripheries of Europe. West European Politics, 40(4), 663–687.

Bruszt, L., & Vukov, V. (2017). Making states for the single market: European integration and the reshaping of economic states in the Southern and Eastern peripheries of Europe. West European Politics, 40(4), 663–687.

Bruszt, L., & Langbein, J. (2017). Varieties of dis-embedded liberalism. EU integration strategies in the Eastern peripheries of Europe. Journal of European Public Policy, 24(2), 297–315.

Varga, M., 2017. Small Farms Survival and Growth: Making Investments Despite Credit Constraints. Sociologia Ruralis, 57, 641-660.

Varga, M., 2016. Worker Protests in Post-communist Romania and Ukraine: Striking with Tied Hands. Manchester University Press.

Buzogány, A. (2016). EU-Russia regulatory competition and business interests in post-Soviet countries: the case of forestry and chemical security in Ukraine. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 57(1), 138–159.

Langbein, J. (2015). Transnationalization and regulatory change in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood : Ukraine between Brussels and Moscow (Routledge, 230 pp.). Routledge.

Bruszt, L. (2015), Regional Normalization and National Deviations: EU Integration and Transformations in Europe’s Eastern Periphery†. Glob Policy, 6: 38-45.

Varga, M., 2015. Trade unions and austerity in Central and Eastern Europe did they do something about it? Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 21 (3), 313-326.

Bruszt, L., & McDermott, G. A. (Eds.). (2014). Leveling the playing field: Transnational regulatory integration and development. Oxford University Press. 

Langbein, J., & Börzel, T. A. (eds) (2013). Explaining policy change in the European Union’s Eastern Neighbourhood. Special Issue in Europe-Asia Studies, 65(4) (also published as an anthology by Routledge, 2014)

Bruszt, L., & Vedres, B. (2013). Associating, mobilizing, politicizing: Local developmental agency from without. Theory and Society, 42(1), 1-23.

Varga, M., 2013. State strategies of resisting social accountability: Post-Soviet insights. East European Politics and Societies, 27 (4), 727-742.

Buzogány, A. (2013). Selective Adoption of EU Environmental Norms in Ukraine. Convergence á la Carte. Europe-Asia Studies, 65(4), 609–630.

Bruszt, L., & McDermott, G. A. (2011). Integrating rule takers: Transnational integration regimes shaping institutional change in emerging market democracies. Review of International Political Economy, 19(5), 742–778.

Bruszt, L. (2008). Multi-level Governance—the Eastern Versions: Emerging Patterns of Regional Developmental Governance in the New Member States. Regional & Federal Studies, 18(5), 607–627.