Vol. 19 No. 1 (2019)

This issue introduces the IAPSS Politikon Best Article Award. It also opens with a special section by members of the IAPSS Academic Think Tank and Academic Committee, continuing the journal’s tradition of publishing research from within the Association. Lora Hadzhidimova and Aaron Stacey ask whether right-wing or left-wing populism in European Union member states responds to citizens’ leading national concerns. Lora Hadzhidimova then traces how the scholarly debate on European integration has evolved, from early questions about whether institutions matter to the current state of the field. Rigina Syssoyeva tests theories of enlargement on Armenia’s and Kyrgyzstan’s entry into the Eurasian Economic Union. Joshua A. Schwartz challenges a leading realist account of voluntary union through the overlooked case of the United Arab Republic.